Conservation of Consciousness?

Posted by Simon Raggett on 20 July 2010 | 3 Comments

Tags: consciousness, conservation laws, spacetime, quantum vacuum

Conservation is an important principle in physics. Energy that comprises everything that exists is conserved. It cannot be destroyed but can only be converted from one type of energy into another. This principle of conservation extends to momentum and electrical charge, which are also conserved.

Some modern theories of consciousness suggest that consciousness itself is a fundamental property of the universe measured within or coded into a fundamental spacetime that can also be viewed as being the quantum vacuum, in which the particles or waves that comprise energy are seen as distortions or excitations of that vacuum. The possible proximity or likeness of subjective consciousness to these fundamentals might raise the question as to whether it is also conserved.

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Animation of evolution - art meets science

Posted by SMN on 12 July 2010 | 1 Comments

Tags: animation, evolution

A superb animation, mindboggingly brilliant in fact, illustrating evolution and the arrow of time. Art meeting science in the most creative way.

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Nature quote

Posted by SMN on 8 July 2010 | 0 Comments

“Nature is one of those words – like ‘crowds’ and ‘traffic’ – that we use to distinguish ourselves from a group of which we are unarguably a member.” Michael Bywater

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THE ROOTS OF COINCIDENCE - ARTHUR KOESTLER, HUTCHINSON & CO 1972.

Posted by Robert De Vos on 1 July 2010 | 3 Comments

I have finally got around to reading Arthur Koestler's seminal book which deals with the early days of experimental research in psychokinesis, telepathy, parapsychology and the emergence of quantum physics as a new basis for understanding the reality of the universe, described by Sir James Jeans in his Rede Lectures:

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