Do photons really exist? Has anyone ever observed them directly? It is actually not possible, since we can only observe energy change in other massive particles, and then infer the existence of photons and other massless particles through our mathematical models. The photon exists in our Physics models due to our insistence on locality. If we accept that the universe is fundamentally non-local, we should be able to build a mathematical theory of physics without needing any massless particles.
Kushal Shah
Hi Kushal:
You are correct: "If we accept that the universe is fundamentally non-local, we should be able to build a mathematical theory of physics without needing any massless particles."
URM is such an model based on non-zero rest mass particles including photon. "Mass-less particle" is an oxymoron in itself. A mass-less entity is nothing but a wave hence cannot be a particle. It is ironic that the mainstream physics believes in wave-particle duality but without a non-zero rest mass of a photon particle. No experiments are possible to prove exactly zero Rest mass of a photon. Experiments can only measure the lowest possible non-zero mass quantities but can never measure exactly zero rest mass, which is no more than a blind belief based in Maxwell's theory and standard model.
URM shows that a photon has a non-zero rest mass howsoever negligible and immeasurable. However, its mass dilates further as it approaches to V=C. This model predicts and explains dark energy and the observed empirical spontaneous expansion of the universe.
Best Regards
Avtar Singh
Hi Ram:
“Self” (the experiencer) is the temporal body (senses) and ego or mind that dissolve after death into the mass-energy of the universe. However, the true authentic "Self" or the awareness is eternal Cosmic Consciousness.
Hence, the purpose of life is to attain the true "Self" realization via enlightenment or dissolution of the ego or mind into cosmic consciousness.
Best Regards
Avtar
[i] As per (Stankovich & Durdevich, 2016), “We discuss the possibility of the existence of consciousness after physical death, within the conceptual frameworks of quantum psychology, and higher-dimensional and non-classical geometries. […]
But unlike the naturalistic view, quantum psychology states that man, in his development, has acquired the faculty of orienting himself based on his own experiences and making a choice from among them, free of any instinctive protection that govern all the animals. This has turned him into a new genus. His belief in an “afterlife” was typical of the ignorance of human beings who started to orient themselves on the basis of their own experience. It took him to another dimension of reality, inaccessible to animals, which remain governed by instincts that come from the accumulation of experiences related to nature. […] Some of them were wrong, others developed in a positive manner. However, some others still remain problematic up to the present times. One of them is the existence of different unknown things and forces. We now face, in a completely different fashion, the possibility of survival of human consciousness after the biological death of a person. […] In this attempt we face another point of view that has been formed over time, which emphatically affirms that even mentally man is still an animal. It ignores his capacity to make a choice free of the influence of instincts. It understands human psychic life as the exclusive result of neural development without any influence of ideas. (By denying ideas and the logic, it denies existence beyond its time-space expression). In the same context, it also denies the possibility of existence of a conscious mind not governed exclusively by biological laws. […]
In the same context, consciousness is a very complex concept that encompasses several processes of human mental life. It is explained in different manners but in short, it distinguishes its own self from another person, preserves its memory and teleological reasoning capacity. Biological death is in turn considered as cessation of the elementary faculties necessary to survive as a living being. But we must add that all these faculties do not have to be simultaneous. According to this, mind is not limited to any biological reaction of the brain, but involves the existence and organization of the psychic life of a person as a whole. Therefore, its conscious survival after death refers to this whole. Within the common biological reality, this survival of consciousness is impossible. But theoretically, in a reality that is yet to be known, it could possibly exist. The following are the reasons that support such possibility. […]
Due to the differences between the third and the fourth dimension, we can assume that the effects of the physical death of a human being in the third dimension are not the same in the fourth dimension, especially because of the
characteristics of person’s psychic life. The most important consequences deduced from the above are the hypotheses that:
(A) After physical death of a person in the third dimension, his/her existence in the fourth dimension can, somehow, continue.
(B) Person’s psychic existence, linked to biophysical factors in terms of energy, no longer receives this energy, but does receive the one that has always had in the fourth dimension.
(C) Therefore, even though the human being can continue indefinitely in the fourth dimension, he/she cannot go back to the third.
(D) Psychically, an individual that stops existing in the third dimension, continues to exist in the fourth at the same level he/she had in the third.
Kind regards,
Rām
Hi Ronald,
I read your interesting article Death, Consciousness and the Quantum Paradigm. As per (Glasberg, 2016), “The question of death as either the extinction or continuation of consciousness is intimately connected with the question of the nature of consciousness, which is itself connected to the question of how consciousness is connected to the material world as understood by physics in general and quantum theory in particular […] The purpose of the present study – my anaesthetic experience notwithstanding – is to challenge the prevailing paradigm with respect to consciousness and death […] I am not denying that physical processes can explain consciousness. […] If death is not to be taken as a termination, but as a hiatic breakpoint between consciousness with a body and consciousness without a body and if consciousness is a world-creative force, how might the quantum paradigm bring these two ideas together in a theoretical framework for an after-life? […] I have in this discussion tried to normalize the idea of an after-life (with its apparently quantized planes of consciousness) by placing it in a theoretical framework informed by the hiatic behavior of the quantum paradigm. […] the external world behaves the way it does because it appears to be infused with an internal or consciousness-like aspect […] Moreover, the hostility of physicists to the idea of a non-physical plane associated with an after-life or mind somehow independent of matter makes sense in the theoretical framework I am attempting to put forward.”
I have the following queries:
Q1. What is the definition of the used term “consciousness”? There are over 40 different meanings assigned to this term as elaborated in (Vimal, 2009e). Do you mean that “consciousness” is “experiencer”/“Self”?
Q2. It seems that you are challenging a reductionism/materialism but “not denying that physical processes can explain consciousness”. You also write, “… the external world behaves the way it does because it appears to be infused with an internal or consciousness-like aspect” So what is the metaphysics? Is it dualism, materialism, or dual-aspect monism?
Q3. You propose “consciousness with a body and consciousness without a body”. Do you mean that consciousness (experiencer/Self) does not need a brain, i.e., the brainless experiencer is possible?
Q4. Are you proposing that cosmic consciousness can be quantized in terms of many individual “Self”? This individual “Self” survives physical death?
Q5. Why do you reject the clue (materialism is true) if you realized/experienced that the general anesthesia abolishes a conscious state completely?
Cheers!
Kind regards,
Rām
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Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) developed a system of yoga called Integral yoga to transform selected humans into a new super race called the Supermen that would have a fully and permanently awakened kundalini and thus become siddhas with various siddhis(paranormal powers) such as the ability to observe chakras and auras with the third eye, to travel by astral travel at will, to be able to subsist adequately with full bodily functions on small amounts of vegetarian food, to go long periods without sleep, to communicate by telepathy, and to levitate. The function of this new super race would not be to dominate others but to lead humanity toward world peace.[3] According to Sri Aurobindo, the central theme of Integral Yoga[4] is the evolution of life into a "life divine". In Sri Aurobindo’s words: "Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It is inevitable because it is at once the intention of the inner spirit and the logic of Nature's process".[citation needed]
Sri Aurobindo’s disciple The Mother established an ashram-city called Auroville in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India in 1968 to train and develop this new super-race through yogic practices.[5][6][7]
According to Aurobindo, "The supramental transformation is the final stage in the integral yoga, enabling the birth of a new individual fully formed by the supramental power. Such individuals would be the forerunners of a new truth-consciousness based supra-humanity. All aspects of division and ignorance of consciousness at the vital and mental levels would be overcome, replaced with a unity of consciousness at every plane, and even the physical body transformed and divinised. A new supramental species would then emerge, living a supramental, gnostic, divine life on earth".[8]
On January 1, 1969, Sri Aurobindo’s Integral yoga co-worker and disciple, The Mother (at age 90) announced the "arrival" of the "superman consciousness" – "the intermediary between man and the supramental being".[9]
This is also an Aryan concept—the title of Sri Aurobindo's monthly magazine from 1914 to 1921 was Arya: A Philosophical Review. Arya is the Sanskrit and Hindi word for Aryan.
In 2005, the inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil predicted that over a 40-year period between 2005 and 2045, most human beings will gradually evolve into a super race of immortalcyborgs called Transhumans with super-bodies and super-brains (the super brains of the humanoid androids will have greater capacity not only in and of themselves, but also because they will be able to function more efficiently by storing some of their mental capacity in the cloud of the future greatly expanded Internet through brain-computer interfacing) by gradually replacing their biological cells with new cells having a more efficient cellular energy processing system that will be based on nanobots manufactured using nanotechnology.
