by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | May 13, 2020 | Punk Science, Science, Simply Divine
A New Scientist article, published in May 2020 suggests that the whole universe may be Conscious.
The Hard Problem
Science still doesn’t understand how we can experience..anything!
It is sometimes called the hard problem of consciousness – how all these neurons and chemicals in our brain give rise to our inner experiences.
Now some Mathematicians think they have made a breakthrough.
We will be discussing the New Scientist article on this subject in this episode of Punk Science TV.
I’ve got IIT
This new, mathematical theory of consciousness is called Integrated Information theory or IIT.
It says that a system’s consciousness arises from the way information moves between subsystems.
You can see neurons as islands of subsystems.
According to this theory, consciousness appears when the information flow between these subsystems is complex enough to make the islands interdependent.
Changing the flow of information on one island affects all the others.
How well a system integrates information is given a value called phi.
The higher the phi the more consciousness a system will display.
An example of a situation in which this theory works well is when contrasting the cerebrum and cerebellum. Cerebral damage affects our consciousness more because it has a lot of connections – so its phi value is high.
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The Cerebellum isn’t so well connected, so damage doesn’t have as much effect on the conscious experience.
Problems
The theory has its drawbacks too.
- A major one is that the value of phi actually can increase in our sleep.
- It also still doesn’t explain our inner experiences, how does this theory explain our experience of the smell of coffee for example.
- Some inanimate systems have more consciousness than humans.
Usually, the concept of inanimate objects or even the whole universe having the property of consciousness is just dismissed but, in this article, they discuss that particles may have some sort of consciousness that is fundamental and human and animal consciousness emerges from this.
The Conscious Atom
The article goes onto consider whether even electrons are conscious and how this may explain the measurement problem in physics – how the wave function collapses with our measurement or observation.
So the idea that everything might be conscious and there is something fundamental about consciousness is being discussed in mainstream science.
This idea forms the basis of The Black Hole Principle – it is the reason why we can’t see light beyond light speed – because it is beyond our normal perception. Consciousness is written into the fabric of reality.
It’s good to see mainstream scientists also discuss these issues.
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Apr 30, 2020 | Paradigm Revolution, Punk Science, Science
The End of Science?
Scientists are running out of ideas. Is it time for a new paradigm?
With so many changes going on in the world, it feels like we are coming to the close of a civilisation. In this article and video, I discuss if we are at the end of science?
The Collapse of Empire
From the Ottomans to the Roman Empire, apparently there were a few signs that heralded the demise of all civilisations.
One is the debasement of currency, another is the celebration of sporting stars or gladiators depending on your era, another is the increasing disparity between the rich and the poor and another is the rise of celebrity chefs.
I think we can agree that we have seen quite a few of these recently and it seems like massive debasement of currency is just around the corner.
With the startling events of 2020, most people in Western civilisation may be waking up to the possibility that we are seeing the beginning of the end – that the dismantling of empire is coming soon.
Where are all the breakthroughs?
And so it is with Science and its breakthroughs in the understanding of the nature of reality. Although the 20th Century seemed awash with groundbreaking ideas such as the theory of relativity and quantum physics, more recent attempts to create breakthroughs of that magnitude haven’t borne fruit.
In a visit to the Perimeter Institute in Canada, journalist Daniel Cossins reported back to New Scientist magazine in January 2019 about the state of theoretical physics and it was not entirely optimistic.
Neil Turok, the director of the Institute explained that when he entered physics in the early 80s, “it stopped being successful”. And later in the article, Turok is quoted as suggesting that we disregard the past 30 years and retrace our steps to figure out where we went wrong.
One of the key issues is the lack of one unified theory that unites the very large structures in space, such as galaxies, with the very small, such as atoms. Although certain theories in physics have been very successful at explaining some aspects of the universe.
Is there something that unites all processes from the very large such as galaxies to atoms Image: Shutterstock
We need a new paradigm
We need a new paradigm in physics. I believe that The Black Hole Principle can contribute to that new paradigm. It has successfully predicted behaviour at several levels of the universe such as antimatter from thunderstorms, water from black holes, methane on Mars and much more.
At a time when civilisation and ideas are running out, it is time to move to a new paradigm that places consciousness at the heart of both science and civilisation.
What do you think? Let me know in the comments below.
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Mar 25, 2020 | Punk Science, Science
Where did the Water of the Earth come from?
The Earth is almost covered with water, but it may surprise you that scientists are still debating as to how all this water got here in the first place. The general consensus is that water arrived originally on this planet via an impact collision with a comet or asteroid. Analysis of comets and asteroids in space have shown that the type of water they contain is not always an exact match.
The real answer is that we don’t know for sure the answer to this pretty basic question.
Finding the Solution
According to the Black Hole Principle, each and every celestial body from stars to planets to comets has the ability to create its own water from its centre. In this way, they follow the pattern laid out for everything from supermassive black holes to thunderstorms.
The Ocean beneath us
The Earth is no different. In 2013, I gave a keynote lecture at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in which I predicted that the water of the Earth is actually being produced by its interior. In just a few months, scientists announced to the world that an ‘ocean’ had been found deep below the Earth’s surface.
It is water bound up in rocks and crystals but nevertheless represents more water than exists on the Earth’s surface.
The Simple Pattern
Once you know The Black Hole Principle, you can easily make such predictions about the universe because you understand the simple underlying pattern throughout reality.
Therefore we have solved the questions of where Earth’s water has come from – it is being produced by the Earth itself.
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Mar 11, 2020 | Paradigm Revolution, Punk Science, Science
The Biggest Ever Explosion in the Universe
Astronomers have recently found the biggest explosion in the universe ever recorded. Or is it?
Astronomers recently reported that they had found the biggest explosion ever in the universe that they have ever found so far. It has punched a hole in the centre of a huge galaxy 390 million light-years away.
It’s estimated that the explosion had the power of 10 million times the lifetime energy output of the sun.
But is it an explosion?
Let’s look at some of the features.
- It’s in the vicinity of a black hole.
- It contains electrons at just below the speed of light
- It created a concentrated jet.
Conventional scientists say that this explosion was created by in-falling material on top the black hole that was then accelerated out. But they are quite vague as to how a black hole actually does this.
In their minds, black holes are supposed to be sucking everything in so why is stuff exploding out?
They admit they don’t know what is going on.
Everything becomes clearer with The Black Hole Principle.
We expect jets of electrons to be emitted from black holes at just below the speed of light because they have only just entered our dimensions. This is accompanied by various types of radiation including radio waves.
This is obviously another Black Hole Principle event
Why is this event so powerful? It is powered by infinite light in higher dimensions that reaches our dimension via a black hole. When the light slows down it gives off these emissions often as beams of electrons at the speed of light because they have only just slowed down to our dimensions.
We need to stop pretending that we know everything about our universe. There is a lot that we do not know. It lies beyond the speed of light. That is where these extreme energies are coming from.
It’s quite humbling really. It’s not an explosion but the effortless power of the universe creating itself from infinity.
by Dr Manjir Samanta-Laughton | Feb 19, 2020 | Punk Science, Science
Diamonds in space
We think of diamonds as rare gems created in the bowels of the Earth by the compression of coal, so why are there so many diamonds in space?
Diamonds are often found on Earth in vertical shafts called Kimberlite pipes. These are named after the diamond-rich town of Kimberley, South Africa.
Diamonds and black holes
I noticed there was a similarity between these vertical shafts and the bipolar jets in black holes.
I thought to myself, if I am right and diamonds are created in these energetic jets by the Black Hole Principle then there should be diamonds all over space.
It’s raining diamonds!
Well, sure enough, it rains diamonds on many different planets including Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune. As you may remember water and rain formation is linked to the Black Hole Principle.
There is even a white dwarf star which has a diamond core and there are micro diamonds coming out of stars.
Conclusion
Obviously we need to do some more work on this but it looks like diamonds are created by the Black Hole Principle and the intense pressures and energies in the jets.
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