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Nevada Trumper's avatar

I like this commentary. It might be because my background is in neuroscience, quantum mind theory, and human memory. I discovered a protein that breaks down with animal learning (tubulin, which is the basic component of microtubules). At around the same time as my discovery, Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff theorized that human consciousness exists because of quantum entanglements among electrons buried in tubulin hydrophobic pockets. They contacted me because of the overlap. Bear in mind that microtubules aren't particularly special, but they form a material matrix over which patterns of quantum entanglements can be stored and accessed again at a future time (memory recall). I went further in my book: "Conscious Matrix: Our Portal to God" to suggest that the brain collects data, and that is not higher consciousness, awareness, or knowledge. Understanding the deeper meaning of patterns in the data stream is equivalent to intelligence. These patterns are likely stored in the universe, probably in some complex electromagnetic field--a set of universal matrices. This means no human being truly invents anything. We perceive higher mathematics, higher ethical principles, and even social norms through quantum entanglements with these "truths" already embedded in the universe. Energy is invisible to the human retina, but NOT to the human mind. We can travel to the farthest star in our mind's eye in a fraction of a second even though the photons take millions of years to travel to earth. Yes, much is possible. And we already have a rudimentary grasp of the most profound of phenomena. The common sense of mankind is powerful, as is the common good. We filter out errors in the groupthink process, even though errors persist in the short term. I believe better days are ahead.

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TDM's avatar

I have a very simple question. I am not and have never been a drug user. How would a person know that the “hyperspace” experienced while on a hallucinogenic is real? If that is “real”, how does it differ from a dream being “real”? Or an alcoholic paranoid stupor being “real”? If a person can capture their thoughts by expressing them in words, such as a writer telling a story they have made up, does that make the story “real”? Or the lyrics to a song “real”? Don’t we all “travel” in a sort of “hyperspace” when we do these things? Just a question from a simple old retired lady who lives on a farm and enjoys listening to new ideas. I am not trying to be argumentative.

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