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CONSCIOUSNESS, MATTER, AND THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM

At what level does consciousness appear within inert matter? Is consciousness in everything that exists in our physical universe? If everything we know and experience is a creation of the mind, is our brain the root of consciousness?

As science has proven that "matter" is made up of particles that have no real mass, but only of subatomic particles that are comprised of wave patterns that collapse upon observation, we can deduce that matter is not made of "matter". But the only thing we know for certain is that we as human beings have a conscious existence.

So... our consciousness is observing a conscious "field" of matter that is only given its realness in the mind, much in the way that color does not exist in the "real world" outside of our brain. The material world that we observe is only a creation of the mind, which turns "things" into real-like things.

Find out in this lecture how emptiness or nothingness doesn't exist any more than matter doesn't exist. And find out how the non-existence of time is also explained by the nature of a light photon, the conundrum of the speed of light, and the "space-time continuum".

I dare you to delve into this video, and learn about the weirdness of light, its absolute speed, and how light actually does not experience traveling in space and time! Your mind will be twisted as you learn how this relates to "consciousness", and the so-called external world.

From the deep expanse of my warped mind came a thought today...

We human beings have been fascinated with the possibility of "aliens", little green creatures with strange bodies, bulging eyes, bony little arms and legs and the likes, for as long as history has been recorded.

But has anyone ever stopped to think about how random and strange the human form is itself?

Some say that man was created in the image of the creator. But why would the source of all existence look as strange as a human being? Sure, scientists and creationists drone on about how perfect and mechanically superior the human form factor is for surviving on this planet when compared to the myriads of other living creatures.

But if you were a spiritual being with no physical form that had not ever been exposed to a living carnal creature, how "normal" would you think the design of the human body would be?

When we see a person born with birth defects, missing limbs, or not fitting the proportions of the average human body, it causes a bit of unease. But that is only due to mental conditioning, and the fact that there is only so much variety within the population that we have been exposed to.

But how shocked would you be if you were to view a human being for the first time, if you were only a conscious spiritual entity?

Would it seem strange that the creatures we are would have a strangely egg-shaped thing with two front-facing cameras sitting on top of a torso with four limbs, each ending with five more divisions?

Would we sit and stare, wondering why our legs bend with the "knees" forward and not backwards? And would it appear odd how these strange creatures balance on two feet that extend forward only?

Call me the crazy one, but I often sit and ponder how it was that the creator came up with such an odd design for the most intelligent creature on our living earth out of the infinite number of possibilities that could have been made.

Does matter exist in an absolute sense? If there is no observer present, can and does matter remain in its same state? If there were no conscious observers in the entire universe, could matter exist in an absolute sense?

Or does matter result from the collapsing of atoms existing within "probability clouds" when they are observed?

Some say that this theory is nonsense. If it is nonsense, then how can electrons seem to exist in two different places at the same time, in perfect phase with each other, and no physical connection?

Coolmoroheus question of the day: "Is Tumblr Twitteresque?"

The deep-thinking mind-twisting cool man is looking to reach out and "conversate" (haha) with like-minded people on Tumblr. But it has been a steep learning curve for me. I just don't understand the "flavor" of Tumblr.

At first, I thought this was merely an alternative to starting a Wordpress blog, but a service that simply added a social aspecct. But it isn't.

I'm starting to understand the features. I've finally unlocked my Tumblr page for everyone so you can post comments and share information.  But I don't know what the overall "flavor" is, as far as how people interact and use Tumblr.

Do people jabber on and carry long conversations? Or is Tumblr more of an open-ended "Twitteresque" social site where shorter (but richer) conversations are preffered?

Does Tumblr get overrun with spambots, pornbots, and weirdos? Or is it a "cleaner" community?

I'm looking to hear from the Tumblr veterans on this topic. I'd also like to hear from people who are new to Tumblr.

Whatever the case, excpect some new mind-bending time-annihilating posts very soon... only the kind you can expect from Coolmorpheus.

This is "probably" going to twist your mind to new dimensions... literally. The video I present to you will help you to further understand what (or why) there is a 6th dimension. This is not a high-tech video, but it is one of the most simple explanations I've seen to date.

Here's what is happening...

You sit at the present moment, and you have an infinite amount of pathways you can travel which will create an infinite variety of possible outcomes for your future. You could go to a coffee shop and meet a friend, take a nap, go shopping, read a book, etc. You get the point. Each one will have the "possibility" of creating a new reality based upon your decision.

But what about the present moment that you are currently "in"?

Your present moment is the result of a series of probable events that brought you to where you are. What would happen if you explored the "what-if-I-made-a-different-decision" at an exact point in your past?

That would give you an entirely new set of "probable present moments", or "spacious present", that you could be in right now. And from each of these infinite probable present moments could sprout forth another set of infinite probable future outcomes. That very thought ads another dimension to our universe.

The bottom line is that nothing can happen unless it is possible. Therefore, since we have the ability to make decisions that shape our future, we have an infinite set of future outcomes that we can steer our existence to. But those infinite possibilities have to exist in order to manifest, otherwise, they are impossible.

What this really means is that we are in total control of shaping our future to our liking. If any possible outcome can occur, what is the force that steers us towards the particular outcome that becomes our new "present moment"? I believe it is the power of our subconscious mind.

Without twisting your brain any further, I'll share the video. Next, I'll share my mind-twisting thoughts about how you can "project" a desired future existence back to your present moment, much in the way that you look up the answers to your math homework in the back of the book.

Here's the video:

Further discussion on the topic of the non-existence of time, as presented by prof. Julian Barbour. He has a much deeper understanding than I do, but before we go to the video, let's talk about a few things...

First of all, let's consider a "universe" that is empty. There are no limits, no walls, no points of reference. In all of existence is a single object. I like to picture a rock. The rock has three dimensions and is irregular. But since it is the only such object in our empty universe, it can be any size you want. Why? Because there is no "outside" frame of reference. We can only make comparisons of size to itself.

Also, the rock is motionless. It's just "sitting", or existing, in the center of the deepest expanse of space. But for the sake of argument, you can "throw" your rock and give it a velocity. It still doesn't matter, because we have no way to prove its motion without any identifiable frame of reference in our empty dark universe.

In this strange "universe", how would a conscious observer define time? If this was the first place for you to come into existence, and your pet rock is your only friend, can you observe the passage of time? No, you can't. All you have is the absolute existence of the rock for all eternity, as far as you can tell. What I mean by "eternity" is the absence of "time", not some measurable linear time scale that runs on forever.

In order to create the illusion of time, we need another rock. If our second pet rock existed at a distance of 10' from our original rock, we still have the same problem. We can define the location of one rock relative to the other rock, but if they are motionless, or traveling at the same velocity and "direction", we don't have any more information we can extract from this relationship.

It is only when we change the direction of the apparent motion of one of our pet rocks that we have something we can measure. As long as that velocity is constant, we might be able to create an equation that represents a concept of "time". But what happens if the path of pet rock #2 is not linear? What happens to our observation of "time" when the path our second rock is traveling is curved, on a spiral pathway? Depending on which direction the spiral is developing, "time" will either smoothly speed up, or slow down.

But what if we add a variable? Instead of constant velocity over a spiral pathway, what happens when we add acceleration? Sure, we can write some motion equations that might predict the location of rock #2 in the "future", but they will only hold true if the slices of "time" are held constant.

Let's ratchet this up to a mind-numbing level. What if we have 100 pet rocks that travel an unpredictable pathway, similar to a swarm of bees? Would we be able to determine a predictable linear time scale? Probably not. What we would end up with is a universe similar to the quantum world.

Without adding more complications and forcing decisions of what measurements are to be held "constant" for purposes of predictability, I'll stop right there and let you dive into this video presentation of Dr. Barbour's lecture. Pay close attention to the points he makes in the latter part of the presentation, and let that soak into your mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5rExaKLEoU

I've often wondered about the reality of time. What is time, exactly? Where is time? Is "time" something other than the physical motion of a hand on the face of a clock? Where are we, and everything in the universe, for that matter, "going"? Is time linear? Is it unidirectional?  Or irreversible?

Who can prove that time even exists at all? We all live in the "now"... in the current moment. But how long is a moment? How thin of a slice of time constitutes the current moment? A second? Maybe less?

When you think about it, motion and live action that your brain conceives of is actually made up of a series of pictures strung together, much like a movie reel. Your eyes only see in 24 frames per second. Therefore, one "slice" of time in your reality is 0.04167 of a second. But in order to create the illusion of motion, your brain must anticipate the future in order to create fluid passing of time.

The future is never here, and the past is forever gone. We have evidence of the past, as remnants are everywhere in the physical world. But we can't head in reverse to "find" the past. All we have is the present moment, and it is actually something we can't measure. It is an infinitesimal slice of a moment.

It appears to me that time requires motion. The Earth revolves around the sun. The planet rotates, and one full rotation is a day. Everything we measure as time is based upon physical motion. And as we all know, Einstein proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that motion distorts time's linear measurement. Time, as observed from two people in two distinct XYZ locations in the universe gets off track when motion occurs. The faster the travel, the more linear time is distorted. We won't even need to talk about how much time is warped as we approach the speed of light.

But what happens to time when we die, and we are detached from the physical properties of this universe? People say that our existence persists on for "eternity". But eternity is not time never-ending. Eternity is actually the absence of time. It's what happens when we stop, and stay stuck in the infinitesimal slice of the current moment. Without objects in motion, there's nothing left to measure.

So in the end, what IS time? Who keeps it "moving"? Where did it begin, and where did it end? What existed in its place before everything in the universe was set in motion?

Nobody knows... but that proves to me that time does not really exist. At least not beyond our awareness, combined with a physical universe. That's why we are able to "speed up" time, or slow it down, depending on how unaware or super aware we might be at the moment. We all know that time flies when we are having fun, and time seems to fail to exist when we are not consciously aware of it.

Case in point...

A few years ago, I was rushed to the hospital after suffering from an appendicitis. When I was prepped to have my appendix removed, I was told to count backward from 100 to 1 while the anesthesia took effect. I started counting, and got tired of it after verbally speaking the numbers aloud from 100 to 90. In my impatience, I asked the doctors how long it would take for me to fall asleep. Their answer??? The operation was a success. You've been out for over 4 hours! Without my conscious awareness, time ceased to exist... not even in a dream state.

If there is no God, how do you exist? Where did you come from? Where did the monkeys come from that you came from? Where did the walking fish come from that the monkeys came from? Where did the one-celled organisms come from that the walking fish came from? Where did the primordial soup come from that the one celled blobs come from? Where did the big bang that the primordial soup come from? Who banged in the first place? Was it William Hung???