QUANTUM ALCHEMY

I owe a great deal of the concepts and terminology I'm about to use to the team that put together What The Bleep Do We Know and Dr. Amit Gaswami for his book The Self-Aware Universe. Anyone with the desire to further their understanding of the world of quantum mechanics would do well to pick up those two titles. They're beautiful Works worthy of closer study.

Sometimes it's best just to jump into the deep end of the pool and learn to swim. Max Planck came up with the mathematical formula E=hf. The most important value for our discussion is the h of this equation. This letter represents the energy value of the Mind observation that breaks the wave manifestation of light into a particle. Don't worry, I don't actually speak Vulcan either. All that really means is we have the power to affect our reality just by looking at it. If the H was smaller the wave wouldn't break making observation impossible. If the same value will higher our thoughts would spawn to life and drastically alter reality. What quantum mechanics has taught us is that our entire universe is so delicately balanced for our own sake that it almost screams of intelligent design. This perfection. is known as the anthropic principle. Paraphrasing Stephen Hawkins ",everything is exactly as it is because if it were any different we wouldn't be here to see it."

This paradox has rocked the scientific community since it's discovery over a century ago. It would appear that the more we learn the less we understand. Or as Socrates would say ",the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

INFINITY

"Innumerable sun's exist; innumerable Earth's revolve around these sun's in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun's. Living brings inhabit these world's."

-Giordano Bruno

We good people in our modern society instantly recognize this line of thinking as the multiverse theory whereas there are multiple versions of our Universe spawning out infinitely from one center. An easy way to picture this concept is to consider how dropping a pebble into water causes many cirlces to form from that one center.

As easy as it is for us to understand this concept with all our advances in quantum physics and mathematics one question eats at me. How did Bruno understand this concept in the 1600's? Could it be that the same connecting fabric between those dimensions connects all of us as well?

Whether you choose to call it the Divine, the Universe, or God, there is definitely something that we are awakening to that connects us all. I see no other explanation for this sort of intuition.

QUANTUM ALCHEMY

Understanding how thought patterns form shows us how to break them. Awareness gives us the opportunity to break up the habit of reacting. By pausing and making a new decision we are choosing freedom. Why stop there? Why not take advantage of the opportunity and rewire the way we think?

Visualize unplugging neuronets to old habits you're tired of giving your power over to. Rewire your mind and form all new neuronets and build healthier habits. I personally visualize a mountaintop with a Temple in the center of my mind. I can see storm clouds ripe with lightning where the dark energy resides & I essentially clear it out. I only share that to say there are many different ways one can visualize this action step. This is a personal thing where intention is more important than action.

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

-Henry David Thoreau

QUANTUM ALCHEMY

We human beings are consciousness manifested in flesh and bone. We have the freedom to interact with the physical world with a certain level of creativity. Our freedom of choice gives us immediate responsibility. Various mystics have tried to explain this to us through concepts like kharma or the Golden rule. However, for the sake of physics, let's throw a bit of Einstein in the mix and say "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

It's funny because we human beings naively try memorizing a code of ethics that'll pave our path to enlightenment without accepting how our freedom of choice factors in. While it would be nice avoid responsibility life just isn't that simple. By being given freedom in this quantum modality we are also being given responsibility. Besides, how boring would life be if we just mindlessly strolled down some pre-planned course? All of those really painful mistakes that bang us up along the way are the really good parts because of what we learn.

Without struggle there is no growth. Those teachable moments define us and show us how to treat each other with kindness and love. Whether we want to learn to or not life has a funny way of teaching us anyways. Why deprive ourselves of that? Why not just enjoy the process?

DAD JOKES

My daughter and I were having a conversation about the philosophy behind Quantum Mechanics. As any proud Father would do in that situation I texted my own Dad to brag about how much cooler my kid is than his.(No! I'm not lost on the irony.) Naturally, he cracked a joke which you now see quoted above.

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The way our human brains function is literally underpinned by quantum theory. Quantum uncertainty- the principle that such complimentary qualities as momentum and position of a quantum object cannot be measured at the same time with any accuracy- makes the list. For this reason we cannot lock down how our thoughts form into the reality we see around us but this does seem to happen at least to some degree. We just can't measure it with any accuracy as of today.

As we scale down from the cortex to the folding of proteins the brain functions as a parallel processor. Proteins synthesize into our emotions, our concepts of the world and even our memories. Essentially, our attitudes themselves are encoded neurologically, but how?

Dr. Stuart Hamerofff describes how proteins fold inside the microtubule as being mathematically identical to how thoughts form or how we solve problems. He describes this nested Chinese box arrangement of mathematical precision duplicating itself upwards from the microtubule all the way up through the central nervous system. It's through this neighbor-to-neighbor interaction that our sense of self emerges from. So it's not that our brains are quantum entities it's that they function based on quantum effects from the Planck scale upwards.

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QUANTUM ALCHEMY

The frontal lobes are the part of the brain that allow us to focus our attention & concentrate. People who practice mindfulness meditation tend to have highly developed frontal lobe. This center of the brain is responsible for drawing information from our environment at a whopping 400 billion bits per second. As we draw from our collected memories and cross reference said information we make decisions based on how the data is processed. Most of this happens in our frontal lobes.

Much of our behavior is automated. We tend to react without really thinking. Consider all of the various forms of how we respond in ways that are harmful without giving a second thought. From stress-eating, depressed-drinking to angry sex we react to stimulation like pre-programmed machines. This is the result of failing to use our powers of concentration to analyze what we think and feel. What if we could break up these old patterns of thinking? What if we pause & take a moment to think before we react? Could we form new patterns of thinking? I think so.

Often times, we forget our power. We forget we are conscious observers that effect what we see in the world. Perhaps addiction goes beyond drugs and alcohol. We can like the dopamine spike we get from the craving/reward cycle to old patterns of thinking. If, relish the thought, we are emotions dope fiends then the frontal lobes offer us freedom by giving us the ability to catch ourselves in the moment and figure out what result or feeling we're looking for.