Federica wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2024 9:11 pm
If it wasn't dangerous, one could call this 'quantum reversed or negative solipsism'....
Then, scientific discoveries can perhaps be understood as cognitive synchronization events... Like a sort of squaring of the shared space of possibilities?
That's an interesting way to put it. Much of the abstract approach has already been outlined by Carlo Rovelli in Relational QM. He shows that the maths of QM work just fine even if there's no common 'objective' physical world. Here 'no objective' doesn't mean that there's no reality to the metamorphosing World state but only that there's no special perspective that contemplates the objective truth of the World state. Such a perspective exists only as an overlay in the scientist's imagination, and thus is already part of the only relative first-person perspective that we know.
As far as philosophy, Rovelli's view remains quite flat, clearly expressing the modern mystical view. Something similar has been presented, of course in non-scientific form, by Adur in his
essay (mainly the part that he calls 'the law of consistency'). In all cases, however, things are not taken sufficiently deep. When we start with the relative ego-like perspectives as the fundamental givens, then it feels as if these soul-atoms exist in an undifferentiated sea of potential. Then we can imagine that these atoms spread their rays through this potential, they finally encounter each other, and the law of consistency kicks in (or relational QM). Now only the potential consistent for both atoms remains, while the conflicting potential is filtered out. Seen in this way, our consensual reality could have been anything. It was completely undetermined and, for example, the fact that we have a Moon, a Sun, and so on, is the result just of a quite arbitrary interaction between soul atoms who mutually constrained their wild dreams.
Of course, such a view is still heavily dominated by our Earthly spatial consciousness. We have previously explained how such views don't go beyond Imagination - and thus reality is seen simply as a consensual dream image. We should not forget that this potential is one of contextual ideal activity. Thus when the dream of two soul atoms crystallizes, the fact that there's a Moon and a Sun is not arbitrary but corresponds to the already differentiated potential in the higher contextual levels of the Cosmic Mind.
This we have already considered many times, but I just wanted to repeat it in the context of the synchronization events. My point is that without having this in mind, we can imagine that the past is a complete fabrication, just a consensual fantasy that seems to fit our state here and now.
I'm tempted to go into some of the details but since I still have many open questions in this realm, I'll keep exploring quietly for now.
Maybe to share just one thing, we can start by considering that there are certain questions that simply make no sense even physically. Such is the question "Through which slit the photon went" in the double split experiment. It goes heavily against our human-scale intuition, but such a question simply loses meaning in QM. It's not simply that we can't practically know it (as if due to some imperfection in the measuring apparatus) but it is principally a meaningless question. I believe we have the exact same issue with abiogenesis. Asking how the inorganic primordial soup combined into protocells is not simply an unanswered question because of lack of data but it is a principally meaningless question. We need a completely different mode of thinking to address it. We have to conceive of the gradual decohering of the inner perspective of the flow of being.
And this has many details to be filled out. For me personally, it is very interesting to understand how much of the physical facts were already quite definite, even though still in a much more coherent state. For example, when we look at the Moon we can reason that certain craters must have been formed very long ago, probably before there could have been mineral life on Earth. Thus from our human perspective, things were still in a highly structured superposition (etheric state). Yet a meteorite that collided with the Moon must have already been quite distinctly formed. This didn't produce any cloud of dust upon impact, yet the wavefunctions indeed collided, so to speak.
From our present decohered Earthly perspective it seems that the impact wavefunction is also decohered. It seems that the impact physically happened. It
seems we can follow the chain of cause and effects of colliding Moon dust particles from the impact to today. However, we can't do the same for life (abiogenesis). We cannot follow mineral particles that somehow assemble into life. This is because there's no such a perspective that could have beheld a mineral pre-life universe into which life magically condenses. The mineral universe condenses together with our perspective.
Thus one of the tasks of spiritual science in the coming decades will be to investigate more closely how rigid the different spectral parts of the universal wavefunction are. This is key for proper understanding. The part of the wavefunction that would decohere into the mineral world (practically the ancient Saturn world) has already been quite inert, even though still not collapsed. So even in the pre-mineral stage, the etheric life had to form against a denser spectrum of the universal wavefunction, yet still relatively pliable, such that it could be entrained within the higher ideal ordering of life, soul, and spiritual activity.