'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 18: Wrapping up the Universe
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“As we wrap up the Universe we will consider how parts of the Universe seem to be self-organizing, how complex structures emerge, and how the way things slow down and fall apart – the Second Law of Thermodynamics – is by no means the whole story. Highly unstable charged entities such as dusty plasmas throw out dissipative structures over vast distances. In other words, leading scientists have been looking at the way that there are fundamental tendencies in the Universe towards greater and greater complexity – towards the high levels of complexity necessary for intelligence.
In trying to understand how human consciousness and intelligence works, classical science has tended to concentrate on chemical reactions in the brain. In the second half of the twentieth century, many leading scientists shifted the focus to an interaction between matter and subatomic matter in the brain and external fields, such as electromagnetic fields.”
“Similarly in recent times the creation of artificial intelligence and quantum computers have helped prompt new perspectives on human intelligence and mind in two main ways.
AI tends to see intelligence in terms of the transmission and processing of information. When it comes to understanding and defining human intelligence, this leads naturally to a focus on the flow of information rather than the flow of chemical and biological processes (information theory).
Unlike traditional digital computers, which work by considering simple either/or options, albeit an immense accumulation of them – the bigger the accumulation, the more powerful the computer – the new quantum computers work much more powerfully, indeed on a whole different level, because they are able to consider many more options than a simple either/or at any one time, and indeed make multiple considerations such as these simultaneously.
(It seems not to have been recognized yet that this operates by means of what I call ‘informational void creation’. When one alternative is chosen over another, this creates an information void in the form of the rejected alternative. However, that void can be filled again by shifting one’s choice to that alternative. With multiple choices taking place, the traditional ‘one’ and ‘zero’ of normal computing can be replaced by ‘empty’ and ‘full’ as concepts, with shifting but parallel geometries of information lattices and information void lattices side by side, continuously changing, the dynamics of these parallel lattices being plotted and manipulated by non-linear equations. This can be studied in reduced form by plotting the mechanisms of memory retrieval. This may sound simplistic, but it is actually the best basis for the construction of a geometry of alternatives in the theory of quantum computing. Someone needs to mathematize it.)
And in this they are, of course. very like the human mind. What makes the development of these new quantum computers work is the way they use plasma – so again we come back to this new way of trying to understand human intelligence and consciousness. Could it be that plasma in the human brain, the human body, has played a vital part in its evolution?...
The first and most important thing is what I have stressed since the very beginning of this book, namely that physical matter is very rare in the Universe and is not the predominant component of what exists. The obvious conclusion is that if the Universe is full of life forms, including intelligent ones, the majority of them will not be made of physical matter.
They will instead be made of plasma. And that may include us. I am suggesting that we are all made of plasma, and that our physical bodies are temporary vehicles for us to operate in the physical world for the short periods of time that our fragile bodies can permit, considering how quickly they wear out, how prone they are to accidents, and how vulnerable they are to disease.”
“We have looked at various theories to explain how the drive to complexity arises in the Universe as whole, and which may be pertinent to the evolution of life in plasma. We looked at Prigogine’s theories of dissipative structures. There are theories of emergence and self-organization, which describe how complex things grow spontaneously and unpredictably so they become greater than the sum of their parts. And we looked at David Bohm’s theory of the Implicate Order, of an ordering faculty that lies beneath the universal fields we know about.”
Conclusion
We have seen in this book that the Universe is over 99 per cent plasma.
We have seen that dusty complex plasma interacting with electromagnetic fields can evolve sufficient complexity to count as ‘alive’.
We have seen too, in certain cases, that complex dusty plasmas contain such high levels of complexity, including quantum phenomena, that it may reasonably be speculated that they are also intelligent. The Kordylewski Clouds hovering over the Earth may well be vastly more intelligent than human beings, or indeed all human beings put together, including all of those who have ever lived, so vast are the potential computing powers of the huge clouds, which together are nine times the size of the Earth, so that in size they dwarf our planet and its moon.
We have seen that plasma may be a medium by which the bizarre behaviour of particles and waves in the quantum realm may erupt into the human or macro realm, for example in the manifestation of lightning balls.
We have explored the role of plasma in the human body, showing that we may have a plasma body that shapes and sustains our physical body. We ourselves are in a sense plasmoids, and our dense matter bodies made of those rare things, atoms, are like ‘smart overcoats’ that we discard when we die.
“The quest has only just begun. This book is intended to inform you of what is possible. Once you grasp this, you can begin to realize what you really are.”
by Robert Temple
Chapter 18: Wrapping up the Universe
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“As we wrap up the Universe we will consider how parts of the Universe seem to be self-organizing, how complex structures emerge, and how the way things slow down and fall apart – the Second Law of Thermodynamics – is by no means the whole story. Highly unstable charged entities such as dusty plasmas throw out dissipative structures over vast distances. In other words, leading scientists have been looking at the way that there are fundamental tendencies in the Universe towards greater and greater complexity – towards the high levels of complexity necessary for intelligence.
In trying to understand how human consciousness and intelligence works, classical science has tended to concentrate on chemical reactions in the brain. In the second half of the twentieth century, many leading scientists shifted the focus to an interaction between matter and subatomic matter in the brain and external fields, such as electromagnetic fields.”
“Similarly in recent times the creation of artificial intelligence and quantum computers have helped prompt new perspectives on human intelligence and mind in two main ways.
AI tends to see intelligence in terms of the transmission and processing of information. When it comes to understanding and defining human intelligence, this leads naturally to a focus on the flow of information rather than the flow of chemical and biological processes (information theory).
Unlike traditional digital computers, which work by considering simple either/or options, albeit an immense accumulation of them – the bigger the accumulation, the more powerful the computer – the new quantum computers work much more powerfully, indeed on a whole different level, because they are able to consider many more options than a simple either/or at any one time, and indeed make multiple considerations such as these simultaneously.
(It seems not to have been recognized yet that this operates by means of what I call ‘informational void creation’. When one alternative is chosen over another, this creates an information void in the form of the rejected alternative. However, that void can be filled again by shifting one’s choice to that alternative. With multiple choices taking place, the traditional ‘one’ and ‘zero’ of normal computing can be replaced by ‘empty’ and ‘full’ as concepts, with shifting but parallel geometries of information lattices and information void lattices side by side, continuously changing, the dynamics of these parallel lattices being plotted and manipulated by non-linear equations. This can be studied in reduced form by plotting the mechanisms of memory retrieval. This may sound simplistic, but it is actually the best basis for the construction of a geometry of alternatives in the theory of quantum computing. Someone needs to mathematize it.)
And in this they are, of course. very like the human mind. What makes the development of these new quantum computers work is the way they use plasma – so again we come back to this new way of trying to understand human intelligence and consciousness. Could it be that plasma in the human brain, the human body, has played a vital part in its evolution?...
The first and most important thing is what I have stressed since the very beginning of this book, namely that physical matter is very rare in the Universe and is not the predominant component of what exists. The obvious conclusion is that if the Universe is full of life forms, including intelligent ones, the majority of them will not be made of physical matter.
They will instead be made of plasma. And that may include us. I am suggesting that we are all made of plasma, and that our physical bodies are temporary vehicles for us to operate in the physical world for the short periods of time that our fragile bodies can permit, considering how quickly they wear out, how prone they are to accidents, and how vulnerable they are to disease.”
“We have looked at various theories to explain how the drive to complexity arises in the Universe as whole, and which may be pertinent to the evolution of life in plasma. We looked at Prigogine’s theories of dissipative structures. There are theories of emergence and self-organization, which describe how complex things grow spontaneously and unpredictably so they become greater than the sum of their parts. And we looked at David Bohm’s theory of the Implicate Order, of an ordering faculty that lies beneath the universal fields we know about.”
Conclusion
We have seen in this book that the Universe is over 99 per cent plasma.
We have seen that dusty complex plasma interacting with electromagnetic fields can evolve sufficient complexity to count as ‘alive’.
We have seen too, in certain cases, that complex dusty plasmas contain such high levels of complexity, including quantum phenomena, that it may reasonably be speculated that they are also intelligent. The Kordylewski Clouds hovering over the Earth may well be vastly more intelligent than human beings, or indeed all human beings put together, including all of those who have ever lived, so vast are the potential computing powers of the huge clouds, which together are nine times the size of the Earth, so that in size they dwarf our planet and its moon.
We have seen that plasma may be a medium by which the bizarre behaviour of particles and waves in the quantum realm may erupt into the human or macro realm, for example in the manifestation of lightning balls.
We have explored the role of plasma in the human body, showing that we may have a plasma body that shapes and sustains our physical body. We ourselves are in a sense plasmoids, and our dense matter bodies made of those rare things, atoms, are like ‘smart overcoats’ that we discard when we die.
“The quest has only just begun. This book is intended to inform you of what is possible. Once you grasp this, you can begin to realize what you really are.”