Obiwan
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Great name. LolI just realized from your post, I keep capitalizing rigor mortis like it is a death metal band.
Great name. LolI just realized from your post, I keep capitalizing rigor mortis like it is a death metal band.
Interesting comments. Perhaps this may be of interest, a post I made some time ago about some relatively minor events which happened to me, but which had a huge effect on my point of view - though not necessarily any answers:
Time - some personal experiences
Great post!
A paradox is an indication that another dimension needs to be considered. How can one sail west and end up in the East? It's a paradox on a 2D surface, but the answer is in adding a 3rd dimension to the shape.
I made a post earlier on the 5th dimension which was completely ignored (most of my posts on the 5th dimension get ignored... I think because it seems too speculative and it's difficult to visualize except by two layers of metaphor, and by then... what are we really talking about)
I think of the soul as a 5D shape with time being the 4th dimension and meaning being the 5th dimension. (Materialism ends up with a meaningless universe because it entirely ignores the dimension of meaning)
Precognition/retrocausality is intriguing to me, and in NDEs, although I think it's wrong, it seems like a 'null hypothesis' that's worth exploring to find out what precognition (of our everyday, physical world) *can't* account for.
Precognition is indeed the most parsimonious, and therefore, starting hypothesis for ESP-like psychic manifestations.
Yet there are, actually, experimental data which it cannot explain - precise and repeatable psychophysical corellations between spatially distant, mutually isolated subjects (such as in remote staring, remote emotion and remote intention experiments). Look at the "Physiological correlations at a distance" section of the Dean Radin's "Evidence for Psi" scientific paper list.
And there is also psychokinesis, especially of macro-variety... The macro-PK is, like Stephen Braude noted, probably the strongest evidence against materialism - current physical theory, no matter how actively and creatively reinterpreted, simply cannot account for poltergeist-like stuff (that's why even some parapsychologists seem to be afraid of it, I think...)
Am I mistaken or did May say that the brain collapsing wave functions is subject to distance..... basically 'it' is so weak as to be a negligible/non existent thing?
No your right... May appears to think the wave function of QM is a physical wave from his explanation... and I think he said he had been trained in QM.
Honestly curious about this -> How can a backward arrow of causality be parsimonious? How does it work without a closed time loop....something that involves an infinite regression?
Ah. :)
Now I'm thinking how would that work with regards to experiment and observation of a result? If the cat were both a live and dead so to speak, and the
experimenter is watching the box on video from a thousand miles away, then uses a remote control to open the box and observe the result, according
to May, he's too far away to affect an outcome. Is this a valid argument to May's assertion?
I mean it would make more sense that collapsing wave function are in the domain of non locality rather than some kind of electromagnetic field, yeah?
I heard Brian Cox, who's a materialist, say once in one of his tv lectures that altering some particle here, that the entire universe instantly responds to accommodate that change.
I don't think of it like a closed infinite loop, but rather an "oxbow" in the timeline which results in coincidence or near coincidence/interference of two points at different locations on the timeline. The folding of the 4D shape occurs in the 5th dimension resulting in this coincidence. We can't get stuck in a truly closed time loop by natural selection... if we had, then we wouldn't be here! ...or we already are in a time loop of sufficient radius that - like the earth - it appears flat.
I'm not convinced we can look time as a spatial dimension. So I would question thinking of reality as a 4D shape if you're taking time as the 4th axis?
Perhaps calling time a "spatial" dimension stretches the common meaning of spatial too far... so we could call it a fundamental dimension and visualize it as a spatial dimension in order to explore it since it is mathematically a dimension perpendicular to the other spatial dimensions. Our normal waking consciousness is looking along the t-axis at a present reality that is opaque. But movement at a right angle to this axis (E-motion) provides a line of sight around the opaque present.
Hurm,Perhaps calling time a "spatial" dimension stretches the common meaning of spatial too far... so we could call it a fundamental dimension and visualize it as a spatial dimension in order to explore it since it is mathematically a dimension perpendicular to the other spatial dimensions. Our normal waking consciousness is looking along the t-axis at a present reality that is opaque. But movement at a right angle to this axis (E-motion) provides a line of sight around the opaque present.
Orthogonality is an important concept, addressing how a relatively small number of components can be combined in a relatively small number of ways to get the desired results. It is associated with simplicity; the more orthogonal the design, the fewer exceptions. This makes it easier to learn, read and write programs in a programming language.[1] The meaning of an orthogonal feature is independent of context; the key parameters are symmetry and consistency (for example, a pointer is an orthogonal concept). - Wiki
But I think this is ultimately assuming time is a spatial in that you can look around it. And what does it mean for a fundamental dimension to be perpendicular to the other spatial dimensions?
Hurm,
The new popular term is orthogonal. In Euclidean geometry it does mean perpendicular. However, Euclidean geometry does not apply to the way you are using it in the context of space/time in the sense of Einstein's relativity. Orthogonal means something related in programming and information programming. It has always confused me and I remain that way.
We know that there are savants with different non-paranormal skills - factoring primes, finding the hidden image in magic eye pictures even when shown the two needed collections of dots at different times, etc.
Precognition could simply be a combination of Psi and calculation of the most probable future.
Or there could be a block multiverse (As Arvan suggests with the P2P simulation hypothesis) and precognition resonates with the most probably incoming future...though that isn't very parsimonious since we now are saying the block universe AND MWI are true without actual evidence for either.
Thanks!!! That was very helpful.Thanks for that. Yes Orthogonality is what I meant. Maybe one way to put it would be that an orthogonal dimension is the simplest way to express a similar difference. Where two lines intersect is the similarity or point of coincidence. Being orthogonal means that the variable in one dimension can be held constant while independently varying the other variable.
Claim: Anything that carries some type of meaning or emotional significance is connected to all experiences of that meaning or emotional response.
I don't think that kind of computational ability exists. This is especially true of the studies where presentiment responses occur before the computer's RNG chooses the stimulus.
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How do we know this is "non-paranormal"? It could be a type of Psi. For the savant that factors primes, the primes carry a special meaning and significance which elevates their 5th dimensional topography allowing a line of sight for them to be seen - like mountain peaks rising above the forest. Or if you like - like a folding of the landscape so that points of significance become coincident. You and I might not find that primes are anything to elicit an emotional response, but savants do love their numbers and it seems plausible that primes could elicit a special kind of emotional response to them.