Quantum Physics shows that consciousness is the ground of being. we can make sense of the world through consciousness
Movement of objects is describable in terms of possibilities
-who/what chooses which possibility becomes what we experience as reality?
Consciousness must be involved: observer/subject cannot be ignored
Quantum Physics only describes objects, not subject
-objects are waves of possibilities
-subject is consciousness (more fundamental)
Science encounters free will. consciousness is free because there is no mathematical way to describe the subject, only objects and only so long as they exist as possibilities
Who chooses?
-chooser is free. freedom of choice is experience
Memory is a quantum measurement is brain memory
-brain memories are activated when we experience same encounter (illicit original impression and repeated memory impressions)
Reflection in the meter of memory gives sense of " I "
Tangled Hierarchy: how does one (universal) consciousness become split subject-object experience (which came first, the chicken or the egg)?
-quantum measurement involving brain is a tangled hierarchy
-no answer (both depend on one preceding the other preceding the other preceding the other..)
-M.C. Escher's Drawing Hands (1948): left drawing right/right drawing left - Escher (transcends plane of image) drew both
Subject-Object split arises from tangled hierarchical quantum measurement in the brain
Consciousness: creator of illusory separateness of subject-object split
-from inside it appears that the subject creates objects. from outside objects appear to create subject (consciousness created both)
Why Do We Feel Separate?
-(A) is an object in (B)'s consciousness. (B) identifies with brain, but (B)'s brain is also an object in (B)'s consciousness (tangled hierarchy and conditioning of identity)
The Observer Is the Observed: meditate on it
Through direct experience we are capable of bridging the separateness and that direct experience proves that I am one
-I am one. for the sake of experience there exist two/many (illusory separateness)
Many "manifest experiences" in one consciousness (source of separateness)
"I create my own reality"
-we create our own reality only from a non-ordinary state of being which is reached through work/meditation (no free lunch)
Ego prepares for leap into Quantum Self (the divine, God, etc.)
-leap to Quantum Self from ego: insight/wisdom
-ego must manifest wisdom
