I thought about this article during the day, or more precisely I turned my mind off from thinking on it during the day, for then an idea to pop into my mind about it. Your school friend Gareth pointing out that the experimental apparatus presupposed a certain conclusion says something about these paradoxical particles or waves being found at the deepest level of reality; and that the ancient Greeks thought the same things, in terms granularity or flow, at this deepest level. Perhaps we set ourselves up in ancient Greece to find in the 20th Century, the geometries of the quantum world that we have.
Interesting angle…if I read you right, then Richard Bucke is your man - the Canadian doc who penned Cosmic Consciousness back in 1905. He insisted that consciousness is not a fixed entity historically. As evidence, he cited the intriguing fact that only three colours are mentioned by the Ancient Greeks. There’s no mention of a blue sky in Homer’s works or in the Bible, and a similar lack of reference to colour is evident in ancient Vedic literature from India. The perception of fragrance has also increased cross-culturally over time, he wrote, if the written word is any indication. In insisting the phenomenal world – the world we create in our minds that we project outward – has grown in depth as human consciousness has evolved, even in the historical era, he anticipated the Princeton psychologist Julian Jaynes, who pitched much the same idea in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - which I’m sure you’ve read!
I know it's a corny and somewhat overused new age trope, but I think that consciousness actually creates reality. I'm fairly certain that it was in the book Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joeseph Chilton Pearce where he observed that Tachyons were not discovered until the same set of experiments which had previously not disclosed their existence, where later performed with success and written up in journals that in fact showed them to exist. It seemed that they then had permission to exist, and so they did.
Unless I missed this, I don’t believe tachyons have ever been detected! I do remember Joseph Chilton Pearce as an ‘unreliable author,’ though. Made a lot of wild, unsubstantiated claims in one book I tried to read.
I thought about this article during the day, or more precisely I turned my mind off from thinking on it during the day, for then an idea to pop into my mind about it. Your school friend Gareth pointing out that the experimental apparatus presupposed a certain conclusion says something about these paradoxical particles or waves being found at the deepest level of reality; and that the ancient Greeks thought the same things, in terms granularity or flow, at this deepest level. Perhaps we set ourselves up in ancient Greece to find in the 20th Century, the geometries of the quantum world that we have.
Interesting angle…if I read you right, then Richard Bucke is your man - the Canadian doc who penned Cosmic Consciousness back in 1905. He insisted that consciousness is not a fixed entity historically. As evidence, he cited the intriguing fact that only three colours are mentioned by the Ancient Greeks. There’s no mention of a blue sky in Homer’s works or in the Bible, and a similar lack of reference to colour is evident in ancient Vedic literature from India. The perception of fragrance has also increased cross-culturally over time, he wrote, if the written word is any indication. In insisting the phenomenal world – the world we create in our minds that we project outward – has grown in depth as human consciousness has evolved, even in the historical era, he anticipated the Princeton psychologist Julian Jaynes, who pitched much the same idea in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - which I’m sure you’ve read!
I know it's a corny and somewhat overused new age trope, but I think that consciousness actually creates reality. I'm fairly certain that it was in the book Exploring the Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Joeseph Chilton Pearce where he observed that Tachyons were not discovered until the same set of experiments which had previously not disclosed their existence, where later performed with success and written up in journals that in fact showed them to exist. It seemed that they then had permission to exist, and so they did.
Unless I missed this, I don’t believe tachyons have ever been detected! I do remember Joseph Chilton Pearce as an ‘unreliable author,’ though. Made a lot of wild, unsubstantiated claims in one book I tried to read.