I went to a lecture once where the speaker was proposing a both/and approach to things we normally categorize as either/or. I don't remember the specifics, but I left thinking that there is a way to understand things as both science and spirituality. Through that philosophy, and while I probably tend toward agnostic, I have pretty strong scientific pantheists leanings, which basically means the universe is divine--and thus all that exist within it--though not necessarily all-knowing. My point being that the fact there's a universe and that we exist in it is fucking amazing. But I'm also amazed that someone somewhere actually figured out how to make bread, which brought forth the concept of not only a recipe, but the understanding we could mix all these solids, make them in a liquid, then heat them up to make a completely different solid that was tasty!
So to tie that in above, and I can't do it justice so maybe some of these better thinkers can help me out, I have another theory based on the first law of thermodynamics that energy can't be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed. What that means is what we are is based on atoms that were part of the big bang, primordial mud, dinosaurs, cro magnon, and now we understand a little better thanks to quantum physics and the theories on space-time, whatever will be in the future.
Sometimes we have precog dreams (I've had a couple) and perhaps one of those groups of atoms from a future transformation just so happened to vibrate just right at the right time as another group of atom of mine in some sort of recognition or bonding moment (I mean that chemically/physically not emotionally) and that triggers a precog. By the same thinking, two groups of atoms from two different people with shared experiences could experience the same dream. I think we all have shared dreams, it's just the link between the two people is what makes us aware that there's the possibility of shared dreaming and the ability to attach significance to it beyond the archetypal interpretation of what things could mean in a dream.
The problem with totally understanding how these atoms interact with each other that gives us these extrasensory/metaphysical phenomena is the quantum mechanics itself--or rather our ability to (not) understand it. If I understand quantum mechanics, it means, for example, that we can measure how fast an electron is going or measure where it is, but we can't measure both at the same time, because if we could do that, we could predict where the electron would end up, but we haven't been able to figure that out as sometimes that electron isn't anywhere near the atom it is assigned to and there's some theory that the electron can travel back and forth in time.
I will have to look up Dan Simmons to see what he has to say. :)
I can also sort of grokk this shared dream thing along the lines of chaos theory/fractals, but it may not be coherent. ;)
Yeah, just some warning. Simmons is very, very, long winded. He's got some cool concepts, but his books take a long time to plow through. I recommend starting with Hyperion and moving on to Endymion.
Basically, if Simmons had an editor, he'd be my favorite Sci-Fi author of all time.
Added Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion to my Audible queue. Didn't see Endymion there, but perhaps it will be eventually. This led me to add other best of sci fi books with Dan Simmons, that also had another author I like. I love the Internet.
So to tie that in above, and I can't do it justice so maybe some of these better thinkers can help me out, I have another theory based on the first law of thermodynamics that energy can't be created or destroyed, it can only be transformed. What that means is what we are is based on atoms that were part of the big bang, primordial mud, dinosaurs, cro magnon, and now we understand a little better thanks to quantum physics and the theories on space-time, whatever will be in the future.
Sometimes we have precog dreams (I've had a couple) and perhaps one of those groups of atoms from a future transformation just so happened to vibrate just right at the right time as another group of atom of mine in some sort of recognition or bonding moment (I mean that chemically/physically not emotionally) and that triggers a precog. By the same thinking, two groups of atoms from two different people with shared experiences could experience the same dream. I think we all have shared dreams, it's just the link between the two people is what makes us aware that there's the possibility of shared dreaming and the ability to attach significance to it beyond the archetypal interpretation of what things could mean in a dream.
The problem with totally understanding how these atoms interact with each other that gives us these extrasensory/metaphysical phenomena is the quantum mechanics itself--or rather our ability to (not) understand it. If I understand quantum mechanics, it means, for example, that we can measure how fast an electron is going or measure where it is, but we can't measure both at the same time, because if we could do that, we could predict where the electron would end up, but we haven't been able to figure that out as sometimes that electron isn't anywhere near the atom it is assigned to and there's some theory that the electron can travel back and forth in time.
I will have to look up Dan Simmons to see what he has to say. :)
I can also sort of grokk this shared dream thing along the lines of chaos theory/fractals, but it may not be coherent. ;)
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Basically, if Simmons had an editor, he'd be my favorite Sci-Fi author of all time.
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