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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: The Quantum God People sometimes ask me what I believe. That’s a rather difficult thing to explain, but I’ll give it a shot. But first I’ll have to draw on a little bit of science. Certain aspects of Quantum Theory would seem to indicate that the observer influences reality. This is explained in Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle. I won’t get into a lengthy discussion on the principle. Let’s just say that, in general terms, the choices you make create reality for you. It works this way, according to some theoreticians: You have a choice. In making a decision about how to act on that choice, you create two alternate realities: one in which you made the choice, and the other in which you didn’t. The question is, did that alternate reality in which you made the choice suddenly spring into existence, or had it always existed? I propose that all alternate realities have always existed. Every possible permutation of every person’s choices has always existed in a “Multiverse” of sorts. This latticework of permutations exists independent of time. As we travel along this latticework, time is our way of making things appear coherently. As one wit has said, “time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” Picture it this way: if you’re like me, you have a shelf full of DVDs. Each of those DVDs contains a movie. The entire movie exists all at once, self-contained in that bit of plastic on your shelf. But to experience that movie, you have to take it off the shelf and view it from start to finish, through time. What if the true nature of reality were an infinite collection of DVDs, in which every choice you make puts you into a new movie? If that is the case, then time is an illusion. It is just our way of making sense of what we’ve chosen to experience. Now let’s take that supposition a step further. If time were just an illusion, then it would be theoretically possible to live more than one life at a time. You can watch more than one movie. If you’ve seen one movie, there’s no reason why you can’t choose to watch another one or even watch two at the same time, if you have a good attention span. Anyone who’s ever lived with a channel surfer can relate to this idea. You could even identify with different characters in the same movie at different times, depending on what you’re feeling when you watch the movie. Or you could rewind or fast forward to your favorite parts. I’m proposing a sort of “reincarnation on steroids.” Let’s assume for just a moment that reincarnation is possible. If that were so, then reincarnation wouldn’t be time-dependent, since time is an illusion. So you could live one life in 21st century America, then turn right around and live your next life in 2000 B.C. E. Egypt, simply by choosing a different starting point on the lattice of the Multiverse. What would be the purpose of living multiple lives? Simple: to know new things. At first, memories of past lives would be buried in the subconscious mind and not readily available. But as experience is gained, old knowledge would become more readily available, first through subconscious “intuitions” and then more and more by direct memories of those experiences. As we learn to integrate aspects of our past selves, we become more adept at remembering. Now the question becomes, “how many people are experiencing new lives through reincarnation?” Well, how would you pick a number? Let’s suppose for a moment that you could go to the extreme. How many souls would it take to sustain such a system, assuming that time is an illusion and people could interact with themselves in different incarnations at the same time? Remember, time is irrelevant. All time does is indicate your path through the lattice, so you could be traveling many different paths all at once. How many souls would there be? How about ONE That’s right—only ONE soul in the entire universe. I am you. You are me. That idiot who cut you off in traffic last week was actually you in another incarnation. That waitress who drove you nuts was actually you, too. How would it change your perceptions if you looked upon everyone you met as just another aspect of yourself? Now imagine that this one soul has experienced life in other forms as well, as animals, plants, as every living thing. How would that change your perception of the nature that surrounds you? What if there is life on other planets? Could you have experienced life a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away? How would that change your perceptions of the nature of life in this universe? Of the nature of your dreams? Now, on to the nature of God. If there is such a thing as a god, then one of the characteristics of God is a being who is all-knowing, or omniscient. If experience is the best teacher, then the best way to learn something is to experience it for oneself, to make the mistakes, take the risks, to participate. Let’s return to the lattice of the Multiverse for a moment. It is, by definition, the self-contained representation of every experience it would be possible to have as a living entity. In other words, it contains all possible knowledge. The best way to become omniscient then would be to experience everything there is to experience. And the best way to do that would be to trace ALL of the paths in the Multiverse until every possible permutation had become part of your experience. When you had finished this task, you would be all knowing. You would be God. So in a way, we are all connected. In a way, we are all God. We are all one soul in the process of discovering our Godhood. When the journey is over, we will become God.
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#1. To: Morgana le Fay (#0)
I would propose that it is all predetermined. If one were able to measure all matter and then be able measure all forces acting on that matter, one could devise a formula to predict the future. If it is predictable, then there is no freewill.
This clockwork universe was a real problem for the people of the enlightenment. They believed in free will and the human spririt, but realized that under the laws of Newton, if you could exactly define the state of a single particle, e.g., mass, velocity, acceleration, you could then in theory predict everything that would happen in the universe from then on. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle freed the school of thought from this contradiction. Heisenberg himself realized this and wrote about it.
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Being a man of logic and not physics, I have to believe that a Unified Theory will fall to the side of predictability. Hopefully I live long enough to see myself shown to be wrong.
There is one variation on the standard model where the whole thing falls apart and becomes absolutely mechanical again. I forget exactly how it works, but it inolves one particle traveling backwards in time. All the weirdness in the double slit experiments then falls away and things become complex, but completely rational and boring. It has been a long time since I read about it, but the theory is detailed for lay people in a book called schrodinger's kittens.
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Maybe after we reach the Singularity, the machines will reveal it to us, before they dispose of us as useless eaters.
Satan is going to hell for wanting to be equal with God.
God is always good! |
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