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2/3 • ERA • The Oscillating Universe of Consciousness

Mind, relativistic aberration and reality, by Robert E. Haraldsen

Concept

The flow of time is an illusion created by the processing andaccumulation of perception onto reflections within the subjectivemind, and is defined by the frequency of the interactions of thoughtprocess, where distance, space, is the reciprocal. This statementmay seem self-referential as 'frequency', of course, is defined assequences of events over time. However, the point is that time asexperienced is totally subjective and different for each observer.Accordingly, "space" separated from "time" is a manifestation of structured consciousness

wherein experience exists as feedback of the mind projecting onto consciousness the illusion of separateentities. Time can only be measured by consciousness, andconsciousness at the deepest level is a fluctuation, analogue to thebalance of 'matter-antimatter'. Consciousness is either on or anti-on, and memory is the bridge over mere potential. Consequently, itis a paradox that the closest one can come to true time issubjective time, and the universe is a collective subjectiveconscious entity of illusive time. The illusion is, of course, light,which is consciousness, and therefore simply two different aspectsof the same phenomenon. The direction and the speed of light is constant only when notinfluenced by different factors, such as gravity and materialdensity. Light is also absorbed and emitted in atoms. This fact of differentiated speed and absorption/emission is of crucialimportance to the following discussion relating to the mindsinterpretational mechanisms.Seen from a higher dimensional perspective there is only onespacetime field, which 'contains' the subjective artifacts known asthe forces discovered and sometimes successfully definedmathematically into rules of physics. Nevertheless, it is oftendifficult to not confuse our theoretical models with what lies behind.Our illusions are based on the cognitive premises that interactrelativistically and quantum-mechanically with the flow of thespacetime that we are part of—more profoundly than that which isonly perceived through what we normally think of as sensory input. To put it simply: we are spacetime.Moreover we are strictly accustomed to the effects of theseorganizing interactions of projection that keep our attentiondistanced from the underlying simplicity of timelessness.

Consciousness and quantum relativity

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A deeper understanding of the dynamics of consciousness, notonly in the trivial sense of immaterial psychological relations, butas the prerequisite of the universe itself, may lead to anunderstanding of even such fundamental physics as gravitation. The following argument acknowledges theories of higherdimensions, such as string-M-theory as important descriptivemodels along with the embedded theories of quantum mechanicsand an expanded relativity theory. The unexploited consequence of special relativity, extreme

relativistic aberration

, will probably turnout to be one of the most important keys to a better understandingof the overall unity.As long as consciousness itself is not explained ontologically, andcertainly not physically, the problem of proof resides within anyapproach toward a cohesive explanation of the universe. One of themost prominent architects of string theory, Edgar Witten of Princeton, expresses doubts that humans will ever be smart enoughto figure string theory out. Perhaps he is right, and a full scientificunderstanding will always be out of reach. However, it isnevertheless extremely interesting that abstract reasoning hasbeen able to repeatedly transcend the implausible—asdemonstrated throughout the history of philosophy. This is a factthat nonetheless points to the extraordinary underlying powers of will. The mathematical string theory is an attractive theoretical modelof abstract physics that, if devised as intended, could lead to the'theory of everything' (if it also can be proven by some kind of experiment). However, already as an abstract idea it illustrates apossible vibrating flow of forces in 'spacetimes' that evade andsurpass our comparatively linear observation of the everydayworld.A heavy weight on our imagination is our inherited rigorousconcept of the direction of time, and any other notion of absolutedirectionality. To rise to the abstract world the philosopher tries tolet go of such preconceived ideas, at least in the sense that theycan be applied to any explanation as objective phenomenologicalrules of the universe. When able to reach this conceptual point wemay come to understand how either relativity theory or quantummechanics, or both, should be remodeled to encircle as one unitedtheory; the realm of quantum relativity. Then, from that point onthe universe may be shown to be no more than a set of illusiveparadoxes that are 'resolved' if we can imagine the universe as anequal amount of existence and anti-existence caused by pulsatingconsciousness between two 'impossible' states. This may beregarded as the 'psychological' equivalent of the matter/antimatterstates.

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While contemporary theoretical physics is struggling to ascendfrom the groundbreaking epoch that gave birth to relativity theoryand quantum mechanics, philosophers of science are nowfrequently pointing toward the necessity of dissecting our veryconcept of time.We intuitively and even practically experience that time is asubjective phenomenon—we might even say we already know this,without proof. Nevertheless, Einstein formulated a description of the relation between gravitation, matter and spacetime, and fromthis we may, perhaps, be able to extrapolate and recognize howmatter is connected to consciousness, and even be described in asimilar way.

Habitual reality

Consciousness has been adding inertia to its own manifestationfor billions of years—a magnitude extremely important to regard asa heavy weight of habitual thinking obscuring the peaks of imagination (in addition to the awareness problem mentionedabove). In spite of this, we are at a modern scientific andphilosophic level of understanding that acknowledges theuncertainty of measurements and subjectivity.Related to this psychological difficulty is, for instance, the speciallimit of knowledge at the extreme borderline between personalstrong experiences of consciousness and the empirically observedemphatic dysfunction of humans—with the word 'human' regularlyused as a positive quality—while easily forgetting our attitudetoward other living beings (that we commonly do not grantconsciousness at all). And even if we sometimes feel generousenough to endow 'them' with some kind of similar existentialqualities as 'our own', we usually tend to categorize 'them' as of less significant value. Yet, as an example at the other extreme,being part of a large crowd of fellow beings in a football-stadiumcan give us a sensation of being a united consciousness—perhapsan indication that there is some primeval force striving for higherlevel of unity.At first thought one would perhaps think it absolutelypreposterous that an immaterial entity could shape even thesmallest grain of sand—although, remembering that only a hundredyears ago it was unimaginable that any grain of matter couldcontain even the slightest amount of its now well known enormousatomic energy, we might think twice.If we now let our attention sink into the infinitesimal levels of energy and matter, where gravity is at its weakest level, we can

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