https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-universe-as-cosmic-dashboard/
“Perceived physicality is merely a representation of that surrounding mental environment, brought into being by an act of observation.”
“This doesn’t mean that there is no common environment; it means only that this environment isn’t physical.”
I didn’t realize this was a “thing”.. apparently it’s been happening quite a few times in the animal kingdom. While I realize that evolution isn’t exactly “random” as it’s often driven by environmental factors.. this does still strikes me as odd.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/physics-is-pointing-inexorably-to-mind/
“The mental universe exists in mind but not in your personal mind alone. Instead, it is a transpersonal field of mentation that presents itself to us as physicality—with its concreteness, solidity and definiteness—once our personal mental processes interact with it through observation. This mental universe is what physics is leading us to, not the hand-waving word games of information realism.”
TLDR: There is only information, the physical world is just a byproduct, and things are only “real” in our mind.
From the author of this article: The Idea of the World: A Multi-Disciplinary Argument for the Mental Nature of Reality
“But Proietti and co’s result suggests that objective reality does not exist. In other words, the experiment suggests that one or more of the assumptions—the idea that there is a reality we can agree on, the idea that we have freedom of choice, or the idea of locality—must be wrong.”
TLDR: They created an experiment to see if two observers could get different results (based on polarized photons).. and the answer is yes. Therefore science is now completely rubbish because experiments can’t be trusted. Can this experiment be trusted?
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/quantum-monism-could-save-the-soul-of-physics/
If I understood this correctly.. the idea here is that there is an underlying the multiverse there is fundamental reality that everything is connected to via entanglement. I think.
“The humanoid robot is modeled after Kannon Bodhisattva, the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy. The robot’s name is Mindar and it gave its first speech on the Heart Sutra, a key scripture in Buddhist teaching. The Japan Times reported that the teachings spoken by the robot offer a path to “overcome all fear, destroy all wrong perceptions and realise perfect nirvana.””
Rebuilding gods..
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/13/secret-life-unveiled-chemistry-lab
“DNA is described as a genetic “database”, containing “instructions” on how to build an organism. The genetic “code” has to be “transcribed” and “translated” before it can act. And so on. If we cast the problem of life’s origin in computer jargon, attempts at chemical synthesis focus exclusively on the hardware – the chemical substrate of life – but ignore the software – the informational aspect. To explain how life began we need to understand how its unique management of information came about.”
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/
“Space-time is a lot smarter than us,” Almheiri said. “The kind of quantum error-correcting code which is implemented in these constructions is a very efficient code.”
Stars turned into layers of supercomputers, repeat.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-many-worlds-interpretation-of-quantum-mechanics-has-many-problems-20181018/
“For every tragedy, like Gwyneth Paltrow’s character being hit by a van in the many-worlds-inspired 1998 movie Sliding Doors, there is salvation and triumph. Who could resist that idea?”
