In our continuing review of Gregg Braden’s The
Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits,
we’re starting to move into territory that is far more fleshed out in
discussion today than it was back in 2008 when this book was published. I’m
guessing that you may have heard of the Simulation Hypothesis. You might be
surprised, though, how many other somewhat important and influential people
have also ventured into this subject:
Belief Code 6: Just as we can run a simulated program
that looks and feels real, studies suggest that the universe itself may be the
output of a huge and ancient simulation – a computer program – that began long
ago. If so, then to know the program’s code is to know the rules of reality
itself.
"If we are living in a simulation, then the cosmos
that we are observing is just a tiny piece of the totality of physical
existence... It follows that the belief that there is a significant chance that
we will one day become posthumans who run ancestor-simulations is false, unless
we are currently living in a simulation." – Nick Bostrom, 2003 (Oxford
philosopher)
"Forty years ago we had Pong—two rectangles and a
dot. Now 40 years later, we have photorealistic, 3D simulations with millions
of people playing simultaneously... If you assume any rate of improvement at
all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality... The odds that
we’re in base reality is one in billions." – Elon Musk (2016)
"I think the likelihood may be very high... It’s
easy to imagine an advanced species looking at us the way we look at
chimpanzees. We share 98%+ of our DNA with chimps, yet we build space
telescopes and write poetry while chimps can barely use stick tools. If a
species existed that was 1% smarter than us, to them, our highest intellectual
achievements would be like child’s play—and creating a universe simulation on
their desktop would be routine.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson (2016)
"If one looks at the evolution of computing power
and physics, it shows that even now, our top supercomputers could simulate
human memory. Quite frankly, if we are not living in a simulation, it is an
absolute anomaly." – Rich Terrile (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Physicist)
If your mind is open to this hypothesis, well, you’re in
good company! Now on to;
Belief Code 7: When we think of the universe as a program,
atoms represent “bits” of information that work just the way familiar computer
bits do. They are either “on,” as physical matter, or “off,” as invisible
waves.
Before 1905, science considered waves (such as light) and
matter (such as electrons) as completely separate phenomena. It took 22 years,
from Einstein proposing in 1905 that light could be particles (now known as photons)
until 1927 when three scientists (two at Bell Labs) proved in experiments that matter
behaved as a wave.
So, this, the birth of quantum physics, showed that Light
(traditionally a wave) behaves like a particle, and Electrons
(traditionally particles) behave like waves. Literally, “on/particle” and “off/wave”
potential in the same phenomenon.
Now recall Belief Code 1 about what has been proven
concerning the power of focused attention, and we are off to the races. There
is one other element we’ll add to this today, which is;
Belief Code 8: Nature uses a few simple, self-similar,
and repeating patterns- fractals – to build atoms into the familiar patterns of
everything from elements and molecules to rocks, trees, and us.
I’m sure that you’ve heard the ancient phrase, “Don’t
reinvent the wheel.” Nature follows this to a fault by the Principle of Least
Action, a.k.a. “follow the path of least resistance.” Water flowing downhill will automatically
utilize the path that requires the least action.
Makes you rethink the entire concept of “nose to the grindstone,”
“pedal to the metal,” and maximum energy expended, doesn’t it?
Add to this the discovery of fractals by Benoit Mandelbrot, a
term that he coined in 1975. If you wish to be hypnotically entertained, find an
online video that takes you on a literal journey through a Mandelbrot Set. If
you haven’t encountered this, it’ll give you a new perspective once you
experience it.
What has been revealed in nature and subsequently utilized
throughout diverse fields such as technology, computer graphics, medicine, and
finance is that there exist no irregular patterns. There actually is an
underlying order in seeming chaos. And as this Belief Code states, nature utilizes
this, following the path of least resistance, to build atoms into absolutely
everything, including us.
Stay tuned! We’re just getting into the good stuff.
No comments:
Post a Comment