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I find it difficult to imagine how scientists can continue to fail to see the beautiful fit between quantum cosmology and Buddhist doctrine. For me it would be the only interpretation of quantum mechanics that works.
To enable people to better visualize what he means, Bohm offers the following illustration.
Imagine an aquarium containing a fish. Imagine also that you are unable to see the aquarium directly and your knowledge about it and what it contains comes from two television cameras, one directed at the aquarium's front and the other directed at its side.
As you stare at the two television monitors, you might assume that the fish on each of the screens are separate entities. After all, because the cameras are set at different angles, each of the images will be slightly different. But as you continue to watch the two fish, you will eventually become aware that there is a certain relationship between them.
When one turns, the other also makes a slightly different but corresponding turn; when one faces the front, the other always faces toward the side. If you remain unaware of the full scope of the situation, you might even conclude that the fish must be instantaneously communicating with one another, but this is clearly not the case.
This, says Bohm, is precisely what is going on between the subatomic particles in Aspect's experiment.
According to Bohm, the apparent faster-than-light connection between subatomic particles is really telling us that there is a deeper level of reality we are not privy to, a more complex dimension beyond our own that is analogous to the aquarium. And, he adds, we view objects such as subatomic particles as separate from one another because we are seeing only a portion of their reality.
In reality, we are all energy and nothing more. Always connected to everything else. The spider-web of life. Alex Grey, along with many others including scientists that study sub atomic particles, realized this. We are all parts of the same whole.
The philosophical flourish is nice, but don't forget that there is much pain and suffering in this world. Use these descriptions to aide you in your journey, and not to hold to as ways in themselves.
May stress be vanquished, may true virtue seep into the bones and substrate of all sentient beings, may all smile and rejoice in this fortunate age, with the doorway to Peace illuminated perfectly and clearly by Unequaled Compassion, Buddha Shakyamuni, and all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas.
With each breath, think to deplete this ocean of suffering, and to increase joy and wellness. May Love prevail.
I don't like this. Mind is supposed to be spacious and free. But the hologram makes it's path dictated is how it seems. Like you are under so much pressure.
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I'm fairly sure that the results of that experiment is called quantum entanglement no?
May stress be vanquished, may true virtue seep into the bones and substrate of all sentient beings, may all smile and rejoice in this fortunate age, with the doorway to Peace illuminated perfectly and clearly by Unequaled Compassion, Buddha Shakyamuni, and all Buddhas, Bodhisattvas.
With each breath, think to deplete this ocean of suffering, and to increase joy and wellness. May Love prevail.
If you become your own chain you are free no ? :-)