Gary Zucav writes in his book The Dancing Wu Li Masters: "Some biologists believe that a single plant cell carries within it the capability to reproduce the entire plant. Similarly, the philosophical implication of quantum mechanics is that all of things in our universe (including us) that appear to exist independently are actually parts of one all-encompassing organic pattern, and that no parts of the pattern are ever really separate from it or from each other."
Gary Zucav wrote the above on page 52, and after that paragraph I stopped reading. My mind had been blown enough for one day, and besides, it was time for a beer.
For those of you who are interested in Quantum Mechanics, and, like me, are not mathematically inclined, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" is the book to get. Zucav is not a scientist, he's a liberal arts major who hangs out with scientists. As such he's a layman with no scientific background at all. He writes this book for the layman who is also inclined to liberal arts. It's not physics for dummies, one needs to think a bit, or at least I do, and I also had to read a few paragraphs over again, but he does get the information across, and finally, after all those years, I'm beginning to get a firm layman grasp on physics as a whole and quantum physics in particular.
I'm beginning to suspect that I'm going through another episode of all things arising!
After many years of being a wage slave, I finally got time to spend doing what I really wanted to do. Like Joseph Campbell always said: "One should follow ones bliss." It's easier said than done, and it was only through a lay off from work, along with children now raised and no responsibilities, where I got a six month window of financial security that allowed me to follow where my bliss led me. Bliss kind of naturally follows the path of least resistance, but I wont go into that part of my life right now.:) Least resistance means to go with ones inclinations, like with an incline it means it's easier to go down than up, and sometimes, in ones life, one has to go down before one can actually go back up.
The concept of all things arising is: causes come into effect that one has very little to do with. The effects of these causes seem to gang up on one, and even though one might want to resist, one knows deep inside that one cannot; and in the end one knows that one just has to go with the flow. It's the same thing with larger events that include many more people. In fact, it seems to follow that what works on my personal life seems to also work on the global life. It's actually easier to see all things arising on a global level than it is on personal level because one reacts in an objective way. We have been trained to think that way.
We see the world as out there, and we see ourselves as in here. Classical physics saw the world that way too. For three centuries it saw the world as a machine that was out there. Then Quantum physics blew the whole thing wide open when it saw that there is no such thing as out there; in fact, there is only in here, and when it all comes down to dust, a thing cannot observe itself without effecting the conclusion.
The law of certainty changed when we got to quantum physics, and it was replaced with the law of probability. The law of certainty still works in the big world, but it runs into a brick wall when it hits the basic matter of the sub-atomic; the building blocks of life...
It seems to me that there is enough evidence to at least suggest that we are all connected, and that we are all, in some way, an organic, living, thinking, and pain/pleasure sharing being; but I'm still skeptical, and I'm not going to lurch one way or another. What I'm trying to do is to get to the place between my two brains so that I can receive the information from both sides yet still have no opinion on the matter. Like: my left side is sending rational messages, and my right side is sending messages that are kind of way out there, but I just want to listen, and I do not want to make any kind of judment in one way or another.
If all things arising is the key to what comes next, then I shall soon be a completely neutral man. For the sake of society, I shall indulge one side, then I'll indulge the other, but when i wake up the next morning I will indulge my self.
In the end, there is only what one thinks it is, and no matter what one thinks it is, it is always something completely different. I don't know why?
Waltre
Gary Zucav wrote the above on page 52, and after that paragraph I stopped reading. My mind had been blown enough for one day, and besides, it was time for a beer.
For those of you who are interested in Quantum Mechanics, and, like me, are not mathematically inclined, "The Dancing Wu Li Masters" is the book to get. Zucav is not a scientist, he's a liberal arts major who hangs out with scientists. As such he's a layman with no scientific background at all. He writes this book for the layman who is also inclined to liberal arts. It's not physics for dummies, one needs to think a bit, or at least I do, and I also had to read a few paragraphs over again, but he does get the information across, and finally, after all those years, I'm beginning to get a firm layman grasp on physics as a whole and quantum physics in particular.
I'm beginning to suspect that I'm going through another episode of all things arising!
After many years of being a wage slave, I finally got time to spend doing what I really wanted to do. Like Joseph Campbell always said: "One should follow ones bliss." It's easier said than done, and it was only through a lay off from work, along with children now raised and no responsibilities, where I got a six month window of financial security that allowed me to follow where my bliss led me. Bliss kind of naturally follows the path of least resistance, but I wont go into that part of my life right now.:) Least resistance means to go with ones inclinations, like with an incline it means it's easier to go down than up, and sometimes, in ones life, one has to go down before one can actually go back up.
The concept of all things arising is: causes come into effect that one has very little to do with. The effects of these causes seem to gang up on one, and even though one might want to resist, one knows deep inside that one cannot; and in the end one knows that one just has to go with the flow. It's the same thing with larger events that include many more people. In fact, it seems to follow that what works on my personal life seems to also work on the global life. It's actually easier to see all things arising on a global level than it is on personal level because one reacts in an objective way. We have been trained to think that way.
We see the world as out there, and we see ourselves as in here. Classical physics saw the world that way too. For three centuries it saw the world as a machine that was out there. Then Quantum physics blew the whole thing wide open when it saw that there is no such thing as out there; in fact, there is only in here, and when it all comes down to dust, a thing cannot observe itself without effecting the conclusion.
The law of certainty changed when we got to quantum physics, and it was replaced with the law of probability. The law of certainty still works in the big world, but it runs into a brick wall when it hits the basic matter of the sub-atomic; the building blocks of life...
It seems to me that there is enough evidence to at least suggest that we are all connected, and that we are all, in some way, an organic, living, thinking, and pain/pleasure sharing being; but I'm still skeptical, and I'm not going to lurch one way or another. What I'm trying to do is to get to the place between my two brains so that I can receive the information from both sides yet still have no opinion on the matter. Like: my left side is sending rational messages, and my right side is sending messages that are kind of way out there, but I just want to listen, and I do not want to make any kind of judment in one way or another.
If all things arising is the key to what comes next, then I shall soon be a completely neutral man. For the sake of society, I shall indulge one side, then I'll indulge the other, but when i wake up the next morning I will indulge my self.
In the end, there is only what one thinks it is, and no matter what one thinks it is, it is always something completely different. I don't know why?
Waltre
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