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graceful dragon
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i love Freeman Dyson
#23645140 - 09/14/16 04:26 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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“It is remarkable that mind enters into our awareness of nature on two separate levels. At the highest level, the level of human consciousness, our minds are somehow directly aware of the complicated flow of electrical and chemical patterns in our brains. At the lowest level, the level of single atoms and electrons, the mind of an observer is again involved in the description of events. Between lies the level of molecular biology, where mechanical models are adequate and mind appears to be irrelevant. But I, as a physicist, cannot help suspecting that there is a logical connection between the two ways in which mind appears in my universe. I cannot help thinking that our awareness of our own brains has something to do with the process which we call "observation" in atomic physics. That is to say, I think our consciousness is not just a passive epiphenomenon carried along by the chemical events in our brains, but is an active agent forcing the molecular complexes to make choices between one quantum state and another. In other words, mind is already inherent in every electron, and the processes of human consciousness differ only in degree but not in kind from the processes of choice between quantum states which we call "chance" when they are made by electrons.” ― Freeman Dyson
and i love how there is so much to learn, to discover, to see and experience; i love how the universe is stranger than we can imagine, and i love how that every mystery which is revealed always leads onward to new discovery, that there is always something new to learn, in an infinite universe, in which we are tiny - and also as the mirror of consciousness reflecting, which we are the source of, dreaming.. and i love that none of this bothered me - something new? something different? well, i will simply wait and see if it is true -- is it still true? then it is more likely after more and more times. . . and why not something new? some new discovery, avenue of understanding, and experiencing another aspect of the world? i am grateful for these things, and these people.
as an intro of the physicist dyson , discovered in the autobiography of Feynman, similar in some respect of natural talent - if i remember.
(and yes, i personally chose to return and correct the typo of 'physicisit')
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graceful dragon
omni-love



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haha, and true story - i had only read the first two quotes and could see the one below ( and have not gone through them before; and my previous knowledge of Dyson is mostly contained to the book of Feynman's. . . )
anyway, the 5th one from that link (forgot to link: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5569343.Freeman_Dyson)
“The public has a distorted view of science because children are taught in school that science is a collection of firmly established truths. In fact, science is not a collection of truths. It is a continuing exploration of mysteries.”
awesome
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DividedQuantum
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"It is not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness... It will remain remarkable in whatever way our future concepts may develop, that the very study of the external world led to the conclusion that the content of the consciousness is an ultimate reality." --Eugene Wigner
"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." --Sir James Jeans
"Will it not turn out, with the further development of science, that the study of the universe and the study of consciousness will be inseparably linked, and that the ultimate progress in the one will be impossible without progress in the other?...will the next important step be the development of a unified approach to our entire world, including the world of consciousness?" --Andrei Linde
-------------------- Vi Veri Universum Vivus Vici
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beforethedawn
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Cool thread. I agree with your sentiments in OP.
-------------------- Hostile humankind Can't you see you're fucking blind?
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