Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm

Essays and Shadowless Poetry by Alan T. Williams

A New Physics for the 21st Century

The search for the fundamental constituents of matter continues,
and the search for irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy has only just begun.
- A. T. Williams

Chapter 1

• Caution:  This essay and the first one in this Chapter are information dense. Some readers may prefer to read the Introduction and the essays in later Chapters prior to returning here.

Section 2:  A Novel Concept

The original holographic paradigm of the early 1970s was the result of the combined hypotheses and conjectures of Karl Pribram and David Bohm, among others. 4 The concept was nominally based on the nonmaterial optical (electromagnetic) holographic method discovered in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The 1970s holographic paradigm articulated the novel concept that the organic human brain functions in a manner similar to a real time four-dimensional hologram (3 extended dimensions and 1 time dimension) that interacts with and interprets our four-dimensional holographic universe (3 + 1). 5 Based on a mixture of physics, optical hologram theory, and experimental evidence, each organic human brain seemed to function by synergistically processing real time 4D holographic energy and information received from the cosmic 4D space-time hologram that constitutes our finite, subluminal (sub-light-speed) material universe.

Many early efforts to construct a viable holographic paradigm were directed toward unifying Pribram's objective experimental results and the nonmaterial subjective realm of conscious human experience. It is not surprising, therefore, that the effort to unify physical science, organic brain physiology, and human conscious experience eventually reached an impasse. On the other hand, experiments performed by Paul Pietsch did advance his "hologramic" model of the organic ^mind/_brain complex. 6

Interestingly, the early theory of real time holonomic 7 ^mind/_brain processes interacting with a holographic material universe as proposed by Pribram and Bohm, et al., was much too narrow. Moreover, the holonomic brain theory of Pribram and Bohm is essentially a quantum mechanical theory while the holographic principle of Leonard Susskind and 1999 Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft is a quantum gravity theory. Thus the holographic theories of Pribram and Bohm as well as Susskind and 't Hooft advance quantum mechanics rather than advancing Dennis Gabor's nonmaterial optical holography discovery.

While working in England to improve the electron microscope in 1947, Hungarian electrical engineer Dennis Gabor invented a method of storing a 3-dimensional image of the nonmaterial optical (electromagnetic) information pattern encoded in a beam of visible light in 2-dimensional photographic film emulsion and coined the word "hologram" to describe the stationary reconstructed 3D image result of his invention.

Compared to the partial message obtained in an ordinary 2D photograph, Gabor's 3D nonmaterial electromagnetic energy hologram is defined as the whole (or entire) message contained in a beam of light. Gabor also chose the existing word "holography" to describe the separate storage and retrieval processes that cache the information and facilitate the reconstruction, respectively, of the stationary 3D holographic image.

Reconstructed static 2D holographic images like the quantum mechanical holographic principle and 3D holographic images that remain motionless in space through time, however, accurately reflect something other than our oscillating (cyclical, periodic) ^nonmaterial/_material physical reality just-as-it-is within which the ^nonmaterial/_material image events of the ephemeral present moment are continually replaced by the immediately following holonomic image events in the next sequential moment of so-called spacetime.

Hierarchically, 3D holographic images that remain unchanged in space through time are created as, and reconstructed from very low order static holograms. In contrast, oscillating (cyclical, periodic) 4D holonomic image events that do exhibit sequential movement in space through time (3 extended dimensions + 1 time dimension) are created as, and reconstructed from high definition holograms that include the local nonmaterial, conditionally relative time dimension.

Therefore a reconstructed 4D hologram (3+1) exhibits (displays) the conditionally relative oscillating (cyclical, periodic) activity of a continuously progressive sequential series of synergistic holonomic image events, each of which has a duration determined by the parameters of the original (stored, parent) hologram.

The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) :

In accordance with the universal principle of energy (TUPE), the fundamental principles of The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP, pronounced "teep") describe a comprehensive, all-inclusive model of energetic holonomic, ^nonmaterial/_material physical reality just-as-it-is.

The comprehensive new ^nonmaterial/_material physics derived from the extradimensional unification of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) and The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) model of physical reality just-as-it-is extends the scope of our knowledge and understanding beyond not only the material limits of traditional classical and quantum physics models of reality, but also beyond historical conceptions of the nonmaterial epiphenomenal human consciousness (M*) generated by the organic human brain, thereby facilitating the scientific investigation of the omnipresent, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy domain (NED) within which our complex open (nonconservative) ^nonmaterial/_material universe is created, contained, and maintained.

A few insights into the transcendent, extradimensional Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) :

1. In principle uncreated, unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) is the fundamental, irreducible ground of being within which all conditionally relative nonmaterial and material phenomena manifest.
2. Uncreated, unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) and uncreated, unconditioned nonmaterial pure consciousness are identical in nature.
3. In principle uncreated, unconditioned pure consciousness is egoless and posesses no self-awareness.
4. Egoless autonomous self-awareness (M^) emerges reciprocally within uncreated, unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy.
1. Egoless autonomous self-awareness (M^) emerges reciprocally by creating a 180° phase shift (a reciprocal inversion) between itself and unconditioned fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) that acts as an impenetrable barrier to conditionally relative phenomena.
5. Some egoless autonomous self-aware entities develop an egoistic conditionally relative consciousness (persona), thus becoming an egoistic autonomous transcendent mind (M⁺).
6. Fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE), egoless autonomous self-awareness (M^), and egoistic autonomous transcendent mind (M⁺) are identical in nature.
7. In principle fundamental, irreducible, conditionally relative nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) is entirely objective (measurable).
8. A 180° phase shift (a reciprocal inversion) between each level of conditionally relative reciprocal emergence acts as an impenetrable barrier that blocks conditionally relative phenomena on a lower level of holonomic activity from active participation in a higher level of existence.
1. A 180° phase shift (a reciprocal inversion) is generated between each conditionally relative stored hologram (parent) and its reciprocally reconstructed holonomic progeny (child).
• In an extradimensional, multilevel holonomic hierarchy each reciprocally reconstructed (inverted) holonomic object, scene, or venue is produced from a parent hologram that is generated (stored) on the preceding transcendent level of holonomic activity.
• Each reciprocally emergent holonomic child venue, in turn, may become the transcendent parent (source) of other dependent, reciprocally emergent holonomic progeny.
9. As the extradimensional, conditionally relative hierarchical depth (level, scale) of generated (stored) holograms increases, the compound complexity of the reciprocally reconstructed holonomic progeny (venues, loci) also increases.
10. The combined new physics of the universal principle of energy (TUPE) and The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) imply that at time t = 0 the source of the four-dimensional parent hologram that produces the initial conditions (t = t₁) of our compound open (mechanically nonconservative), reciprocally reconstructed ^nonmaterial/_material holonomic universe (t = t₂ = 1 / t₁) is a currently undetermined extradimensional transcendent level of physical reality just-as-it-is.

The holonomic universe:

1. The universal principle of energy (TUPE) implies that matter/mass is a discrete, organized aggregation (phase transition, change of state) of fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) that cannot exist in the absence of nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE), just as the frozen state of water (ice), for example, cannot exist in the absence of water.
2. The omnipresent, pervasive continuum of objective (measurable), extremely high frequency nonmaterial hyperenergy and hyperinformation generated by autonomous nonmaterial holonomic minds on various conditionally relative transcendent levels of experience is created prior to, and exists in the absence of matter/mass.
1. The extremely high frequency continuum of nonmaterial hyperenergy and hyperinformation generated by autonomous nonmaterial holonomic minds lies beyond, and wholly subsumes the unrelated nonmaterial electromagnetic spectrum generated by the dynamic motion of net positive (q⁺) and negative (q^-) electric charges in the material domain.
3. According to The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP), our compound open (nonconservative) ^nonmaterial/_material holonomic universe is produced by the conditionally relative oscillating (cyclical, periodic) activity of a continuously progressive sequential series of synergistic holonomic image events.
1. In principle the nonmaterial and material phenomena produced in our compound open (nonconservative), reciprocally reconstructed holonomic universe interact with the transcendent parent hologram by means of various extremely high frequency interfaces embedded in the nonmaterial hyperenergy and hyperinformation continuum.
4. The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) model of physical reality just-as-it-is implies that each all-inclusive present moment in our compound open (nonconservative) ^nonmaterial/_material holonomic system has transcendent extradimension components. In other words, each all-inclusive present moment has transcendent components plus material components. These provide each all-inclusive present moment with at least eight physically real dimensions (6 extended dimensions + 2 time dimensions).
1. TEHP implies that each all-inclusive present moment in the nonmaterial, conditionally relative extradimensional parent (stored) hologram that acts as the source of our ^nonmaterial/_material holonomic universe contains at least three transcendent extended dimensions and one transcendent time dimension (3 + t₁).
2. TEHP implies that each all-inclusive present moment within our reciprocally reconstructed ^nonmaterial/_material holonomic universe contains at least three extended dimensions and one time dimension (3 + t₂ ; where t₂ = 1 / t₁).
3. Therefore, TEHP implies that each conditionally relative, all-inclusive present moment in our compound open (nonconservative), ^nonmaterial/_material holonomic system is comprised of at least six extended dimensions and two inversely related time dimensions ( 6 + 2 ; i.e., 6 + (t₁ + t₂ ; where t₂ = 1 / t₁ )).

Summarizing the TEHP model of cosmogony, the four-dimensional (3 + t₁) source hologram that produces our complex open (mechanically nonconservative), reciprocally reconstructed, four-dimensional (3 + t₂ ; where t₂ = 1 / t₁) ^nonmaterial/_material holonomic universe is created on a transcendent (incorporeal), extradimensional nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) plane of physical reality just-as-it-is.

Moreover, the existence of the transcendent (incorporeal) extradimensional, nonmaterial primordial energy (NPE) parent hologram reveals an unexpected transcendent level of conditionally relative activity produced by autonomous nonmaterial holonomic minds.

In contemporary terms the new physics of TUPE and TEHP can be seen as a Higgless, extradimensional, multiple time dimension theory.

High frequency oscillating (cyclical, periodic) sequential image events:

Particulate matter in the material domain possesses mass, occupies space, and can be weighed. One example is the electron, the subatomic carrier of negative (q^-) electric charge. Many antiparticles of particulate matter have the same mass and occupy an equal volume of space, but have the opposite electric charge. Thus the positron, the antiparticle of the electron, has the same mass, occupies an equal volume of space, and has a positive (q⁺) electric charge.

The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) CDF collaboration team announced in 2006 that they confirmed the discovery of astonishingly high frequency phase changes – 3 trillion oscillations per second – between the matter and antimatter phase changes of the B_s meson.

If strange quark B mesons can be made to experimentally switch polarity in the laboratory between their matter and antimatter phases 3 trillion times a second for some period of time before decaying, then an essential step forward has been taken in understanding the sequential extremely high frequency nonmaterial holonomic image events of the cosmogonic TEHP holographic model of physical reality just-as-it-is.

Autonomous holonomic mind:

1. TEHP implies that egoless autonomous nonmaterial mind (M^) not only emerges reciprocally within uncreated, unconditioned, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy, but also that the emergent self-awareness can become an egoistic autonomous transcendent mind (M⁺).
2. Each functioning organic human brain generates a nonmaterial holonomic human mind (M*) that hosts an egoistic autonomous transcendent mind (M⁺).
3. Fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy, egoless autonomous self-awareness (M^), egoistic autonomous transcendent mind (M⁺), and nonmaterial holonomic human mind (M*) are identical in nature.
4. Personal experience is entirely subjective on the transcendent as well as the material plane of existence.
5. The weak objective (measurable) energies of an egoless or egoistic autonomous nonmaterial mind contributes to the conditionally relative continuum of phenomenal consciousness only in the holonomic venues within which it participates.
6. The historic lack of experimental evidence demonstrating the physically real energy of consciousness implies not only that the energy of consciousness may be orders of magnitude weaker than gravity, but also that the signal-to-noise ratio of the objective energy events of consciousness is extremely low.

Intangible nonmaterial human consciousness (M*) shares experiential information with the transcendent, egoistic autonomous nonmaterial mind (M⁺) it hosts through interactive nonmaterial energy interfaces that link the nonmaterial and material domains. Indeed, discrete autonomous, nonmaterial holonomic minds apparently exist on many, if not all levels of conditionally relative physical reality just-as-it-is.

On the TEHP model of physical reality, each conditionally relative original (stored, parent) hologram and each oscillating (cyclical, periodic) reconstructed material or nonmaterial holonomic image event is ultimately contained within a single all-inclusive, conditionally relative hologram that is wholly encompassed by and emerges reciprocally within uncreated, unconditioned, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy.

In principle uncreated, unconditioned primordial energy is the fundamental, irreducible nonmaterial ground of being within which all conditionally relative nonmaterial and material phenomena manifest.

Continued in Chapter 1, Section 3:  Fundamental Forces

Reference Notes (Click on the Note number to return to the text):

4  Wilbur, Ken, editor. The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes: Exploring the Leading Edge of Science, Shambhala, 1982, pp. 2-3. Reissued 1995.  ISBN 0-877-73238-8

5  Ibid. (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory)

6  Pietsch, Paul. Shufflebrain, Chapter 1, Footnote 1, 1999.

7  Holonomic:  Having the characteristics of an energetic oscillating (cyclical, periodic) hologram.

The term "holonomic" was introduced by George Leonard to refer to entities "in the nature of a hologram,"
Ref. 2, p. 153, footnote 1.
(cf. G. Leonard, The Silent Pulse, Dutton, New York, 1978.)

In these essays and The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) model of physical reality just-as-it-is the term 'holonomic' refers to the energetic multidimensional, multidomain, conditionally relative oscillating (cyclical, periodic) image events that emerge reciprocally within the irreducible ground of uncreated, unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy per se.

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Index:  Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm

Last Edit:  July 29, 2010.

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