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The Holographic Universe

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by studogg, Mar 21, 2003.

  1. studogg

    studogg Member

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    whom here has read this book and what are your thoughts?
     
  2. rockHEAD

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    I have not read this book and my thoughts right now are about the war and my weekend events.
     
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    What's the main hypothesis or theme?
     
  4. studogg

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    given the concept of holograph- that not only is the mind like a holograph, but in fact with revelations in quantum physics, that the universe itself is essetianly just a holograph.
     
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    But the most mind-boggling aspect of Pribram's holographic model of the brain is what happens when it is put together with Bohm's theory. For if the concreteness of the world is but a secondary reality and what is "there" is actually a holographic blur of frequencies, and if the brain is also a hologram and only selects some of the frequencies out of this blur and mathematically transforms them into sensory perceptions, what becomes of objective reality?

    Put quite simply, it ceases to exist. As the religions of the East have long upheld, the material world is Maya, an illusion, and although we may think we are physical beings moving through a physical world, this too is an illusion.

    We are really "receivers" floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram.
     
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    It's a little difficult to conceptualize a bunch of holograms floating around in some universe. but wouldn't something have to create the holograms? A laser? Or something physicial?
     
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    it was based on the findings of doctors trying to find where memories exist in the brain. If there were exact spots. What they found was that no matter how much you diced up a brain, or removed pieces of it. All memories still existed. Much like dicing a hologram in half still leaves you with the whole, just blurred.
     
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    Sounds like a facinating take on what reality really is or isn't...Even if his theory is not viable its cool to think about our existence in an entirely different way.
     
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    Echoing PSJ, what are the "receivers"? Aren't they real? And even if they are just illusionary, are they real illusions? Is that possible? It is really too hard to imagine that the entire universe is just an illusion, and that even the "realness" behind comprehending that is also just an illusion and so and and so forth.
     
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    The theory seems like it only accounts for hearing, and sight, what about touch, taste, and smell. Those senses are stimulated physically.
     
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    CNN just picked up this story so make of it what you want. But it has credibility.
     
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    You also have to wonder if this doesn't impact the concept of the computer. If the human brain is holographic in nature then the computer will need to mimic that as well. Since that seems to be the ultimate goal.
     

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