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* Consciousness is irrelevant Conventional science: * Consciousness is irrelevant “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.” * Consciousness is just an excretum of brain ~ Steven Weinberg Nobelist, physics, 1979 Conventional science insists that
______Weinberg S.The First Three Minutes. New York, NY: Basic Books; 1993: 154.
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“We’re all zombies. Nobody is conscious.” ~ Daniel Dennett …in spite of the fact that no human being has ever philosopher, Tufts University observed consciousness being produced by the brain, or by anything else.
______Dennett D. Consciousness Explained. Boston, MA: Back Bay Books; 1992: 406.
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Conventional science: 17/04/2016 Conventional science: 17/04/2016 11 “The brain is just a computer made of meat.” “When we consider whether free will is an —Marvin Minsky illusion or reality, we are Conventional science: DIFFERENT VIEWS OF CONSCIOUSNESS “[A] person’s mental activitiesArtificial Intelligence Lab looking into an abyss. MIT What seems to confront are entirely due to the behavior “Theus is braina plunge is just into a computer nihilism made of meat.” of nerve cells, glial cells, and the 1927 2016 and despair.” atoms, ions, and molecules that —Marvin Minsky make up and influence them.” ~ Daniel Dennett Artificial Intelligence Lab = = philosopher, Tufts University MIT * Consciousness is irrelevant ~ Sir Francis Crick ______Dennett DC. Quoted in: Overbye D. Free will: Now you have it, now you don’t. New York Times online. January 2, 2007. neurophysiologist 1927 2016 Nobel Prize, 1962 * Consciousness is just an excretum of brain ______= = The Astonishing Hypothesis. New York: Simon & Schuster; 1994. 1926 2004 * Consciousness cannot be explained by brain
Conventional science:
“Thinking is just the meat Conventional science: talking to itself. It’s generated by the brain and “When I die I shall when we die, unfortunately Conventional science: rot, and nothing that dies with us. We can of my ego shall state that categorically.” “Thinking is just the meat remain.” talking to itself. It’s —Karen Stollznow, PhD generated by the brain and ~Lord Bertrand Russell linguist when we die, unfortunately mathematician, philosopher that dies with us. We can
______state that categorically.” Stollznow K. Quoted in: Will Stor, Postcards from the edge. 1872 1970 Good Weekend Magazine, The Age (Melbourne newspaper) . —Karen Stollznow, PhD linguist
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Donald Hoffman. Consciousness and the mind body problem. Mind & Matter. 2008; 6(1): 87 121.
HowPhoto: could http://www.lps.uci.edu/files/ the brainimagecache/155x175_scale_cro producep/socsci/profiles/photos/ddhoff_ consciousness?117265.jpg 16/04/2016 What is consciousness? Consciousness as fundamental “Such a process has not and never will be DIFFERENT VIEWS “AlthoughOF CONSCIOUSNESS I think that life may be the result specified. It amounts to saying that table of an accident, I do not think that of salt, once it enters the body, finds a way “Consciousness is a fundamental principle consciousness. Consciousness cannot to dissolve in the blood, enter the brain, that underlies all knowing and being. be accounted for in physical terms. For and in doing so learns to think, feel, and * ConsciousnessIn a fundamental sense, consciousnessis irrelevant reason.”How could consciousness possibly consciousness is absolutely fundamental. “The scientific study of consciousness is the source of awareness…. [It] is what arise from the physical brain? is in the embarrassing position of having It cannot be accounted for “Positing consciousness as more fundamental no scientific theory of consciousness.” makes awareness possible.” in terms of anything else….” than anything physical, is the most reasonable * Consciousness is just an excretum of brain “Beats the heck out of me. I have some ~ Erwin Schrödinger alternative.” ~ K. Ramakrishna Rao, PhD prejudices, but no idea of how to begin ~ Donald Hoffman Nobel Prize, 1933 to look~ Menas for a Kafatos,defensible Rudolph answer. E. Tanzi, And Deepak Chopra cognitive scientist * Consciousness cannot be explained by brain “How Consciousness Becomes the Physical Universe” U. California Irvine K. Ramakrishna Rao. Cognitive Anomalies, Consciousness and Yoga. Volume XVI, Part 1. History of Science, neither does anyone else.” Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization. (D. P. Chattopadhyaya, general editor.) New Delhi, India: Centre for Erwin Schrödinger. Quoted in: Walter Moore. A Life of Erwin Schrödinger. Canto edition. Studies in Civilizations and Matrix Publishers (joint publishers): 2011: 352. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1994: 181. In: Cosmology of Consciousness: Quantum Physics & Neuroscience of Mind. 1887 1961 (Rudolf Schild, ed.)~ Cambridge, Steven MA:Cosmology Pinker Science Publishers; 2011: 5 16 16/04/2016 * Consciousness is fundamental experimental psychologist Harvard University
Donald Hoffman. Consciousness and the mind body problem. Mind & Matter. 2008; 6(1): 87 121. Steven Pinker. How the Mind Works. New York, NY: W. W. Norton; 1997: 146. Photo: http://www.lps.uci.edu/files/imagecache/155x175_scale_crop/socsci/profiles/photos/ddhoff_117265.jpg Photo: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Steven_Pinker_2011.jpg “ "The Consciousnesstime seems to as havefundamental come Consciousness as fundamental “The origin of life is a total when psychology must discard “I propose that conscious experience be “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I re mystery, and so is the existence all reference to consciousness; considered a fundamental feature, “Nobody has the faintest of human consciousness. gard matter as derivative from consciousness. 47 irreducible to anything idea what consciousness is…. We have no clear idea how whenWe it cannotneed no get longer behind deludeconsciousness. theHow electrical could discharges consciousness possibly I don’t have any idea. Nor does itselfEverything into thinking that we that talk itabout, is everything that more basic….” anybody else, including the occurringarise in fromnerve cellsthe inphysical brain? our brains are connected we regard as existing, postulates philosophers of mind.” making mental states the object ~ David J. Chalmers David J. “Beatswith our the feelings heck and out of me. I have some consciousness.” desires and actions.” of observation.” mathematician, philosopher ~ Stuart Kauffman prejudices, but no idea of how to begin theoretical biologist John Watson (1913) to look~ forFreeman a defensible Dyson answer. And ~ Max Planck & complex systems theorist the founder of quantum mechanics physicist neither does anyone else.” Nobel Prize, Physics, 1918 ______Chalmers DJ. 1995. The puzzle of Max Planck. The Observer. London, UK; January 29, 1931 conscious experience. Scientific American. God enough. Interview of Stuart Kauffman by Steve Paulson. Freeman Dyson. How we know.~ The Steven New York Review Pinker of Books. March 10, 2011; LVIII (4): 8 12. www.salon.com/env/atoms_eden/w008/11/19/stuart_kauffman/index1.h tml 1858 1947 273(6): 80 6. http://consc.net/papers/puzzle.pdf experimental psychologist Photo: http://www.ucalgary.ca/oncampus/weekly/april22 05/kauffman.jpg Harvard University
Steven Pinker. How the Mind Works. New York, NY: W. W. Norton; 1997: 146.
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Jerry Fodor. The big idea: Can there be a science of mind? of an accident, I do not think that of * Consciousness is irrelevant Times Literary Supplement. July 3, 1992: 5 7. consciousness. Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For * Consciousness is just an excretum of brain consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for * Consciousness cannot be explained by brain 49 in terms of anything else….” ~ Erwin Schrödinger * Consciousness is fundamental Nobel Prize, 1933
Erwin Schrödinger. Quoted in: Walter Moore. A Life of Erwin Schrödinger. Canto edition. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 1994: 181. * Consciousness is irrelevant to physics 1887 1961
Consciousness as fundamental “I propose that conscious experience be considered a fundamental feature, irreducible to anything more basic….” ~ David J. Chalmers David J. mathematician, philosopher
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* Consciousness is part of physics “My position [on consciousness] demands a major revolution in physics…. [T]here is something very fundamental missing from current science. Our understanding at this time is not adequate and we’re going to have to move to new regions of science….”
~ SIR ROGER PENROSE mathematical physicist
______Sir Roger Penrose. Quoted in: Karl Giberson. The man who fell to earth. Interview with Sir Roger Penrose. Science & Spirit. March/April; 2003: 34 41. Roger Penrose. Science & Spirit. March/April; 2003: 34 41.
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“To divide or multiply “Thereconsciousness is one mind is something commonmeaningless.” to all “To divide or multiply individual men.. consciousness is something [a] universal mind….” Erwin Schrödinger Nobel physicist, 1933 meaningless.” Larry Dossey 1887 1961 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ______Erwin Schrödinger Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World. Woodbridge, CT: essayist,Ox Bow Press; 1983:31 philosopher 34. Original English publication: Nobel physicist, 1933 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 1964. 1887 1961
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“Deep down the conscious “There is obviously only one ness of mankind is one. alternative, namely the The Over soul is “that unity… This is a virtual certainty … unification of minds or “Thereand is ifobviously we don’t only see thisone it’s within which every man’s consciousness…. alternative,because namely we are the blinding 16/04/2016 particular[I]n truth being there is is contained only unificationourselves of minds to it.” or andone made mind.” one with all other consciousness…. 17/04/2016 ….[W]ithin man is the soul Erwin Schrödinger Nobel physicist, 1933 [I]n truth there is only of the whole…the eternal 1887 1961 one mind.” ______David Bohm Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? and Mind and Matter. London: ______Erwin Schrödinger ONE.”Cambridge University Press; 1969:139. David Bohm, in Renée Weber, Dialogues with Scientists and Sages. Nobel physicist,physicist 1933 New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul;1986:41. What is nonlocality? 1887 19611917 1992 “[The creator] has to give up holding on to ______Nonlocal, distant, correlated events Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? and Mind and Matter. London: Cambridgehimself University Press; 1969:139. as a thing…. He transcends the have three essential characteristics: ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson essayist, philosopher 1803 1882 boundaries of his own • Unmediated person, and at the very (by any known energetic signal) moment when he feels 16/04/2016 Larry Dossey • Unmitigated ‘I am’56 he also feels (by increasing spatial separation) ‘I am you.’ I am one 17/04/2016If we are all connected, there is always a with the whole world.” 56 CONSCIOUSNESS: WHY16/04/2016 MATERIALISM• Immediate FAILS 28 collective, global aspect to personal health. (instantaneous) 17/04/2016 ~ Erich Fromm psychologist 17/04/2016 Nick Herbert. 1987. Quantum Reality. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday; 1987: 214. 1900 1980 16/04/2016“The evidence from parapsychology…suggests Erich Fromm. Quoted in: John Briggs. Fire in the Crucible. Los Angeles; Tarcher: 1990 ways in which our psychic interactions may “We raise the possibility that the minds of Evidence for this intimatelyfrom link psi all conscious beings and all “I propose that psi is the human experience exceptionally creative people….and would be increativity “There is one mind common of the [quantum ] entangled objects (no matter how physically spontaneous, direct, though not necessarily to all individual men….What universe….[T]he ontological parallels distant) into a kind of global Plato has thought, he may conscious,Creativity and interaction discovery within science implied Brainby [quantum] to Brain entanglement Connections and community.”Is consciousness involved in nonlocality? think;“My symphonywhat a saint will has be felt, something he that the other minds within the psi "People say I have created may feel; what at any time has Photo: http://drbutts.com Using fMRI and EEG methodology, a dozen “The new physics presents prima facie world has never heard before! …I tell you, are so compelling that I believe ~ Stephen E. Braude creativethings. I have process never createditself.” befallenat certain any places man, he in can experiments demonstrate that distant brains evidence that our human thoughts are understand. Who hath access they’d be foolish to ignore.” academic philosopher ; editor, JSE anything. I get impressions the score, a quite of emotionally close individuals can simultaneously linked to nature by nonlocal connections: from the Universe at large to this universal mind is a register a stimulus, when only one is stimulated. what a person chooses to do in one and~ Ervinwork them Laszlo out, but I am uncanny feeling takes ~ Dean Radin, PhD ______party to all that is or can be region seems immediately to affect what concert pianist, systems Chief Scientist, IONS Stephen E. Braude. Crimes of Reason. NY, NY: only a plate on a record done….”possession of me, and Rowman & Littlefield; 2014: 182 theorist, author 57 Entangled Minds is true elsewhere in the universe….[O]ur or a receiving apparatus…. I feel as if I had not thoughts… do something.” Thoughts are really created~ Ralph this Waldo myself.” Emerson Radin D. Entangled Minds. New York, NY: Paraview; 2006: 235. impressions that we get from Essays: First Series 1803 1882 ~ Henry P. Stapp outside." ~ Gustav Mahler composer theoretical physicist ~ Thomas Alva Edison U. California, Berkeley Radin D. Psi in the central nervous system. In: Entangled Minds. Neil Baldwin, Edison: Inventing the Century. 1860 1911 New York, NY: Paraview; 2006: 136 141. Stapp HP. Harnessing science and religion: Implications of the new NY: Hyperion; 1995:376 1847 1931 scientific conception of human beings.Science & Theology News. Feb. 2001;1(6):8. (in a letter to a friend about his Third Symphony, 1896) http://deanradin.blogspot.com/2010/03/brain correlation experiments.html
Some acts of creativity, particularly when On creative geniuses in science: “[M]inds are entangled with the universe, “It may be that our deep interconnectedness with each other and with all of Nature is the sudden and unexpected, “are not due to a so in principle minds can nonlocally 41 “[T]heir virtual unanimous emphasis on spontan 44 influence anything, including a collection of major conclusion that Creativityspontaneous in theand artslargely unexplained stroke eous intuitions, unconscious guidance, and sudden other minds or physical systems.” issues forth from the of genius, but to the elabora leaps of imagination which they are at a loss to Nonlocal healing: many findings of “Totion call of individualsan idea or asuch pattern as…Mozart, explain, suggests that the role of areas of evidence~ Dean Radin, PhD [consciousness ain Michelangelo, two or more orminds a Shakespeare in strictly rational thought processes Chief Scientist, IONS … ‘gifted’ and their achievements in scientific discovery has been Entangled Minds research].” interaction.” ‘works of genius’ is not to vastly over estimated.” explain their abilities, but ~ William G. Braud ~ Ervin Laszlo ~ Arthur Koestler consciousness researcher only to label them.” concert pianist, systems The Act of Creation Dean Radin. Entangled Minds. New York, NY: theorist, author Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation. NY: Dell; 1967 Paraview Pocket Books; 2006:270 1905 1983 1942 2012 ~ Ervin Laszlo non human experiments concert pianist, systems theorist, author
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DIFFERENT VIEWS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Plato. Quoted in: Ken Wilber. Eye to Eye: The Quest for the New Paradigm. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday; 1983: 234. 5th century BCE ….and mystical experience * Consciousness is irrelevant
* Consciousness is just an excretum of brain
“[T]he borders of our minds are ever shifting, and … many minds can flow into one another… and * Consciousness cannot be explained by brain create or reveal a single mind, a single energy…. [T]he borders of * Consciousness is fundamental our memories are … shifting, and * Consciousness is irrelevant to physics … our memories are part of one great memory….” * Consciousness is part of physics ~ William Butler Yeats * Consciousness is unitary 17/04/2016 1865 1939 * Consciousness is filtered through the brain W.B. Yeats. Quoted in: D. Pierce (ed). Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press; 2000: 62.
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Frederic Myers, WilliamConsciousness James,as fundamental Henri Bergson
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from WE NEED A BRIDGE “[E]ach one of us is potentially Mindconsciousness. at Large. We cannot get“What behind comes out at the other end But in so far as we are animals, consciousness.our business Everything thatis we a measlytalk trickle of the kind of about, everything that we regard as at all costs is to survive. To makeexisting, biological postulates consciousness.”consciousness which will help us to survival possible, Mind at Large stay alive on the surface of this has to be funneled through the ~ Max Planck particular planet.” reducing valve of the brain and Nobelist, physics, 1918 the founder of quantum physics Mind nervous system.” ~ Aldous Huxley Matter The1858 Doors 1947 of Perception ~ Aldous Huxley Max Planck. The Observer. London, UK; January 29, 1931 The Doors of Perception Experiment Experience Aldous Huxley SMN Aldous Huxley 1894 1963 1894 1963 1st person “There are good reasons to assume that 3rd person our consciousness does not always coincide with the functioning of our brain:36 enhanced or non local consciousness can sometimes be experienced separately from the body.” Science Spirituality
~ Pim van Lommel, MD Dutch cardiologist, The goal of spiritual and metaphysical systems NDE researcher NDE researcher throughout human history has been to unblock the filter, thereby increasing the perception of “the way things are.”
Pim van Lommel. Non local consciousness: a concept based on scientific research on near death experiences during cardiac arrest. Journal of Consciousness Studies. 2013; 20(1 2): 7 48. See also: Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near Death Experience. Reprint edition. New York, NY: HarperOne; 2010.
Ed Kelly “Psychology has taken 100 year detour via behaviorism.
The link between mind and brain is looser than usually thought.”25
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Science Parapsychology Spirituality
Paraphysics Transpersonal
New Paradigm
EXPERIENCES rare mystical union rare Rare experiences saint EXPERIENCES oceanic feeling beyond the reach of science, but well religious epiphany genius accepted creative insight SPIRITUAL Common experiences, psychic premonitions amenable to scientific distant healing/PK study, but highly frequency
FREQUENCY healer clairvoyance controversial PA R A N O R M A L everyone telepathy Universal experiences, dreams amenable to scientific study memories NORMAL and uncontroversial common sensations common
mundane IMPACT profound mundane impact profound
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EXPERIENCES rare These experiences transform the world frequency These experiences transform us common
mundane impact profound
Areas of common interest in transpersonal psychology and parapsychology
Linking psychic and religious experience • Auras and subtle energy systems • Channelling and mediumistic experiences • Ex per ienc es of Angels • Experiences of synchronicity • Lucid dreaming • Near death experiences (NDE) “As I was looking on, she (Saint Teresa of Avila) was raised • Out of body experience (OOBE) about half a yard from the ground without her feet touching it. • Pas t life memor ies At this I was terrified, and she, for her part, was trembling all • Pos s es s ion over. So I moved over to where she was and I put my hands • Prophecy and precognition under her feet, over which I remained weeping for something • Reincarnation experiences like half an hour while the ecstasy lasted. Then suddenly she • Sens e of Pr es enc e sank down and rested on her feet and turning her head round • Shamanic ex per ienc e to me, she asked me who I was, and whether I had been there • Spir itual healing all the while.” • Stigmata, and other bodily transformations • Telepathy, clairvoyance and the “siddhis” • Trance • Experiences of UFOs, alien contact or abduction • Psychokinetic phenomena Transpersonal psychology and parapsychology overlap but • Witchcraft and Magic use different methodologies and address different questions Daniels, M. (1998). Transpersonal psychology and the paranormal. Trans.Psych.Rev. 2, 17-31.
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WHAT IS PSI? WHY THE ANTIPATHY FROM THE RELIGIOUS SIDE? Te l e p a t h y Clairvoyance Precognition l Psychic powers are a distraction from spiritual path l Mystical experiences are beyond science l Psychic experiences are insufficiently spiritual WHY THE ANTIPATHY FROM PARASYCHOLOGICAL SIDE? l Discomfort with spirituality Psychokinesis Levitation Poltergeist l Experiment versus experience l Lab versus life SIGNS OF BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION l Psi-conducive states and training subjects (meditation) Apparitions NDEs OBEs l Greater emphasis on experience (inside view of psi) l Transpersonal Psychology recognized by British Psychol’ Assoc’
Ta r t ( 1 9 9 7 ) “Body, Mind, Spirit: Exploring the Parapsychology of Spirituality”
=> consciousness indpt of brain => filter theory of mind => survival? Survival or superpsi? Scientific study of unexplained interactions between minds or matter and mind EXPERIMENT
PSI AS LINK BETWEEN MATTER AND MIND telepathy clairvoyance precognition psychokinesis
phantasms dowsing presentiment micro-PK
MENTAL PHYSICAL
DBVs healing prophecy retro-PK Psychokinesis
macro-PK ghosts OBEs retrocognition
survival NDEs past life recall poltergeists
EXPERIENCE
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SOCIETY FOR PSYCHICAL RESEARCH (SPR) MANY PROMINENT MEMBERS….
Nobel Laureate members
Lord Rayleigh Physics 1904 (SPR president 1919) J J Thomson Physics 1906 Marie Curie Physics 1903 & Chemistry 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck Literature 1911 Edmund Gurney Frederic Myers Henry Sidgwick Charles Richet Medicine 1913 (SPR president 1905) W B Yeats Literature 1923 Founded in 1882 “to examine without prejudice or prepossession Henri Bergson Literature 1927 (SPR president 1913) and in a scientific way those faculties of man, real or supposed, Nicholas Butler Peace 1931 which appear to be inexplicable on any generally recognized Brian Josephson Physics 1973 hypothesis.” Arthur Balfour, William James, Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud….. Mesmerism, telepathy, hallucinations, apparitions, spiritualism…
Spiritualism Séance Phenomena • The Fox sisters Hydesville, NY • Ta b l e ti p p i n g • “raps” responded to • Automatic writing questions, spelled messages • Speaking with ‘spirit’ voices • Spirits seeking to communicate with friends • Clairvoyant diagnoses and family • Phantom hands or figures • Fraud was later suggested, • ‘Apports’ of objects but séance craze grew Wax hand moulds • Production of ‘ectoplasm’ produced by medium Franek Kluski, Warsaw, 1920
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J B Rhine initiated experimental statistical studies of ESP and PK at Duke University in 1930s, leading to greater academic repectability but split between “life” and “lab” studies of psi.
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Parapsychology’s TransitionHistory period 1880-1930 Bob Jahn Helmut Schmidt
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“Growth of UK academic parapsychology”, The Paranormal Review, Oc tober 2008, 23-25.
Proliferation parapsychology in UK began with his appointment to Koestler Chair in Edinburgh in 1985. 17/04/2016 Morris served as President of the Psychology Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science “We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.” Arthur and Cynthia Koestler —Sir John Eccles Nobel prize, neurophysiology , 1963 17/04/2016
17/04/2016Eccles JC. Evolution of the Brain, Creation of the Self. New York, NY: Routledge; 1991. 1903 1997
“I don’t want to achieve SURVIVAL?immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not “We have to recognize that we are dying. I don’t want to “Ilive regard on in the the brain hearts as a of my spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual computer which will stop world as well as material beings with countrymen; I want to live working when its compon UK SITUATION IN 2008 bodies and brains existing in a material on in my apartment.” ents fail. There is no world.” heaven or afterlife for —Sir John Eccles broken down~ Woody computers; Allen Nobel prize, neurophysiology , 1963 82 PhDs that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” 17/04/2016 ~ Stephen Hawking 22 permanent academics Stephen Hawking cosmologist Stephen Hawking. Interview by Ian Sample. The Guardian. May 15, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen hawking interview there is no heaven. Cambridge University Eccles JC. Evolution of the Brain, Creation of the Self. New York, NY: Routledge; 1991. 1903 1997 Photo: http://peoplesgeography.com/2009/04/22/stephen hawking on palestine/ 16 departments
“I don’t want to achieve “Millions long for immortality 4 professors immortality through my who don’t know what to do 19 work; I want to achieve on a rainy afternoon.” immortality through not “I regard the brain as a dying. I don’t want to Bob Morris effect! computer which will stop live on in the hearts of my ~ Susan Ertz working when its compon British novelist countrymen; I want to live entson in fail. my There apartment.” is no heaven or afterlife for broken down~ Woody computers; Allen that is a fairy story for 1894 1985 people afraid of the dark.”
~ Stephen Hawking Stephen Hawking cosmologist Stephen Hawking. Interview by Ian Sample. The Guardian. May 15, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/may/15/stephen hawking interview there is no heaven. Cambridge University 8 Photo: http://peoplesgeography.com/2009/04/22/stephen hawking on palestine/
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Prime Minister dream (April 1976)
12 May 2005 I had a vivid dream in which a cat had a tennis ball in its mouth. It then became a table tennis ball which it tried to swallow, after which it rolled around in great discomfort. I was trying work out March 2012 the significance of this the next morning when I saw the above Strange dream in which Mari is trying to put a little dog into a story about a catfish in The Metro. letter box. The next morning I’m trying to work out where this dream came from when I noticed the story of a dog in The Metro.
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18 December 2015 In the early morning I dream of my former pet dog May 2013 (“Pup”, a white alsatian). He died 42 years ago and I’d Strange dream after Esalen meeting not dreamt of him for decades. On getting up, I read about physics and consciousness. emails and found an electronic Jacqui Lawson Xmas A blue train is stationary at platform. card from Rosemarie Pilkington (a member of the Survivalnet group) featuring a white dog. Briji A red train is approaching at high speed Waterfield has a dream the same morning in which her on same line and railway worker in cap black dog (“Jesse”) turns white and starts frothing at in front of blue train is distraught because the mouth. the imminent collison is his fault. 27 December 2015 The red train plows into the blue train. Another dog dream involving a blue boxer Next morning I see New Scientist article about “collision” between puppy. The next morning I pick up the quantum theory and relativity theory, illustrated by blue blob Sunday Telegraph and the front page features being splattered by red blob. a boxer puppy which had been cloned from a dead dog. When I cut out the relevant part of the page, the back contained the phrase “Dream Bigger” on a blue background – an advert for Virgin Holidays. The dead dog’s owner was Laura Jacques (cf. Jaqui Lawson).
A few days later, back in England, I take a red Virgin train from London to Manchester. Because of dream, I move seats from front of train but journey was accident-free.
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