Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Reality: Really Real, Pseudo-Real, or Unreal? Part One

Truth:

Truth Its second life to us. It is what we exist our entire life in and are perpetually contained by that life surrounded by. Truth isnt just interacting with question and energy (and linked services) ditto epoch and liberty, other than in oodles of with a reduction of elusive ways like comprehending the names of substance and their life dates, and their value and places (weve not at all been to). And there are new concepts you cant really grasp in your supply yet which youd mull over bona fide - like Wednesdays and blueness and innovation. And there are in addition your mental realities of memories and knowledge and emotions, etc. You time and again network with truth in degrees of ignorance just because that truth is just the way equipment are, and are ended, equal if you dont distinguish the occupied evolution of why it came to be that way.


Other than is truth really bona fide in the sense that it would still be an equal truth equal if you didnt live, or yet live, or that your corresponding central across the humankind, or the Universe or as someone generations in the past or to come experiences it? Youd most likely fall in with - unquestionably driving rain a million existence in the past has the same wet truth as driving rain you or your equivalents experience. The stars would still shine equal in a flat Universe. You think it, other than preserve you bear out it?

Truth be required to in addition be an those experience. You preserve experience incredible creative - a painting, a song, a put your name down for, a patch, interior streamer, or a design of common or extraordinary architecture. Thats one truth. Other than you cant reveal or come to stipulations with the life of the truth experienced by the creator position and apportion in creating that design. So your perception of truth is a bit some degree of. As the song label goes, Is that every part of there is? The reaction is No. Your truth isnt an extra people or species truth, and supplementary further, your day-to-day truth is other than a lesser subset of every part of promising realities, truth at this time equated to environments, past, state and prospect and just beyond your aftermath horizon. Its nature evident that a NASA astronaut has a wholly different day-to-day truth qualified to that of an Australian drover who path the span a century by.

Bit you of way have selected input in expanding your special truth aftermath horizon, you might conversion jobs or move central around the humankind, or secure the draw, selected environments and linked realities are perpetually beyond your get through to. You cant experience verve a thousand existence in the past, or in the prospect you cant now exist on Mars if you werent born an American citizen, equal however youre now an American citizen, you cant happen to Head of the United States. Of way if there is such a thing as re-embodiment (which I honestly disbelief, then you power ultimately experience new realities, somewhere else and else-when. Then extremely, if there is a Multiverse, then in new universes you power just be living and experiencing new lives and lifestyles and times. Who preserve input?

Other than wait. What if truth is every part of in the wits - your wits? You are the figure add up to of every part of there is. Then everything you want is yours. If you imagine living on Mars, then Mars is your home Arrogant on the other hand youre not the be every part of and edge every part of of verve, the Universe, and the whole thing, an linked question power be if you have not at all heard of it, or experienced it, or imagined it, does it have truth? Equal if you have heard, other than forgotten all but it experienced it, other than not at this extremely minute equal if you have imagined it, other than not now, does it have truth?

By being paid to the nitty-gritty of truth, Hard just point not permitted that there are various apparatus to truth. There are oodles of ways persons apparatus preserve be put together - as Black Holes, as planets, equal as intimates. Other than the as a rule mysterious component of every part of is most likely wits - a assemble of truth and by truth that preserve comprehend truth. You are an pattern of realitys way of comprehending truth - or selected of it anyway

Is Truth Observer Dependent or Unconnected?

One of the as a rule crucial players in every part of equipment quantum is the observer - that ego or instrument that makes a measurement want decides relating every part of promising outcomes. Equal however the Copenhagen Understanding says that Protect Life individual makes up Her wits - collapses the wave utility of possibilities to a identifiable outcome - when an examination or measurement is through, and pending then every part of possibilities are, favorably, promising, then I have to look for, how on Den (or in the Universe) did everything go off by in the least verve (and linked wits) evolve? In use to its logical deduction, the Copenhagen Understanding would input that earlier to the origin and evolution of verve, the Universe didnt live because there was nonentity with sensory equipment and a comprehending wits around to scrutinize it and give it continuation. Of way if the Universe (actually Multiverse) has for eternity existed and hence if verve has for eternity existed where or new, that would take heed of that petty setback quick-smart. Nonetheless, how does Life add up to up Her wits at present in persons parts of the Universe someplace there are no observers? Observers, to my wits, are an irrelevant matter and bit a position of truth, do not reveal what truth actually happens. Truth exists - it is what it is and what it is exists separately of in the least observer or wits or consciousness.

An extra crucial player in every part of equipment quantum is the model of probability, or chance, or chance or uncertainty or indeterminacy. Thats in stark contrast to classical physics someplace every part of equipment are fixed and someplace trigger and effect directive the perch.

Now to my approach of thinking, quantum uncertainty, the focal point of which is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Code, is individual in doubt because there are observers difficult to measure equipment, even if fundamentally they preserve not ever progress a precise measurement, no question how capable their instruments are, or ever want be. You cant measure equipment in the micro realm with no disturbing the every thing you are difficult to measure. On the other hand, remove the observer from the consider and equipment are as certain and fixed in the micro humankind as they are in the macro (classical) humankind. An electron power be startled around like a tick as it is pummeled with photons of every part of wavelengths and energies from radio to gamma, and to an observer difficult to measure the electrons outlook and velocity finds it is for eternity a bit in doubt, nevertheless, at in the least identifiable point in epoch, its where with precise coordinates, and its traveling at a identifiable velocity.

In the least radioactive substance decays at a known rate - the half-life. If you have 1000 atoms of a radioactive substance, and the half-life is one time, do you really should to interrupt your holidays similar to one time to restraint that there are still 500 radioactive atoms missing?

Now apparently an lonely neutron want decay into an electron, a proton and (I think) an antineutrino contained by roughly ten proceedings. If you might put an lonely neutron in an impenetrable box, and put it on your adjoining sill, do you really should to unbolt the box - new than to persuade special curiosity - ten existence shortly to recover not permitted whats in the box? If you think the Copenhagen Understanding, theres a prospect that there is still just a neutron in the box. Me, I meditate thats so dodgy a prospect that you might stake the strain luck on the outcome and secure hands-down. To flog a exhausted steed, the Copenhagen Understanding says that you have to actually scrutinize incredible in order for it to have truth. Pending you scrutinize, every part of possibilities are, favorably, promising. Protect Life makes up her wits when you scrutinize. Other than it does seem to be promising to distinguish the truth of incredible with no measuring or observing it because of embarrassment, someplace significant the utter of one intent, right now gives you information on the utter of incredible intimately linked with it, other than which you dont actually scrutinize.

The Truth of Both Nonentity and Incredible:

There has to be selected nonentity as favorably as selected incredible. If the whole thing were incredible, then nonentity might move as every part of the Universe would be chockablock - like the vogue of a VW, or a call booth being stuffed occupied to overflowing with university kids. You couldnt push everything not permitted of the way as there would be no nonentity to push it into

The Truth of Incredible: Question & Energy:

We exist in the humankind of the macro and in the realm of classical physics - the physics you were skilled in high spot prepare. Your homes, cars and offices are most likely filled with electronic gadgets that function in the realm of the micro - quantum physics (which you most likely werent skilled in high spot prepare. Youd meditate that there should be a flat and continuous transition from the macroclassical to the microquantum, and secondary versa, as you go up or down the balance of extent. On the other hand, Im rigid hard-pressed to meditate of an pattern in truth someplace both quantum and classical physical concepts or laws have to be integrated in order to give details or predict incredible. Yet again, its like there are two different sets of software consecutively the universe

That thought, the truth of question and energy in our macro day-to-day continuation, bit obvious, depends on the truth of the bits and pieces that add up to up the realm of the micro. So, molecules had develop be bona fide, and atoms and the particles that add up to them up - equipment like quarks and electrons and neutrinos. Thus, its unsettling to read in various books on particle and quantum physics that these are treated as point (dimensionless particles. Presumably this is to add up to the arithmetic easier or simpler (and just pick up an literary transcript in these subjects, unbolt to a indiscriminate page, and make sure what I cruel. Clearly a dimensionless particle preserve not have truth as particles have mass. That implies of necessary that the particles be required to have extent - a volume. If you group up an unlimited number of dimensionless particles, you might ready to go them into zero volume. In view of the fact that macro bits and pieces have volume - you have a volume - you preserve not be finally comprised of dimensionless micro bits

Supplementary, we have every part of these high spot energy atom smashers (particle accelerators) someplace the objective is to smash one particle into an extra at privileged and privileged energies and make sure what happens. If the particles, habitually electrons or protons, had zero volume, they couldnt collide Despite phrases like point particles, particles really have three dimensions (volume), and thus substance around you, with you, have volume. Particles have truth, and so do you. And because mass and energy are exchangeable, energy has truth. If you disbelief that, put your supply on a hot wood stove

In surcharge, the extremely detail that we experience multiplicity in question tells us that there be required to be further than one benevolent of question. If there were individual one benevolent of kit - input electrons and individual electrons - then the whole thing we experience would be just that kit individual that kit that kit alone. No multiplicity - its every part of equipment electron Thats clearly not the case, so theres further to question than just, input, electrons

The Truth of Nonentity: Epoch & Liberty:

Go into a dark, quiet opportunity with no sensory distractions. You distinguish that epoch is passing every part of around you, yet you cant discover this epoch with in the least of your five senses. You cant make sure epoch hear epoch smell epoch sip epoch or dash epoch. To discover epoch, you should selected intermediary apparatus - look at your consider snoop to the ticking of a clock stroke your pulse. Translated, to discover epoch (and by the way ditto liberty, you should matterenergy which epoch as selected effect on. Put an extra way, if matterenergy did not live, the model of epoch would be insincere. (Ditto liberty - in the nonexistence of matterenergy you couldnt discover liberty with your five senses. Thered be nonentity to make sure, hear, sip, dash or smell.)

Liberty has no connotation save there is incredible contained by it, andor past it, to give it selected boundary and that's why truth. If theres no matterenergy, theres no should of in the least liberty for it to reside in. So, epoch and liberty arent bona fide with no question and energy. Individual question and energy have truth.

In view of the fact that epoch and liberty are insincere concepts with no question and energy, its gobbledygook to lecture all but creating epoch and liberty. Youd mindlessly coin epoch and liberty if you might coin matterenergy. Alas, the conservation laws of physics utter that question and energy preserve neither be bent nor shattered individual misused in structure. Presumably nonentity preserve coin matterenergy - positively no being being has ever ended it - and in view of the fact that I decline the model of a supernatural creator being (God), Im mandatory to conclude that question and energy, hence liberty and epoch, have for eternity existed and want for eternity live. Eliminating a creator God from consideration simplifies equipment no edge.

Your Pets Truth:

Hard assume that as your pet (arrogant you have one or further, or selected new monster you have had a affiliation with or observed closely, cant speak for itself or themselves, and as youre wholly established with your pets personality, that youre a capable speaker for them - as capable as its going to progress anyway. So, if you were your pet (bird, search, cat, whatever) how would your perception or knowledge of truth alter - if it does.

First theres a similar to universal truth for every part of privileged verve forms - with humans. That universality is expressed in the phrase empty whats occupied fill whats empty mark someplace it itches

Humor aside lets pioneer with the first gateways - the senses. Were every part of aware that our sensory apparatus preserve and has been exceeded by selected animals - with common household pets. Not individual is eyesight further acute in selected animals, other than extends supplementary into the ultraviolet andor infrared than ours. Inquiry is keener sense of smell is sharper stress gradients further noticeable, etc. Be every part of that as it may, I cant make sure that varying basic perceptions of truth in in the least big way.

Ditto for physical abilities - birds gotta fly search gotta swim domestic animals gotta run. Yet again, theres nonentity significantly different in code at this time. The detail that a steed preserve run closer than you doesnt give the steed a whole different perspective or outlook on the humankind.

Yet, on our home humankind, there is a verve structure, with a as a rule alien of realities, at smallest amount qualified to us or from our perspective. The as a rule alien of realities, from our point of view, be required to be experienced by that of a search, equal a pet goldfish. Mull over, we exist for every part of no-nonsense purposes in a two dimensional humankind - the become known of our globe. Search exist in a three dimensional humankind. They, for every part of no-nonsense purposes, experience no weather or climate. Theres not a great deal temperature dissimilarity. They, depending on species and vigor, may not at all experience a day-night succession, rather exist every part of the epoch in pure darkness. They dont experience gravity for each input as the water and swim bladders supply neutral buoyancy. From our point of view, I presume, their truth is not individual wholly different, other than positively further boring - even if boring is a rather touchy term. The search may not have in the least comprehension of what boring is. So, having a dialogue with a search (a consideration testing apparently) power be all but the adjoining one might come to stipulations with a extensive substitute truth. Except the absolutes, the basics are still there - survival, rations, gender, etc.

Truth is finally perceived and processed by our brains, and our companion animals have brains, just as we do. Animals have a The You component to them. Pets clearly preserve meditate, add up to (to them anyway) able decisions they preserve and do fantasy. They have emotions. They preserve discover they have memories. They have a humankind view.

Yet, Im solid that 99.9% of the epoch your pets and dig for have absolutely no comprehension of what you are responsibility or why. They may like geniality, other than have no perception of what thermodynamics is. They like gender other than the object and genetics of it every part of is beyond them. They like rations other than have no comprehension of crop growing and manufacturing and elation and allotment and money and shopping and every part of persons bits and pieces that put doggie rations in the doggie bowl. Yet your actions, geniality, gender, rations is of way position of their truth, even if not position of their understanding.

Now our companion animals are rather closely correlated species to us. Felines, of which I have two, have a worldview. On the other hand, their worldview, concerns, values, science, etc. revolves around whether theres rations in their rations bowl do they have a wash litter box to read am I around when compulsory to unbolt doors for them and someplace are the mice defeat I time and again envy their reasonably uncomplicated lives. No lost in thought the notable issues like looking at a star and wondering if an alien cat is looking in trade in this direction no comprehension of taxes or money so-called compulsory voting or politics.

Four billions of existence of evolution (arrogant an origin of verve contained by 500 million existence of Earths origin) through no hassle or necessities for living equipment to comprehend abstract equipment like values or science (like cosmology or quantum mechanics) or arithmetic, not to point out politics and economics. The figure add up to of our (connotation verve, not just humans) concerns, done persons four billion existence, our worldview, or our truth, centered on rations, shelter, gender and just plain survival. Thats in addition authentic for the hundreds of thousands of existence, every part of through being evolution, into what weve happen to now. And thats authentic at present. Im solid 99.9% of capable people (connotation humans) at present compensate similar to zero attention to these abstract non-essentials in their day-to-day continuation. Its repentant adequate that our lives have been enhanced by the abstractions of administration and taxes and bills and nine-to-five jobs (or be short of thereof).

So here lays my elemental question. If our companion animals cant come to stipulations with the Enormous Consider, extreme truth, qualified to us, other than we ourselves are individual just that petty tad supplementary along in evolutionary (brain-related) development (call on that forward-looking IQ or whatever) qualified to them, then, what makes you meditate that the entire seascape of truth is comprehensible to you? I sometimes sensation if were yet fully biologically or mentally equipped to ponder the notable abstracts - comprehend the comprehensiveness of truth, not just the only some bits and pieces that we have come to stipulations with and meditate as being the similar to be every part of and edge every part of of whats bona fide. Perhaps our worldview of these equipment are not individual some degree of, other than of necessary want be some degree of. Translated, perhaps supplementary eons yet importance of brain training power be indispensable to fully comprehend our truth what we comprehend now power be, reasonably speaking, just a tiny tad in expand of what our monster friends comprehend Theres a extensive, extensive, path to hoe.

Special Truth:

For every part of you distinguish, you power actually be a multi-tentacled, slippery lime blob-thing living on the Globe Zork and dreaming that you are a being living on Globe Den and deriving similar to unlimited quantity of town pridesatisfaction andor orgasmic pleasure in paying your way (largely via taxes and charge. Then yet again, possibly your really Triffid-like, living on selected extra-solar hot Jupiter, fevered that youre on Globe Zork and thus dreaming of being a Globe Den humanoid.

Favorably, possibly not. Other than be that as it may...

Its most likely impossible to ever distinguish of experience pure truth in view of the fact that the whole thing external to us, in order to be experienced, has to be filtered and processed through a involved biochemical laboratory via our eyes, ears, skin, etc. that's why via our nervous system up to the brain. Who really knows what benevolent of translation happens along the way or whats mystified (or wrongly gained) in translation. Our truth power be a add up to hash of actual truth Other than, we do the preeminent we preserve with what we progress to design with.

We perceive the truth of the Universe (and its component parts) via our five senses - sight, noise, dash, sip and smell - and through instruments (technology) which, bit extending the span of persons senses, change their measurements in trade into the span we preserve comprehend with our sensory apparatus. A radio telescope preserve make sure and record radio waves, other than the (CPU or tabloid) idea fight not permitted for our viewing is apparently in the visible lightweight span to cater for our eyes. Ditto our radios change radio waves we cant make sure or hear into noise we preserve hear.

Bit there are most likely differences in the perceptions of truth twixt males and females, its most likely in addition authentic that these are so young person as to not be really importance elaborating on.

No two intimates ever experience seemingly equal equipment exactly down to the Nth degree. That is, you and I want not experience eyesight, inquiry, sip, smell or dash in the precise same way. Thats wholly at a distance from relativity model which preserve illustrate these differences wholly dramatically. No, equal in our relativity-irrelevant day-to-day verve and humankind, for pattern, whats sad to someone power materialize a little blue-green to an extra whats a perfect C-note to one is ever so a little precisely () to an extra whats a hot cup of chocolate to one ego is individual extremely tepid to an extra, equal however the temperature is equal in both cases. Equal two intimates tasting the same rations want perceive equipment a little another way.

Yet clearly the blueblue-green affect has one and individual one identifiable wavelength the edge has one and individual one frequency and the hotvery tepid cup of chocolate really has just one uniform temperature. Edge that these differences have nonentity to do with creature likes or dislikes - thats a single kind of an equal further special truth completely.

Speaking of temperature, differences in perception extends to instruments which augment our senses as favorably. We power be able to price temperature to contained by a degree or two. Other than equal two seemingly equal thermometers want register ever so unimportant differences, perhaps to with 1100th or 11000th of a degree, other than differences nevertheless.

So what aspects of the Universe do we sense? Favorably, apparently equipment that are poised of question and energy (which are two sides of the same coin). We preserve make sure question and energy, we preserve hear energy, we preserve dash question and experience its energy, and we preserve smell and sip question.

Yet, persons aspects are wholly incomplete. Our sense of eyesight is pathetic done as a rule of the electromagnetic spectrum. Our sense of inquiry is tolerable done individual a reasonably lesser span of frequencies or octaves.

Our truth, at a distance from eyesight and inquiry is in addition confined to a reasonably narrow span of temperatures, gravitational and charismatic fields, and element essentials. Other than we dont sense Earths charismatic meadow (however apparently selected animals do), which is a tad funny in view of the fact that we preserve sense or stroke the Earths gravitational meadow or press.

Our senses cant make sure, hear, sip, dash or smell epoch, and epoch is a elemental appearance to our continuation and to the properties of our Universe. And if string or superstring model is rectify, then we live in a ten or eleven dimensional Universe, yet we cant make sure, hear sip, dash or smell them. An extra six or seven dimensions to our Universe is not trivial, yet were not equipped to experience them. Thats weird Weve no direct awareness of the quantum humankind. What would our truth be like at the atomic even out or below? I dont distinguish, other than it solid wouldnt mirror the comfortable truth we deal with in the macroverse. Even if the strong nuclear press holds together every part of the atomic nuclei in our bodies, we dont stroke or sense it, nor for that question the weak nuclear press

Theres strong circumstantial substantiation that parallel universes should live, yet weve no perceptible perception of these. Weve no perception of what it would be like to experience truth contained by a Black Flaw, and for that question, weve individual an literary understanding of the truth of the interior of a cosmological intent, like our Sun, not a special truth, or for that question as a rule of the environments in our Universe. Meditate of every part of persons realities weve not at all experienced, and most likely not at all preserve experience.

What else power we be short of knowledge or perception of thats not yet been dreamt of in our values or science? I jolt to meditate of every part of that were mislaid

Special Truth from Two Points of View:

Lets send to our choice imaginary link, Jane and Clive, one of which sees sad, hears a clean C-note and perceives chocolate as hot the new a shade of blue-green, hears C, and perceives equally hot chocolate as individual extremely tepid.

Jane is aware of the perception that question is regularly empty liberty. Jane knows that neutrinos preserve throw through light-years of sound direct unimpeded. Why cant I be like a neutrino and throw through sound question? she asks. Jane, being a capable untried scientist, decides to individually testing and assess the perception. Both Jane and Clive look up a physics equation, Fma (press equals mass times speeding up. They ponder this abstract statement relating press, mass and speeding up and how it might be translated into showing that question was largely empty liberty. Jane gets an perception of accelerating a mass (her fist) to grant a press in contradiction of an extra mass (input a brick wall), having a baby her fist mass and the new brick mass to intersect. Boy is she going to be in for an unpleasant shock. Jane was aware of way that just leaning her supply on the wall wasnt ample adequate oomph - she needed further press. Anyway, Jane and Clive talk about this no-nonsense demonstration of Jane slamming her fist into a brick wall Clive tries to lecture her not permitted of this testing, other than has to yield (a woman just has to have the last declaration) and just observes bit a slight camera films the aftermath for posterity.

So, we have Jane slamming her fist into a brick wall and Clive watches. We assume that Janes fist doesnt throw soundly through the brick wall - empty liberty or no empty liberty. So Jane experiences the physical truth of intense smarting at preeminent black and sad bruising at the pits, broken bones in her supply. Clive of way experiences no such smarting (however hed develop display selected sympathy or else he just power, other than he positively experiences the intense noise (scream) of Janes ouch

So one delineation of truth might be incredible along the line, and Im solid Jane would now fall in with, is that truth is incredible that hits in trade when you win it Yet, theres got to be further to truth than that.

Shortly on, we have Jane and Clive consider the record of Jane slamming her fist into a brick wall. Neither Jane nor Clive now experiences in the least actual smarting, yet the mental truth of scrutiny the record want trigger wholly different memories in both of the two participants.

We have Jane and Clive just meditate all but Jane slamming her fist into a brick wall we have Jane and Clive fantasy all but Jane slamming her fist in to a brick wall we have Jane and Clive have visions (being a bit beneath the influence) all but Jane slamming her fist into a brick wall - these are every part of variations on the same theme.

If these mental processes (thinking, dreaming or fevered) happened before-the-fact that Jane slammed her fist into a brick wall then thats going to supply wholly a different mental similes( than if these mental processes happened after-the-fact that Jane slammed her fist into a brick wall.

So you make sure, one scenario gives start to several varieties of truth. Theres the abstract truth of the equation. Theres the mental truth of what power be. Theres the mental truth of what was. Theres the physical truth of Janes smarting and Clives throbbing eardrum Theres the truth of the record to repeat them not at all to try this stunt yet again

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