The Second Consciousness E-Book

Christian Hermenau

• Herausgeber: neobooks
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Deutsch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Seitenzahl: 115

Beschreibung

It is not easy to come into this world at the beginning of a life and it is not easy to leave it at the end. But where are we before and where after? Are we thought of by other objects in this universe or are we free in our actions, like the quanta of modern physics? Is life created out of itself or is it based on thoughts of other beings?

Leseprobe

The Second Consciousness

Of the complexity of life

Christian Hermenau

Content

Number logic

What is behind the quanta

The magic of food intake

Heisenberg and wheat grains

The search for the magic

Mathematics and quantum mechanical particles

Computers, switches and transistors

The rhythm of the atoms

The entropy in the networks

A diversified world

The first consciousness

Entanglement

Black holes or not

A photo of something 55 million light years away

The live stream between the particle networks

Quantum computer

Quantum computers and the networks of life

Number logic

It is not easy to come into this world at the beginning of a life and it is not easy to leave it at the end. But most of our life time we go uninspired through the everyday life and hope for a miracle, although everything around us is magical and we ourselves are the biggest wonder in it.

We can also trivialize things on earth in such a way that we only see the simple things behind it, the laws behind everything, which all bodies and beings have in common. Thereby we abstract the world. We then describe the whole as idealized and absolute. It is fascinating that 1 + 1 in it are always 2. We create a number system that is boundless, but also functions according to very simple laws. We could count a whole life long and would only perhaps reach the billion and there would be no end in sight. The numbers go on and on, with this simple dull logic. There would never be a surprise, never would we come across a number that is wrong or doesn't fit. This is the cool abstraction of numbers. Something man-made that can be applied to grains, to cars to stars or people. One hundred thousand grains of sand is about 20 grams. We could count them lifelong and as a number they would be absolute, but two hundred thousand grains counted are not equal in weight. Above a certain accuracy, differences become apparent, at the latest in the microgram range. We could count a lifetime of one hundred thousand grains of sand and would always weigh different masses, because no two grains are the same, only the number is the same.

So what is wrong if we transfer pure mathematics, a pure, simple, exact order, together with its logically conceived laws, to the physical world and the result is not absolute and one hundred percent, but each Something has its own reality. Every grain of sand is unique, but our formulas of reality do not allow this uniqueness. Physical formulas should ideally function exactly like the mathematically abstract laws from which they are constructed. Nature is geometrized in them and written down, for example, in field equations, which then describe an infinitely fine space in an infinitely fine time - all in theory, in the way we thought it up. And then there are atoms, small packets of energy that are at the same time punctiform and yet not infinitely small, that have an expansion like a long wave and are then supposed to be compact like strings again, but are mathematical and thus remain abstract. On the one hand, it is possible to build atomic clocks with the timing accuracy of atoms, in which two such clocks differ from each other by only one second in a time longer than the age of the universe. On the other hand, such a thought, abstract, elementary particle is neither exactly determinable nor exactly positioned. From our point of view it is blurred.

How can we believe that atoms function like numbers, that space, time and matter are exact, when in our world nothing is really one like the other? Not like the numbers. There are no two particles that are the same in everything, unlike our numbers. Although 231 is not 232, but except that one number is by 1 greater than the other there is no difference, nothing surprising, nothing individual or special. If we transfer numbers to life, then 231 flies are not equal to 232 fleas. Then not even 231 grains of wheat are equal to 231 grains of wheat, not if welook closely at each grain.

We take the essence, the soul, out of a grain of wheat and all that remains is a number. For these numbers there are special connections and laws, but do these laws then also apply to the living grain? Can something big, something built up work in the same way as something idealized, something imagined? One could go even further into the smallest details here, because even the most elementary building blocks are not all the same. Each has its own state, its own network of individual energies stored. No particle is like another. Although one might think that the elementary building blocks would have to be perfectly idealized and thus would fit exactly to a cold abstraction, this is not the case at all. We transfer a macroscopic world to the elementary realm in the belief that we will encounter the small, indivisible, divinely perfect spheres of the ancient Greeks. The large complex world seems to fit the abstractions in an idealized way, but the very real conditions that make the movements so confusing do not disappear when we look at the exact basic building blocks, the atoms. All of a sudden, the atoms are not so exact anymore, they are more confusing and complex and so completely different from our familiar living world. Suddenly it becomes apparent that with only 53 qubits, only 53 real building blocks that have no contact with our world for just three minutes, it is possible to calculate mathematical tasks that would take conventional supercomputers many thousands of years to complete. 53 systematically networked atoms surpass every supercomputer - only 53!

But our world consists of an unimaginable number of particles, which may be all are networked, or put another way, why should they not be networked? And if they are, what can be calculated with them or is it the very secret of consciousness?

If we think about the world, about this universe, its size, its abundance, or if we take a closer look at our earth, the life on it, a queasy feeling arises. We then feel very clearly that there is something incomprehensible, something beyond comprehension, something that exists beyond all knowledge and rationality. The whole thing is so big, so much bigger than we can think and yet we are a part of it in the middle of it. No matter whether we are believers or scientific thinkers, when it comes to the questions: where does everything come from, why do we exist, why are we so complicatedly constructed, it makes us shiver. For the most part of our time we don't deal with such questions, maybe some of us ignore them completely and live their lives, but we would all like to know the answer to them, all of us: gods as well as humans, every thinking, whether it is here or somewhere in the universe. We realize that an answer is beyond our comprehension, and probably no almighty God can understand it either, because it is more incomprehensible than omnipotence.

Although we may be able to understand the structure of our universe, to find a self-contained connection, perhaps to discover the mathematical laws according to which everything functions here, if it is possible according to laws, but with that we have not answered the overriding question of why all this, the where from and where to.

What is behind the quanta

If we can't just come to life, then we can't just die.

If it is not just the gene code in which all our characteristics are stored that regulates everything in the germ cells, if it does not just run like clockwork when new life is created, then what is it? What makes one cell into billions of cells by continuous division, which are not just simply there, but ordered to a maximum degree? We are not thinking of a precise order as in a diamond or as in an ice crystal, but each cell is individual and yet connected to the whole. No matter whether microorganism, plant or animal, the cells that are connected to each other are from the very beginning livingly networked, work-sharing and differentiated. Also, life was already there before, the liveliness does not only arise during the division. It forms a whole without being hierarchical. It exists with and without consciousness, with and without feelings, depending on what is being created. It is always the same starting parts: Tissue cells that divide. Whether it then becomes a worm or a human makes no difference with the initial cells. The principle is the same. Worm cells do not differ from human cells in the beginning. The genes also always consist of the same base pairs, only arranged differently. And although we are able to observe and film cell division and differentiation today, although it seems to run like clockwork, there must be a lot more behind it. A much greater knowledge, a much, much greater network, in which not only the arrangement of the cells is stored, but also the experience that millions of beings have had before: So not only the arrangement of the atoms in space, but also how the arrangement has changed and developed over time. Babies or microorganisms must have a stored world knowledge of the past in them from the beginning, the fly just like humans. And this knowledge is not only contained in the genes that run according to plan. This is too technical, too simply thought. If the highest, the most complex thing in this universe takes place on the gene molecule and cell level, then our higher complex life would indeed be so unimaginable, so fantastic, that we would always have to introduce a God who created us like a master builder and then breathes the soul into us with his divine breath.

We need another foundation, another basis on which all this is created. And it is supposed to have happened in this universe, with the means that are available to us here, out of itself. We do not want to strive for infinity. Not, for example, to introduce infinitely many universes, which all exist parallel to each other and even influence each other somehow. We do not want that! We want it all to happen in our one universe only. In the meantime people have reached a knowledge of nature that shows us that this is actually possible with the materials we find here in the universe. It is possible to explain life with atoms as we find them here in the universe. We only have to allow some changes and change the centre of gravity, then life could be explained with what we have.

Genes are made up of atoms and atoms are subject to quantum mechanics, but behind quantum mechanics are the networks that make the connection to abstract consciousness.

Einstein and Bohr discussed long and heatedly at that time whether there is a possibility to observe the elementary particles without measuring them. Einstein was firmly convinced that, like a mouse in a corner, one can only observe the universe without influencing it in any way and relaxed one thought experiment after another. For Einstein a lot depended on it, after all it was about whether we could understand the universe in principle or whether there were areas to which we had no access. But Nils Bohr persistently disproved Einstein's ideas again and again and was later to be right. Thus the Copenhagen interpretation of quanta prevailed, which assumed the impossibility of observation without measurement, thus granting undreamt of freedom to particles and photons.

For physicists, this also means that in a pair process, for example, the state of the two particles or photons remains undetermined as long as it is not measured. Or, which is the same thing, reacts with the outside world. This means that a quantum-mechanical state can be one, zero or zero/one superimposed and remains so as long as neither of the two objects reacts with the outside world, no matter how far away the particles should be from each other by now. Two important extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics come into play here: the superimposed, i.e. ambiguous state and the entanglement, the special contact between two particles or quanta that are not yet separated and yet are far away from each other. But we will go into this in more detail later.

For our living processes it is not important whether we have access to the particles, even if we can then possibly prove our hypothesis only indirectly. For us, the extremely high degree of interconnectedness of matter plays a very important role and we want to get to the bottom of it. According to our structure, elementary particles such as protons and electrons are not only in permanent contact with an endless number of other particles via gravity, but they also store each of these contacts additionally. This means that we have extremely large networks very quickly. With the numerical values and process times that play a role here, it is completely hopeless for us to be able to track anything for even one second. We can only calculate the statistical expected values of place and time or momentum and energy of the particles and then we are in the relatively rough area of quantum mechanics. For us macroscopic beings this represents the lowest limit. This does not mean that there is not much more behind it, but only that we are denied access to it. The objects, particles and quanta are small, but tangible and real. The networks above are not. They are fantastically big, incredibly fast and the storage capacities are beyond our imagination. But it remains the most difficult of all questions: can intelligence and consciousness also develop in such randomly created networks? Is there a second intelligence besides ours in this universe?