On 09 May 2013, at 13:43, Roger Clough wrote:
A speculation on the origin of spacetime amd matter out of cosmic mind
(the space vacuum)
No doubt this speculation is not original, but I am unaware of the
proper reference.
According to Leibniz's idealism, there are two basic
interpenetrating states
of the universe, matter and mind. Matter is physical and so is in
spacetime,
while mind is outside of spacetime and is nonphysical.
One might say that matter (the objective state) is the physical
transformation
of mind (the subjective state)
That can make sense.
Inversely then mind is the mental representation
(or inverse transformation) of matter.
That cannot make sense.
In the terms of physics, similarly, vacuum space (which I now
tentatively
propose is Cosmic Mind)
Vacuum space is physical. The mind is non-physical (as you say
yourself). So this will not work.
spontaneously but very temporaily emits and
reabsorbs energetic particles (in the form of quanta) in a phenomenon
called the "vacuum fluctuation" :
- Roger Clough
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_fluctuation :
"A quantum fluctuation is the temporary appearance of energetic
particles
out of empty space, as allowed by the Uncertainty Principle."
At the same time, presumably the space vacuum is independent of
spacetime, or one might say that spacetime, the realm of quanta and
particles, appear out of the space vacuum. A massive universal
transformation
of this type might then be the Big Bang.
The tibetan call this material spiritualism. They describe this as a
way to physicalize the spiritual, and argue convincingly that it is
mistaken. It is of the same type as saying that bread is Jesus.
But yes, the big bang might come from a quantum fluctuation, but this
does not explain neither the quantum nor consciousness, nor why there
is a universe, etc. It is a possible historical events, but it
explains nothing.
Leibniz go farer, imo, and Plato even more.
Bruno
The space vacuum would then correspond in Leibniz's metaphysics
to the realm of monads.
Dr. Roger Clough NIST (ret.) 5/9/2013
See my Leibniz site at
http://team.academia.edu/RogerClough
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