Chapter 1: How Does Mind Work. Intro New Old Maps Of Being Human
 Being Human: Consciousness (Mind) at all levels of Reality New maps of New is a property of self organizing holomind, and not just a description of my writings. Improvisation is built into Mind and Matter! All levels of consciousness include matter as a part of mind (or its projection)! Holomind means that all creative processes are present at all levels and locations. Self-Organization emerges everywhere and everywhen embedded within each different level of consciousness. The structure of a particular level is not violated even though it can become organized differently than at other locations. This includes the structures which are time-stable organizations called Matter. ... |
Section 1: Explore simple science which explains holographic mind!
What is Holomind and How does Consciousness (Mind) emerge at all levels of Reality? Science started to explore the way the brain organized itself that resembled how a physical hologram is constructed in the 1960s. But the mind itself has given humans of all cultures maps of holographic mind for thousands of years. Science started to explore the way the brain organized itself in the 1960s comparing it with the way a physical hologram is constructed. But the mind itself has given humans of all cultures maps of holographic mind for thousands of years. ...
mind? Designs Of Mind!
THOSE MAPS ARE CALLED MUSIC, THE ARTS AND RELIGION!
The holographic paradigm answers many questions:
- how can total information be distributed throughout the brain.
- How can the same totality be experienced from many viewpoints.
- Why do all activities emerge in phase space code such as Music, Language and even Games [only one example being Solitaire]!
- These phase codes are exactly how physical holography works!
- We have used these phase coding principles in AM and FM radio.
Design of Being Human and Mind is based on the same process that creates holograms!
See Demonstration of holographic process (old: home1)  This diagram shows how a hologram is made. from: http://www.sgmt.at/ReferE/Hologram.htm There is an important difference between a photograph and a hologram: a photograph consists of pixels which, combined, show the original image - a hologram consists of wave interference patterns which describe or "encode" the original object. It requires an additional step of creating the projection to make the object visible again. |
Reflected Light from an object.
After the Coherent light illuminates an object, the resulting reflection becomes incoherent, but indexed by the original coherent source. The next step of this process is to recombine this reflected light that now contains information about a single point of the object with the original source of coherence and capture the resulting interference pattern on film. Thus a part of the coherent source is used as a canvas to store the picture.
Unlike our eyes or a camera, this process does not focus the light returning from a single point of the object to a single point on the canvas. The light from each single point spreads out to connect with each point of the canvas: thus each portion of the hologram contains the whole picture. If a holographic film is cut into small portions, you would view the same complete scene when the coherent source illuminates any portion. The smaller portions would become fuzzy due to loss of detail.
But not in a way that can be observed as we do a photo or looking with our eyes. The original coherent source must be shined thru the holographic film at the original angle to reconstruct the picture of the object. Thus by changing the angle that the source hits the film, more than one picture can be recorded on a single film. Also as the viewer changes their viewing angle, the objects of the picture change their positions relative to each other in the same way as moving within a real-life scene.
When this process is biological it is experienced as consciousness or memory. Thus holographic mind [holomind] can have many viewpoints and many levels of resolution from very broad inclusive general [complete], but fuzzy pictures, to pictures with many levels of detail. Thus each broad picture that forgets the details would emerge from a restricted single viewpoint!!
Holomind is written and indexed by Phase Codes.
The phase is changed by the contours of the image: closer parts advance the phase and farther parts retard the phase. It is within the time dimension, so clocks can be a model. It is as if the coherent light is millions of clocks all set to the same time. The clocks that reflect off the object move ahead or behind according to the part of the image they reflect. Clocks are but one example of "alphabets" used to index information just as coherent light of the same source is needed to reconstruct!
Examples:
- Music
- Language
- Games (eg. Solitaire)
- Coding in AM/FM radio
Links to External Pages
- http://twm.co.nz/hologram.html
- Pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram.
- http://www.hologram.net/theory/basics.htm
- http://www.sgmt.at/ReferE/Hologram.htm (site seems to be down at 2005-01-06, on -07 its up again)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologram
- http://www.essentia.com/discovery/holographic_universe.htm
Internal Comments:
- Comment: Talking about Maps, isn't this better in "About Coherence And Maps" ?
- Comment "..whitin and of..." creates a complicated sentence, you try to explain "recursion"
- Removed: !!The first holograms used coherent light produced by lasers.\\ Coherence is represented by 4 photons on the left: the phases of the waves are all lined up as if clocks were all set to the same start time. \\ Incoherence is represented by 4 photons on the right: the phases of the waves are NOT lined up as if clocks were set to different start times.
Section 1b: The Universe as Hologram
These are some of the basic ideas from which I started my work! In 1982 at the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them. It doesn't matter whether they are 10 feet or 10 billion miles apart.
From: http://web.ionsys.com/~remedy/THE%20QUESTERS%20TWO.htm
Somehow each particle always seems to know what the other is doing. The problem with this feat is that it violates Einstein's long-held tenet that no communication can travel faster than the speed of light. Since traveling faster than the speed of light is tantamount to breaking the time barrier, this daunting prospect has caused some physicists to try to come up with elaborate ways to explain away Aspect's findings. But it has inspired others to offer even more radical explanations.
University of London physicist David Bohm, for example, believes Aspect's findings imply that objective reality does not exist, that despite its apparent solidity the universe is at heart a phantasm, a gigantic and splendidly detailed hologram.
To understand why Bohm makes this startling assertion, one must first understand a little about holograms. A hologram is a three- dimensional photograph made with the aid of a laser. To make a hologram, the object to be photographed is first bathed in the light of a laser beam. Then a second laser beam is bounced off the reflected light of the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where the two laser beams commingle) is captured on film.
When the film is developed, it looks like a meaningless swirl of light and dark lines. But as soon as the developed film is illuminated by another laser beam, a three-dimensional image of the original object appears. The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only remarkable characteristic of holograms. If a hologram of a rose is cut in half and then illuminated by a laser, each half will still be found to contain the entire image of the rose.
Indeed, even if the halves are divided again, each snippet of film will always be found to contain a smaller but intact version of the original image. Unlike normal photographs, every part of a hologram contains all the information possessed by the whole.
The "whole in every part" nature of a hologram provides us with an entirely new way of understanding organization and order. For most of its history, Western science has labored under the bias that the best way to understand a physical phenomenon, whether a frog or an atom, is to dissect it and study its respective parts.
A hologram teaches us that some things in the universe may not lend themselves to this approach. If we try to take apart something constructed holographically, we will not get the pieces of which it is made, we will only get smaller wholes.
This insight suggested to Bohm another way of understanding Aspect's discovery. Bohm believes the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth, but because their separateness is an illusion. He argues that at some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.
Particles are not separate "parts", but facets of a deeper and more underlying unity that ultimately is as holographic and indivisible as the previously mentioned rose. And since everything in physical reality is comprised of these “eidolons", the universe is itself a projection, a hologram. In addition to its phantomlike nature, such a universe would possess other rather startling features. If the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.
The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky.
Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.
In a holographic universe, even time and space could no longer be viewed as fundamentals. Because concepts such as location break down in a universe in which nothing is truly separate from anything else, time and three-dimensional space would also have to be viewed as projections of this deeper order.
At its deeper level, reality is a sort of superhologram in which the past, present, and future all exist simultaneously. This suggests that given the proper tools it might even be possible to someday reach into the superholographic level of reality and pluck out scenes from the long-forgotten past.
What else the superhologram contains is an open-ended question. Allowing, for the sake of argument, that the superhologram is the matrix that has given birth to everything in our universe, at the very least it contains every subatomic particle that has been or will be - every configuration of matter and energy that is possible, from snowflakes to quasars, from blue whales to gamma rays. It must be seen as a sort of cosmic storehouse of "All That Is."
Stanford neurophysiologist Karl Pribram was drawn to the holographic model by the puzzle of how and where memories are stored in the brain. For decades numerous studies have shown that rather than being confined to a specific location, memories are dispersed throughout the brain.
In a series of landmark experiments in the 1920s, brain scientist Karl Lashley found that no matter what portion of a rat's brain he removed he was unable to eradicate its memory of how to perform complex tasks it had learned prior to surgery. The only problem was that no one was able to come up with a mechanism that might explain this curious "whole in every part" nature of memory storage
Then in the 1960s Pribram encountered the concept of holography and realized he had found the explanation brain scientists had been looking for. Pribram believes memories are encoded not in neurons, or small groupings of neurons, but in patterns of nerve impulses that crisscross the entire brain in the same way that patterns of laser light interference crisscross the entire area of a piece of film containing a holographic image. In other words, Pribram believes the brain is itself a hologram.
Pribram's theory also explains how the human brain can store so many memories in so little space. It has been estimated that the human brain has the capacity to memorize something on the order of 10 billion bits of information during the average human lifetime (or roughly the same amount of information contained in five sets of the Encyclopedia Britannica). Similarly, it has been discovered that in addition to their other capabilities, holograms possess an astounding capacity for information storage. Simply by changing the angle at which the two lasers strike a piece of photographic film, it is possible to record many different images on the same surface. It has been demonstrated that one cubic centimeter of film can hold as many as 10 billion bits of information.
The storage of memory is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that becomes more tractable in light of Pribram's holographic model of the brain. Another is how the brain is able to translate the avalanche of frequencies it receives via the senses (light frequencies, sound frequencies, and so on) into the concrete world of our perceptions.
Encoding and decoding frequencies is precisely what a hologram does best. Just as a hologram functions as a sort of lens - a translating device able to convert an apparently meaningless blur of frequencies into a coherent image, Pribram believes the brain also comprises a lens and uses holographic principles to mathematically convert the frequencies it receives through the senses into the inner world of our perceptions. Our brains mathematically construct "hard" reality by relying on input from a frequency domain. It has been found that each of our senses is sensitive to a much broader range of frequencies than was previously suspected.
Researchers have discovered, for instance, that our visual systems are sensitive to sound frequencies, that our sense of smell is in part dependent on what are now called "osmic frequencies", and that even the cells in our bodies are sensitive to a broad range of frequencies. Such findings suggest that it is only in the holographic domain of consciousness that such frequencies are sorted out and divided up into conventional perceptions. 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. This striking new picture of reality, the synthesis of Bohm and Pribram's views, has come to be called the holographic paradigm. In a universe in which individual brains are actually indivisible portions of the greater hologram and everything is infinitely interconnected, telepathy may merely be the accessing of the holographic level. It is obviously much easier to understand how information can travel from the mind of individual - to that of individual - at a far distant point; and helps us to understand a number of unsolved puzzles in psychology. In particular, Stanislov Grof feels the holographic paradigm offers a model for understanding many of the baffling phenomena experienced by individuals during altered states of consciousness. *
Section 2: Holomind Requires Coherence!
Coherent light from lasers were used in the first physical holograms. Coherence means that all the crests and troughs of the light waves are lined up: in Order. Order and coherence is needed to design Mind: it becomes the reference source for the meaning of the activities of life. Humans no longer need biological maps with built-in coherence to design New Mind. We can recognize the freedom to connect stable principles that have been pioneered by science. TV, Cars, Computers and many other “things” are really spiritual models for designing Mind that connects to all viewpoints with peace and gentleness and flexibility.
Music is an example of multiple coherent sources [time and key signature and harmony] using phase spaces of "notes" and duration.Written language is a phase code within a coherent "alphabet". [otherwise words would look like "hist" ("this" in alphabetical or coherent order )] Rules and games [sports like basketball or football "soccer"] use inhibitory rules to create phase spaces where each individual has a complete map but performs from their position [holographic viewpoint] and the self organization is called skill and play. This is similar to a symphony orchestra structure.
Coherence needed to Design Holographic mind!
Rules and consequently coherence, are the natural output of neural networks: Data in - Rules out! This and the way in which neural networks are fully connected with weights is the same structure as holograms!
Holomind requires coherent sources!
They are nested fractals!
Holomind is based on the material of scientific studies introduced in the 1960s which concluded that the brain had dynamic processes similar to how a hologram is constructed. The primary evidence was based on the distributed information and processing within the brain: many areas stored the same information and could recover processes that had been attributed to other areas when those areas were damaged.
Each Level of consciousness uses a different Phase Space.
--comment: outdated: ... Click on a image to see that phase space:Later: One coherence interacts with an "object" and the result is a holomind code at that level. Then another level is added which interacts with the object of the previous code which then forms the next level of holomind which is conscious of its own generator. This next level adds another level to repeat the process of creation of mind which is consciousness of a lower level of interaction!
Show this with I Ching levels and how they generate Chakras!
So what is this holographic process?
Introducing a new understanding of human nature and Mind based on new ideas in science that have been prefigured in diverse spiritual traditions, Arts and Music including scientific explanations of One Mind, Creativity, Freedom, and Peace.
Section 3: Coherence uses phase spaces - alphabets as the code of Holomind!
The stacking of holomind / FRACTALS ...
Discoveries in science are self-referential: science proposes [a problem] science disposes [with an answer]. So the gap above the highest level continues to ignor where these solutions are answers to other questions. In this case fractals map the nature of consciousness by mapping how the coherence of holomind is stacked upon itself in a self referring process! Yet fractals were first proposed as solutions to "mathematical monsters" that seemingly could not exist within the old maps of dimension. When I first saw in 1976 the first book published on "Fractals" I immediately saw its implications for my work: this was one of the breakthrus in science I had been hoping for!Section 4: Music And Arts as scientific maps of holomind!
Many maps using coherence including Music are the basis and basics of human culture! Coherent light from lasers were used in the first physical holograms. Coherence means that all the crests and troughs of the light waves are lined up: in Order. Order and coherence is needed to design Mind: it becomes the reference source for the meaning of the activities of life. Humans no longer need biological maps with built-in coherence to design New Mind. We can recognize the freedom to connect stable principles that have been pioneered by science. TV, Cars, Computers and many other “things” are really spiritual models for designing Mind that connects to all viewpoints with peace and gentleness and flexibility.
Music is an example of multiple coherent sources [time and key signature and harmony] using phase spaces of "notes" and duration.Written language is a phase code within a coherent "alphabet". [otherwise words would look like "hist" ("this" in alphabetical or coherent order )] Rules and games [sports like basketball or football "soccer"] use inhibitory rules to create phase spaces where each individual has a complete map but performs from their position [holographic viewpoint] and the self organization is called skill and play. This is similar to a symphony orchestra structure.
Rules and consequently coherence, are the natural output of neural networks: Data in - Rules out! This and the way in which neural networks are fully connected with weights is the same structure as holograms!
(old)
Music
Go to this page for sheet music: play it or print it from String Quartets, Recorder music and more. This is inspired by Britt, Lisa and Hubertine as beginning to teach over the internet.
- Learn To Read Music Now!
- Learn Beginner Piano with Bach to start!
- Download pages Learn Piano with Bach to start!
- check out my Music Player! For professional Lessons!
I have designed 2 new versions of Solitaire that you can try out. They do not play perfect as games because they are designed as illustrations of how Holo Mind? works!
The first version will deal a game that may not Win, but you can click on the transpose button to play the same shuffle as if the cards changed value. Thus you can play as if the twos are Aces, Then threes become Aces. This illustrates how the same circumstances can have different results from different viewpoints / Start-points / Mind-sets or "being on different wavelengths"!
The Draw pile represents the progress of "time" and the introduction of different events! This comes with one card up and one card hidden and unavailable. This represents how we ignore part of reality: The Yang and the Yin. This is the process of concentration: ignoring some new stimuli to concentrate on the important things.
Each pile that you move cards to or from is life experience and the accumulation of order in our lives. But Culture does not come so easy to put into order [create holomind]: it has baggage from tradition as family, school subjects and different occupations. There are different areas where we accumulate pain or pleasure, success or failure that we carry around with us as "suffering", confusion, aversions and "attachments"!
The second version is presented in 3 stages.
- First stage: you can interact with "time" but you cannot untangle the "present"!
- Second stage: you can start to untangle the present but you take the baggage with you and leave the illusion of a good move.
- Third stage: you take the baggage with you and wipe out any left over cards: Cannot Win!
- Last stage: you can untangle the present thus removing the baggage, but how you do it seems to change each time: Life is never the same. Life is self organizing!
This gap results in our ignoring our minds products as maps of mind. This applies to computers and their programs, and now to web pages and their design. Humans can now design their own individual mind just as a programmer or company creates a product. We accepted the design as if it came from some outside source: heredity or environment. Modern mathematics of neural networks prove that it comes from within as self organization. We assemble and program using a basic mental machinery of DNA, but because our DNA is so almost identical to our Ape ancestors, this doesn’t explain the great diversity of language, culture and personalities of humans.
Human hardware: we know that if we program a modern computer with the code for the first computer hardware of the 1960s, we will be very constricted by limitations. In the same way, if we design our mind based on what we knew 500 years ago or 2,500 years ago, we will follow limitations that resulted in religious and cultural wars. We will be programming for the reptilian brain hardware of fight or flight and the mammal hardware of emotion that results in belief systems of emotional attachment and aversion.
Modern science has uncovered the brain hardware that created all those traditional designs of Mind: it is the neocortex, which is spacious, free and peaceful compared to the animal and reptilian brain. Yet we have learned from the old designs that holomind is based on coherent structures, just as computer code must fit together within the same programming language. We see the success of Microsoft Windows which provides a coherence for users and designers alike.
Our thinking processes are the designer and programmer. We want to use these designs in an “automatic” integrated way of our flow of life. When we drive our cars we cannot stop and think about every decision. We must have programs that are available and work instantly. That means that our new programs must interface with the old hardware of the mammal and reptilian brain.
So one of the ways of design is to use and change the programs that are already in place. So how do we recognize which is what? What events result in sensation of the reptilian brain or emotion of the mammal? Are these sensations / emotions really the thought forms of those brains, and we really do not recognize the well run programs like walking, eating and digesting, sleeping and connecting unless there is error?
We call these automatic programs “instinct” as if they cannot be accessed or changed, yet in many areas of modern psychology [like NLP] we find we can access and change! And this is only the beginning!
Modern Mathematics has demonstrated that the mind uses fuzzy Logic or Fuzzy Thinking in its operations. Thus this implies that "rational mind" grew out of the need for coherence to build the mind that was designed for agriculture.
Section 5: Intro New old Maps of being human
New maps of Being Human: Consciousness (Mind) at all levels of Reality NEW is a property of self organizing holomind, thus not just a description of my writings. Improvisation is built into Mind/Matter!
All levels of consciousness include matter as a part of mind! Holomind means that all creative processes are present at all levels and locations: this means that self organization emerges everywhere / everywhen embedded within each different level of consciousness. Thus the structure of a particular level is not violated even though it can become organized differently than at other locations. This includes the structures that are time-stable organizations called Matter which can retain their structure.
Thus “NEW” is built into consciousness at different places within the same being!
My “NEW” includes or enfolds traditional maps of mind from religion and science as the new invention of TV included Radio or the “Car” and “Airplane” upgraded previous types of transportation. Thus the “intent” and direction of flow of many religions will be preserved, but much will change. Also science started within an Exclusive - Not logic, but now new fuzzy logic and complexity theory has emerged.
From library: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_intro.asp
Internal Comments:
--. What are Some Traditional Maps?? That Point To Holomind!
- Comment: Do we need this page? its only introduction, which is the purpose of the "How Does Mind Work" Page, (perhaps this will be removed)
- Phase-space: Holomind as fractals!
- Holo Music??? and many Cultural maps require Coherence!
- Peace: Knowing thru the simple & doing thru the easy is contained in holoscience!
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