Friday, May 20, 2022
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Is consciousness inside your head or is the world inside consciousness?
Have you ever been in love? Do you recall what it feels like? What about the experience of joy? What was that like? I’m guessing you’re familiar with the experience of physical pain too.
Neuroscience can tell you exactly what your brain is doing while you feel love, joy, or pain. We know which areas light up, where signals transmit to and from.
But that’s not the same as having the first person felt experience of love, joy, or pain, what it is like.
Herein lies one of the hard problems in science, understanding what consciousness is and where it comes from. In fact, it’s even known as ‘The hard problem of consciousness’, a term coined by philosophy professor, David Chalmers, one of the most respected philosophers alive today.
Yet, to most of us, and to most scientists, it’s assumed that consciousness arises in the brain. And I say assumed because the matter is very far from settled. Professional philosophers, whose job it is to think about these sorts of things, still debate it hotly.
Most of us have simply learned to accept the idea because it works for all practical purposes (FAPP). That’s a term often used in science. It doesn’t necessarily mean that something is correct, only that it seems to work.
The notion that consciousness is produced by the brain is generally known as materialism, or physicalism. To materialists, consciousness is just something that we have, that we use to analyse and interpret the world.
But the root of the hard problem, according to Phillip Goff, professor of philosophy at Durham university, goes back to Galileo.
In his book, ‘Galileo’s Error’, he points out that Galileo made mathematics the language of science, which meant that there were no ‘words’ in science to describe anything subjective, like consciousness, mind, soul. Anything that couldn’t be measured or quantified in the language of science didn’t exist according to the scientific method.
We still hold this to be generally true today.
And it’s worked well for all practical purposes because it’s led to incredible medical and technological developments. The fact you’re reading this now means you have a computer or smartphone, which have ultimately been created thanks to a mathematical understanding of the laws of physics. But it also means we’ve never had the ‘words’ (in math) to discuss some of the deeper, personal questions we all have – spiritual ones.
And so we generally give short shrift in science to anything that isn’t physically measurable, like consciousness. In fact, we have no way to measure it at all. And so for most of us, we just ignore the hard problem because it doesn’t seem to matter all that much.
But to many it does matter, and quite a lot. Some of the most important questions that matter to us, that drive many of us at the deepest level, are “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?”, “What is my purpose?”, “What is the meaning of life?”
In making mathematics the language of science, Galileo’s error meant that we have no way in science to discuss these deeper questions, and so they have been mostly ignored, or left to religious leaders and philosophers to debate while science gets on with more seemingly serious business.
And yet, if we could answer these questions, perhaps our world might be a little different. Perhaps there would be more happiness, less anxiety and depression, and more people with a sense of purpose and contentment, comfortably rested on foundations of knowing who we are and why we exist.
The relegation of consciousness led to materialism. And materialism works for all practical purposes. But it’s also probably wrong! That’s according to a number of professional philosophers.
There are other things that also work for all practical purposes and that are also wrong.
Take gravity, for example. Most of us assume that gravity is a force that pulls objects down. We’re all familiar with the story of the apple that fell on Isaac Newton’s head that resulted in his theory of gravity. And thinking of gravity as a force works for a huge number of practical purposes in science and engineering.
But gravity isn’t a force. That much wasn’t understood until Einstein wrote his General Theory of Relativity in 1915. Gravity results from the shape of spacetime. Here’s a good analogy.
If you roll a marble over a trampoline, of the sort that many parents have in their gardens that their kids play on, it will follow a straight line. But if you put something on top of the trampoline at its centre, so heavy that it stretches most of the way to the ground, and then roll the marble, it no longer goes straight.
In fact, if you roll it anywhere on the trampoline it will go around in a circle and eventually spiral down to the heavy object at the centre.
Gravity works like that. Stars and planets are the heavy objects and it’s not the fabric of a trampoline that stretches, but the invisible fabric of space and time. Earth (and the other planets) follows a circle around the sun because it’s falling in towards the Sun on the spacetime trampoline, but its speed compensates for the fall, meaning it just goes around the Sun in a circle every 365.25 days.
The reason you land back on the ground when you jump up isn’t because gravity is a force that pulls you down, but because you slide down the fabric of spacetime towards Earth like a marble rolling on the trampoline.
To think of gravity as a force works for all practical purposes, but like materialism (probably), it’s also wrong.
Quantum physics has arrived at something similar to the hard problem. Looking inside any object reveals that it’s made of atoms.
For example, inside your brain are neurons, which are made of molecules like proteins, lipids, and contain DNA, all of which are made of atoms.
Now, if you look inside an atom, it is composed of protons, neutrons, and electrons. That’s the bit we learn in school.
The bit you learn at university is that protons and neutrons are composed of quarks and these are held together by gluons. At the deepest level of our scientific understanding, the particles that make up everything in our physical world, including you and I, are quarks, gluons, and electrons.
But what are they? Asking that question in a 2021 New Scientist magazine special edition, in an article titled, ‘What is Reality?’, physics Nobel laureate Sir Roger Penrose wrote that, “The best we can do at this stage is refer to the mathematical equations that they satisfy,” and that what they actually are “is a notion that can only be understood in terms of the mathematics used to describe them.”
In other words, he pointed out, we know what these fundamental components of reality do, but we don’t know what they are. We don’t know anything about their intrinsic nature.
Scale things up and we meet the hard problem of consciousness. We know what the brain, ultimately composed of quarks, gluons, and electrons, is doing while you have an experience, but we can’t account for what the experience is, what it’s like. What the brain does is not the same as having the felt experience.
Perhaps we have been going about things in the wrong way.
Indeed, some physicists, like Lee Smolin, a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada, in trying to solve the 100-year problem of the disconnect between relativity (gravity) and quantum mechanics, have recently been considering if consciousness is intrinsic to reality, and many philosophers are entertaining a similar possibility.
Panpsychism is the idea that all matter has experience. Quarks have soul, so to speak. This is not to suggest that a quark in an atom on my sofa enjoys watching Star Trek with me, but that it has some rudimentary experience, albeit vastly less complex than my own.
Panpsychists hold that it’s the combination of trillions upon trillions of particles forming complex organisms that give rise to human consciousness, animal consciousness, plant consciousness, and insect consciousness.
But it also means that everything is conscious to one degree or another, including rocks, crystals, water, clouds, planets, stars, galaxies, and even the whole universe, since everything is made of particles, each of which has experience.
It’s getting our heads around these things that has caused many to poke fun at panpsychism for so long and not take it seriously. However, in the world of academic philosophy, it is taken very seriously. It solves the hard problem of consciousness.
Consciousness doesn’t arise from the brain. The atoms in the brain already have conscious experience. It’s the combination of trillions of them, according to Panpsychists, that give rise to what we recognise as human consciousness.
Another idea that is taken seriously by some philosophers is Idealism. Here, consciousness is the fundamental component of reality such that everything that exists is merely an appearance of consciousness.
Just like light appears in different colours when it shines through raindrops to give us rainbows, so consciousness appears in a variety of different forms and colours. To Idealists, consciousness is infinite and appears in an infinite variety of forms, like people, animals, plants, insects, mountains, oceans, clouds, planets, galaxies, and universes.
If I were to place my cards on the table, I’d say that I believe that consciousness is the fundamental constituent of reality (Idealism), but that all things also therefore have conscious experience (Panpsychism), so for me, the answer lies somewhere between the two.
Experience is natural. It’s the most basic thing. Love, joy, pain, these things are natural.
Knowing what the brain is doing while you feel in love doesn’t mean that the brain is creating consciousness, but simply gives us a picture of how it appears during the experience. The brain’s changing state reflects the changing state of conscious, and unconscious, experience.
So what does all this mean for you and I?
Perhaps it’s not what you do in life that matters, but the experience of it. It’s not the destination that’s most important, but what the journey is like.
Seek out experience, then. Try new things.
Love, laugh, play.
Live life. Experience it, grab hold of it.
Hug your loved ones.
Be kind.
Smile at strangers in the street.
Breathe in the air. Feel what it’s like.
Paint a picture.
Sing a song.
Inhale each moment.
Experience the now.
Live your life!
Maybe that’s the point.
More >>> If you want to read more about this topic, read chapter 8 of my book, ‘Why Woo-Woo Works’, David R Hamilton PhD (Hay House, London, 2021).
Thursday, January 20, 2022
Fact Checking The Factcheckers, The Truth About Covid
It’s time the truth be known for the sake of the children.
The Global Elite, a group of billionaire eugenicists along with the CCP have made it clear they planned to use a bio-weapon, a virus, to reduce the population followed by a shot that would be even more deadly. They boasted people would march their friends and family to the slaughter house and they would all get rich in the process. This has been well documented redundantly in their own words. Bill Gates on Ted Talks said the vaccines will solve the overpopulation problem. Read Klaus Schwab’s book, know what is written on the Georgia Guide Stones.
All evidence is pointing to covid-19 as a bio-weapon created in Wuhan China funded by the NIH Dr. Fauci and friends, puppets for the global elite with a history of experimenting with deadly consequences on humanity, “HIV failure” now referenced in the House, the Senate, and finally by the mainstream media. Fauci’s financial records have now been made public showing an astronomical gain off the pandemic, much of which came from the Communist Chinese Party, the CCP. Unvaccinated Billionaires have emerged from the vaccine companies, and many politicians are also heavily invested in the vaccines. Billions have been dispersed to Governors, agencies and even school boards to push the mask and vaccine mandates, demonizing concerned parents.
There is no FDA approved covid vaccine available in the United States and the contents of the shot is being withheld from hospitals, doctors and nurses due to its experimental nature and patents. The vaccine companies are requesting the contents of the experimental vaccines be sealed for 75 years. Why?
The experimental gene therapy they deceptively call a vaccine is the only covid vaccine available. You cannot coerce or force any medical therapy or procedure on anyone by law especially an experimental drug not approved by the FDA. They lied, the vaccine approved by the FDA is not on the market yet. Those that coerce or force the mandates are acting unlawfully and not immune to legal damages. There is no presidential mandate only a news release and the president has lost in the Supreme Court in his attempt to mandate the vaccines.
Tests on the contents of the vaccines have revealed carcinogens, toxins, parasites, graphene oxide, a plethora or witches brew of poisons with batches varying from benign to deadly. It is a death lottery, the more you play chances are you will win.
82% of pregnant women in the first two trimesters are having miscarriages, “depopulation”. Over 100 physically fit soccer players have dropped dead due to heart attacks with blood clots. Covid vaccines in the US alone: 983756 adverse reactions, 20,622 deaths reported in “official figures” according to reporting agencies this is less than 1%. Do the math for the real figures. This has just begun and the numbers are rising exponentially.
Hospitals and doctors make up to 100,000 dollars per patient by following deadly protocols, remdesivir, ventilators, etc. upon signing the cause of death as covid. Remdesivir has a 30% mortality rate, causes kidney failure and lungs to fill with water, other complications as well. This recommended policy is a death sentence and incentivizes death. It is also deceptive as to the true numbers of deaths due to covid. Deaths from cancer, strokes, heart attacks, even the common cold and flu mysteriously disappeared with covid taking their place. This has been admitted by the CDC and hospitals are pushing deaths due to vaccines under the rug. They also demonize and refuse in most cases to use safe, effective, inexpensive therapies which are FDA approved with a very high success rate especially in early treatment. Therapies like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine combined with vitamins and minerals hundreds of studies have proven to be highly effective and boost your immune system. The real epidemic is greed and a lack of integrity supported by the critical thinking and research impaired.
Both the EU and the WHO have recommended a cease in all covid vaccinations due to the high rate of crippling and deadly side effects. Their reporting systems are much more accurate than the US which is flawed by design.
The lock downs were a fail unless you were trying to destroy the economy. The masks are a fail, university studies have proven them to be ineffective and cause brain, organ damage along causing bacterial pneumonia and rosaria due to the lack of oxygen and re-breathing of expelled toxins, virus and bacteria. Forcing children to wear masks is by the definition of the word, “Child Endangerment”. The vaccines are a complete fail, do not provide immunity with hospitals filling with the fully vaccinated.
The only thing that has worked is herd immunity, the safe, effective, inexpensive therapies like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, “both words that will get you immediately censored” along with other natural immune boosters.
So, what does this mean concerning those pushing the mandates?
They are threatening you, your friends, your family and your children with a deadly weapon and are complicit in genocide.
Legal definition of a weapon,
“A deadly weapon shall include any weapon, device or instrument article or substance that is used or attempted to be used, or threatened to be used capable of death or substantial bodily harm”.
They are killing your unborn children and now going after all children with a vaccine that has crippling and deadly side effects proven to be a complete fail as to immunization. Add the fact that children have almost a zero percent chance of dying and develop herd immunity which is 13 times more effective than the vaccinations.
The only success with the vaccines are depopulation, making the vaccine companies billionaires and enhancing the wealth of anyone who will coerce or enforce their mandates. Mandates are unlawful, unconstitutional, go against the Nuremberg Code, The Constitution and several other universal codes despite the media misinformation.
Recommendation concerning politicians, employers, hospitals, doctors, nurses, news anchors, social media pushing the vaccines and administering the mandates. Those demonizing and not allowing safe, inexpensive, effective procedures like Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and vitamin cocktails?
You decide!!!!!!!! Ignorance or denial is no longer an excuse. It did not work in the Nuremberg Trials neither did, “I was just following orders”. Even the media faced charges during the Nuremberg trials, many were hanged. Does Jesse Smollette ring a bell, the fake hanging incident to pass a law outlawing hanging? Was this a CYA move? Don’t beat yourself up if you didn’t connect the dots. Ponder that one.
History and real science, not profit politically driven science has and will continue to prove all the above correct. If only for the children’s sake, wake up and do something. It is time for personal responsibility and accountability. Doctors and nurses remember your Hippocratic Oath. Lawmakers and military remember your oath. Now is the time for courage and impeccable integrity.
James Gilliland
Thursday, November 4, 2021
This is agony, and it will pass
The chicken dinner was nice. My reclining seat is comfortable. The music on my headphones is pleasant. The heating is working fine. It’s a lovely laptop in front of me.
On the surface, information warfare is easy. There is none of the blood, mud, and guts of the WW1 trenches here. Nobody is screaming in pain, no bombs are exploding, no corpses are rotting.
Yet I feel that I am involved in one of the most gruesome and depraved conflicts in all of history. The essence of its cruelty is that everything is so close to “normal”, yet so far away from anything that ought to be normalised.
A tiny piercing of the human skin, and a few millilitres of liquid labelled with the brand of a reputable major pharmaceutical company — and universally endorsed by media and government. How bad can that be?
We already know the answer: horrific neurological injuries, destroyed immune systems, cardiovascular catastrophe, infertility, maiming, and death. And that’s before we begin to unravel the horrors of transhumanist technology: hijacking of consciousness, zombification of humans, and deletion of spirituality.
The essence of this genocidal war is a nightmarish scheme designed to break the strongest human onlooker. Our love for our family and friends is weaponised against us, as we are forced to endure watching them suicidally self-harm using gene therapy and nanotechnologies. Behind that is a barbaric system of mind control and social engineering instituted over the last century and more.
I only know how to speak from my heart; I can’t stand games like chess or bridge where I use my mind to outwit others. (At the most I am willing to use my intellect to “antiwit” the plotters and schemers, but without my heart feeling engaged, the pursuit of winning for its own sake is cold and uninteresting to me.) The predictable disaster meted out to those we care about is an agony in my core, and its endless deceit is emotionally exhausting to endure.
One of my daughters is “woke” and has turned against me. The other one is wavering; still engaged in relating, but only just. Their mother is caught up in the cult of death, her rationality still present, but her conscience seems lost. The only metric of morality left in operation is whether you conform enough that your reputation is unsullied by rebellion. No authoritative facts or appeals to ethics have the slightest effect.
An old friend has betrayed me and led my daughters down a dangerous path of submission to tyranny, usurping my position as a parent. My own parents have endorsed this institutionalised child abuse, and we barely communicate now as a result. My brother has stabbed himself with the serum of slavery, and I dare not inquire what’s happening to my nieces. A much-loved lover… jabbed too.
I know many of you face similar situations and profound sadness. The nature of unrestricted and unconventional warfare — those “silent weapons for quiet wars” — is in some ways more harrowing than mustard gas and nuclear weapons. The battlefield is not “over there” on foreign soils with young men being blown apart. It is small children right here being “exploded” in front of our eyes at a cellular level, and with the complicity of our most trusted institutions.
We know that for many a “wailing and gnashing” awakening is coming, and it won’t be pretty. We do not know how many will perish, what nature will throw at us, or what “special help” we have (the ambiguity is purposeful!). We watch and wait, and in the meantime many of us suffer in anticipation. There is a toll on us economically, socially, psychologically, physically, and spiritually from an all-enveloping conflict.
The superficial daily comfort denies us the “official” participation of a “proper” kinetic war by the metrics we have been offered in movies. Memetic war — waged in the mass media and via reprogramming biology — lacks the noise, bravado, and machinery of its explosive opposite. We are gaslit constantly and told there is no war, and that anyone who says there is must be a dangerous extremist or under-medicated madman.
The crux of this conflict is children. They aren’t just on the battlefield, they are the battlefield. This is what makes this the most horrific war in history, for no lower boundary of moral conduct seems to exist. Quite the opposite: the Satanic method demands revelry in the maximisation of sadism and transgression. There is the rape and sacrifice of infants, the trafficking in child sex slaves, and the theft of our genetic inheritance.
We will have to face up to many being orphaned, and perhaps the most tear-inducing will be the children of the indicted. Their parents may still be alive (if not executed for treason), but in remote military prisons for their own safety and security. These innocent children will be in a state of shock and limbo, unable to grieve properly, and tarnished by the crimes of their ancestors. Parenting skills for the traumatised are going to be in high demand.
It has been a trying time recently. I have been overstressed, overstretched, and overwhelmed. Years and years of voraciously ingesting data and sorting it to see patterns has left me with “autist fatigue”. Doing simple admin is getting hard, focusing on complex projects is beyond me, and all kinds of notional dues and duties have had to fall the side. Burnout is a thing, and I have to recognise my own finite capacity and capability limits.
I know that when I am censored it isn’t just an attack on my work. It is also an implicit threat against me as a person. So far I have been OK, and I assume that I have some kind of unseen cover or protection as a result of my forthrightness. I do what I can to maintain some basic operational security, and hope for the best. I refuse to cower in fear, and carry on my life regardless. I am hopeful for truth, justice, and prosperity; and realistic of the hardship to get there.
Somehow we all know that we cannot buckle or bend the knee; to have come so far and fallen now would be a tragic waste. If there is one thing that energises me to carry on in the darkest moments, it is the knowledge that I may be needed to help a child. No matter how difficult the present may feel, we can take solace in the possibility that someday young eyes may look up to us in gratitude for passing through this distressing experience.
We cannot let the children down.
No, we must not.
Monday, September 20, 2021
Mini Ice Age - Grand Solar Minimum
DAVID DuBYNE ~ “Agenda 2030 Vs. Adapt 2030: Mini Ice Age ~ Grand Solar Minimum”
Aug 30, 2021
CAN THIS REALLY BE THE TRUTH……????
The fascinating DAVID DuBYNE joins AGE OF TRUTH TV´s Presenter and Investigative Reporter, Lucas Alexander for an in-depth, eye-opening, intense and quite controversial interview on everything under the sun, and above……..
BIO: DAVID DuBYNE is the creator of the ADAPT 2030 Mini Ice Age 2105-2035 video series and Mini Ice Age Conversations Podcast was a former coffee buyer in N.E Myanmar around Pyin Oo Lwin and when coffee farmers told of cold weather damage to plants with top leaf kill, decreased bean density and the need to over plant by 13-14% to balance cold damage and die off in the farms, I went looking for answers.
David was a full CO2 warming believer, so it seemed strange that there was cold damage so near the equator in the country formerly known as Burma.
"I began to look for answers and it didn’t take long to find evidence that the Sun drives our climate and we are heading into another Grand Solar Minimum with profound effects on global food production.
This stark realization that food is the base for society and by 2023 there will be global food shortages, at that point I had two choices, lie to myself and go back to sleep or bring truth forward."
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Sunday, October 11, 2020
What Is Reality?
What if the very fabric of space and time isn't made of one-dimensional strings or energy as we think of it, but instead was simply a code or a language made from a geometric projection?
Quantum Gravity Research is a Los Angeles based team of mathematicians and physicists working on developing a theoretical framework for a first-principles unified quantum gravity theory they call emergence theory. Still in the early stage of development, emergence theory attempts to unify, through mathematical and scientific rigor, the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and consciousness.
This film is presented in layperson terms and explains basics tenets of emergence theory, quantum mechanics and digital physics in ways that are meant to be communicative and fun. However, if you'd like to read any of the scientific and more technical papers, please visit our website.
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Quantum Gravity Research was founded by Klee Irwin in 2009.
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Friday, May 29, 2020
The Matrix of Control
The Matrix of Control Beyond its 3D Manifestation. This video gives an overview of the hyperdimensional matrix, occult forces, and what it takes to transcend the matrix on the path towards Awakening
Veil of Reality
Written and narrated by Bernhard Guenther https://veilofreality.com