The Nothingness, Implicate Order and Non-locality

Most people wrongly perceive matter as an object existing in an empty space. Space is far from the vacuum; it is a plenum full of energy, the ground for all existence, inanimate, and animate beings.

Despite its apparent materiality and enormous size, this interface - the 3D-space and it's content (universe) - does not exist of itself a). Together with the matter it contains, space perpetually appears and disappears at the rate equal to the speed of light, creating a dynamic dimension that we call time.

In a more profound reality, we may describe this dynamic, temporary space as a front-wave propagating at the speed of light across an unimaginably vast ocean of high energy (Figure-1A). This front-wave perpetually rises and dissipates above and to the surface of the sea, manifesting respectively, using Bohm's terms, the unfoldment of the implicate order, and the enfoldment of the explicate order ^b).

It is only at this wave structure (unfolded order) that every materialized thing is localized. In this front-wave, the universe where we live, the local order implies. It's surrounding (enfolded order), in front and behind the wave and the vast ocean beneath it is non-local ^c). The surrounding of our universe, the enormous calm sea of energy we used to think as nothingness, is a real plenum. Nothingness, emptiness, vacuum, nonexistence ^d), or whatever you call it, is pure human imagination.

Bohm correctly stated that because the implicate order is the foundation giving birth to everything in the universe, it must contain every configuration of things that have been, and will be created, such as energy, information (knowledge), consciousness, intelligence, and life ^e).

But again, Bohm had no idea on how to describe these profound layering realities physically. He talked about super-implication by extending the notion of implicate order to quantum fields instead of particles ^f). The whole idea of implicate order could be reached in a natural way implying indefinitely higher levels of implicate order. To visualize the Bohm's view, we may enhance it by figuring out that each of those multi-layered implicates orders (energy, information, consciousness, intelligence, and life) is embedded one within another, in successively higher and higher dimensions (Figure-1B, C and D) ^g).

Notes:

a.   The 4-dimensional spacetime splits into two parts as the positive and negative energies segregating from each other. The energies' interaction creates particles at the interface of these opposite energies, the 3-dimensional [hyper] surface. This interaction occurs as the quantum fields generated by the opposing energies piercing through the interface igniting quantum sparks we perceive as particles.

b.    Bohm ¹ described the universe as a comparatively small pattern of excitation. It is a ripple on the infinite ocean of energy, a deeper order enfolded in the warp of reality. Bohm failed to elucidate his idea more explicitly through the geometrical description, i.e., the relative dimensionality of the ripple vis-a-vis that of the ocean of energy. His story of the universe in terms of implicate and explicate order was merely a metaphor. 

c.     Our classical notions of localized order imply in spacetime arise as limiting cases of the deeper implicate order. The manifest level of everyday experience and the quantum level underlying it emerges from a still deeper implicate level in which the classical Cartesian notions of form, order, and structure have more or less dissolved. Bohm believed that the implicate order would be more suitable for expressing the fundamental laws of nature than the explicate order, which is only a particular case of the general order.

d.    Nothingness in the sense of an absolute term in which it is devoid of matter as well as energy or anything else. 

e.   We may call all of the later (information, consciousness, intelligence, and life) energy but in different degrees of sophistication (dimensions).

f.      There is indeed no distinction between the fields and spacetime itself.

g.  The dimensions shown in the figure are relative. We should bear in mind that each of those individuals (energy, information, consciousness, intelligence, and life) may have different levels of existence and, those, the variety of their dimensions.

References: 

1.    Bohm, D. et al.: "The Undivided Universe," Routledge, London, 1993, p. 374-380.

2.    Talbot, M.: "The Holographic Universe," HarperPerennial, New York, 1992, p. 46-49

What is life? The Energy and Consciousness

Energy is widely used in our daily life and fundamentally termed in physics, and yet hardly anybody knows its true reality. It becomes more and more obvious that energy is the bedrock of all reality dethroning matter from its prestigious position. 

The materialistic idea, which is based on the premise that the world consisted of matters complying with locality and the deterministic laws, was no longer capable to sustain the radical development of modern physics.

Quantum mechanics reduces the concept of matter as a tangible and persistent thing into that of ephemeral stuff perpetually appears and disappears out of and into energy. The existence of matter is intermittent in which two successive existences are separated by a gap of non-existence.

As such, the state of incoming existence would become the successor of that of the previous existence if and only if there is a transfer of information from the previous to the later existence ^a). The information transfer across the gap of non-existence could only be carried out by the energy, the only medium presents in such non-existence (Figure-1).

The energy has, therefore, an inherent capability to register, store and process the information. In metaphysical term, we may refer such capability to what we recognize as awareness or consciousness. The higher the number of energy dimensions the higher the degree of consciousness would be ^b). The energy and consciousness are two different sides of the same coin.

The physics is barely capable to reveal the nature of energy as the peak of the multi-layered “iceberg”. The deeper realities underlie the energy are successively information, consciousness, and intelligence. The totality of those, the deepest reality of all, is the life itself in its grandest and absolute existence (Figure-2). 

Most scientists regard the existence of life, consciousness, and intelligence as an accidental evolutionary process which occurred merely by chance. On the contrary, the life, consciousness, and intelligence are the intrinsic aspects of the existence just as fundamental as the attributes of energy-matter and space-time, forming with them an interdependent process of ongoing creation that has resulted in our present universe ¹.

The future research of physics would certainly be able to cross the boundary of what is now recognized as the domain of metaphysics. The nature of the information which is another aspect of the energy is now about within the reach of physicists. Some of them are now doing research towards the development of the quantum computer. Later on, it is hoped that they would also be able to reveal the underlying reality of consciousness, intelligence and ultimately the life itself.

Notes:

a)   At the quantum level, the aforementioned information might be decoded as a [quantum] bit of the alternation of the creation and annihilation of fundamental particles forming a combination of 1 (creation) and 0 (annihilation) ^a). This could be the underlying dynamic mechanism on how the universe works like a gigantic digital computer. 

Every elementary particle, atom, molecule and all physical systems register bits of information. Every interaction between parts of the universe processes the information by altering those bits. They evolve in time by continuously transforming and processing the information that makes up the dynamical evolution of the universe ².

b)   We may subdivide the supra-universal consciousness into but not limited to four earthly distinct degrees of consciousness. The material kingdom corresponds to the lowest degree of consciousness or practically none (4D-energy), successively followed by floral (5D-energy?), faunal (6D-energy?) and human at the top which exclusively has the faculty to increase their degree of consciousness (from 7D up to 10D-energy?).

The Kingdoms of matter, flora, and fauna, each may have a lot of varieties of forms evolving from a very simple to the most sophisticated one, but cannot increase their degree of consciousness across and beyond the boundary of their own kingdom. The most sophisticated animal (6D), an ape for example, definitely cannot evolve to become a human being (7D or higher) albeit the resemblance of their physical body. 

Darwin regarded human as having an origin from an ancestor of ape-like to be placed in the same group with the existing great apes. For him, the man could no longer be regarded as having a special status in the Creation but was merely the representative of one among many Families of the order Primates in the class Mammalian ³.

And yet, the theory still misses the evidence linking the two kingdoms. There is, obviously, no such a missing link between the two as there is simply no link at all. 

References:

1.    Blomquist, R.:" Integrated Theory of Intelligence", http://www. supraconsciousness network.org / Download.htm

2.    Lloyd, S.: “Programming the Universe”, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006, p. xi.

3.    Darwin, C.:” On the Origin of Species”, A Mentor Book, New York, 1958