[My Favorite Headache]

This freaked the crap out of me. Discussion?? I can not wait to see the replies to this theory.

[ex-Texan]

I had to bookmark this and the best way is to reply right now. Will study this report later.

I have heard about his theory before and listened to scientists discuss this possibility. On on Free Republic do you find this type of high level out of the box thinking.

[Styria]

I heard that while each part of a hologram contains the whole image, each smaller piece you cut reduces the resolution.

[Rain-maker]

Good read for you physics nuts out there:

[Dominic Harr]

bump for re-reading.

[Robert_Paulson2]

The collective conscious or "unconscious" as some call it... God is closer than we can possibly imagine. And we are members of each other. Not so crazy really. Not so scary either.

Folks always want to be part of something bigger than themselves. Well, there you have it.

AS a concept, it may be more real than we can know.

[Swordmaker]

bump for later consideration

[StriperSniper]

Bump for later.

[js1138]

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 ...

This seems a bit less incredible if you consider the brain has perhaps 10 times that many neurons and a trillion or so connections between neurons.

Any statement about the brain that begins with "It has been estimated" needs careful checking. I don't think anyone could say exactly what this statement means.

[Consort]

The speed of light has nothing to do with anything important. Everything that moves has speed. Light is part of the electromegnetic spectrum which, in turn, is part of something else. It was very foolish to assume that light speed could not be surpassed. Records are made to be broken. Nothing is what it seems to be, especially on the cosmological level.

[DManA]

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.

I don't think this is correct. Mass can't accelerate to a speed faster than light but he says nothing about massless information.

[UCANSEE2]

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.

AND THE JEOPARDY QUESTION IS :What is it all about, the meaning of life, the universe, everything ?

[is_is]

So we are just a CD that God popped in his DVD player????

[MeekOneGOP]

Creation - Holographic Universe...An Open Discussion On Existing

Excerpt:

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 Encyclopaedia 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.

Our uncanny ability to quickly retrieve whatever information we need from the enormous store of our memories becomes more understandable if the brain functions according to holographic principles. If a friend asks you to tell him what comes to mind when he says the word "zebra", you do not have to clumsily sort back through ome gigantic and cerebral alphabetic file to arrive at an answer. Instead, associations like "striped", "horselike", and "animal native to Africa" all pop into your head instantly.

Indeed, one of the most amazing things about the human thinking process is that every piece of information seems instantly cross- correlated with every other piece of information--another feature intrinsic to the hologram. Because every portion of a hologram is infinitely interconnected with ever other portion, it is perhaps nature's supreme example of a cross-correlated system.

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Cogito ergo sum? ("I think therefore I am").
Interesting - long and bit over my head, but interesting. . .
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[Doctor Stochastic]

Aspect and his team 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.

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, ....

Not really. There is no communication between the particles when they are far apart. The wave function of the particles becomes entangled when they are close together. The particles don't need to communicate.

[MeekOneGOP]

This freaked the crap out of me. Discussion?? I can not wait to see the replies to this theory.

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I can't believe I read the whooolllllle thing. . . . .

[mvpel]

This text reminds me of Jewish mysticism in the Kabbalah from the middle-ages.

[CaptRon]

Whoa.

[medlarebil]

In 1982 a remarkable event took place. At the University of Paris a research team led by physicist Alain Aspect performed what may turn out to be one of the most important experiments of the 20th century. You did not hear about it on the evening news. In fact, unless you are in the habit of reading scientific journals you probably have never even heard Aspect's name, though there are some who believe his discovery may change the face of science. I have read about this phenomenon several times over the past few years and I know it was reported in The Washington Post. You have to look for science news, though.

[Physicist]

Aspect and his team discovered that under certain circumstances subatomic particles such as electrons are able to instantaneously communicate with each other regardless of the distance separating them.

The article is already so far wrong at this point, I didn't bother reading further.

[tom paine 2]

Bump for further reading. Fascinating. Maybe we are puppets being manipulated by some netherworld beings totally invisible to us.