Cosmic- Quantum Contradiction
The same atoms that form the dazzling stars in the night sky, the same atoms that were manhandled by the quantum push and pull, the same atoms that conjure up the rivers, mountains, and forests; I am a beautiful amalgam of the cosmic brilliance that engulfs each and every subatomic nook and corner. How can I be anything different, anything less?
I have always considered our consciousness an emergent phenomenon. Something so bizarre that the whole is greater than the summation of its individual parts. We can ultimately be reduced to bare atoms and subatomic particles which operate on remarkably counterintuitive quantum whims and laws. Atoms do not have consciousness (or the human consciousness at least). But take the same atoms and conjure up an embryo and you get consciousness.
What is the minimum number of atoms that are required to produce consciousness? We will never know, but I know what I am physically made of and I am identical with everything present in the universe. The only thing that separates me from the stars or the inert atom is my ability to ponder upon my own existence. Maybe the atom ponders about its existence and its significance in the grand scale of things in its native quantum language. We are still taking baby steps in understanding the cosmos and the atom. We have stretched one arm towards the cosmos and another deep into the atom; and we lie in a state of quantum and cosmic oblivion.
What if we stop stretching our arms and just fold them around themselves? What if we start looking inside? The answers lie within. Understanding the universe means understanding yourself and vice versa. Deciphering the code of the cosmic rays is the same as deciphering the rhythms of action potentials. The universe is a huge neuron and the neuron consists of the entire universe.
How can I make this more scientifically amicable and make it sound less like a philosophical rant or intellectual masturbation?
Lord Shiva says the entire universe is a vibration.
Nikola Tesla says to think in terms of energy.
Energy and vibration are one and the same. Everything at the quantum level is in a constant state of vibration/activity. How is information created in the neurons? What creates thoughts, ideas? Everything comes down to the cosmic dance of the subatomic particles. The dance of the quantum realm creates thoughts. Information in neurons arises from patterns of electrochemical activity—oscillations, synchronizations, phase-locking rhythms.
Thoughts are created by vibration. The entire universe is in constant vibration so is it plausible to think that the universe is just a thought of a giant neuron?
What a tragedy it is to be self aware of my quantum-cosmic contradiction but not wise enough to answer it.
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