Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm

Essays by Alan T. Williams

Part I:  Sneaking Up On Einstein

The search for the fundamental constituents of matter continues,
and the search for irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy has only just begun.
- A. T. Williams

Chapter 1

Section 2:  A Novel Concept

In the early 1970's, the original holographic paradigm articulated the novel concept that the organic human brain functions as a real time interactive hologram which perceives and participates in a holographic universe.2 Based on a mixture of physics, optical hologram theory, and experimental evidence each organic human brain seemed to function by synergistically processing real time holographic information received from the cosmic space-time hologram that constitutes our finite, sub-light-speed (subluminal) material universe.

The 1970's paradigm was the result of the combined hypotheses and conjectures of Karl Pribram and David Bohm,3 among others, which were nominally based on the holographic method discovered in 1947 by Dennis Gabor, recipient of the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Most early efforts to construct a viable holographic paradigm were directed toward unifying the accumulated body of Pribram's objective experimental results and the subjective realm of conscious human experience. It is not surprising, therefore, that the effort to unify physical science, organic brain physiology, and human conscious experience eventually reached an impasse. On the other hand, experiments performed by Paul Pietsch did advance his "hologramic" model of the organic ^mind/_brain complex.4

Interestingly, the early theory of real time holonomic brain processes interacting with a holographic universe as proposed by Pribram and Bohm, et al., was much too narrow. Furthermore, the holonomic brain theory of Pribram and Bohm is essentially a quantum theory while the holographic principle of Leonard Susskind and Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft is a quantum gravity theory. Thus the holographic theories of Pribram and Bohm as well as Susskind and 't Hooft advance quantum physics rather than advancing Dennis Gabor's optical holography discovery.

In a hierarchical sense, three dimensional (3-D) optical holography images that remain unchanged in space through time are created as and reconstructed from very low order static holograms. Four dimensional (4-D) holographic (holonomic) 5 image events that exhibit periodic movement in space through time are created as and reconstructed from higher order energetic holograms that include the time dimension. Therefore a reconstructed, conditionally relative sequential series of periodic, synergistic, holonomic image events will exhibit energetic four dimensional (4-D) activity of some duration determined by the parameters of the original stored (parent) hologram.

The comprehensive physics of The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP, pronounced "teep") model of physical reality just-as-it-is described in these essays extend far beyond the limits of the organic human brain, subjective human consciousness, and our finite open (nonconservative) material universe (as outlined in 'The comprehensive primordial energy hologram' section below).

Independent autonomous holonomic minds exist on many levels of conditionally relative nonmaterial existence. Moreover, the organic human brain simply hosts rather than creates an autonomous nonmaterial holonomic mind. Thus the organic human brain and the autonomous holonomic mind it hosts communicate through interactive subquantum energy interfaces which link the material and nonmaterial domains of physical reality just-as-it-is.

On the TEHP model of physical reality, each conditionally relative original (stored, parent) hologram and each periodic, reconstructed material or nonmaterial holonomic image event is ultimately contained within a single all-inclusive, conditionally relative hologram that is wholly encompassed by and emerges reciprocally within uncreated, unconditioned, irreducible nonmaterial primordial energy. In other words, unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy is the fundamental, irreducible ground of being within which – without exception – all conditionally relative nonmaterial and material phenomena manifest.

The comprehensive primordial energy hologram:

1. Unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy per se is the fundamental, irreducible ground of being within which – without exception – all conditionally relative material and nonmaterial phenomena manifest.
2. In principle the unconditioned and conditionally relative primordial energy of holonomic physical reality just-as-it-is is entirely objective.
3. In accordance with the universal principle of energy the fundamental physical and holonomic principles of The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) describe a comprehensive, all-inclusive physical model of energetic ultimate reality just-as-it-is.
4. A 180 degree phase shift (a reciprocal inversion) acts as an irreversible phenomenal barrier between the unconditioned nonmaterial primordial ground of being and the conditionally relative emergence of the many within uncreated, unconditioned, nonmaterial primordial energy.
5. There is an additional 180 degree phase shift (a reciprocal inversion) between each generated or stored hologram and its reciprocally reconstructed holonomic progeny.
   1. In an energetic, multilevel holonomic hierarchy each reciprocally reconstructed (inverted) holonomic scene or venue is produced from a parent hologram generated or stored on the preceding transcendent level of holonomic activity. Each holonomic child, in turn, may become the parent of one or more new holograms.
6. As the conditionally relative hierarchical depth or level of generated or stored holograms increases, the complexity of the reciprocally reconstructed holonomic scene or venue also increases.
7. Embedded within the encompassing, reciprocally emergent, holonomic space-time continuum, our compound ^{closed (conservative) nonmaterial}/_{open (nonconservative) material} universe is a sequential series of periodic, synergistic, multidimensional holonomic image events that are reciprocally reconstructed from a transcendent, nonmaterial parent hologram which is generated or stored on an undetermined level of reciprocally emergent conditional relativity within the fundamental, irreducible, unconditioned primordial energy of physical reality just-as-it-is.
   1. Nonmaterial and material holonomic manifestations immersed in the reconstructed, reciprocally emergent scene or venue of our ^nonmaterial/_material universe interact with the transcendent parent hologram via the ^hyperenergy/_{hyperinformation} interfaces of the subquantum energy bridge.
   2. Each all-inclusive present moment in our holonomic material universe – our energetic, compound ^{closed (conservative) nonmaterial}/_{open (nonconservative) material} system – has at least eight physically real space-time dimensions:
      1. The conditionally relative nonmaterial parent or stored hologram of our ^nonmaterial/_material universe implies at least three transcendent space dimensions and one transcendent time dimension (4-D) within each all-inclusive present moment.
      2. The reciprocally reconstructed holonomic scene or venue of our ^nonmaterial/_material universe implies at least three reciprocally emergent space dimensions and one reciprocally emergent time dimension (4-D) within each all-inclusive present moment.
      3. Therefore the all-inclusive, conditionally relative present moment within our compound ^{closed (conservative) nonmaterial}/_{open (nonconservative) material} space-time system seems to be comprised of at least three transcendent and three reciprocally emergent space dimensions, plus one transcendent and one reciprocally emergent time dimension (8-D).
8. Omnipresent, fundamental, nonmaterial hyperenergy and hyperinformation are entirely independent of matter and exist in the absence of matter.
9. Particulate matter per se is comprised of discrete, organized aggregations of conditionally relative nonmaterial energy and cannot exist in the absence of fundamental, irreducible, nonmaterial primordial energy.
10. The fundamental, conditionally relative nonmaterial continuum of phenomenal consciousness is entirely objective.
    1. Autonomous nonmaterial holonomic minds independently emerge reciprocally within uncreated, unconditioned, irreducible primordial energy.
    2. Each functioning organic human brain hosts an autonomous nonmaterial holonomic mind.
    3. Personal experience is entirely subjective on the nonmaterial as well as the material plane of existence.
    4. The weak objective energies of an autonomous nonmaterial holonomic mind contribute to the conditionally relative continuum of phenomenal consciousness only in the holonomic venues within which it participates.
11. The historic lack of scientific evidence implies not only that the energy of consciousness may be orders of magnitude weaker than gravity, but also that the signal-to-noise ratio of the objective, energetic events of consciousness is extremely low.

Continued in Chapter 1, Section 3:  Fundamental Forces

Reference Notes (Click on the Note number to return to the text):

2  Wilbur, Ken, editor. The Holographic Paradigm and Other Paradoxes: Exploring the Leading Edge of Science, Shambhala, 1982, pp. 2-3. Reissued 1995.  ISBN 0-877-73238-8

3  Ibid. (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holonomic_brain_theory)

4  Pietsch, Paul. Shufflebrain, Chapter 1, Footnote 1, 1999.

5  Holonomic:  Having the characteristics of a periodic, energetic hologram.

The term "holonomic" was introduced by George Leonard to refer to entities "in the nature of a hologram,"
Ref. 2, p. 153, footnote 1.
(cf. G. Leonard, The Silent Pulse, Dutton, New York, 1978.)

In these essays and The Energetic Holographic Paradigm (TEHP) model of physical reality just-as-it-is the term 'holonomic' refers to the energetic multidimensional, multidomain, conditionally relative periodic image events that emerge reciprocally within the irreducible ground of uncreated, unconditioned nonmaterial primordial energy per se.

Back to Chapter 1, Section 1:  The Subquantum Energy Bridge

Index:  Consciousness, Physics, and the Holographic Paradigm

Last Edit:  January 6, 2007.

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