Singulation is a philosophical and scientific construct for a quantum mechanical process, how a wave becomes a particle and a particle becomes a wave: the collapse of the wave function. Schrodinger's explanation is that by measurement the wave 'collapses' into a measurable particle, or non-wave function. This collapse also sets the directional arrow of time, in fact making the particle and the wave itself, multidimensional. This collapse, which happens at Planck's constant, repeats over and over again at the quanta level, for each quanta.
Singulation then is in itself a collapsing process where consciousness is the measuring 'device'.
This created reality is a complete and unified continuum from finite to infinity, and uses concepts from classical physics to quantum mechanical theories. The continuum ranges from the microscopic to macroscopic.
(This part is 'in progress' - That singulation is directly related to the Big Bang theory of singularity - in that the universe had a 'point', a singularity, that birthed our cosmos. Singuation takes this 'point' up and continues it, repeats it, expands it, and make it a more continuous process that functions to create reality within an abstracted time frame.
This process has elements of and is related to:
2nd Law of Themodynamics
Platonic Forms
August 2006 -
Reading Mathematics and the Good - Alfred North Whitehead
(Still thinking that the bridge between the real and the not-observable is Math...)
This essay is excellent! Whitehead reminds us that Plato also (besides me ;-) "throughout his life, maintained his sense of the importance of mathematical thought in relation to the search for the ideal."
"Human intelligence can conceive of a type of things in abstraction from exemplification. The most obvious disclosures of this characteristic of humanity are mathematical concepts and ideals of the Good-ideals which stretch beyond any immediate realization."
"The finite essentially refers to an unbounded background. We have now arrived at the converse doctrine, namely, that infinitude in itself is meaningless and valueless. All value is the gift of finitude which is the necessary condition for activity. Also activity means the origination of patterns of assemblage, and mathematics is the study of pattern. Here we find the essential clue which relates to the study of the good, and the study of the bad."
From Paradigms Regained: A further exploration of the mysteries of modern science, by John L. Casti 2000, William Morrow.
p.226 -
"This artificial division of a physical system in a quantum subject and a classical observer has always been the most unsatifactory aspect of the conventional quantum-mechanical wisdom. It is what gave rise to von Neumann and Wigner's attribution of the role of human consciousness as the agent of the wave functions collapse. And it is also the source of Bohr's complementarity principle, by which an object can display wavelike or particlelike behavior..."
p. 227 -
"Decoherence is directly tied to the fact that classical systems are 'large'. The degree of classical behavior that a system displays is completely determined by the size of the system, relative, say, to the size of a completely quantum object like an electron. If the size is large, then the system will work and behave like a Newtonian system, a billiard ball or bullet. But if the system is small, then we can expect quantum interference to enter in an important way into its behavior."
See, I was right!! (see table of large to small, classical to quantum, from Saturday May 13th post on this blog.
I need a physicist! It would have saved me some precious time...or, I guess, it's best to figure this stuff out for myself...:-)
5/30/06
OMG - Is life being created, the act of living cells reproducing, an act/process of singulation? Could everything be put on a timeline with the outward parameters like on the table (of a few posts ago)?
Micro/atoms/molecules/cells/fertilization/synchonicity/sound/larger stuff/a chair/trees/man/the cosmos
So Dr. Leonard Susskind is sorta (!) a bigwig on the theoretical physics scene -
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/susskind.html
and a group of us went to hear his talk/lecture/book promotion at the Randall Museum the other night....sigh...here are my thoughts, but, she shakes her head back and forth, I left with some serious doubts....
What's really going on in science and intelligent design, particularly in physics? According to Susskind, a divided encampment is in place and continues to emerge - The A's vs. the M's. The A's are the Anthropic types =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
and the M's are the Math folks.
he then proceeded to explain the issues at hand, so to speak - Why are we here? Why do we exist, and how the two camps are divided in their responses, yada yada...BUT, he used just about every abstract word and concept I could imagine (w-bosons, garks, clucks (no, no clucks, but it was almost as fantasmigorical :-)) and he didn't present any math (not that ANYONE of us in that hall would have understood any of it - I mean really, I'm being generous to say that all the math that goes into figuring out all this physics stuff is ONLY understood and talked about by less than 10 white guys in the whole world!!!)
Susskind talked about the cosmological constant, which (I think) is an anti-gravity repulsive force that increases with distance. The cosmological constant is called dark energy. The CC is very small, at least a 100 spaces of zero.
He also discussed String Theory. I wrote down it has 9 dimentions total, 6 of which are extra space.
He also discussed cy's - which must be figured out mathematically from about 32 light years away - another great example of how something is put out of the reaches of 99% of us...He could have stood up there and 'said' anything!
Infinity is motion or movement. How can one 'go' (even in a mathmatical sense!)from 0 to infinity without movement or motion? (Talking here about mapping to the imaginary plane...) =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_number
and =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary_unit
and of course this relationship to quantum mathematics =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mechanics#Mathematical_formulation
What are the constraints of the 3rd dimension? Or, differently worded; what are the limits? Is time one of them?
Is time a a by-product of singulation or an ingredient? (in my original formulation, it was an ingredient, now I'm not so sure). As in when consciousness (the observer) and atoms come together, reality/form/matter is made, and then does time begin? We view time as moving, ala is is then already a part of this dimension or is it made/generated during the singulation process?
Math is the language of concepts. Proofs are required....necessary and sufficient within the logical system, of course related to philosophy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_Mathematics_Comes_From
Dick asked me to explain the 'do' of singulation - What does singulation do?
My head hurts and I feel dizzy - just like I did on Saturday - more later...:-)
So the 'big bang' theory ala not just a singularity, a process of singulation - that the universe was created in an 'instant'/singularity- why could it not be the macro of the same thing that happens as micro level, in which reality is created/singulation?
| MICRO | MACRO |
| Dynamic infrastructure
| Newton's Laws
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| Atomic level - elements, atoms
| Complex entities - humans, tables, trees
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| Faster
| Slower
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| Probability math
| Unified theory
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| Quantum mechanics
| Einstein
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| Time speeds up?
| Gravity
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Is force a by-product of the move towards macro? Do only heavy/big things have/are effected by gravity? Is force an intrinsic by-product of singulation?
One the micro level we see forces instead of objects.
I started crying in class the other day, during Ric's lecture on Whitehead, Hillman, Jung, and Griffen. He showed me (well, not just me of course) that I'm on the right track -
process psych transpersonal psych physicsphilosophy experience math
These aren't exact quotes, but -
Archetypes have transcendent qualities because we can decide how things can become/undone - we decide to 'hold' the dualism, the range, seeing and living the range, because we HAVE to, as in Jung's case.
He said about S Grof - that we have mostly only experiences in the past - childhood memories, consciousness through another consciousness, like I have been a rock - may be drug induced, may be altered state - "rock consciousness" - but the 'in the past' part is key - and I wanted to say of course! That's because it - that consciousness, that totally subjective reality/consciousness, can only mostly be (probability/math can show what the probabilities are) in the past, because singulation has not yet created that reality.
Whitehead could be viewed as theoretical physics - esp. 'pure possibilities" and the contrabutation to actualites....
What a great book!
p. 178 - "When we also consider that the universe has been evoling since the big bang via the exchange of quanta in and between fields, the fact of non-locality has always been a feature of this process leads to other, more formidable conclusions. Since all quanta have interacted with one another in a single quantum state and since there is no limit to the number of particles that could interact in a single quantum state, the universe on a very basic level could be a 'single' quantum system that responds together for further interactions."
The big bang was a 'single' singularity. At that point and after, the quantum system became available for singulation, meaning that through consciousness via observation/measurement, the one became many, as the singulation process repeats that one aspect many times over, throughout the unified whole - through a faster-than-light communication of non-locality.
"In the actual-events ontology, proposed by Werner Heisenberg, the fundamental process of nature is viewed of a sequence of discrete actual events." Yes! The quantum potentia plus human consciousness/observation.
I'm working on this now:
classical view >singualtion<>singulation< classical view
Which one? As in the books view..."Although he (Stapp) conceded that Bohr's CI must be invoked to understand quantum mechanical events that are not observed, or that occur 'outside' the human brain, he claimed that the wave function collapses into single high-level classical branches, rather than lower-level states, 'within' the human brain."
YES!
This goes back to my question - is human consciousness an ontology?
My issue with this book is the insistance on theory being subjectable to "verification via controlled and repeatable experiments." Consciousness is NOT verifiable and results in "ambiguity" as it must. But then again, what is math anyway? An abstract system of theoritical representations by numbers - not unlike consciousness. The book refers to Penrose's arguement - 'They (microtubules) could collapse the wave function, and this could result in the non-computability that, according to Penrose, is necessary for human consciousness."
Yes!
More later...
This book is fantastic! Reading it cover to cover - now on Chapter 9, and today on BART I was so intently reading I took the wrong train - yikes! Lucky for me I didn't get to far along before I took my head out of the book and saw that I wasn't where I was supposed to be...
I almost felt sick while reading Chapter 9 - it's sooooo right! I feel like I'm in this strange channeling space intellectually - I have never had an interest or understanding of physics before, or metaphysics -but since the singulation insight (or whatever else to call it), I'm readinng like crazy to help make literal sense of what I already feel like I KNOW - maybe it's just that psychological things where when you intellectually process things in your mind you only retain or process the items that fit in with your schema - I'm not sure what the term is - it almost feels like some kind of channeling activity intellectually. Weird.
So I cont. to read everything I can get my hands on in physics, metaphysics and philosophy - - to fill in and compare/contrast what I know in my head that's right with the singulation process - and then today I felt almost sick to my stomach, because I was understanding Chapter 9 very deeply, it was resonating with what I
know already - it's amost like I know what I know but I need other knowledge to help delineate it and jell it - again, very strange feelings, almost like an altered state of consciousness...
The Fabric of the Cosmos - sections on Einstein and Quantum Mechanics and the Heisenberg and Uncertainty part...
OK, so Niels Bohr disagreed with Einstein. Einstein felt the usage of probability in the wave/particle location reflected an inaccurate view of what 'really' makes up reality, via use of an abstract mathematical sequence. Quoting Greene, "So, Einstein asked, doesn't that mean that the probability wave is merely a stand-in for a more precise description - one yet to be discovered - that would predict the electron's position with certainty?" So Bohr retorts that one doesn't have to be certain where it is before it singulates...it's just floating around, maybe here, maybe there. Greene again - "The probability wave encodes the likelihood that the electron, when examined suitably (insert the word SINGULATES here)will be found here or there, and that truly is all that can be said aboutr its position.
So - I say, why can't it be that both Enstein and Bohr are right? They are not so opposite to me - the electron is close, approximately, (Einstein) then by measuring/observing the thing singulates, and then we know the almost-where of the probability wave (Bohr)?
Greene one more time - "In this view, when we measure the electron's position we are not measuring an objective, preexisting feature of reality. Rather, the act of measurement (insert word singulation here) is deeply enmeshed in creating the very reality it is measuring."
Bohr came up with using gravity and it's effect on time to throw aside another of Einstein's challenges, but inho, the time factor (along with gravity) shouldn't interfere with placing the electron is a close relationship to where it's going to become reality. Time switches the observation/measurement to singulation. It 'fixes' the change - matter and consciousness 'set' the time arrow - becoming the past present future time arrow as we experience it. Gravity can pull the hell of time, and it doesn't matter until consciousness gets involved. The electron is the micro level, consciousness is the macro level, of the same thing.
So, where does the speed/location part of Heisenberg come into this?
Well, maybe not CRAZY, just nuts!
OK - so here's the rest of the singulation process - it's pretty much done.
1. Reality as ambiguious space (can be multidimentional space) no movement
2. Classical physics (unidirectional)
Matter comes together with time via observation = Singulation happens!
3. Our reality = normal perception allows for 3 dimensional experience
Arrow of time past ......present......future = as we perceive it in the role of observer
(This is why we can't see into the past, because singulation has happened, so singulation = absolute spacetime
That's why we can't see into the future because singulation HASN'T happened yet.
OK - I don't really need to "deal" with the motion part -
For singulation to happen you only need energy or consciousness and time. I think all the other reading I'm doing is confuzing me!
"In the classical mechanics a given object is either a particle or a wave." In quantum mechanics, the emphasis is on the "primacy of measurement", and for me, in the act of observing, we singulate the behavior or properties to become one or another of these properties.
From another SI article speaking about Time - "It arises when theorists try to turn Einstein's general theory of relativity into a quantum theory using a procedure called canonical quantization. The procedure worked brilliantly when applied to the theory of electromagnetism, but in the case of relativity, it produces an equation - the Wheeler-DeWitt equation - without a time variable. Taken literally, the equation indicates that the universe should be frozen in time, never changing."
Well, the process od singulation changes that. Every time energy changes from the wave to the particle or from the particle to the wave, upon observervation, for that attosecond, time stops. Time freezes. Just for that process to happen, and then things resume, under whatever forces or principle the thing now belongs to, or adheres by.
OK - now I need a friendly physicist to write me an equation, so I can test this idea. Any volunteers?
Here's the Wikipedia thing on the Wheeler-De-Witt equation -
In theoretical physics, the Wheeler-DeWitt equation is an equation that a wave function of the Universe should satisfy in a theory of quantum gravity. An example of such a wave function is the Hartle-Hawking state.Simply speaking, the WDW equation says H |\psi\rangle = 0where H is the total Hamiltonian constraint in quantized general relativity.In general the Hamiltonian vanishes for a theory with time scaling invariance.There is also a diffeomorphism constraint.10/16/05 from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler-DeWitt_equationI really haven't a clue what all that means - I'm needing some help here!
