Why do we read the Bible literally?

When people read books from the past they need to understand how to read it. When we say tell me what happened today? We use facts, fact, facts. But this is not how people talked 2,000 or more years ago. Stories and histories were not told this way and so when people today read the Bible or Koran or such and read it literally without understanding history, context or the culture then of course you will not really get it at all. No owner there are so many misunderstandings. 

What does existence mean?

Well you can't have a choice without a consciousness and memory. Having a memory is very important, otherwise what is your choice based on without information? How is information stored? In various types of memory. Memory surprisingly goes very deep into the fundamentals of nature. How can you make a conscious choice about your memory without consciousness?

So, free will is basically a conscious informed choice. A result of consciousness and memory (which supplies information however little that information is).

However there is cellular memory, but does it have consciousness? Probably not.

Bacteria has memory, does it have consciousness? Probably not full consciousness. 

Do plants have memory or consciousness? I think they have memory to an extent too, but not full consciousness. 

Do particles have memory, and what about consciousness? I think particle have a certain level again of memory possibly, but not full consciousness. 

Can a quantum computer have consciousness? and if so then can't the universe? This is the tricky one. 


Further what does it mean to exist? I exist because I'm conscious to observe it and experience it. Without consciousness I would have no experience and no observations and so would I exist? Would a tree exist if it had no consciousness to experience or observation of it?

I know you can simply say of course it exists because it is there regardless of whether I'm there or not. But does it really?  If it has no experience of itself then how can it exist? and if it does exist, then what type of existence is it? An unconscious existence? But it certainly has some form of memory. It passes on information to duplicate itself. So information is passed on seemingly whether consciousness is there or not. 

So is energy informed? 


Perhaps energy is not conscious, but it is always informed? Information would have to be retained somehow.

Consciousness and what it all means

 

The real question for me would be how does consciousness exist anyway, and I don't mean just evolutionary explanations...but if the universe and nature in itself is not conscious, then we can see and understand nature yet nature can't do this itself...that just seems strange. Are we somehow superior then to nature and how did consciousness come from something that wasn't conscious? And if the past/present/future are all one and physically, scientifically, everything is one...then wouldn't consciousness be one with it all?

What is a conscious, Informed Choice?

Everything that moves is making a choice. Not an informed or conscious choice, but a choice. It is either going down path A or path B. A quantum computer is theorized to make these choices. However a regular computer might crash if there is nothing distinguishing path A from path B. It would be in a forever state of indecision.

Everything with consciousness and memory is making a conscious informed choice.

A bacteria is also making a choice, though not a conscious choice, but it is making an informed choice because it has memory! If something has memory then it has at least a tiny bit of information!!

Animals have a consciousness and so we too are making a choice, but not just an informed choice...a conscious informed choice.

So then the next question for me is information.

What has information and how is it retained?

We see cellular memory, bacterial memory.

Do particles have memory? Does the universe have memory? is it like the Ram and Hard Drive of a theorized quantum computer? 

Memory, Conformity and Nature

It seems to me that memory/conformity are the most interesting.  Are they fundamental in all things...living and non-living things?

 If we look at the bacteria we see memory directs its ordered movements from its previous random state. What directed its order? an attractant. This is an attractant because it means it can survive. So it goes from random to ordered movements because of an attractant that means its own survival. It is not conscious, but it has a memory enough so to give it direction/order.

If we look at this and see if we can find something like this in non-living things, we will find energy acts very randomly and chaotically in the beginning states, but when energy finds an "attractant" a way to survive, this seems to pull it from random to non random and ordered direction. From simple to complex, from lower energy levels to higher energy levels, from random to non random. 

Perhaps for Virtual Particle (energy) that attractant is Gravity (Space-Time).


Everything seems to conform to survive with a few exceptions of that which doesn't conform but does survive. For example, the heart when placed next to another heart will conform to the beat. Women's periods synchronize.

Even if you look at virtual particles, the majority that "pop from 'nothing' " are going to be whatever was there to begin with? If there is a quark, then most of the virtual particles popping into the empty space of the quark would be virtual quarks. Some might be virtual gluons or virtual photons, but the majority will conform and so the quark will stay a quark. 

(We consciously decide to conform and synchronize mostly for survival, but it seems like non living aspects of nature does this as well).

And so how is everything conforming? It must be able to identify itself and to do that it must has some form of communication or memory/rulebook? 

Oddities of scientific discovery

It is strange to me that the first mysteries we uncovered were of cosmological evolution (farthest in time and space) and then biological evolution (Darwin)and then cosmological origins (Kruass) and then not yet even biological origins. Lastly, we are uncovering conscious evolution (Hameroff?) and conscious origins (closest to us in time and space). Seems it should be the other way around. That is odd to me.

Nature and the Brain

We have seven sure intelligences according to Gardner. Mathematical, Spacial, Kinesthetic, Musical, Linguistic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal.

SO, it is interesting we can find all those SKILLS in nature as well.

Our brain came from nature, so it is a reflection of nature. It should be able to give us clues into what nature is.

Our brains are wired to perceived random and non random processes. It is not that one side is creative and the other is logical. Both side can be either. The difference is in how they approach the problems and perceiver the world.

We also know nature is both random and non random. We can see in genetics and in mathematics, in biology, and in physics that nature has random aspects but also non-random aspects too.

Nature is also very mathematical! Is this a coincidence? Of course not. Our brains came from nature so of course our brain would be perceiving nature.

Let us look at the seven main intelligences.

Nature is mathematical. Our brains are wired for maths. Nature has space and dimension. Our brains are wired for spacial intelligence. Nature has sounds and our brains our wired for music/sound and patterns. Nature moves and our brains our wired Kinesthetically.

When we look at a particle spinning beautifully it has a kind of kinesthetic intelligence. When we see a dancer circle beautifully she exemplifies this same ability. Particles are also always moving. Movement is essential for nature to function.

When we look at how the universe is arranged we can sum it up mathematically and then we also have people who are mathematically gifted.

When we look at nature we see a universe of space and dimensions and everything around us occupies space and dimension and there are people who are very specially inclined and who can visualize spaces inside their mind perfectly.

When we look at nature we can hear sounds permeating from objects hitting each other or from the friction of something or spin of something and there are also people who are musically inclined to hear patterns of sounds well.

Is it any wonder that our human intelligence also posses these qualities?

What about linguistic, interpersonal and interpersonal qualities of nature?

We can see linguistics on a fundamental level in nature too when we look at the communication of bacteria or when we put a heartbeat next to another heartbeat and they conform to each other or how we have a quark and the majority of virtual particles that pop in are quarks (though some might be photons or gluons). There seems to be a communication on a fundamental level.

While humans use language, we can see all of nature has a basic form of communication from physics to genetics and chemistry.

We can see interpersonal skills in nature when we look at physics and particles having to interact with fields and when we look into genetics and see how the interactions have to interact with each other. Nature does have many inter-relationships on a fundamental level.

Humans have relationships with the outside world, and nature fundamentally has interactions with other parts of nature all the time.

Even with interpersonal skills we see in nature that genes duplicate themselves and even with virtual particles, because the majority of virtual particles pop in according to whatever is there -it seems it conforms-- there is a kind of duplication there as well.

While humans might have a good interaction with themselves, nature also fundamentally keeps a good relationship with itself by duplicating itself.


So, I just thought these correlations were interesting and wanted to share them.