CONSCIOUSNESS: Quantum Theory- Nick Herbert "Consciousness & Quantum Reality"

Uploaded by ThinkingAllowedTV on Jan 5, 2011

NOTE: This is an excerpt from a 30-minute DVD.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2nherbert.html

The mysteries of sub-atomic physics offer us startling new perspectives on the human mind. Physicist Nick Herbert, Ph.D., author of Quantum Reality, points out that no matter how one interprets the equations of quantum physics the results lead to amazing and paradoxical concepts. Perhaps that time runs backwards as well as forward. Perhaps multiple independent universes are created each second.

Herbert studied Engineering Physics at the Ohio State University, graduating in 1959. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 1967 for work on nuclear scattering experiments. After a one year teaching job at Monmouth College in Illinois, Herbert held a number of posts in industry. 

The most illustrious of these was senior physicist at Memorex Corporation in Santa Clara, California, where he developed new magnetic materials, as well as magnetic, electrostatic and optical measuring devices, and carried out theoretical work on Lorentz microscopy. He was also senior physicist at Smith-Corona Marchant Corporation in Palo Alto, California where he developed a new theory of xerographic process and worked on early developments in ink jet printing.

While employed in industry, Herbert was part of the Fundamental Fysiks Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, founded in May 1975 by Elizabeth Rauscher and George Weissmann. The group's initial interest was in the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the EPR paradox, and Bell's inequality, but members pursued diverse interests that lay outside of mainstream physics, exploring psychedelic drugs, psi phenomena, the nature of consciousness, and speculative connections of these areas with quantum physics. 

During the 1970s and 1980s, Herbert and Saul-Paul Sirag organized a yearly Esalen Seminar on the Nature of Reality, bringing together participants to discuss the interpretation of quantum mechanics. With Richard Shoup of Xerox PARC, Herbert constructed a "Metaphase Typewriter", a "quantum operated" device whose purpose was "to communicate with disembodied spirits".

 Despite many tests, including an attempt to contact the spirit of Harry Houdini on the hundredth anniversary of his birth, the group reported no success with the device.

Herbert supports a holistic interpretation of quantum physics. He has argued for "quantum animism" in which mind permeates the world at every level. Werner Krieglstein wrote regarding his quantum animism:

"Herbert's quantum animism differs from traditional animism in that it avoids assuming a dualistic model of mind and matter. Traditional dualism assumes that some kind of spirit inhabitats a body and makes it move, a ghost in the machine. Herbert's quantum animism presents the idea that every natural system has an inner life, a conscious center, from which it directs and observes its action."

In 1981, Herbert proposed FLASH, a scheme for sending signals faster than the speed of light using quantum entanglement. 

Of this proposal, quantum computing pioneer Asher Peres wrote:

"I was the referee who approved the publication of Nick Herbert’s FLASH paper, knowing perfectly well that it was wrong. I explain why my decision was the correct one, and I briefly review the progress to which it led." 

Chief among the results that Peres claimed stemmed from a refutation of Herbert's proposal was the no-cloning theorem, proved by Wootters, Zurek, and Dieks

DEISM: Deist Reality- "Deism is D for Deism"

Uploaded by DeistReality on Jan 6, 2011

Its all semantics and until the "active" Atheist understands what the true meaning of the title is that they give themselves, they'll never understand God,or the God concept.

The active Atheist like the pure Deist knows that we come from Something but for some reason the "active" Atheist just can't give that Something the title of God. God is a word/title/name that can be synonymous with other words like Nature,Life,or the Universe. Is God the creator of these things,or is God these things, is just ones faith on the matter. 

This video shows that the "active" Atheist will even compromise their very own reasoning skills to teach man that God (Nature,Life,the Universe) is not real.

Recognition is the first step to understanding. I hope that this video doesn't seem too mean spirited. Know that Deism is my religion so when you call my religion dumb my ego gets a little browsed.

Sorry its been so long doing a video but my "I am the Christ Prophet" video set me back a little with family members who like to think of only certain spacial people having powers of personal revelations from this Eternal Life Force that man rightly calls God.

Happy New Year to all my Deist brothers and sisters. This means everyone because until someone tells me that they're an Adeist I'll assume that all of us believe in a God.

#1 "THE only idea man can affix to the name of God, is that of a first cause, the cause of all things. And, incomprehensibly difficult as it is for a man to conceive what a first cause is, he arrives at the belief of it, from the tenfold greater difficulty of disdisbelieving it. It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time.In like manner of reasoning, everything we behold carries in itself the internal evidence that it did not make itself. Every man is an evidence to himself, that he did not make himself; neither could his father make himself, nor his grandfather, nor any of his race; neither could any tree, plant, or animal make itself; and it is the conviction arising from this evidence, that carries us on, as it were, by necessity, to the belief of a first cause eternally existing, of a nature totally different to any material existence we know of, and by the power of which all things exist; and this first cause, man calls God."   Thomas Paine

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