New Book “Phantom Horizons: Chuang Tzu Plays Solitaire”
This book is about the difference between what is real vs. illusory. It consists of two components. The first is a series of fables that
Simultaneity and Times Illusion
We now understand as one thing what was once believed to be separate phenomena. I am, of course, talking of Space-time. It was Relativity theory
Measurements and Reality
It’s perplexing to me how physicists speak about measurements and consciousness as if they are separate and distinct things when they are not. Ontologically speaking
Quantum Fields and Reality
The great and irreconcilable chasm between our experience of reality and Reality itself can be described by the verb ‘manifest, i.e., to appear. Conscious being
Memory and the Future
Much is made in Physics about the fact that time does not have a direction. Physics and its equations appear to describe an accurate representation
Hidden Variables
Einstein’s famous quote, “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a persistent one.”, contains within it the key to the very thing he and his collaborators
Introduction to “Gita: Between the Unknowable and the Unreal”
There is a saying, “It is easier to put on slippers than to carpet the world.” In essence it is telling us that rather than
What Does TotIs Reality ‘Look’ Like?
In this blog I’ve spent a lot of time exploring the attributes of antIs reality and the underlying bio-sensory process that makes it so nearly
Are We Living In A Simulation?
Professor Brian Greene was recently featured in a Huffington Post video piece titled “Are We Living In a Simulation?” It is a most interesting piece,
Does God Play Dice?
To us observers, the universe is a place of random activity and outcomes. Regardless of our seeming ability, from our vantage point, to manipulate our
Wherefore Consciousness
Dictionary.com defines consciousness as: The state of being conscious; knowledge of one’s own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. And thus it goes, from
Unbound Perspective
We experience space utilizing the same process that our bio-sensory system uses to create all of our experiences of reality. In that experience we are
16mm Reality, the Movie
We seem to be able to view, with complete detachment, the comings and goings, through space time, of matter and energy in the universe, no
Here and Now or Where and When
With the advent of Relativity theory and the integration of what was once considered two separate things, space and time, into a single and connected
The Observer and the Knower
How is it that we know anything at all about the world? What is the nature of this knowledge? We have learned and discovered things
Reality Beyond Observation
Since antIs reality was defined in the book TotIs, a number of words have been utilized to describe its nature. They are; interpretation, fabrication, creation,
The Bell’s Un-equality: How Anthropocentrism Occludes the Nature of Space-Time and Reality
In the book TotIs, I used a metaphor of bread making to show how the biologically produced antis experience of reality is of a separate
Bell’s Inequality and the free-will loophole
Physicist Alain Aspect, PhD, is an expert in the Einstein Podolski Rosen Experiment (EPR), and his work on verifying, through his own experiments, the breaching
Bio-Clocks and the antIs experience of times arrow
A reminder: All of the posts in this blog are written for readers who have already read TotIs, where the concepts of TotIs and AntIs
Wave-Particle Illusion
No matter how convincing the proof that our antIs experience of reality is a manufactured and inaccurate proxy for actual reality, it is just plain
Einstein’s “Spooky Action at a Distance” and totIs reality
Albert Einstein, though a central figure in the development of quantum mechanics, had serious reservations about the theory, especially its inability to quantify, with one
The Greatest Illusion
If time has no arrow and does not flow, it will rank as the greatest illusion that humanity has ever labored under. Likewise, its effects
AntIs vs Illusions
During the course of the symposium, in the book TotIs, the characters spent some time exploring the nature of the cognitive illusions that are produced
The Illusion of Reality
The Random House Concise Dictionary defines an illusion as “something that deceives by producing a false impression of reality.” In fact, the “something” being alluded
The passageway
Have you ever seen a photon? You probably think you see them in uncountable numbers every day. In fact neither you, I nor any entity
Interpreting reality via experience
What does it mean to say that “as observers we do not so much live in the world as create an experience of a world
TotIs and the nature of Reality
Albert Einstein once famously said that “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” My book, TotIs is an exploration and illumination of the