The Heavy Stuff

One of the `esoteric takeaways’ of the 1960’s and 70’s was the `tree-hugging’ phrase - “Be Here Now”. And, frankly, ultimately, it had a lot of `meanings’ - from the non-attachment of Zen, to a `re-connecting’ with the environment and spirituality, to a `self-centering’ - awareness and meditation connotation - and even more. It was a `hip’ thing to say (or - to say that you were `doing’).

(This would actually be `not-doing’ to those `into’ Carlos Castaneda.)

Anyway, that phrase BHN entered my mind again the other week and this post has been brain bubbling since then - so - let’s see how my mind treats this today. And, as you might expect - my mind generally has been mauling over the whole Phenomenology aspect of the phrase first - both in relation to `science’ and my so called Phillips Phenomenology. (see my categories (labels)  on this page for much more about PP)

The first `science’ thing that comes into my mind - is - of course, the shear impossibility to BE HERE NOW - as `all nows’ pass and have NO duration; and our actual `here’ is moving at an incredible rate of motion. All while being the pinpoint of the time-cone - with that exact balance of the actualized past `picking’ the next actualized space (the now) of the `future’.

Indeed, if we just consider THE REAL SPACE - that one (humans) occupied as matter — the `space’ that `was you’ - an instant ago ———- has truly `moved’ hugely. 

Do you know the reason?

Well, we are `traveling’ on a planet that is `rotating’; we are `traveling’ on a planet that is moving in rotation around a star; and we are `traveling’ as part of that stars rotation around OUR galaxy; and we are `traveling’ as part of the Milky Way’s `movement’ in a particular direction that all local galaxies are moving in. EVERY SECOND. Every Moment. (Indeed, I once added all this movement up and it is a large portion of 1% of the speed of light - every instant. The `here’ of `our last instant’ is `miles’ from the actual location of the `here’ of `this, our current instant’.)

So, that should put to rest in your mind that what we perceive as a permanent local space - is ONLY so - because it (every object within)  ALSO is moving at the same rate. We are matter spiraling thru space points - and have NO claim to a HERE in the human mind sense of the term. Indeed, only the `counting’ of the here’s of our space/matter - provides us with a `now’ or more precisely, a here-now,  at all.

And, before I even get to the `now(ish)’ - lets look at how human consciousness might fit into the words of this BHN phrase.

Certainly, the best connection of human consciousness lies in its own `beingness’.Beingness of the actualized past; beingness of the unactualized past; beingness of the actualized future (now); beingness of the `unactualized’ (referred to as the) future.

A beingness of `our space’ (body/matter) - a beingnessof `our minds’ (sense-knowingness of actualized memory, sense-knowingness of actualized now, sense-knowingness of actualized fantasy) - but most of all - a Beingness of Determinism via self-knowingness.

Indeed, we ARE, - our being IS, - because we KNOW the determinism we experience of space-time-and our consciousness - as only a BEING with a Ontological Knowingness can. BEINGS with ontological knowingness determine the `what is not able to not be’. That is, at least concerning their own perception structures of other SPACES (the not able to be) and other TIMES (the able to not be) - internally or externally.

(But spaces ARE NOTHING (not able to be) without duration (time - able to not be(ness) and time IS NOTHING without space to be (time needs to give a space it’s able to not be(ness) to MAKE - the determined Not Able To Not Be ————— that we call reality.

Finally, lets talk about what science has told humans about their consciousness of `our external senses of now’. First and foremost, research indicates that humans `see’ about 100 or so `frames’ of our external reality each second - YET - our consciousness picks about 8-12 of these and `molds them’ into a flowing reality for perception purposes. (Not only that - reality itself - turns on and turns off - trillions of times in that frame of reference.) I won’t even mention that what we `see’ in our brain is upside-down and the whole process needs to be righted for our senses.

But, even more important than that - at least to me - is that EVERYTHING we see —- all objects ——- are objects from the PAST — as the light that bounces off objects - which allows us to sense them -  has taken (time)(or a counted space)  to reach our retina. Time which MAKES that datum a PAST, a determined past that is UN-alterable as to its location or time of its data being sent by the light bounce.

So, if EVERYTHING outside of us is FROM the past (to us)  and is Now(ish) —- isn’t the best a human can do is - Be Here Nowish?

Some of us in the universe crave `the explanation’. Read books and books to find it. Wondering about how wide ranging `the answer’ might be; yet knowing that the answer must be simple. Simple not in the sense of a simpleton; but simple in that it uses common sense to provide meaning to the world’s mysteries. To use common sense to build from `the impossible event’. More on that shortly.

But first, what is the intended target of discussion in general on The Heavy Stuff? Well, this is the first vision of what should be covered — Randomness and Artificial Intelligence; Global Consciousness; Freewill and Determinism; Time and Space; The Impossibility of `movie’ Time Travel; Being and Nothingness; Lucid Dreaming; Mutual Hypnosis; Branes and Inflation; Consciousness and Awareness; Dimensions and Strings; Impossible Anomalies; Existence after `death’; Phenomenology.

It should keep one busy for awhile. And, just the scantest of background info to this first blog post. My name is Rick Phillips. About the only background that I have with anomalies is that since March of this year I’ve had a top ranked Squidoo.com `lens’ (website) called Anomalies, Paranormal and Mind Perceptions. The url is http://www.squidoo.com/anomalyman . Well I actually have another personal connection to anomalies that some I guess call the `woo-woo’ factor. Don’t worry, no aliens will be trotted out on a personal level; but, absurd anomalies will be trotted out and test any credibility that I present here. My reason for disclosing this upfront is that some of my personal experiences with `time’ and `space’ will, I’m sure, prejudice my judgements on some mysteries. All to be explained. Hopefully.

Once again, this blog will be different from the Squidoo site — while looking at some of the same anomalous events. This site is concerned with the most speculative notions about space, time and consciousness. And, what could I use as a better segway than that to the first matter of study - that being - is there `Earth Consciousness’?

I have a link on my Squidoo site http://noosphere.princeton.edu/ that you should visit - and if you visit intend to leave every notion of the world around you behind. That’s right, the `Impossible Event’ isn’t some humans landing on mars video that you can find on the web. And, no, the impossible event isn’t from some far removed Utah ranch where impossible things have been recorded. No, the `Impossible Event’ is at the Princeton University site.

Impressed? Just wait to you take the half hour to somewhat digest just what happened to a collection of data eggs on a particular day in history - Sept. 11th, 2001 to be exact. With the significance of that tragic and historic day - perhaps the fact that this story is not more widely known is to be expected. But, what is not acceptable, is that the implications of what happened within those data eggs is not more widely disseminated. Yes, the first clue to the seam in the cosmic egg might be data eggs. But, the implications are huge and should be addressed — as this obviously, is the biggest anomaly of history. IMHO.

If you are not familiar with the `noosphere’ - it is an ongoing experiment linking dozens of computers worldwide that produce a random sequence of numbers - these numbers are collected in five minute `packets’ and sent to Princeton for analysis for un-randomness. As you know, long sequences of numbers can have sessions of what seem to be un-randomness. Think about this in terms of the 11 Blacks in a row you observed at the roulette table one night - or ten dealer busts in a row in blackjack. Anyway, the analysis looks for that and maps this outcome in various ways — if you go to the site — and if it operates in the same manner — you can hear the randomness the world is creating right now (delayed 5 minutes). It is a very cool site.

But, back to the `Impossible Event’ of 9-11-2001. What happened in a nutshell was this — computers all over the world started to `act’ non-randomly. In essence as if they had consciousness. What you find as you read about this `event’ was that it was the biggest computer `event’ in years of running the 24/7 project. That’s right, this project went on for years without this magnitude of event. Oh, and it peaked around the time of the crash into the buildings. Oh, and you can see the `effect’ of each buildings falling. Oh, and the computers in America were the most affected. Oh, and the East Coast computers were the most affected. Is that enough, or should I tell you that the `effect’ can be traced back on the computer data to within minutes of when one of the hijackers first cleared security.

Heavy Stuff, huh? Amazing beyond belief in every regard - with no photo manipulation - no rigged data - no humans at the control panel. Only `linked computers’ sharing information; right? Obviously, the implications could be staggering. Are some machines conscious? At least perhaps groups of machines linked together which share information. Or, does the `effect’ on the data that morning have to do with something else all together - perhaps from the Earth itself, Mankind itself, or even time-space itself? AND, what does it mean that the computers most affected were in America and that they knew and were reacting - prior to the tragedy. What happened to cause and effect? Or, was determinism the case in this instance - or near determinism.

Just what happened on Sept. 11th in cosmology terms - to be continued.

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