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I agree. There is no scientific definition of cosmic mind, Tao or Brahman. In fact Rishis describe Brahman as “Neti Neti’ ( Not this, Not this)! As I expressed in my article which was posted on this blog, this is exactly similar to the difficulty which physicists find in describing theories of modern physics in terms of ordinary human languages. Remember all the discussions on this blog about theory of relativity and quantum theory! They are just not intuitive! But at least physicists have a way out. Basically their job is to make models explaining experimental data (obtained by sensory means) and predict consequences for future experiments if possible. Mathematics has proved successful in the last 500 years in doing this, although human languages have failed! Whether that describes reality or not is a deep philosophical issue. Even believing that human languages (or mathematics)  are not capable of describing cosmic mind, it is not clear what scientists should do to fulfill their mission. Should they give up the usual methods and start meditation?  This is a difficult , unresolved issue.

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Cosmic Mind is ordinarily understood as containing the secret of the whole Creation but in Sri Aurobindo's interpretation, it lies somewhere in between in the ladder of Consciousness representing the whole Existence. He redefines the ill-understood concept of Maya and fuses it with Myers' Subliminal and Vedic Hiranyagarbha to conceive an ever-emergent Supermind which is only an intermediary rung in the march of Evolution.

It's hoped that physicists here make some effort to know Sri Aurobindo's ontological formulations.

Thanks

Tusar (b.1955)
June 13, 2017
https://selforum.blogspot.in/2017/06/new-vistas-open-through-life-divine-and.html

 

On Jun 13, 2017 3:22 PM, "georgeweis via Sadhu-Sanga Under the holy association of Spd. B.M. Puri Maharaja, Ph.D." <Online_Sa...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Cosmic Mind is not strictly speaking a scientifically definable concept, as it points to (but does not describe) a realm that underlies all phenomena, but is the fundamental ground out of which all phenomena, all seeming individual consciousness, Everything, arises. Contemplative wisdom traditions like Buddhism or Taoism have been very clear about that (:the Tao which can be said is not the real Tao" etc). It can be realized by Enlightened Mind, but not conceptualized. Something more fundamental cannot be defined in terms of something less fundamental, and therefore Cosmic Mind (One Mind, the Ground of Being, the Source, the Tao, Buddha Nature, Dharmakaya, rigpa or whatever other names have been given to it, cannot be defined at all; Our task is rather to see how all the ten thousand things (phenomena) arise from it, which is the program of the Quantum Paradigm.

Your definition Jack,  is not the definition of any mind or consciousness, much less of Cosmic Mind, as it in terms of mathematical entities which themselves have no reference to qualia/consciousness.experience. Your definition may, if it physically relevant, have implications for the structure of experience, but does not touch the essence of experience ("I am").

best regards,

George

PS: what is your definition, Chris?

 

George
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My definition of "cosmic mind" is in terms of Popper-falsifiable real physics using concepts of Einstein's classical general relativity, standard model of cosmology and quantum information theory as extended by Roderick Sutherland.

 

Yours is completely different and is not scientific i.e. not Popper falsifiable

 

 

On Jun 12, 2017, at 7:58 AM, Chris Langan <ch...@ctmu.org> wrote:

 

Jack: "Kindly define the mysterious term, “Cosmic Mind”."

 

It's not mysterious at all, Jack. I defined it decades ago, and to a remarkable degree of precision.

 

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Oliver Manuel <omat...@gmail.com> wrote:

The Creator's Mind is elegant simplicity, unlike the complicated and irrational creations of the human mind.      Only an elegantly simple mind could create an infinite , cyclic universe out of two forms of one fundamental particle, that is far superior to the little finite universe made in a single imaginary "Big Bang."

 

Humility is required to experience the Creator's Mind.  Atomic, nuclear and particle physicists made great contributions to science before becoming convinced that they were superior to others and therefore I unteachable.      

 

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On Jun 11, 2017, at 8:44 AM, 'Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal' via Sadhu-Sanga Under the holy association of Spd. B.M. Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. <Online_Sa...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

 

Dear George,

 

Thanks.

 

1. Kindly define the mysterious term, “Cosmic Mind”.

 

 

 




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I agree with you that an individual mind includes experiences, function, thoughts, concepts, and other mental construct. If we try to combine our 3 minds (your, mine, and Sehgal’s mind) as a ‘group mind’, then how and what do we can combine? Our subjective experiences perhaps cannot be combined except whatever we have common; for example, color experiences of a trichromat and an achromat cannot be combined; we need to keep both experiences in this group (such as redness of ripe tomato experienced by the trichromat and grayness by the achromat). However, where is this group mind located and what are the mechanisms of storage and recall? You may like to look at (Theiner & O’Connor, 2010) on the emergence of group cognition. The term ‘whole’ also needs unpacking.

 

2. There are over 40 meanings assigned to the term consciousness, which have been grouped in two functions and experiences as elaborated in (Vimal, 2009e). What meaning do you assign? Perhaps, you mean experiences and experiencer: is this correct?

 

3. It seems that you are implicitly using dualism and idealism, which you have already rejected in your QPI-QM article (Weissmann & Larson, 2017). How can we reify/congeal experiences, such as redness of ripe tomato into ripe-tomato-in-itself? There are about 45 interpretation of QM. How do we select one of them?

 

4. I am still unable to reject less mysterious atheist eDAM framework because it has a potentiality to explain all authentic paranormal phenomena. The survival of consciousness (i.e., experiences and the experiencer) after physical death is an easy interpretation of these data; it does not appear an empirical datum.

 

Kind regards,

Rām

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Vision Research Institute, Physics, Neuroscience, & Consciousness Research Dept.

25 Rita Street, Lowell, MA 01854 USA

Researched at University of Chicago and Harvard Medical Schools

 

On Saturday, 10 June 2017 7:57 PM, "georg...@aol.com" <georg...@aol.com> wrote:

 

You are discussing here (based on two different paradigms), the question whether conventional objects or particles have an inherent mental aspect, or whether mental aspects on emergent from and depend on complex and very specifically structured processes systems interact in very specified ways (for example those we call animal brains and nervous systems).

My take on the issue

Don't you both agree that conventional entities like objects, particles etc, are, by their very nature as concepts, mental constructs and thus manifest in the domain of the mind, and hence in the domain of Mind (Cosmic Mind). As the conventional entities they are), they don't fundamentally "have" consciousness. You might object here that though the mental concept of "particle" doesn't have consciousness, the "noumenon", the objectively existing "thing in itself" that we are naming "particle" , can, and as you apparently believe, does have consciousness. But a self-consistent understanding of quantum theory has shown us that such particles (or any other reified entity, for that matter, does not objectively exist. The whole distinction between object and subject breaks down. So the conclusion stands: particles and other apparent objects do not objectively exist, and so they "have" no consciousness.

So then what about you and me? Couldn't the same conclusion (namely that we have no  consciousness) be reached about any living being, which would then apparently reduce the whole argument ad absurdum, since we "obviously have consciousness" (you might add tongue-in-cheek "maybe YOU have no consciousness, but I certainly know I do ":-)  )

Here we have to take into consideration the other insight reached by the above investigation of the foundations of quantum theory: namely that it is a theory of the statistical causal structure of EXPERIENCE, not of a (non-existent) objective state of affairs. The first answer (given by relational quantum theory and QB'ism), is that it is the experience of the specific observer whose observations are being correlated through Quantum Theory. This answer suffices to make quantum theory consistent (solving the measurement problem and Wigner's friend problem), But the price is that the description of reality is fragmented into individual INCOMMENSURABLE accounts. Every observer-participant is so to say living in his or her world. To  restore wholeness (an intersubjective "we" account of the world) requires giving up the idea of a single Universe, and demands a multiverse. At that level the concept of a "Cosmic Mind" replaces that of individual observer-participants. We individuals are all dissociated fragments of that Whole, although we don't perceive that, operating as we do in an individual-centered paradigm. And we are deeply conditioned to identify with that fragment we call I or the small self.
So from that perspective, consciousness is an inherent quality, you might even say, the essence, of that Cosmic Mind.  Our individual sense of identity; mind, and consciousness is derived from the secondary perspective that cosmic Mind has set up as "the individual". So now you can see that consciousness as the quality of fundamental awareness, the "I am", doesn't not belong to the small I, as much as the small I believes and experiences that it does. This insight and the paradigm which it defines is arrived at here from quantum theory and rational reasoning. But of course it is nothing new in itself: it is the essential insight of the perennial phiillosophy, of Vedic and Buddhist teachings and other contemplative wisdom traditions. These teachings not only state that this is the nature of reality, but they offer us a path of practice which can realize (actualize) this our true nature. and allow us to live us that (enlightenment.

The conditions necessary to lend the individual consciousness structures any degree of stability are the self-reproducing and -perpetuating quantum probability structures that we call our bodies, including our brains. 

So now we can try to answer the question you were discussing: no, particles, objects including human bodies and brains don't "have" consciousness; they actually don't even have an ontological status at all, since they are reified abstractions. But of course they are related to consciousness, insofar as the "locus" where they "exist"is the conceptual (Platonic) space, within thought. And whenever the conditions (probability structures arise and are sustained that we call functioning brains and nervous sytems and bodies, than the familiar structures of human and other animal consciousness arise (cognition, perception, memory, intention etc).  So we can say that the familiar appearance of individual consciousness airses whenever these strctures are operating,  which is Vinod's point;  except that it is inaccurate to say that these structures "have" consciousness, rather they are accompanied by the attributes of (individual) consciousness. And by the way,  these structures are not necessarily "material", they can be "subtle" as in  the case of the spirit domain etc


How does this make sense to you, Ram and Vinod?

 

Warm regards,

George

PS: if you want to learn more about this paraidgm,  you can look up the paper I wrote with Cynthia Larson: here attached
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The difficulty experienced in defining a cosmic "mind"  casts doubts on whether it exists at all. It is described in a negative way. An aspirant who believes the claim of a Rishi that he has experienced the so-called cosmic mind approaches him for further light. When an ordinary man can feel the cosmic mind and becomes a Rishi, then why cant another man tread the same path and become a Rishi? The Rishi does not give any comprehensible answer. He leaves it to the aspirant to describe the cosmic mind. The aspirant then gives out the notion he has in his mind. The Rishi says, Neti, No not this. The onus of establishing the existence of a cosmic mind is strangely not on the Rishi who has claims to it, but not on a raw aspirant. In frustration, the aspirant thinks that there must be something complex and serving the Rishi for some more time is a way to realise that complex phenomenon.
Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi too used to employ the same technique on disciples who approached him for knowledge about who they are. He used to tell them, "Know who you are".
Answers are provided by negations or further questions.
Leave alone cosmic mind, even life is difficult to define. By life I mean not life span, but life energy. Life energy seems to be available in plenty, provided the physical structure fit enough to receive it is present. Every moment we see life being extinguished, and life re-entering and manifesting itself. If science can tackle the question of what life is, as it should, then we can leave the question of existence of cosmic mind for future investigation. Determining what life is is the first step to take.
Life energy enables the faculty of consciousness to function in the structure suffused with life. No life, no consciousness. While life is present, consciousness of man makes great forays into cosmic mind/Brahman/Nirvana etc etc, not caring whether they exist in reality. When life departs, the same man, now dead, does not think about these concepts. If cosmic mind etc are such great powers, then they should be able to endow even a dead person with ability to think. Deep enquiries about superconsciousness etc are activities played by consciousness which is present only when life is present.
Not able to solve this tangle, men of yore created an atma for each person which is supposed to fly away and keep waiting for another body to enter and work off its vasanas/tendencies.
If at time of death, the man is not thinking of God, he will be born in a sinful womb. "Praleena tamasee Moodha Yonija". In Christianity, the assurance is given that a dead man is "sleeping in the Lord forever". In Islam, he is promised 72 fresh virgins in paradise!

 

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On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Vasavada, Kashyap V <vasa...@iupui.edu> wrote:

I agree. There is no scientific definition of cosmic mind, Tao or Brahman. In fact Rishis describe Brahman as “Neti Neti’ ( Not this, Not this)! As I expressed in my article wdoing whahich was posted on this blog, this is exactly similar to the difficulty which physicists find in describing theories of modern physics in terms of ordinary human languages. Remember all the discussions on this blog about theory of relativity and quantum theory! They are just not intuitive! But at least physicists have a way out. Basically their job is to make models explaining experimental data (obtained by sensory means) and predict consequences for future experiments if possible. Mathematics has proved successful in the last 500 years in doing this, although human languages have failed! Whether that describes reality or not is a deep philosophical issue. Even believing that human languages (or mathematics)  are not capable of describing cosmic mind, it is not clear what scientists should do to fulfill their mission. Should they give up the usual methods and start meditation?  


Both in science and in mysticism, it is important to be careful in our approach to loaded words, just as some people are careful in carrying nitroglycerin around.

In the end, the words are not the phenomenon. Science does not tell us how we SHOULD define any word -- these words, or words like 'consciousness,' or even words like 'red".
All these words are ultimately just sequences of letters in some language, and arbitrary.

Still, it is also important to remember that some implicit definitions make assumptions which may be incorrect, and confuse people who persist with them. For example, I remember a
physicist/philosopher who would look at a computer system, actual or proposed, and ask "But is it conscious? Or is it not?" This assumes that consciousness is a binary variable, either you have it or you don't. From all empirical information I have seen, from laboratory or textbook or direct experience, it seems to me that consciousness is a matter of DEGREE, not a yes/no variable. And there are also several DIFFERENT variables which are worthy of discussion, which share the common name "consciousness" . 

There is beautiful color version of the Tao Te Ching, with three translators and unique deep research, which makes it clear how different authors assumed different definitions of the word "Tao". 
In one case, it is basically a synonym for "path", but in another case it is more a synonym for qi. These are connected concepts, but emphatically not the same thing. 
 Neither is unintelligible by nature, but both are unintelligible to some, just as the word "red" is not naturally intelligible to those who lack color vision.

Should scientists meditate instead of following the traditional practices of third-person science as described by Kuhn? 

It is not a binary choice. Even the hardest core science requires a certain kind of diversity, and connections between disciplines, to live up to its missions.

Best of luck,

  Paul 


 

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From: Brian Josephson <bd...@cam.ac.uk>
Date: June 13, 2013, 1:03:05 PM PDT
Cc: Jack Sarfatti <adas...@me.com>, Mike Towler <md...@cam.ac.uk>, Fotini Pallikari <fpa...@phys.uoa.gr>, David Peat <dp...@fdavidpeat.com>, SCO...@clemson.edu
Subject: Re: What Valentini has left out

Dear Anthony,

   If Jack is right in this, the implication is that the application that Fotini P. and I made of Bohmian nonlocality (to paranormal phenomena) may be correct, while your own preferred application of the same (involving non-equilibrium conditions in the early universe) on the other hand  is invalid.  Some historically-savvy individuals might find in this situation a superb irony!


Best regards, Brian J.

On 13 Jun 2013, at 19:33, JACK SARFATTI <adas...@me.com> wrote:

Remarks sandwiched between square bracket [..] are mine not in Valentini's original. "In pilot-wave theory, the equilibrium state ... arises from a process of relaxation that is analogous to classical thermal relaxation. The H-function [defined as] minus the relative entropy of [actual quantum information field "rho"] with respect to [Born's rule squared modulus of complex number Schrodinger wave |psi|^2 in configuration space] quanti fies the difference ... It obeys a coarse-graining H-theorem analogous to the classical one, where the minimum H = 0 corresponds to equilibrium [27, 29, 31]. For initial wave functions that are superpositions of di fferent energy eigenfunctions, extensive numerical evidence shows that initial non-equilibrium distributions rapidly approach |psi|^2 on a coarse-grained level (assuming that the initial state has no fine-grained micro-structure) [29, 31, 36, 37, 38, 39], with an approximately exponential decay of the coarse-grained H-function [36, 38]. [However, Valentini et-al do not consider pumped open sub-quantal dissipative structures in the sense of Prigogine. That's what living matter is. Valentini only considers closed systems.] All the systems that we have experimental access to have had a long and violent astrophysical history. Therefore we would expect to see quantum equilibrium for these systems (such as atoms in the laboratory). And indeed experiment has confi rmed the Born rule in a wide range of conditions."
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Dear Kashyap,

I agree with how you expressed it! 

My personal answer to your last question as to what scientists should do who want to penetrate to deeper layers of Being and express aspects of that in their theories: 

yes!  practice, meditate, contemplate, intuit, use every human faculty we have at our disposal most of which are untapped by most practicing scientists; but let us not give up your original quest, a science that includes in its purview the centrality of experience:  rather than give up, let us persist with it, but now with our insight enriched by our contemplation. Science and spirituality don't have to be dichotomous, alienated from one another, as they have mostly been at least since modernity. They can work synergistically together, after all they are investigating aspects of the same underlying reality! Two eyes can discover depth dimensions that are closed
off to a one-eyed perspective 

Namaste,

George

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George Weissmann

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Yes!

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