Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM

Browse over 1 million classes created by top students, professors, publishers, and experts.


See full index

The Visionary Window > Chapter 7 - How The New Science Champions Sacred Cosmology > Flashcards

Chapter 7 - How The New Science Champions Sacred Cosmology Flashcards

1
Q

Five bodies of Brahman (consciousness)

A 
Annamaya (physical)
Pranamaya (vital or emotional)
Manomaya (mental)
Vijnanamaya (theme)
Anandamaya (blissful)

Koshas, sheaths that hide the light of consciousness
Doctrine of the panchakoshas

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

Vedanta

A

Not only is consciousness not product of the mind - it transcends both matter and mind - but the mind is also distinct from the brain

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Vijnanamaya kosha

A

Material world bound by laws that reside in the theme body

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Mind as computer

A

Computers are symbol processing machines in which symbols act in symbols. To create meaning, would need to create symbols for symbols, ad Infinitum. Computer lacks both meaning and a knower

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Symbolic logic

A

We can know symbolic logic behind every part of the world because we originated it

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

Telepathy

A

Consciousness can simultaneously collapse possibilities in two disparate bodies with no signal contact or local interaction

No direct local interaction between physical and mental bodies, consciousness mediates interaction between them by collapsing correlated actualities, one in brain and one in mind

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

David Bohm

A

Uncertainty principle operates with regard to thoughts. If we focus on content of thought, we lose direction thought is following. Focusing on direction of thought leads to loss of its content

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

Creative process

A

Make discontinuous leaps of thought without going through continuous steps, just as in quantum leap

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

Nonlocality

A

Best evidence of quantum nature of thought

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

Casey Blood

A

Physical objects are just mathematical entities (same is true of mental objects).

Both physical and mental worlds remain as superpositions of quantum possibilities until consciousness gives them substantiality by collapsing an actual experience

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Self referential quantum measurement

A
  1. Collapses physical object in external awareness, which includes space-time
  2. Brain representation
  3. mental object in internal awareness
    State of physical brain chosen in collapse becomes memory and forms syntactical symbol of representation, and correlated chosen state of mental body provides semantics. Together they form meaningful representation of stimulus. Once representation is made, subsequent response of brain to (learned) stimulus is computer-style operation.
How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Imagination

A

Recognize and choose mental states represented in physical brain via correlated collapse

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Repeated perception

A

As representations of physical world are made in physical brain, there is change in correlated mental body through modification of probabilities of experienced mental possibilities. Possibilities do not change; only probabilities for collapsing them become biased in favor of prior collapse.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

Cognition is recognition

A

Although we all share same mind structurally (the mind is an indivisible whole), because we acquire individual patterns, we can be said to acquire a personal mind

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

Perception of physical world

A

We have shared reality of physical objects in macrocosm

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Descartes

A

Mental substance is indivisible

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

Mental world

A

whole, or infinite medium

There are waves of thought which are quantum possibility waves obeying probability calculus

We directly observe these quantum modes without intermediary of macro measurement-aid apparatus, but there is a price for direct experience. Observation of mental mode of movement (a thought) is subject to uncertainty principle; disturbs thought so much so that another observation would not be same experience of thought. Therefore, thoughts cannot ordinarily be shared by two different observers.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

Why mind can’t operate independently

A

Presence of brani needed for consciousness to collapse possibility wave because it calls for self-referential dynamic of tangled hierarchy, which requires nicro-macro distinction that only material brain can provide

Self referential because there’s a tangled hierarchy

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Why is quantum measurement in the brain self referential?

A

Micro quantum systems in the brain respond to external stimulus, such as photon; signal from quantum system amplified by other, macro systems in the brain (measurement-aid apparatus)

Both systems amplify one another

However, only consciousness can collapse actuality from superposition from a transcendent level

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Why can’t consciousness collapse possibility waves of mental body by itself?

A

In the mind there’s no differentiation between micro and macro, no question of any amplification. This a tangled-hierarchical, quantum-measurement situation is impossible

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

States of consciousness

A

Waking
Dream
Deep sleep

Frequency of brain waves progressively decreases as amplitude becomes higher along continuum from wakefulness to dream to deep sleep.

Upanishads say consciousness exists in all three states but also transcends them

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Dream state

A

only internal awareness of thoughts and internal brain images
No shared external awareness
Reflections on meaning of internal life, containing experiences that progress with time, give rise to insights, and use what is learned during waking awareness as additional input

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Deep sleep

A

Unconscious in Freudian sense; there is consciousness but no awareness, internal or external

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Nirvikalpa samadhi

A

state of consciousness caused by meditation, a trance-like state where there is no subject-object split

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
Q

Vital body

A

an infinite medium, modes of movement called prana. In West modes of vital body are called vital energy

Contents of vital body are living functions represented by various organs

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
26
Q

Prana

A

Like thought, movement displays quantum leaps of creativity and experienced internally. Movement, like thought, becomes conditioned, camoflaging quantum nature.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
27
Q

chakras

A

points where we feel conditioned movements of prana

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
28
Q

Kundalini shakti

A

creative movement of prana, opens chakras, breaks up homeostasis of pranic conditioning and is source of creative breakthroughs that kundalini initiates

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
29
Q

Goedel’s theorem

A

nonalgorithmic nature of discoveries in mathematics
every mathematical system of algorithms used to ascertain mathematical truth, if sufficiently elaborate, is either incomplete or inconsistent; always contains proposition that system can’t prove.

When mathematicians discover new mathematical truths, they don’t use algorithms or logic, instead the jump out of system - must bring already existing mathematical truth from world that transcends mental world, where proof and logical process operate. (Theme world)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
30
Q

Mathematical Platonism

A

If mathematical scientific laws guide behavior of material objects, they must exist a priori to matter and transcend material world

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
31
Q

Theme body

A

laws pertaining to physical, vital, and mental bodies. Contains laws that govern matter, laws that govern morphogenetic fields, and contexts that govern thought

quantum objects are not thoughts but contexts of thought

32
Q

Creative acts

A

situational - exploration of new meaning in already known contexts, at level of the mind
fundamental - discovery of new meaning in new context, movements from possibility to actuality of mental and theme body

33
Q

Involution and evolution of consciousness

A

Descent (involution) of consciousness must occur before ascent (evolution) can take place

in order for consciousness to know itself, it projects itself into levels that are grosser and grosser.

34
Q

First level

A

Theme body (intellect), context of all subsequent movements - e.g. laws of science.

Consciousness limits itself by becoming lawful and thematic

35
Q

Second and Third level

A

mental and vital, which give content to themes played out

36
Q

Grossest level of manifestation

A

Physical, in which contents will be mapped.

37
Q

Ignorance

A

As consciousness descends, it forgets itself and becomes ignorant. Each level of descent delegates previous level to unconscious and corresponds to another level of increasing forgetfulness and freedom. At lowest level, material, all is unconscious.

38
Q

Involution

A

called so because higher levels remain potential in matter, ready to unfold

39
Q

Evolution

A

once involution is complete, evolution begins.
Life can’t emerge from matter alone, because higher level can never arise from lower one. Life already understood to exist in potential and emerge at level of complexity of matter where it’s supported. Mind energes at level of complexity of life because it was already potential

40
Q

Separation of consciousness

A

Illusory, levels not dualistic. Consciousness forgets itself for the sake of play - pretends to forget.

41
Q

Manifestation

A

occurs via tangled hierarchy, causing illusion of separateness which causes temporary amnesia. At intellect and mental level of descent, their subtle quantum bodies present to consciousness possibility structures that contain thought contexts and thought itself. Consciousness and mental contextual possibilities unseparate whole. However, when self referentially collapsed, possibilities into actuality at lower level, creates apparent separation. At next level of descent (vital) consciousness creates potential for separation between life and environment. No actual collapse or separation of intellect, mental and vital bodies takes place until physical body arrives

42
Q

How does what is potential in matter become actual?

A

Within tangled hierarchies and quantum measurements, consciousness can supervene and self-referential collapse of quantum possibility waves of all four bodies (theme, mental, vital, and physical) occur. Consciousness remembers levels that came before matter.

43
Q

Creative process

A

Make discontinuous leaps of thought without going through continuous steps, just as in quantum leap

44
Q

Nonlocality

A

Best evidence of quantum nature of thought

45
Q

Casey Blood

A

Physical objects are just mathematical entities (same is true of mental objects).

Both physical and mental worlds remain as superpositions of quantum possibilities until consciousness gives them substantiality by collapsing an actual experience

46
Q

Self referential quantum measurement

A
  1. Collapses physical object in external awareness, which includes space-time
  2. Brain representation
  3. mental object in internal awareness
    State of physical brain chosen in collapse becomes memory and forms syntactical symbol of representation, and correlated chosen state of mental body provides semantics. Together they form meaningful representation of stimulus. Once representation is made, subsequent response of brain to (learned) stimulus is computer-style operation.
47
Q

Imagination

A

Recognize and choose mental states represented in physical brain via correlated collapse

48
Q

Repeated perception

A

As representations of physical world are made in physical brain, there is change in correlated mental body through modification of probabilities of experienced mental possibilities. Possibilities do not change; only probabilities for collapsing them become biased in favor of prior collapse.

49
Q

Cognition is recognition

A

Although we all share same mind structurally (the mind is an indivisible whole), because we acquire individual patterns, we can be said to acquire a personal mind

50
Q

Perception of physical world

A

We have shared reality of physical objects in macrocosm

51
Q

Descartes

A

Mental substance is indivisible

52
Q

Mental world

A

whole, or infinite medium

There are waves of thought which are quantum possibility waves obeying probability calculus

We directly observe these quantum modes without intermediary of macro measurement-aid apparatus, but there is a price for direct experience. Observation of mental mode of movement (a thought) is subject to uncertainty principle; disturbs thought so much so that another observation would not be same experience of thought. Therefore, thoughts cannot ordinarily be shared by two different observers.

53
Q

Why mind can’t operate independently

A

Presence of brani needed for consciousness to collapse possibility wave because it calls for self-referential dynamic of tangled hierarchy, which requires nicro-macro distinction that only material brain can provide

Self referential because there’s a tangled hierarchy

54
Q

Why is quantum measurement in the brain self referential?

A

Micro quantum systems in the brain respond to external stimulus, such as photon; signal from quantum system amplified by other, macro systems in the brain (measurement-aid apparatus)

Both systems amplify one another

However, only consciousness can collapse actuality from superposition from a transcendent level

55
Q

Why can’t consciousness collapse possibility waves of mental body by itself?

A

In the mind there’s no differentiation between micro and macro, no question of any amplification. This a tangled-hierarchical, quantum-measurement situation is impossible

56
Q

States of consciousness

A

Waking
Dream
Deep sleep

Frequency of brain waves progressively decreases as amplitude becomes higher along continuum from wakefulness to dream to deep sleep.

Upanishads say consciousness exists in all three states but also transcends them

57
Q

Dream state

A

only internal awareness of thoughts and internal brain images
No shared external awareness
Reflections on meaning of internal life, containing experiences that progress with time, give rise to insights, and use what is learned during waking awareness as additional input

58
Q

Deep sleep

A

Unconscious in Freudian sense; there is consciousness but no awareness, internal or external

59
Q

Nirvikalpa samadhi

A

state of consciousness caused by meditation, a trance-like state where there is no subject-object split

60
Q

Vital body

A

an infinite medium, modes of movement called prana. In West modes of vital body are called vital energy

Contents of vital body are living functions represented by various organs

61
Q

Prana

A

Like thought, movement displays quantum leaps of creativity and experienced internally. Movement, like thought, becomes conditioned, camoflaging quantum nature.

62
Q

chakras

A

points where we feel conditioned movements of prana

63
Q

Kundalini shakti

A

creative movement of prana, opens chakras, breaks up homeostasis of pranic conditioning and is source of creative breakthroughs that kundalini initiates

64
Q

Goedel’s theorem

A

nonalgorithmic nature of discoveries in mathematics
every mathematical system of algorithms used to ascertain mathematical truth, if sufficiently elaborate, is either incomplete or inconsistent; always contains proposition that system can’t prove.

When mathematicians discover new mathematical truths, they don’t use algorithms or logic, instead the jump out of system - must bring already existing mathematical truth from world that transcends mental world, where proof and logical process operate. (Theme world)

65
Q

Mathematical Platonism

A

If mathematical scientific laws guide behavior of material objects, they must exist a priori to matter and transcend material world

66
Q

Theme body

A

laws pertaining to physical, vital, and mental bodies. Contains laws that govern matter, laws that govern morphogenetic fields, and contexts that govern thought

quantum objects are not thoughts but contexts of thought

67
Q

Creative acts

A

situational - exploration of new meaning in already known contexts, at level of the mind
fundamental - discovery of new meaning in new context, movements from possibility to actuality of mental and theme body

68
Q

Involution and evolution of consciousness

A

Descent (involution) of consciousness must occur before ascent (evolution) can take place

in order for consciousness to know itself, it projects itself into levels that are grosser and grosser.

69
Q

First level

A

Theme body (intellect), context of all subsequent movements - e.g. laws of science.

Consciousness limits itself by becoming lawful and thematic

70
Q

Second and Third level

A

mental and vital, which give content to themes played out

71
Q

Grossest level of manifestation

A

Physical, in which contents will be mapped.

72
Q

Ignorance

A

As consciousness descends, it forgets itself and becomes ignorant. Each level of descent delegates previous level to unconscious and corresponds to another level of increasing forgetfulness and freedom. At lowest level, material, all is unconscious.

73
Q

Involution

A

called so because higher levels remain potential in matter, ready to unfold

74
Q

Evolution

A

once involution is complete, evolution begins.
Life can’t emerge from matter alone, because higher level can never arise from lower one. Life already understood to exist in potential and emerge at level of complexity of matter where it’s supported. Mind energes at level of complexity of life because it was already potential

75
Q

Separation of consciousness

A

Illusory, levels not dualistic. Consciousness forgets itself for the sake of play - pretends to forget.

76
Q

Manifestation

A

occurs via tangled hierarchy, causing illusion of separateness which causes temporary amnesia. At intellect and mental level of descent, their subtle quantum bodies present to consciousness possibility structures that contain thought contexts and thought itself. Consciousness and mental contextual possibilities unseparate whole. However, when self referentially collapsed, possibilities into actuality at lower level, creates apparent separation. At next level of descent (vital) consciousness creates potential for separation between life and environment. No actual collapse or separation of intellect, mental and vital bodies takes place until physical body arrives

77
Q

How does what is potential in matter become actual?

A

Within tangled hierarchies and quantum measurements, consciousness can supervene and self-referential collapse of quantum possibility waves of all four bodies (theme, mental, vital, and physical) occur. Consciousness remembers levels that came before matter.

The Visionary Window (14 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2024 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions