Dear Prof Christopher,

Thank you for the nice essay on “Para-Psychology and extreme psychology ". Here in this contest FQXI is covering a wide range of subjects like parapsychology to multi-body Dynamical Systems in cosmology. We will get a chance to such new ideas other people. Very good.

You are observations are excellent, like…

1. “The parents took him to a music...

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Dear Prof Christopher,

Thank you for the nice essay on “Para-Psychology and extreme psychology ". Here in this contest FQXI is covering a wide range of subjects like parapsychology to multi-body Dynamical Systems in cosmology. We will get a chance to such new ideas other people. Very good.

You are observations are excellent, like…

1. “The parents took him to a music store and to their astonishment Jay picked up a miniature cello and began to play it. He had never seen a real cello before that day. After that he began to draw miniature cellos and placed them on music lines. That was the beginning of his composing.”

2. “They thought I was a boy until I was six. I dressed like a girl. I said, ‘I’m a girl.’ They didn’t understand for the longest time [Solomon, p.604].And then looking ahead (after commenting on possible solutions to their p** challenge): [w]hen I’m a mommy I’ll adopt my babies, but I’ll have boobies to feed them and I’llwear a bra, dresses, skirts, and high-heeled shoes”…. Etc are really good.

For your information Dynamic Universe model is totally based on experimental results.

Many papers and books on Dynamic Universe Model were published by the author on unsolved problems of present day Physics, for example ‘Absolute Rest frame of reference is not necessary’ (1994) , ‘Multiple bending of light ray can create many images for one Galaxy: in our dynamic universe’, About “SITA” simulations, ‘Missing mass in Galaxy is NOT required’, “New mathematics tensors without Differential and Integral equations”, “Information, Reality and Relics of Cosmic Microwave Background”, “Dynamic Universe Model explains the Discrepancies of Very-Long-Baseline Interferometry Observations.”, in 2015 ‘Explaining Formation of Astronomical Jets Using Dynamic Universe Model, ‘Explaining Pioneer anomaly’, ‘Explaining Near luminal velocities in Astronomical jets’, ‘Observation of super luminal neutrinos’, ‘Process of quenching in Galaxies due to formation of hole at the center of Galaxy, as its central densemass dries up’, “Dynamic Universe Model Predicts the Trajectory of New Horizons Satellite Going to Pluto” etc., are some more papers from the Dynamic Universe model. Four Books also were published. Book1 shows Dynamic Universe Model is singularity free and body to collision free, Book 2, and Book 3 are explanation of equations of Dynamic Universe model. Book 4 deals about prediction and finding of Blue shifted Galaxies in the universe.

With axioms like… No Isotropy; No Homogeneity; No Space-time continuum; Non-uniform density of matter(Universe is lumpy); No singularities; No collisions between bodies; No Blackholes; No warm holes; No Bigbang; No repulsion between distant Galaxies; Non-empty Universe; No imaginary or negative time axis; No imaginary X, Y, Z axes; No differential and Integral Equations mathematically; No General Relativity and Model does not reduce to General Relativity on any condition; No Creation of matter like Bigbang or steady-state models; No many mini Bigbangs; No Missing Mass; No Dark matter; No Dark energy; No Bigbang generated CMB detected; No Multi-verses etc.

Many predictions of Dynamic Universe Model came true, like Blue shifted Galaxies and no dark matter. Dynamic Universe Model gave many results otherwise difficult to explain

Hope will have a look at my essay on Dynamic Universe Model and blog also where all my books and available for free downloading…

http://vaksdynamicuniversemodel.blogspot.in/

Be
st wishes to your essay.

For your blessings please…………….

=snp. gupta

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Dear Ted Christopher,,

Thanks for reading and commenting. Your essay is full of case studies that seem to have significance for materialist-based understanding of consciousness. I too have written of those cases where large percentages of the brain are missing but consciousness is not missing. And the Caenorhabditis elegan's 302 neurons (without the consciousness field) have not answered...

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Dear Ted Christopher,,

Thanks for reading and commenting. Your essay is full of case studies that seem to have significance for materialist-based understanding of consciousness. I too have written of those cases where large percentages of the brain are missing but consciousness is not missing. And the Caenorhabditis elegan's 302 neurons (without the consciousness field) have not answered any questions of note.

Numbers you quote are interesting: 3 million out of 3 billion genetic variances account for about 1% of innate variation in intelligence. You say:

"Such investigations [might] give pause to those trying to pursue more detailed understanding of consciousness based on materialist assumptions."

A key focus of your essay is that, while the general belief is that neurons shape thinking, genetics also seems to play a large role. While I only peripherally focused on this in my essay, many of my comments above point out that biological cells are chock-full of 'moving parts' and that it is momentum density than interacts with the consciousness field in my theory. It is certainly not limited to, or even specifically related to, 'microtubules'.

In short, if a universal consciousness field exists that interacts with momentum density, it will certainly interact with components of cells and with blood flowing in the body. It still seems likely to me that neurons are implicated in logic, but consciousness of self is a "whole body" experience, probably going to the cellular level.

In my essay I emphasize the fact that even our theories of fundamental particles are confused and the Standard Model is known to be incomplete. Aspects of quantum mechanics, according to Feynman, Susskind, and others, are incomprehensible. So I point out that "theories" from particles-to-human beings are narratives, underlying credos. They are not 'scientific' as is usually understood by the term, and LHC-type vast brain scanners will not change this. If the "Higgs" required an LHC, human consciousness will require a galaxy-wide effort!

Thanks again for your very interesting and well-written essay. I do believe it is very relevant to the essay topic.

My best regards,

Edwin Eugene Klingman

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Hi Ted,

I have just answered to your new post on our page. I copy it below for your convenience.

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Ted,

I think all your 'quibbles' are important, giving me a chance to focus on some of our key issues.

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"One quibble with your essay was with regards to the claim about the mystical nature of many great mathematicians and physicists. My sense of...

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Hi Ted,

I have just answered to your new post on our page. I copy it below for your convenience.

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Ted,

I think all your 'quibbles' are important, giving me a chance to focus on some of our key issues.

1.

"One quibble with your essay was with regards to the claim about the mystical nature of many great mathematicians and physicists. My sense of being a mystic is that it mostly entails a sustained inward commitment or awareness, and that tends to place the intellect in the backseat."

The historical fact is that essentially all those great people who deserve to be called 'fathers of physics' were mystics. This is true not only for Pythagoras and Plato, but also for Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Leibniz, Newton, Euler, Gauss, Faraday, Maxwell, Planck, Einstein, Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Pauli, older Dirac, Wigner... You may read about that, for instance, in a wonderful recent historical treatise of Wagner and Briggs, "The Penultimate Curiosity", or enjoy "Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists", collected by Ken Wilber, or in "The Music of Pythagoras" by Kitty Ferguson, to name just a few.

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"You talk a lot about the significance of intellectual beauty. On the hand I suggest that a lot of progress (intellectual/spiritual/whatever) is derived from the obstacles and suffering we encounter. "

The high importance of the intellectual beauty is not my arbitrary claim; I am finding that in writings of those highest rank mathematicians and physicists who cared to express their worldview. Moreover, I think everybody with sufficient mathematical experience knows that in his/her heart. Mathematics is loved by many people, and it is loved for its beauty. Obstacles and suffering may play an important role in ways that beauty is revealed to us, as, for example, one may read in the book of Job.

3.

"I think that the underlying reality is that religions were on to something real and science should be open to that possibility."

I do not think that science, as a special mode of cognition, can be open to religious reality. Science is limited by its strict exclusion of all subjective, which makes it so effective. I would rather say that scientists should not be as closed to the religious, as science is.

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I am not sure that I fully understand your last paragraph. I would say that the God-soul relation is extremely subtle both bottom-up and top-down.

Thanks again for your extensive and thoughtful comments. Stay warm and please do not forget to rate our essay.

Good luck, Alexey.

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