From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jun 27 2005 - 14:55:13 BST
Hi All,
As many of you know there have been scientific experiments going on for
some time at Princeton University that provides solid empirical evidence
that we can influence one another and the physical world simply by our
intentions.
In an article explaining this phenomena entitled "Gathering of the Global
Mind" by Roger Nelson, several passages caught my eye as being especially
relevant to the MOQ. Consider the following:
"One of the most promising physical models for explaining the anomalies we
see in this work is drawn from David Bohm's proposed theory of active
information.(23) In his terms, information (and concomitant meaning) can
be nonlocal, extending indefinitely throughout space and time. Active
information may be envisioned as a potential field interacting in the
development of manifestations in the physical world. Thus, active
information is virtual, but when a "need" for it exists, the need
actualizes the information by creating a repository for it. In such a
model, the question we ask in the EGG project plays the role of the need
for information, making it possible for the inchoate meaning of global
consciousness to manifest.
Forgetting for a moment all our arguments about "consciousness," "mind,"
"thinking," etc., focus on the word "need." Is not "need" just another
word for "value?" Thus, substituting value for need in the above we read,
"Thus, active information is virtual, but when it becomes valued, the
value actualizes the information by creating a repository for it. In such
a model, the question we ask in the EGG project plays the role of placing
a high value on the information, making it possible for the inchoate
meaning of global consciousness to manifest."
The final passage from the same article made a further connection with the
MOQ. The author summed up as follows:
"So, for a deeper understanding, we ought to make music with the numbers,
and allow harmonies that might be hidden in the correlations sound out.
And we should paint pictures and weave webs of meaning from the not-quite-
random values sent by local EGGs in Europe, and Africa, and Asia, and the
South pacific, and the Americas. We want to mix these as sounds and
colors, and combine them with the poetic insights that frame and sketch
the design of an imagined global consciousness, just waking. In the
meantime, science, with its highly developed objective methods, succeeds
in drawing some elegantly instructive pictures as graphs which turn the
data into insights, and give a high perspective on the question. These
have their beauty too, and they show structures where there ought not to
be any, unless it is created there by some faint stirring of a global
consciousness.
"Harmony," "beauty," "elegance," "poetic insights," -- all pointing to
experience when DQ’s presence is most apparent.
I think science will someday demonstrate the creative force of value when
the experimental data it registers reveals heretofore unknown beauty That
day may be closer than is generally suspected.
The full article is available at: http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
Best,
Platt
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