emergence – TheCommonAtheist

Before it is observed, matter is formless in the quantum fields as potential. When it is observed it becomes physical, collapsing into its particle forms. But it does come out from nothing, or no-thing

But really there are no particles—just excitations in the field. I am the field, you are the field, like ripples on a pond.

Take a box and eliminate everything that exists from inside the box—all the atoms and what your left with is a pure vacuum filled with absolutely nothing. But inside the box the quantum field still exist. This is about what absolutely nothing looks like.

The field is still in the box, even though it’s empty—and when we animate this we see it is all in flux, fluidly shifting and flowing to the edges of the vacuum—all 12 fields intersecting and interacting—and out of this nothing comes every thing.

This is the simplest thing we can imagine in the entire universe—and it’s complicated. It’s astonishingly complicated. It doesn’t get easier than this. Now if you want to understand not nothing but a single particle, that’s much more complicated. What we are made of is substantially more complicated than the field, which is nothing. —David Tong

The periodic table of all the elements. This is what every-thing is made from—

Everything that exists emerges from this field of no-thing. Every thing that is a thing has emerged from the 12 quantum fields where nothing exists. Scientists know this exists but you can’t get there because it is un-manifest. You can’t walk into this field because nothing and nowhere exists in it, but every thing emerges from it.

The universe is expanding—as we looked deeper into the cosmos we found it expanding faster than we imagined, faster even than the speed of light. As we determined to look even deeper than that with the James Webb telescope, it expands even faster than we thought faster meant. We are doing this.

Referring back to my first paragraph, we are doing this. We are looking, we are collapsing the fields into forms with our instruments and conscious attention. The field requires an observer for things to manifest, or to exist as things. The farther we look the faster of manifests, expanding at the speed of thought.

The difference between our imagination and reality may not be a significant difference. Since the particles we’re made of are in fact, imagery, or the non-existent material in nature. You too in fact are imagined without any stand alone reality.

Imagination is a self bounding, self limiting system. Your own imagination is limited by what you think is real, or possible, as well as being able to imagine what another has imagined. In the imaginative world there is no distinction between the metaphorical and the literal. Nearly all scientific discovery is preceded by imagination, then discarded as an arbitrary bit of byproduct and turned into an equation. But it precedes the equation and is fundamental to it! It is not however, the equation.

Myths are true stories that preceded a separation in the 1600’s between literal and metaphorical. That division is subject to the rise of literalism, a relatively new phenomenon.

To now rely solely on logic and reason is to examine a hypothesis in another closed system, verifying conclusions in the same system as they are hypothesized, which is a form of circular reasoning. Using logic to prove logic is a fallacy as backwards as using the Bible to prove the Bible. This is how science continues to think in christian logic.

So what are we to do? Materialism cannot validate itself, nor can physics validate it through measuring. It does however, validate idealism and imagination. Imaginary particles that have qualia without quantity.

Materialism (physicalism) is internally contradictory. It defines matter in a way that is not commensurate with mind, then tries to explain mind in turns of matter. Materialism defines matter as purely quantitative then tries to explain the qualities of experience in terms of quantities and measurements that don’t exist prior to such qualities.

We never come in contact with purely quantitative matter. Matter under materialism is a theoretical abstraction. It is not a fact of experience but a theoretical abstraction that may likely not exist in any form.

Who makes the theoretical abstraction? The minds of materialist. The abstraction of purely quantitative matter yet is the product of a mind. It exists only in the mind that creates it. Once it has created it, that same materialist mind then tries to reduce itself to it. That is the contradiction of materialism that has not produced a shred of evidence for emergence.

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