The Brain As Quantum Device

Jan 16, 2008 23:16

"And the fourth dimensional will baffle a man with a "Newtonian brain," for his visual world is three-dimensional, and his brain waves are three-dimensional, and his imagination is three-dimensional. But a man with an "Einsteinian brain" has a four-dimensional imagination and can picture a four-dimensional space."

From the Book of Special ( Read more... )

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fringekitty January 17 2008, 18:13:47 UTC
Thank goodness you're writing all this down! Otherwise, I'd be expected to listen to it all and try to come up with a cogent reply after you were all done. Now that we're into the metaprocesses, how might we be affecting those processes by our observation? Think...think...think...*taps forehead*...becomes thinking about thinking about thinking. Whoah! And still, I need to be able to function in this Newtonian world, don't I? or do I? Maybe it would be fun to take a Newtonian-free holiday. Perhaps that's part of the function of the virtual world, to start making the world of the quantum accessible to the conscious mind.

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