But nevertheless, it's there. Occasionally, you might get a glimpse of it. The way we might get a glimpse of it is a lot of minds thinking about roughly the same thing at the same time. In a sense, what we're looking at in the global consciousness Project. So you can make a leap of faith and say, well let's just assume that there is something like a Gaia mind. Well, the Gaia mind is going to have, presumably, thoughts and desires and goals and all the rest of it. Which means that all of our collective actions are being pulled, in an evolutionary sense, by something bigger than us. So depending upon your definition of it all, people use terms like God, to her for some larger teleological force, which pulls us. I'm agnostic, when it comes to such content. But I can imagine, easily, but there are larger intelligent forces at work, which to pull us in various directions collectively, but we're not normally aware.
So the next step is, well, why stop at the earth? There must be other intelligent creatures out there on other planets. Maybe there's the universal Internet, or a galactic Internet. Make it as large as you wish. They are fully interconnected with it as well. So where does this larger and larger collective mind stop? The answer is, I don't know. It begins to raise the possibility of many levels of increasingly larger hierarchical mind, which is connected in larger and larger spaces. Which then, I hesitate to use the words intelligent design, because people go berserk when they hear that in the scientific realm. But it suggests there may be something like that.
Yes, in many ways we live in a mechanistic universe, and we understand things in those terms. But the evidence is very strong that there is more than that. As soon as you make that leap into something more, there are all kinds of new possibilities.
WTB - Sir Roger Penrose in England has theorized that at the Planck scale, the Planck scale actually is information.
Radin – Yes, and John Wheeler as well. His way of putting it was, “It from it.” So what he means is, “its” meaning things, objects, matter from it, meaning information; that at bottom all there is, is information. We have a tough time thinking about what in the world kind of bottom is that? How can something exist purely on abstract information terms? It's so far from common sense that it's really difficult to think about it. Nevertheless, the case can be made that physics can be built up, from the ground up from information. And then we perceive it in a certain way. But when we're down at the fundamental scale, perhaps at the Planck scale perhaps below the Planck scale, were made at out of bits of information. It sounds very matrix-like.
WTB - And what you are studying is how we access that information.
Radin - it's not so much how we access it. I think it's more that if in fact, we consist of that holistic information, we are that information. And our experience is reflecting it. You know, we're getting glimpses of the forms of interconnectivity that exist at that level. It's not so much the information, at that level, but more of the result of being in a holistic medium. Next > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
