Two thousand years ago our understanding of the world leaned mostly on religious faith while the leading sciences, mainly geometry, arithmetics and astronomy, were just starting to provide points of view that, over time, would amass and diversify into deviations from universally accepted norms, accelerating humanity’s progress.
Back then, obviously, nobody had any clue about developments such as quantum physics, cloud computing or genetics, to mention just a few of the myriad of advances in science that are at the leading edge of today’s knowledge.
From now on humanity will keep adding not just new theories but entirely different ways to prodding and better understanding of our continuous space-time.
In the words of a literary genius, ‘A hundred years from now, the people who come after us… What will they think of us? Perhaps they’ll find a sixth sense and cultivate it.’ Anton Chekhov wrote that back in 1900.
Those hundred years have barely past and “artificial intelligence” comes to his prophecy’s rescue (who really believed that his words weren’t mere metaphor?) by literally providing us with a computational, cloud domiciled, sixth sense.
If you are somehow skeptical about AI being organically linked to the human bio-system to be even considered a “sense”, then research done by University of Sheffield psychotherapy professor Digby Tantam (among others) points to the fact that humans possess what he calls an “inter-brain” able to facilitate mind-to-mind communication between individuals without the need for verbal or gesture-based talking in order to transmit information.
If he were to be somehow resurrected today, Chekhov might simply exclaim, ‘Quod erat demonstrandum’.
Sixth sense? Check. Resurrection? More about that a few paragraphs down page.
We at (n)fora affirm our conviction that exploring and deciphering how the brain functions is the key toward a better understanding of not only us, humans, but of the entire universe.
University of Bologna astrophysicist Franco Vazza and University of Verona neurosurgeon Alberto Feletti concluded in a paper published in Frontiers in Physics that “the cosmic network of galaxies and the network of neural cells in the human brain show, despite the striking and obvious difference between the physical powers regulating galaxies and neurons, more similarities than those shared between the cosmic web and a galaxy, or a neural network and the inside of a neural body.”
That’s a convoluted way to saying that the brain and the universe seem to be, viewed from a strictly material point of view, rather similar.
A modern day Aristotle would be surprised in the least about this observation since he was the initiator of a principle which later morphed into Haeckel’s elegant affirmation that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”.
This is one of the instances where science and theology converge. For the evolutionary theory disinclined, since the Creator insisted on sticking with a divine blueprint, it should be obvious that the human brain follows a universal “archetype”.
“While the 20th century was the century of physics, this one will be the century of the brain – the most complex piece of highly excitable matter in the known universe. It is within our reach to enhance it, to reach for something immensely powerful we can barely discern.”
Christoph Koch, Chief Scientist of the Allen Institute of Brain Research in Seattle, continues elaborating that, ‘We must create technologies to enhance the processing and learning capabilities of the human brain.’
Our project’s main premise is that memories, a particular form of information, are stored not within the brain itself, but in a multi-leveled universal field/dimension/state. The brain structures are a mere conduit to storing the information in the (n)fora, as we call it, where it becomes (n)formation, and when needed, retrieving it to its informational state within the brain.
Call us idiots for affirming that memories reside outside the brain if you want, but before you do please consider what Sir Roger Penrose, mathematician, philosopher of science, and Nobel laureate in physics has to say on the same topic.
He argues that if a person temporarily dies, the quantum information from his/her brain is released into the universe. However, if the person is resuscitated, the quantum information is channeled back and that is what sparks a near death experience.
“If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely.”
Definitely indefinitely, we say.
But it is not just living organisms that continuously output information in the (n)fora, it is also every interaction of every particle that has mass, and every energetic interaction of any sort. A formidable quantity of (n)formation is continuously generated in the universe, by the entire universe.
And that is exactly what causes its expansion, an accelerated ballooning of the universal (n)fora.
Since the (n)fora “is not mass and it is not energy” as Norbert Wiener has postulated about information, our existing tools that look for particles or energy are clearly not adequate to observe and decipher the fundamentals of the (n)fora.
Not only do we have to search somewhere else, we also have to search with something else. Or, in physicist and Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek’s words, “New thinking inspires new tools, no less than new tools inspire new thinking”.
Researchers with the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK) in Japan and the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany would clearly be in agreement with us. They suggest that whatever propels the accelerating expansion of the universe and permeates the entire cosmos, which they call “quintessence”, is neither an inherent property of space determined by a constant factor, nor a form of matter.
Their approach is supported by research published in 2020 in the Astrophysical Journal reporting tiny discrepancies in the orbital speeds of distant stars revealing a faint gravitational effect.
One of the study’s co-authors, the head of the Astronomy Department at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Professor Stacey McGaugh elaborates that it is not matter, visible or not, causing the galaxies to behave as they do, but pure mathematics.
And what is ultimately pure mathematics if not the human attempt at quantifying part of the universal (n)fora?
Understanding that (n)formation permeates literally everything, energy or matter, brings us closer to an assessment of a universe “in which nothing that has come into existence will have passed away, and the earlier phases of development would continue to exist alongside the latest one.”
The above quote is not, however, the description of the universe perceived through the concept of the (n)fora, but Sigmund Freud’s one hundred plus years’ old description of what the human mind could achieve at its absolute highest performance level.
That of course feeds back to the analogy between the brain and the complex web of galaxies.
Einstein is quoted to once having said that, “Everyone knew it was impossible, until an idiot who didn’t know came along and figured it out.”
Now that you know all this go ahead and call us idiots. But be forewarned that when it comes to the (n)fora, the future will bear us out!