Today almost everyone has heard of holograms, spatially projected three-dimensional images with the help of a laser. Today, two of the most eminent thinkers in the world - David Bohm, a physicist at the University of London, formerly protected from Einstein and one of the most respected quantum physicists, as well as Karl Pribram, Stanford neurophysiologist and one of the most Influential architects of the interpretation of the brain - they believe that the universe itself may well be nothing more than a gigantic hologram, a kind of image or structure created (at least in part) by the human mind.
Interestingly, Bohm and Pribram reached such a conclusion independently, through the study of very different fields. Bohm was convinced of the holographic nature of the universe after many years of skepticism against conventional theories, unable to explain numerous phenomena present in quantum physics. Pribram was in turn convinced of the ineffectiveness of conventional formulations to solve certain neurophysiological enigmas.
Once they reached these conclusions, Bohm, Pribram and other researchers adhering to the same idea warned that the holographic model served to explain a large number of phenomena, including telepathy, precognition, psycho-kynesis (the capacity of the mind to displace objects without using physical contact), the mystical feelings of communion with the universe, synchronicity and, even, shamanic and preagonic experiences. In fact, as its defenders underline, the holographic paradigm helps explain virtually all mystical and paranormal phenomena.
How did Bohm and Pribram come to such an unusual conception of the universe and what is extraordinary about the holographic model to explain such surprising and disparate phenomena?
To answer these questions it is necessary to briefly examine the fields studied by Bohm and Pribram.
THE BRAIN AS A HOLOGRAM
Pribram concluded that the universe is a hologram while trying to solve the question of how and where memories are stored in the brain. Over several decades, numerous studies had proven that memories are not confined in a precise region but are scattered throughout the brain. In a historical series of experiments carried out between the twenties and forties of this century, the neurologist Karl Lashley found with surprise that the removal of successive portions of the brain did not prevent a rat from performing complex tasks learned before the different surgical extractions.
Pribram, a former disciple of Lashley, found no answer to the puzzle until the 1960s, when reading an article about the surprising and novel holographic science gave him the explanation he was looking for. A brief dissertation on the nature of holograms will help us better understand Pribram's reaction. As we already indicated, a hologram is a three-dimensional image made with the help of a laser. To obtain a hologram, the object to be photographed is bathed in the light of a laser beam. A second laser is then bounced against the light reflection of the first and the resulting interference pattern (the area where both lasers intersect) is photographed. When revealed, the resulting film shows what a chaotic mass of lights and dark lines looks like. However, it is enough to illuminate the film with a new laser beam to get a three-dimensional image of the original object.
The three-dimensionality of such images is not the only surprising feature of holograms. If we split the hologram of a rose in half and illuminate the resulting halves with a laser, each half will display the complete image of the rose. If we subdivide the two halves over and over again, each of the fragments of photographic film will continue to show a complete, albeit smaller, version of the original image. Unlike conventional photographs, in the case of holograms each part has the information present in the whole.
This idea of "everything in each part" provided Pribram with the explanation he had unsuccessfully sought for so long. Lashley's experiments had shown that each portion of the brain seems to contain all of the memories present in the brain. This led Pribram to conclude that the brain itself must be a kind of hologram. How would memories be stored in a holographic brain?
Pribram today believes that memories are not grouped into neurons or small clusters of neurons, but in nerve impulse structures that cross the brain in a similar way to how laser structures intersect a piece of photographic film that contains an image of holographic nature. .
Memory storage is not the only neurophysiological puzzle that is easier to address using the holographic model of the brain proposed by Pribram. A good example of this is the way in which the brain manages to translate the avalanche of frequencies received through the senses (light, sound frequencies, etc.) to transform them into familiar sensory perceptions. The coding and decoding of frequencies is precisely the specialty of the hologram. In fact, neurophysiologists have discovered that the brain uses exactly the same mathematical language (known as "Fourier transformations") used to make laser holograms for deciphering perceptions. If we consider that Mother Nature has countless mathematical languages, it is as peculiar as it would be to discover a group of Eskimos who speak Swahili.
What does all this mean? Pribram considers that it is not only an additional test about the holographic nature of the brain but that it follows that the brain is, in fact, a kind of lens, a transforming machine that it converts the cascade of frequencies that we receive through the senses into the familiar scope of our internal perceptions. In other words, quasars, coffee cups and oaks do not exist objectively. These are holograms created inside our minds, while what we call `` outside world '' will not be more than a flowing and kaleidoscopic ocean of energy and vibration n.
SUBATOMICAL REALITY AS A HOLOGRAM
The path that led Bohm to conclude that the universe is a hologram began rather tangentially, when studying the scope of the subathemic particles. Shortly after its master principles had been established, quantum physics (the study of subatomic particles) revealed itself capable of making a prediction of a nature surprising. Almost all of us have heard on occasion of the cases in which two twin brothers share similar sensations for a lot of physical distance between them. Curiously, the mathematical formulations of quantum physics led to the prediction that certain types of subatomic processes are capable of originating essentially ge geme particles, that is, particles joined in an equally mysterious way, so that one of them will always and instantly record what happens to his twin regardless of the distance between them.
Such a prediction, however, does not fit the theory of relativity formulated by Einstein. According to this theory, there is no signal or communication capable of moving faster than light. Given that exceeding the speed of light is equivalent to crossing the temporal barrier, Einstein himself always refused to believe in the existence of such a connection between particles.
When the existence of twin particles was formulated for the first time, physicists were not in a position to empirically prove such a surprising hypothesis. As a consequence, during most of this century, most researchers focused on the study of the least problematic predictions of quantum physics. However, in 1982, a research team from the University of Paris led by the physicist Alain Aspect discovered a way to empirically test the hypothesis and prove reliably that the Twin particles can effectively record instantly any phenomenon that happened in their midst.
Since most physicists refuse to consider the Einsteinian theory of relativity as invalid, many of them struggled to explain Aspect's discoveries through tortuous reasoning, in an attempt of ignoring its true significance. Bohm, however, tried to follow a different path. Inspired by the strange properties of the hologram, he managed to formulate a way of explaining Aspect's findings without abandoning the veto imposed by the theory of relativity to the possibility of faster communication than light.
Bohm dispenses with mysterious communication signals and argues that subatomic particles can instantly record what happened to their peers with the argument that the supposed distance between them is nothing more than an illusion. His hypothesis states that, on some deeper level of reality, these particles do not constitute distinct entities but are an extension of the same fundamental whole.
Bohm offers an example to better visualize his theory. Imagine an aquarium in whose interior a fish swims. Imagine also that one is unable to observe the aquarium directly and that the only knowledge of it and its content comes from two television cameras, one focused on the front of the aquarium and another focused on its side. When contemplating their two respective television monitors, one might believe that the fish represented on the screens constitutes two distinct entities. The deception would come from the different angle of the cameras, capable of providing two different images. However, the longer contemplation of the fish will reveal the existence of a certain relationship between them. When one of them turns, his partner will make a simultaneous but slightly different turn; when one is positioned frontally, the other will always appear tilted. If one does not quite understand the real nature of the situation, one could end up concluding that the two fish maintain some kind of instant communication, a circumstance that obviously does not make the case. According to Bohm, this is precisely what happens between subatomic particles according to the Aspect experiment.
In holographic terms, just as each part of the hologram contains the information relative to the whole, each member of a pair of twin particles contains the information related to the complete pair. According to Bohm, the apparent connection faster than the light between subatomic particles is nothing other than the expression of a deeper level of reality still unknown to us, a holographic level analogous to that exemplified in the case of the aquarium. The fact that we see subatomic particles as distinct entities is explained because we do not perceive the proverbial portion of cosmic holographic film in which they are inscribed. We only see the trembling illusory image projected by the film.
THE COSMOS AS A HOLOGRAM
Considered in unison, the parallel discoveries of Bohm and Pribram - that our brain seems to be programmed to decipher holographic structures and that the texture of reality itself is structured in a holographic way - seem more than a surprising coincidence and lead us to think that the universe The whole is just a kind of gigantic hologram. This does not mean that it is formed by laser beams, but that it has the properties of a hologram. Such a proposal has been received with skepticism by numerous scientists but has also galvanized many others, among which the suspicion that it may be the closest model of reality to which science has come to date begins to spread.
As we have already mentioned, one reason for taking the holographic hypothesis seriously is that it offers an explanation that solves almost all parapsychological phenomena. In a universe in which individual brains would constitute indivisible parts of the same primordial hologram and in which everything would be holographically connected, telepathy could simply be the gateway to the holographic level. In other words, in a universe that is a hologram, our brain, and in fact every neuron and every atom of our brain, somehow contains the entire universe, at the same time that we are all part of a global mind. The phrase of the poet William Blake that the universe can be discovered in a simple grain of sand would become a literal truth. Therefore, the ability of one brain to access information from another brain would no longer be a problem, since each brain would already contain all of the remaining brains.
Bohm and Pribram have also pointed out that numerous religious and / or mystical experiences such as feelings of transcendental communion with the universe may have their origin in access to the holographic environment. As these two scientists underline, the descriptions of the great mystics concerning experiencing a sense of cosmic unity with the whole may be because these mystics managed to break into those regions of their mind in which everything effectively possesses a cosmic unity.
Michael Talbot was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1953. He published seven books: Mysticism and the New Physics, Beyond the Quantum, Your Past Lives: A Reincarnation Handbook, The Holographic Universe, The Delicate Dependency, The Bog, Night Things.
He also published articles in the New York Times Book Review, the Village Voice, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and in Omni magazine. He passed away in 1992.
Text originally published in the ArtFutura 1992 catalog.
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The Global Mind in the Holographic Universe
