World without Big Bang: Matter in the communicative flow of being

Von Christian Hermenau

Does physics really allow complex life or are we already off track with our formulas and equations? Is it possible that higher life up to humans could develop out of themselves, just as the laws of physics are laid out, or is something very decisive missing? In this book, we follow the basics of our understanding of the world and take completely different paths, which describe reality much more clearly and comprehensively than the standard models are able to do.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: neobooks
• Erscheinungsdatum: 11. Aug. 2020
• ISBN: 9783752911954

Buchvorschau

A child in virtual space

Our conception of the world, our thinking, our way of understanding things, is closely connected with the earth and our body, our physicality in the complex diversity of life. Our mind, our consciousness, our feeling to be there, to feel our inert mass, do not emerge anew from nothing every time. No, the whole process of creation of a new citizen of the earth is much more complex and multi-layered and at the same time anchored on the deeper atomic levels in a network that goes far beyond our imagination. Moreover, the history of mankind and of all life on earth is contained in the genes.

Children need an inspiring environment. The earth, the plants, animals and fellow human beings on it, offer an atmosphere that is exactly in tune with our powerful spirit, so that in the brains of the children, a picture of the world, with all its incomprehensible diversity, is formed. And this even in a way that is almost lustful for them. The size, the scale of the objects around us, also shapes our understanding of the world. So we can only understand bodies if we have touched them often enough as a small child, felt their mass, their inertia and developed a feeling for them. Perhaps it is theoretically conceivable to let a child grow up only in virtual space. It is very doubtful whether this really works, but a mind developing in this way would have completely different ideas of reality. For him then fantastic worlds could have much more reality. And his ideas, his spectrum of possibilities from which the world could be created, would be much broader than ours. A human being who knows only zeros and ones as the basis of his reality would have much less trouble with the thought that everything came into being out of nothing or that there are indeed an infinite number of possible combinations of zeros and ones, but they have no firmness, no hardness and reality for him lies only in their scheme of order. Even death or destruction would have a completely different meaning for a person in virtual space. With him, whole, multi-layered, connected worlds, simply deleted, can be removed as a whole package. For us, who grow up in the gravitational field of the earth, in which there are solid materials that have a great resistance and can be very painfully opposed to our forces or liquids that embrace us, such as water or matter, such as air that can be breathed, for us the resulting thinking is shaped by these experiences. We feel the cold, we hear the world and see the light. Our body, and in feedback to it our brain, is optimally equipped for life and survival in this world. We can calculate the trajectory of an arrow so intuitively that it actually hits a distant target. In the same way, we can recognize a familiar voice from the jumble of sounds. We have within us a fixed idea of masses, movements and force effects; an abundance of stored processes that give us orientation in the world. To be so firmly anchored to the earth, we needed reality as small children. We had to touch things, observe them and act with them. This enabled us to adjust to the liveliness of this earth in the shortest possible time. What we lose in the process is the openness for diverse world systems, how they could come into being and what their basis is. If the basis of all being is different from our normal reality, this has no effect on our life, but would mean that we find it very difficult to understand such foreign ideas. We would have little or no access to them and therefore could not evaluate them well. Results from experiments or theoretical considerations we would then simply accept without criticism because we lack a feeling for the connections and the correctness in this area. We would argue very logically rationally, which is always one-sidedly analytical, because on the rationally conscious level we cannot grasp complex interrelationships as a whole. But fortunately we have learned to write down our knowledge or to pass it on in another way. This way we can spend years studying knowledge on specific topics and thus slowly develop a feeling for the correctness of an idea.

Knowledge is not inherited, it must be passed on by our ancestors and learned sometimes playfully, sometimes laboriously. Actually, the way the brain is set up makes it easy for us to learn new things. Our brain is physically networked with all muscles, all organs and all senses and grasps things in a playful way, understands the environment, learns from other knowledge, in order to later understand complicated problems and find solutions for them independently. The only difficulty today is that we are supposed to learn more and more knowledge for which we see no sense and the brain, on the other hand, massively refuses to store something for which it feels no interest or enthusiasm. We need some kind of emotional reference to what we are supposed to learn, otherwise we do not absorb what we have experienced.

But our brain can not only store, it can also solve problems. In the conscious state, however, it is very sluggish and slow, and we find it difficult to deal with extremely tricky networked problems. We can only understand the world in the conscious state if the objects are available in a familiar form, if they can be explained without any break from a typical everyday logic. We humans always start from scratch as newborns with a similar brain structure, but through accumulated knowledge and increasing technology, we achieve an ever more sophisticated networking of nerve cells, potentially leading to an ever higher level of intelligence - modern intelligence. To find one's way in the deepest jungle of the Amazon and to go hunting with only a bow and arrow, to kill animals or to know the effect of the most different leaves, mushrooms, berries or whatever, clearly also requires a form of intelligence of its own, but for which there is no use in our highly technical society. It is all the more astonishing that the same brain is able to penetrate abstract calculations and from this to make a reference to reality, just like orienting oneself in the desert. The decisive factor is what we use it for every day in our lives.

It may be sobering that despite all the levels we have reached, we have to die after a reasonable time, nature knows no mercy. We must always laboriously pass on our knowledge to the next generation. We grow, but we also age. Death has been with us from the cradle. Apparently, this is the only way to ensure that with all this knowledge not only a crystalline intelligence will mature, which even if it has understood everything that is possible, will remain in these familiar structures in the long run. Every newly acquired higher level must be passed on to beings who grow up with this basis as knowledge. Only in children and young people is the intelligence still fluid enough to grow up with the new, as with a mother tongue, in order to be able and want to take further creative, i.e. new paths from this familiar basis. For all the experience and wisdom that older people can have, their willingness to try out other, foreign ways is blocked by the many internalized knowledge and their great life experience. It makes them easily arrogant, unteachable and they feel superior to the young inexperienced, but they no longer have the strength to take risky ventures, to engage in conflicting, daring ideas. They defend their position and their power, even if they feel that not everything is as they would like it to be. So death is also a blessing and our survival, our superiority is connected with the fact that we do not freeze in once written laws. Between a life in the jungle and modern life in a metropolis there are worlds apart. What were once the gods are now the idols of science and technology. One may regret it or expect a technical future with joy, but if we do not want to remain in the present state forever, only our children can help us to move forward. They are the only ones who can adapt optimally to the constantly changing conditions.

In order for us to free ourselves from the limited logic here on earth in everyday life, we must also move away from our familiar surroundings. A pre-human, who only knows his tree in its limited area in the jungle, who only lives, eats, grows and dies in his clan, will not get a view for the world outside the jungle, for many things that there is also to discover. As long as people in Europe still thought the world is a disc and one fall off at the edges, as long knowledge and the resulting world view remained at its level. But with the discovery of foreign countries and continents or the interest in generally valid, logical connections beyond everyday life, the horizon broadened and we were increasingly able to understand connections that are of a universal nature. Laws which in their pure form are not realized on earth, but which are nevertheless hidden behind diversity. For example, Galilei was able to observe other stars with his telescope, around which bodies also rotated, just like in a planetary system. He was the first to see Jupiter and its many moons, and none of the smaller and larger rocks, which were held in their orbits by the mass of Jupiter, were somehow interested in the Earth. It sounds so insignificant to us, but to the ears of the people of that time it was outrageous. So there were also other stars around which something revolved? So the earth was no longer the centre of everything, although the church preached this for a thousand years? There were indeed only a few ridiculous moons that moved around Jupiter, but the divine harmony was attacked with it, the perfection of the old constructed idea of the world was destroyed. Galilei experimented and questioned, once becoming suspicious, everything that had been assumed so far and established his own laws. But the decisive effect of this new perspective was a fundamental change in society. Despite his authority as a scientist far beyond Italy, the authorities could still forbid him to broadcast his ideas, but they did not stop the change in social thinking. Globally, in terms of time, a few years sooner or later play no role. One generation later, no one can ban the correctness of an idea for which the burden of proof has become unbearable. For the growing children, the foundations of the old, once recognized as wrong, are no longer acceptable. Their power dwindles with age and the following generations are ambitious and full of drive and go their own ways. And yet some mistakes last longer and others have only a short life span. In complex, interconnected societies, the future can only be predicted vaguely, and it does not always run steeply upwards. For example, before National Socialism, Germany was one of the world's leading countries in the field of culture and science, especially physics. After the war there was little left of it and America gladly took over the gap we left behind and has developed until today, to become by far the most powerful empire, which also holds a leading position in science. It is precisely this high degree of complexity which, conversely, means that potentially anyone can be like a butterfly whose wing beat in China, leads to a hurricane in our country. It is impossible to predict who will say and think the right thing at the right moment and be flushed far up the ladder. What is decisive, however, is not the correctness of his ideas, but also many secondarily favourable conditions on which nobody has any influence because they are so difficult to oversee and too many mechanisms are involved. Nor do the right ideas or the right people always become successful or even famous. The history of mankind is full of false rulers and truths. Man is also a master in lying and scheming. Sometimes one would like to let time run backwards to correct what happened afterwards. That we cannot and never will be able to do this is a blessing nevertheless, because in all our efforts to accept only good and right things, we would probably ruin the earth even faster than we already do. It is just a beautiful idea that everyone always wants the best for all people. In fact, most people want to rise above their fellow human beings. Wealth and great power is also always an expression of inequality. Such positions are generally not achieved through altruism and excessive philanthropy. So what if the powerful man at the top could use time to his advantage?

The power of intuition

Our current level of knowledge, our ability, what mankind has already achieved is breathtaking. The last generation can always fall back on an enormous wealth of experience from all the generations before us. We do not have to invent the wheel again and again. And it has never been easier to have access to the entire knowledge of mankind so easily. It is now possible with a small smartphone to access knowledge anytime and anywhere. The problem today is no longer that one is locked out of knowledge or that only an elite circle has access to it. Today we are faced with the problem of evaluation. Who or what decides what is right, who can we trust. What is fake news, is there a conspiracy theory behind it, or are we really learning secret material that should be covered up? Factual knowledge is no longer of great value, but if we want to evaluate reports and opinions, we need a basic knowledge that is not just isolated chunks, but that is sensibly networked with many other areas. It is again up to us how the threads come together, even if the computers take over the preparatory work, the sorting and filtering. From this point of view, despite all the navigation systems, we need our own orientation, our intuition, if we do not want to fall out of the whole and leave the world to a machine. There is also the danger that the administration of knowledge will be controlled by individual large corporations, which first of all want to make money with the power over knowledge. We have the access, we have the opportunities, but we should be aware that we