Illusion

The self, the place where we live, is a place of illusion. Goodness is connected with the attempt to see the unself… to pierce the veil of selfish consciousness and join the world as it really is.

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Qu’est-ce que la vie?

Un homme de science est censé posséder, et cela de première main, des connaissances complètes et approfondies sur quelques sujets ; aussi attends-t-on habituellement de lui qu’il n’écrive rien sur un sujet qu’il ne domine pas comme un maître? Pareille réserve est considérée comme une question de noblesse oblige. Pour le but présent je désire renoncer à la noblesse, s’il en est, et être affranchi de l’obligation qui en découle. Mon excuse est la suivante : Nous avons hérité de nos ancêtres une invincible prédilection pour des connaissances unifiées et universelles.

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La seule alternative possible est simplement de s’en tenir à l’expérience directe que la conscience est un singulier dont le pluriel est inconnu ; qu’il n’existe réellement qu’une seule chose, la pluralité apparente n’étant qu’une série d’aspects différents de cette chose unique, produits par une illusion (la maya hindoue) ; la même illusion se manifeste dans une galerie de glaces ; de même Gaurisankar et le mont Everest se trouvèrent être le même sommet, mais vu de vallées différentes.

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Supposez que vous puissiez marquer d’une façon distinctive les molécules contenues dans un verre d’eau, que vous versiez ensuite le contenu du verre dans l’océan, puis que vous agitiez ce dernier de façon à distribuer uniformément les molécules marquées parmi les « sept mers » ; en remplissant alors un verre d’eau en n’importe quel endroit de l’océan vous y trouveriez environ une centaine de vos molécules marquées.

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Les mutations sont dues en fait à des sauts quantiques dans la molécule du gène.

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Le physicien s’est familiarisé avec le fait que les lois classiques de la physique sont modifiées par la théorie des quanta, spécialement aux basses températures. Il y en a beaucoup d’exemples. La vie semble être l’un d’eux, et même un cas particulièrement frappant. La vie paraît être un comportement ordonné et réglementé de la matière, comportement qui n’est pas basé exclusivement sur la tendance de passer de l’ordre au désordre, mais basé en partie sur un ordre existant qui se maintient.

Erwin Schrödinger dans Qu’est-ce que la vie?

Une pièce musicale de Jean-Michel Blais – A heartbeat away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrQp_W6KxeA&list=RDCrQp_W6KxeA&start_radio=1

Un Secolo dopo, una Teoria Completa sui Colori.
Schrödinger e la Geometria del Colore, Una Teoria Completata Dopo un Secolo. Erwin Schrödinger è universalmente noto per la meccanica quantistica e il celebre esperimento mentale del gatto. Tuttavia, negli anni Venti, il fisico austriaco propose un'ambiziosa teoria geometrica per spiegare come percepiamo i...

https://scienzamagia.eu/scienza-e-tecnologia/un-secolo-dopo-una-teoria-completa-sui-colori/

#diminishingreturns #ErwinSchrödinger #fotorecettori #meccanicaquantistica #SpaziodiRiemann #TeoriaCompletaColori

La Misura della Realtà nella Fisica Quantistica. Oltre il quinto quanto e la realtà della misura nella fisica quantistica. L'esplorazione della meccanica quantistica ci porta spesso a confrontarci con le sue "frattaglie", i concetti più complessi e ostici da elaborare. Al centro di questo dibattito vi è l'equazione di Schrödinger, la formula matematica

https://scienzamagia.eu/scienza-e-tecnologia/la-misura-della-realta-nella-fisica-quantistica/

#EquazionediSchrödinger #ErwinSchrödinger #meccanicaquantistica #metro misura #teoremadiBell #teoriadelcaos #trottole

Torniamo a parlare di “quinto quanto”: tra trottole, metri e tavoli, cerchiamo di capire qualcosa sulle stranezze della meccanica quantistica.

Quel 1926 quantistico di #ErwinSchrödinger che fece diventare la realtà uno stato https://www.avvenire.it/agora/scienza/quel-1926-quantistico-di-schrodinger-che-fece-diventare-la-realta-uno-stato_103987

@tecnologia

A window on what is

I find the study of phenomenology in my amateur way endlessly fascinating; it is all too easy to follow it down philosophical rabbit-holes, as I have done in several posts recently. But the contemplative life, related though it is to the practice of philosophy (as seen so clearly in some Buddhist schools like Yogācāra) deals in itself not with discursive thought but with direct experience; which is one of the reasons I have for so long been drawn to the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition of hesychasm, or to the Pure Land Buddhist practice of the Nembutsu – not primarily because of the nature of these practices themselves (repetitive prayer) but because of their extreme simplicity.

Now, phenomenal experience is sometimes characterised as a tunnel (Metzinger), a “benign user illusion” (Dennett, glossed so brilliantly by Susan Blackmore) or a mindstream (Yogācāra). The idea generally seems to be that what we experience from moment to moment is a transparent, essentially functional but ultimately illusory interface that the mind provides between reality and our (equally illusory) experience of a permanent self. Reality itself is far richer and stranger, and the self is “but one of the countless manifestations of the Tao” (Ho (PDF)). To say these things can of course provoke in the reader a myriad of misunderstandings, and to realise them oneself can cause a temporary existential disruption that is horribly like a classical bad trip. Misleading though many of its Perennialist assumptions may be, one of the best accounts of what is at stake must be Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception. Donald Hoffman finds the same position in Erwin Schrödinger:

[Schrödinger’s] position boils down to this: what we call the physical world is the result of a process that Schrödinger called “objectivation”, i.e. the transformation of the one self-world (Atman=Brahman) into something that can be readily conceptualized and studied objectively, hence something that is fully void of subjective qualities. In the theory of conscious agents this amounts to the creation of “interfaces”. Such interfaces simplify what is going on in order to allow you to act efficiently. Good interfaces hide complexity. They do not let you see reality as it is but only as it is useful to you. What you call the “physical world” is merely a highly-simplified representation of non-dual consciousness.

Donald Hoffman, Schrödinger and the Conscious Universe (IAI News)

Last year I attempted, as I periodically do, to explain to myself how this paradoxical relationship between overthinking and contemplative practice could possibly work. I concluded:

I have written elsewhere of the profound stillness I experienced recovering from childhood meningitis; in many ways, my contemplative practice over the last 40-odd years has been an attempt, scattered as it has at times been, to recover that stillness.

These things are nothing new. The Taoist tradition beginning between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE, and the Chan Buddhist writings in the early centuries of the present era, are full of wanderings “cloud hidden, whereabouts unknown” (Chia Tao). And the central tradition of (at least Zen) Buddhist meditation consists of “just sitting” (shikantaza).

The falling away of purposeful action, in itself the very simplest thing, seems one of the hardest to achieve – perhaps because it isn’t an achievement at all. An achievement would be the result of purposeful action. This appears to me to be the snag with so many programmes of practice involving concentration, visualisation, ritual and so on.

The paradox inherent in practice, any practice, only begins to thin out in sheer pointlessness, either the pointlessness of a repeated phrase such as the Jesus Prayer, or the Nembutsu, or of merely sitting still. The power of shikantaza is simply powerlessness, giving up, complete acceptance of what is without looking for anything. When you cease to try to open the doors, they open by themselves, quite quietly. Not looking, the path opens.

#AldousHuxley #contemplative #DanielDennett #DonaldHoffman #ErwinSchrödinger #hesychasm #nembutsu #practice #SusanBlackmore #Tao #ThomasMetzinger #unknowing #Wikipedia

Flash: Un effetto tunnel da Premio Nobel

https://edu.inaf.it/approfondimenti/scoperte/flash-effetto-tunnell-premio-nobel-2025/

Un nuovo approfondimento sulla scienza dietro i fumetti di supereroi: in questa occasione cerchiamo di capire come le scoperte premiate con il Premio Nobel per la Fisica 2025 possono aiutare Flash ad attraversare i muri!

#DCComics #effettoTunnel #effettoTunnell #ErwinSchrödinger #Flash #GeorgeGamow #JohnClarke #JohnMartinis #meccanicaQuantistica #MichelDevoret #PremiNobel #supereroi

The year of quantum science: Promise and peril in the race for breakthroughs.

A century after Heisenberg formulated his theory, the field has transformed our understanding of the physical world, yet many of its applications remain in development.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250906-the-year-of-quantum-science-promise-and-peril-in-the-race-for-breakthroughs?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#QuantumScience #QuantumMechanics #WernerHeisenberg #AlbertEinstein #ErwinSchrodinger #ImperialCollegeLondon #UniversityOfSurrey #UniversidadCUNEF #UniversidadAutónomaDeChile #OakRidgeNationalLaboratory #Quantum2025 #Science

#Zoomposium with Manfred #Rumpl: “In the footsteps of #Schrödinger - Or how much #philosophy does #physics contain?”

In this interview from our series “Physics and its limits”, we talk to the Austrian writer, educator and philosopher #ManfredRumpl about his book “Travelers in #Relativity”, which traces the life of the Austrian physicist and philosopher of science Erwin #Schrödinger.

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/09/29/auf-den-spuren-schroedingers/

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6H3SAV01dNEHs1KgiNqoWU?si=WXMhWrD2Qvy1WQmgyxPWeA

#ErwinSchrödinger #Quantumtheory