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Its all in the mind


Just recently, I watched a fascinating video on YouTube about the similarities between the workings of the human brain and the universe. The narrator proposed an intriguing idea that the universe itself might be the mind of the creator, with us living inside this mind as its active components. While this might seem like a novel concept from a physics perspective, it resonates with ideas that have circulated in various cultural traditions for centuries.

Tagore, in his conversation with Einstein, remarked that the universe exists only in relation to the observer. He insisted that truth and beauty are realized only through the human perception. However, our everyday experiences suggest that things continue to exist regardless of our observation. For instance, the sun will rise in the east even if we are not there to see it. This suggests an absolute existence that doesn't depend on individual perception. Tagore countered this by saying that things exist in relation to a universal observer rather than an individual one, and that the individual observer is part of this universal consciousness.

( EINSTEIN: Even in our everyday life we feel compelled to ascribe a reality independent of man to the objects we use. We do this to connect the experiences of our senses in a reasonable way. For instance, if nobody is in this house, yet that table remains where it is.

TAGORE: Yes, it remains outside the individual mind, but not the universal mind. The table which I perceive is perceptible by the same kind of consciousness which I possess.)

Quantum physics has shown that the presence of an observer is crucial to the process of existence. Quantum particles exist in a superposition of all possible states until they are observed, at which point they collapse into a specific state. This implies that the human mind can influence which state is observed, though it cannot predict the outcome with certainty. The role of the observer introduces an element of chance, as different observers might see different outcomes. However, once a particle is observed, its state becomes fixed and consistent regardless of the number of observers, suggesting a correlation between the individual mind and an universal mind.

The famous Schrödinger's cat paradox can be resolved by considering that a universal observer determines one of the outcomes by chance. This outcome then becomes the definitive reality to which individual observers align.

This concept leads to the idea that the universe might have existed in a superimposed state of all possibilities until the act of observation created a defined existence. This moment of observation could be analogous to the Big Bang, suggesting that existence itself is a creation within the universal mind. In this view, the entire universe is a simulation generated by this mind, where time, space, forces, particles, and intelligent life are all active and dynamic part of this grand simulation. The grand collapse of this wave function can itself be a dream within the Universal mind. 

In the words of Rabindranath Tagore , " the ultimate physical reality is nothing but a multitude of separate revolving centres of electric force, also belongs to the human mind." 

Our brains, as replicas of this universal mind, create our individual experiences and perceptions.

Einstein famously remarked that the world is an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. This persistence is a creation of the mind, making life worth living because this illusion is beautiful and meaningful. The pains of life are cracks through which reality seeps into our consciousness. We don't always recognize this because our brains distract us, and our civilization further distances us from this realization. Our existence might be seen as a simulation with multiple layers:

  1. The Modern World: Here, external influences hack our brains, causing most people to live and die within this layer without recognizing deeper truths.
  2. The Brain's Creation: This layer is our brain's way of distancing itself from the universal mind.
  3. The Quantum Layer: In this fundamental layer, everything is interconnected and exists only in relation to an observer. In this layer of existence the Universal Mind and the individual mind assumes an undifferentiated wholeness.  

Our minds are interconnected like individual nodes in a computer network, and our existence is a simulation by and for this system. Understanding this multi-layered reality can help us overcome the distractions and recognize our connection to the universal mind.

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