May 30, 2025 06:39 PM
One of the first thinkers who took the metaphor of the hologram to whole new levels in understanding our world, consciousness, quantum physics, and psi phenomena. The vast scope of this holistic thinking possesses amazing explanatory power for what the nature of reality is and the nature of mind as well. See example below..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgYz_BU2Ew
“Because the term hologram usually refers to an image that is static and does not convey the dynamic and ever active nature of the incalculable enfoldings and unfoldings that moment by moment create our universe, Bohm prefers to describe the universe not as a hologram, but as a "holomovement. " The existence of a deeper and holographically organized order also explains why reality becomes nonlocal at the subquantum level. As we have seen, when something is organized holographically, all semblance of location breaks down. Saying that every part of a piece of holographic film contains all the information possessed by the whole is really just another way of saying that the information is distributed nonlocally. Hence, if the universe is organized according to holographic principles, it, too, would be expected to have nonlocal properties.”― Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe
It occurs to me that if our physical universe is the holographic generation of a hidden level of order, then not only are objects and matter instantiated by it but also space itself is. So the hologram, or Bohm's holomovement, is perceived locally as atomistic and separated into discrete parts and distanced locations, but is actually bound together by a deeper non-local order beneath space itself, and probably beneath time as well. Holographically I may appear to be lightyears away from a star, but myself, the star, AS WELL AS the space between us, all unfold or manifest at once from the underlying implicate substrate. Nonlocality is thus fundamentally hardwired into the fabric of reality, as demonstrated by such phenomena as entanglement (see excerpt below), synchronicity, clairvoyance, precognition, memory, emergence, and fractal geometry.
"According to John Preskill, the Richard P. Feynman professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, many physicists have suspected a deep connection between quantum entanglement — the “spooky action at a distance” that so vexed Albert Einstein — and space-time geometry at the smallest scales since the physicist John Wheeler first described the latter as a bubbly, frothy foam six decades ago. “If you probe geometry at scales comparable to the Planck scale” — the shortest possible distance — “it looks less and less like space-time,” said Preskill. “It’s not really geometry anymore. It’s something else, an emergent thing [that arises] from something more fundamental.”
Physicists continue to wrestle with the knotty problem of what this more fundamental picture might be, but they strongly suspect that it is related to quantum information. “When we talk about information being encoded, [we mean that] we can split a system into parts, and there is some correlation among the parts so I can learn something about one part by observing another part,” said Preskill. This is the essence of entanglement.
It is common to speak of a “fabric” of space-time, a metaphor that evokes the concept of weaving individual threads together to form a smooth, continuous whole. That thread is fundamentally quantum. “Entanglement is the fabric of space-time,” said Swingle, who is now a researcher at Stanford University. “It’s the thread that binds the system together, that makes the collective properties different from the individual properties. But to really see the interesting collective behavior, you need to understand how that entanglement is distributed....
"...a string theorist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, likens the holographic concept to a two-dimensional computer chip that contains the code for creating the three-dimensional virtual world of a video game. We live within that 3-D game space. In one sense, our space is illusory, an ephemeral image projected into thin air. But as Van Raamsdonk emphasizes, “There’s still an actual physical thing in your computer that stores all the information."
---- https://www.quantamagazine.org/tensor-ne...-20150428/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rgYz_BU2Ew
“Because the term hologram usually refers to an image that is static and does not convey the dynamic and ever active nature of the incalculable enfoldings and unfoldings that moment by moment create our universe, Bohm prefers to describe the universe not as a hologram, but as a "holomovement. " The existence of a deeper and holographically organized order also explains why reality becomes nonlocal at the subquantum level. As we have seen, when something is organized holographically, all semblance of location breaks down. Saying that every part of a piece of holographic film contains all the information possessed by the whole is really just another way of saying that the information is distributed nonlocally. Hence, if the universe is organized according to holographic principles, it, too, would be expected to have nonlocal properties.”― Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe
It occurs to me that if our physical universe is the holographic generation of a hidden level of order, then not only are objects and matter instantiated by it but also space itself is. So the hologram, or Bohm's holomovement, is perceived locally as atomistic and separated into discrete parts and distanced locations, but is actually bound together by a deeper non-local order beneath space itself, and probably beneath time as well. Holographically I may appear to be lightyears away from a star, but myself, the star, AS WELL AS the space between us, all unfold or manifest at once from the underlying implicate substrate. Nonlocality is thus fundamentally hardwired into the fabric of reality, as demonstrated by such phenomena as entanglement (see excerpt below), synchronicity, clairvoyance, precognition, memory, emergence, and fractal geometry.
"According to John Preskill, the Richard P. Feynman professor of theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, many physicists have suspected a deep connection between quantum entanglement — the “spooky action at a distance” that so vexed Albert Einstein — and space-time geometry at the smallest scales since the physicist John Wheeler first described the latter as a bubbly, frothy foam six decades ago. “If you probe geometry at scales comparable to the Planck scale” — the shortest possible distance — “it looks less and less like space-time,” said Preskill. “It’s not really geometry anymore. It’s something else, an emergent thing [that arises] from something more fundamental.”
Physicists continue to wrestle with the knotty problem of what this more fundamental picture might be, but they strongly suspect that it is related to quantum information. “When we talk about information being encoded, [we mean that] we can split a system into parts, and there is some correlation among the parts so I can learn something about one part by observing another part,” said Preskill. This is the essence of entanglement.
It is common to speak of a “fabric” of space-time, a metaphor that evokes the concept of weaving individual threads together to form a smooth, continuous whole. That thread is fundamentally quantum. “Entanglement is the fabric of space-time,” said Swingle, who is now a researcher at Stanford University. “It’s the thread that binds the system together, that makes the collective properties different from the individual properties. But to really see the interesting collective behavior, you need to understand how that entanglement is distributed....
"...a string theorist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, likens the holographic concept to a two-dimensional computer chip that contains the code for creating the three-dimensional virtual world of a video game. We live within that 3-D game space. In one sense, our space is illusory, an ephemeral image projected into thin air. But as Van Raamsdonk emphasizes, “There’s still an actual physical thing in your computer that stores all the information."
---- https://www.quantamagazine.org/tensor-ne...-20150428/