What started as a relative innocent inquiry into the nature of the soul, a philosophical dialogue on ideas I had about the nature of the Soul, turned into a nightmare of nocturnal ?lucubrations.
At first I thought I had it all figured out. Thanks to my dear friends Surya Deva and Asuri, I had become acquainted with the straightforward approach of reasoning of Samkhya.
In the thread ?An Inquiry into the nature of the Soul? we had come to some interesting conclusions.
* The only thing I know is that I am aware, conscious.
* What I am aware of, the objects of observation is not I.
* I am aware of these objects via perception of my five outward directed senses and apperception of the sixth sense: the inner organ called mind (antah karana)
* Apparent ?reality? changes with the state of consciousness
* Something never comes out of nothing.
* Gross and massive aggregates are gradually built from ever more subtle and minute sub-substances
* Mind and matter are transformations of the same substance because they are able to contact eachother
* As mind is ever more subtle than any form of apparent material aggregate, mind is the origin of matter, not vice versa.
* Beyond mind, even more subtle there is only the ?Self? or the Soul, hence this must be the origin of mind and matter
* All there is, is Jnana. The primacy of consciousness. This is the true nature of the Soul
* Prakrti (matter energy, mind etc.) is but the illusory field of observation. It changes and becomes, it is the world of time and space, hereinafter called the ?relative world?
* But if the self is the cause of reality, then the effect should be like the cause (Samkhya). But this is not true [in an absolute sense: Vedanta]. As we already concluded, the self is pure consciousness, unchanging, spaceless and timeless and the world is unconscious, changing and in space and time. It therefore follows that the effect is not actually real but imaginary or holographic (maya ? illusion).
* Consciousness itself cannot change, it can only be and perceive. It is spaceless and timeless ? eternal and infinite. It is everywhere and in everytime
* Hence here is only one Soul
* Individuality is but another illusion
* A photon is just energy, it is just a form of prakrti; it is not a Soul
* Life is also not the Soul, it is also limited in time and space and therfore has no absolute reality
But my mind kept on crunching on these topics. Especially because I was interested in the specific prakrti aspects of nature of the jivatma, the illusory individual living aspect of the thus ?captured? Soul. Because as a scientist I constantly seek for parallels between science and vedanta. Because as a scientist I understand that a mind is built from connections (Goertzel?s Creating Internet Intelligence).
Even if there is no objective reality as Nietzsche and Wittgenstein conclude, even if the objects themselves are not really there but are holographically built from connections, connections, links must be for a mind to be. And even if these connections need not be embedded in material matrix of the brain, which merely functions as a facilitator in funnelling the results of the mental or causal body (the manomayakosha) and merely reflects what is happening at a more subtle level, the mind must have some prakrti-substratum to build its links.
So what is the nature of these connections, links?
It was said that mind is but a subtle form of matter. If so, it must be observable; measurable.
Again I?ll provoke the reader with some fantasies to give him food for thought. Are the links of the manomayakosha the beams of light between the stars? (The stars themselves not being real, but holographic)? The pattern of planets and stars functioning as a grid, through which an interference pattern of energy is generated? Or is it at a level which we cannot measure or probe? In the absolute sense that cannot be if our conclusion is right that mind is but a subtle form of matter. If so, it must be observable; measurable. Our instruments may not be sufficiently developed for this purpose, but the must be some level of prakrti, not gross particulate matter, but a level of energy, which is more subtle, which forms the connections of our minds.
And here comes another theory from science which nicely fits in this discussion: dark energy vs. information. It was recently found that energy can be created out of information; the so-called demonic energy with reference to Maxwell?s demon. Information decreases entropy, by letting only hot gas particles through a filter, thereby creating a local high energy and a local low energy chamber. It offends the second law of thermodynamics as we knew it.
Speculative ideas on this topic have been brought forward by Kurzweil?s Singularitarians, (they remind me of the techno?s in the ?Incal? by Moebius and Jodorowsky) who believe that as we approach the technological singularity, which results in an explosion of information and the forming of one great Demiurge, who encompasses the whole universe, this explosion of information is balanced by the coming into existence of dark energy. That?s why we start to see galaxies moving from eachother at an ever increasing speed.
Read the thread http://www.kurzweilai.net/forums/topic/information-dark-energy.
So the result of this expansion is that the Universe ends in a big rip and gives birth to new multiverses. A final Coda to the Universe.
So if information generates energy, it must be energy by the law of the nature of cause and effect are the same. So the connections or links must somehow be embedded in a form of energy. Is it then the pattern of dark energy in the multiverse that forms the links, the connections?
And when the universe ends in the big rip, particulate matter as we know it will have disappeared. The nature of what will be left we can only guess, but one thing is for sure, in the expansion of matter in the big rip, in its striving for an ever increasing entropy, matter will be ripped apart into its finest, most subtle components, which can no longer be called things or particles. A kind of no-thingness wave function. As a whole this ripped-apart state of no-universe has attained an almost perfect homogeneity of no-thingness. And by attaining the highest entropy, the lowest entropy will be attained. The ripped-apart Chaos is perfectly ordered. And the perfect order of zero entropy must decay in a higher entropy. And thus universes are born. Thus matter will be born out of mind.