Connected To Everything (REVISED)

‘The World is dead, only humans are conscious
or self-aware’; the idea made me feel so lonely,
commiserating with a mindless existence for all
other things – I cried over repetitive cycles of
mating and dying, the meaningless ‘being’ in
an unfeeling universe, then found spiritualism
 
Where all particles of everything have degrees
of awareness, purpose of life is to strive against
non-existence, all forms of being delight in form
change, moving to solar rhythms – quantum
physics provides explanations that save us
from Western materialism, a view changing
 
The whole world; I feel connected to everything –
no-longer a ghost in a machine, each particle is
alive like me and the basis of a physical world is
consciousness created by intelligent, benevolent
energy rejoicing in each creation. We’re free to
experiment with all possibilities, an unlimited
 
Range of imagination, our choices change the
World as it evolves according to our ideas – a
release from materialism’s static sadness, a
freedom knowing that life is infinite possibility
and not as was predicted to be a lonely ghost
in Descartes’ dualistic machine!
 
Sunday 9 June 2013

http://www.scaruffi.com/science/qc.html

Physicist Nick Herbert depicts consciousness as an all-
 pervasive process in nature; mind as fundamental com-
ponent, like elementary forces and particles - of the
universe - mind shares 3 features with quantum theory:

1. randomness
2. thinglessness - objects acquire attributes only
        once they are observed
3. interconnectedness - once 2 particles have
    interacted, they remain connected

Nick Herbert says three features of inert matter account for
mind’s three basic features:

1. free will
2. essential ambiguity
3. psychic connectedness

Therefore scientists underestimate the quantity of consciousness
in the universe

Computer scientist James Culbertson speculates consciousness
may be a relativistic feature of spacetime and may permeate all
of nature, so EVERY OBJECT has a degree of consciousness