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AN EXPOSITION OF THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF WHAT THE MYSTICS HAVE BEEN SAYING

 

 

 

Dr. O. S. Reddy prattles.......

 

 

In nature things are as they are.

Correlation is a concept which we use to describe the connections we perceive.

 

The word and concept of `correlation' have no significance apart from people.

This is because only people use words and concepts.

Correlation is a concept.

Subatomic particles are correlations.

 

If we are not here to make them, there would not be any concepts, including

the concept of correlation.

 

The same is true of particles: if we were not here to make them, there would

not be any particles.

>From a pragmatic point of view nothing can be said about the world `out

there' except via our concepts.

Even in the world of our concepts particles do not have a separate and

independent existence.

 

They are represented by wave functions (Schr"dinger's wave equation); and the

meaning of the wave

function lies only in the correlation of other macroscopic things.

 

Since the wave function is thought to be a complete description of physical

reality, and since that which the wave function describes is an idea as well as

matter, the world cannot be as it appears.

 

A macroscopic object like a table or a chair has an experienced meaning.

That is, we organize our sensory perceptions directly in terms of it.

These experiences are such that we can believe that the object has an existence

and a well-defined location in space-time that is logically independent of other

things.

 

But the concept of independent existence evaporates at the subatomic level.

 

If it has an idea-like aspect, the physical world cannot be substantive in the

usual sense of the word.

 

One hundred percent matter is one hundred percent idea.

 

The Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics states that the physical

world is not what it appears to be.

 

It states that what we perceive to be physical reality is actually our cognitive

construction of it.

 

This cognitive construction may appear to be substantive, but the Copenhagen

interpretation of quantum mechanics leads directly to the conclusion that the

physical world itself does not exist.

 

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The mind is such that it can only deal with ideas.

It is not possible for the mind to relate to anything other than ideas.

 

Therefore, it is not correct to think that the mind can actually ponder reality.

 

All that the mind can ponder are its own ideas about reality.

 

Therefore, whether or not an idea is true is not a matter of how closely it

corresponds to the absolute reality, but how consistent it is with our

experience.

 

Even the Copenhagen interpreters of quantum mechanics were forced by their own

findings to acknowledge that a complete understanding of reality lies beyond the

capabilities of rational thought.

 

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The Copenhagen Interpretation and the Nature of Space and Time." American

Journal of Physics. 1977. pp.108-9.