"In the twenty-first century I believe we will continue to find increasingly strong reasons to believe that some of the strange effects observed in the microscopic [quantum] world exist not only in exotic realms, but also in the more intimate domain of human experience." - Dean Radin , Entangled Minds

Evolution isn’t all about greed. Societies where altruism dominated are more successful than ones where greed dominates. We feel the pain of others. It’s not as bleak as portrayed by Lothar. But he has a valid point. We need to maintain and improve altruism and compassion if we wish to grow.

For a better understanding of where Lothar Schafer is coming from, check out this piece that he wrote several years ago... On the Foundations of Metaphysics in the Mind-like Background of Physical Reality by Lothar Schafer That the basis of the material world is non-material is a transcription of the fact that the properties of things are determined by quantum waves, - probability amplitudes which carry numerical relations, but are devoid of mass and energy. As a consequence of the wave-like aspects of reality, atoms do not have any shape - a solid outline in space - but the things do, which they form; and the constituents of matter, the elementary particles, are not in the same sense real as the real things that they constitute. Rather, left to themselves they exist in a world of possibilities, "between the idea of a thing and a real thing", as Heisenberg wrote, in superpositions of quantum states, in which a definite place in space, for example, is not an intrinsic attribute. That is, when such a particle is not observed it is, in particular, nowhere. In the quantum phenomena we have discovered that reality is different than we thought. Visible order and permanence are based on chaos and transitory entities. Mental principles - numerical relations, mathematical forms, principles of symmetry - are the foundations of order in the universe, whose mind-like properties are further established by the fact that changes in information can act, without any direct physical intervention, as causal agents in observable changes in quantum states. Prior to the discovery of these phenomena information-driven reactions were a prerogative of mind. "The universe", Eddington wrote, "is of the nature of a thought. The stuff of the world is mind-stuff". Mind-stuff, in a part of reality behind the mechanistic foreground of the world of space-time energy sensibility, as Sherrington called it, is not restricted to Einstein locality. The existence of non-local physical effects - faster than light phenomena - has now been well established by quantum coherence-type experiments like those related to Bell's Theorem. If the universe is non-local, something that happens at this moment in its depths may have an instantaneous effect a long distance away, for example right here and right now. By every molecule in our body we are tuned to the mind-stuff of the universe. In this way the quantum phenomena have forced the opening of a universe that Newton's mechanism once blinded and closed. Unintended by its creator, Newton's mechanics defined a machine, without any life or room for human values, the Parmenidian One, forever unchanging and predictable, "eternal matter ruled by eternal laws", as Sheldrake wrote. In contrast, the quantum phenomena have revealed that the world of mechanism is just the cortex of a deeper and wider, transcendent, reality. The future of the universe is open, because it is unpredictable. Its present is open, because it is subject to non-local influences that are beyond our control. Cracks have formed in the solidity of the material world from which emanations of a different type of reality seep in. In the diffraction experiments of material particles, a window has opened to the world of Platonic ideas. That the universe should be mind-like and not communicate with the human mind - the one organ to which it is akin - is not very likely. In fact, one of the most fascinating faculties of the human mind is its ability to be inspired by unknown sources - as though it were sensitive to signals of a mysterious origin. It is at this point that the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. Ever since the discovery of Hume's paradox - the principles that we use to establish scientific knowledge cannot establish themselves - science has had an illegitimate basis. Hume was right: in every external event we observe conjunction, but infer connection. Thus, causality is not a principle of nature but a habit of the human mind. At the same time, Hume was not right in postulating that there is no single experience of causality. Because, when the self-conscious mind itself is directly involved in a causal link, for example when its associated body takes part in a collision, or when the mind by its own free will is the cause of some action, then there is a direct experience of, and no doubt that, causal connections exist. When this modification of the paradox is coupled with the quantum base, a large number of pressing problems find their delightful solutions. Like the nature of reality, the nature of knowledge is counter-intuitive, and not at all like the automatic confidence that we have in sensations of this phenomenon. The basis of knowledge is threefold. The premises are experience of reality, employment of reason, and reliance on certain non-rational, non-empirical principles, such as the Assumptions of identity, factuality, permanence, Causality, and induction. Where do these principles come from? Neither from an experience of external phenomena, nor from a process of reasoning, but from a system program of the self-conscious mind. By being an extension of the mind-like background of nature and partaking of its order, mind gives the epistemic principles - those used in deriving knowledge - certainty. Since they are not anchored in the world of space-time and mass-energy but are valid nevertheless, they seem to derive from a higher order and transcendent part of physical reality. They are, it can be assumed, messengers of the mind-like order of reality."

@abhishekshah11

3 жыл бұрын

Semantics aren't derived from symbols. The world is information, only when "one" is being informed.

@tomc8617

3 жыл бұрын

@@abhishekshah11 - Sorry, but I have no idea what you're referring to.

Audio is too quiet

@DanielFinol

8 жыл бұрын

Austin Texas Yes, that's a problem with most Closer To Truth videos. Fortunately, with this one, nothing is lost if you watch it on mute.

We are all connected.

Being an Anth major, I can say for a fact evolutionary and objective science for a fact changed human behaviour and our concepts of the world. Look at how eugenics and bunk science like phrenology (measuring head sizes for personality indicators) resulted from evolutionary biology. Objective science influences humans’ subjective understandings of our nature.

Oh, teaching students quantum mechanics make them more moral, also amazing.

I like Lothar's 'holistic approach' (bar evolution at this stage, at least).

Im curious as to why this man believes that quantum theory will effect the ethics of the layman when a vast majority of the world is still woefully ignorant of Newtonian and enlightenment age philosophy. Coming from my experience living in the United States my entire life, children are never taught even the most fundamental aspects of physics or philosophy until they are in high school. Considering as well the fact that only the most studious and curious children will show any level of interest or aptitude, this notion that 'quantum ethics' will drive positive change in the world is wholly unfounded.

@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time

8 жыл бұрын

Nicholas Rebel Very true!

@veraintuizione6497

3 жыл бұрын

No need to be educated to be a lovely person and to love...

Thanks a lot for this very precious interview🙏

Lothar of the Hill People speaks the truth, everyone!

Excellent!

Could quantum mechanics demonstrate that all physical reality is connected in time? That people can all connect based on time?

Maybe some kind of wave-particle duality relevant for life. The energy of quantum wave in conjunction with mass of the particle.

How does society behave based on quantum inter-connectedness?

I don’t like how the person is interviewing him.. he seems kind of rude.

What about before Newton? Medieval Christian ethics? Non-Western cultures?

for which kindergarten you filmed it?

@veraintuizione6497

3 жыл бұрын

For sure not for your personal hell

I find the interviewer to be incredibly condescending here.

His thoughts and ideas are positive, intriguing & mostly harmless...and even though my quantum-woo BS detector was going off throughout the interview, I did find his main premise to be quite compelling. although its pretty obvious the guy has never been around the uneducated masses.

Evolution is true?????

These people are still showing their egoism. Just failing to say Hindus are the oldest surviving civilization living life knowing this truth since time immemorial. Their all worship is for nature, animals, stone, trees, planets, sun, moon etc. They are doing nava (9)graha(planet)pooja since time immemorial.

Lothar Schafer, thinks Darwin is wrong but Lothar is wrong to think evolution means survival of the fittest.

@geraldvaughn8403

3 жыл бұрын

Please explain.

@geraldvaughn8403

3 жыл бұрын

I think Lothar exaggerated the negative aspects of evolution to explain his idea.

@tajzikria5307

Жыл бұрын

Evolution by natural selection is about fitness not reality. Evolutionary game theory proves this.

Further From Truth.

@veraintuizione6497

3 жыл бұрын

On the contrary it's the very truth, otherwise you needn't to deny it

not a convincing answer

Don't teach quantum physics. Follow Hindu way of life. Live life respecting nature, other lives, other humans. Become sensitive to things and lives around you. First try to become vegetarian. Not by force but teach compassion. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Sadguru all show you the way of life to follow

He is misrepresenting the viewpoint he is arguing against.

its not connected at the larger scale is it. hes lost the fucking plot