Quantum Future?

 I would like to invite you to stop and try to imagine what life on Earth might be like if Science had actually fulfilled its mandate of explaining our reality, solving the problems of humanity, and teaching us how to best interact with our world and each other. If science was – today - actually a free exploration of Nature and drawing accurate conclusions, creating theories, testing those theories with no hidden agendas, what might it have accomplished up to now? Can you do it? Can you think of any area of life that could not be improved by having a truly scientific understanding and clearly described response that was supported and implemented by the social/power structure to the benefit of all of humanity, not just the enrichment of a few?

Oh, you think it has been done? Think again. Read the history of science and human social development. When you see how repeatedly the few individuals who had the right idea were marginalized and/or destroyed, if you have any firing neurons after being born into a humanity which has been genetically manipulated to less intelligence, you will immediately realize that the same conditions - only worse - prevail today: what the mainstream follows is almost always what is politically expedient to those in power, with only enough truth involved to patch over the obvious tears in the now disintegrating fabric of the mask of science.

If a true, free, intelligent science, supported and encouraged by all of society, had actually been the norm since its inception, not the exception, we would live in a world where our very existence was not a shame to the planet that gave us birth. We would have free, clean energy. We would not have a vast majority of human beings living in poverty or starving. We would have no over-population problems. Health issues that dominate Western society and are bringing it to its knees would not be a problem because there would be plenty of nourishing food for all. There would be no wars because scientific anthropology and social psychology would have figured out what is the best of all possible forms of social structure that allows for the widest expression of human types to flourish in harmony. Children would not be being medicated at ever younger ages because cognitive science would have established what is the best way to rear and educate them and couples would be able to attend classes on infant care and parenting that were actually effective. The best forms of education would be known so that the widest variety of options would be available to the varied human types and levels of intelligence and skill so that each individual would progress into a life of satisfaction doing what they really enjoy and which they are best at doing, and society would benefit by not wasting its most precious resource: human beings. Consciousness - and non-material spirit - would be understood and the proper reverence for Nature and the Cosmos would be a natural part of the lives of all and the well-known religious feelings in human beings would be directed toward compassion and empathy, not used by manipulative leaders to incite anger and aggression and death. In short, humankind would know how to live in harmony not only with each other, but with the world in which they are born.

Harmony

All of this COULD be the conditions of a world where true Science is a valued part of society. It could have been our world.

But that isn't what we have today. What we have today is the Chaos produced by pathological individuals that induces Consent from the Authoritarian Followers. As I noted above, Science took a wrong turn when it was co-opted by Power and diverted to the purposes of Imperialism and materialistic greed.

The really sad thing is that the authoritarian followers who 'believe in authority' could as easily follow an authority that actually does have their best interests at heart were such an authority to exist. I don't think it does anymore: the psychopaths have seen to that, co-opting and corrupting even science, to the core. As it is, the authoritarian sheep follow and support the very worst of humanity; pathological individuals who gain power by deception and manipulation. And in the end, as psychologist, Andrew Lobaczewski wrote:

Germs are not aware that they will be burned alive or buried deep in the ground along with the human body whose death they are causing.

A. Lobaczewski, “Political Ponerology: A Science of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes.”

The moment that Darwin published his Origin of Species in the nineteenth century, an event that marked the culmination of a gradual shift in society from being dominated by religion to what was called 'rational thinking' and science, the Authoritarians knew they had their Theory of Everything: Random processes of matter, no consciousness needed.

So, it has been the steady application of materialistic evolutionary thinking that is behind the explanation of the order of the universe that prevails today which underpins the chaos and disorder we see in a world devoid of information and organization. There are, undoubtedly, psychopaths in the woodpile here acting as the éminence grise behind science  - the thing that controls most of our social constructs and institutions - because we certainly can't say that all scientists, or even most of them, are psychopathic. The profession itself excludes most psychopaths by virtue of the requirement for superior intellect. However, it can certainly include a great many members that are authoritarian in personality type.

Looking back at the history - more particularly, the archaeology - we notice how much like the Roman Empire our present civilization actually is. The Romans were certainly rational and scientific in many respects. They had factories that produced tableware that has been found at the farthest reaches of the empire even in peasant homes. They had factories that manufactured roof tiles that covered the heads of even the poorest workers and their livestock. A cache of letters was found in Northern Britain where soldiers wrote home to have socks sent to them which were, apparently, mass produced. The Roman army was superior because it had standardized equipment, produced in mass quantities at factories located in hubs of the empire. Grain, olives, oil, foodstuffs of all kinds, luxury goods, were mass produced and distributed throughout the Roman world. Literacy was obviously very widespread, even to the working classes. There were roads, sanitation systems, haut cuisine; in short, everything that we take for granted as essential to civilization. The only difference seems to be that we have harnessed sources of power that the Romans did not have which enables our civilization to aspire to globalization. But in almost every other way, we are exactly like them. It is only science that has made us bigger and badder, so to say. And, as the saying goes, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. That fall may be the extinction of the human race.

The end of the Roman Empire witnessed horrors and dislocation of a kind I sincerely hope never to have to live through; and it destroyed a complex civilization, throwing the inhabitants of the West back to a standard of living typical of prehistoric times. Romans before the fall were as certain as we are today that their world would continue forever, substantially unchanged. They were wrong. We would be wise not to repeat their complacency. (Ward-Perkins, 2005)

 What was done to Science might spell the Doom of the Human Race.

Instead of doom, let us conceive of a Quantum Future for humanity where peace and prosperity are made available to all mankind through the practice of True Science: the Hope of Humanity.

Parabolic quantum fractal. This is my first animation of one of my quantum fractals. 100 mln of points produced using "Chaos game" for 24 Mobius transformations Number crunching with Gfortran.

P.S.1 I dedicate this beautiful song  to my wife. She likes it:

Crystal Gayle - When I dream - Lyrics

P.S.2. 12:40 . New version of my notes on the conformal group. The last part (now Sec. 8.2) is continuously being changed - until I am satisfied. I am writing an rewriting it. Again and again...

P.S.3. 07-07-23 13:56

Help the poor while the poor are with thee; but study also & strive that there may be no poor for thy assistance.

Sri Aurobindo

P.S.4. 15:12 Success! 

Finished the paragraph on null geodesics in general relativity. Derived Proposition 9. Another take on this subject can be found here. 
Now back to the the projective null cone in 6D - our 4D compact Universe.  We are now ready to study the light paths there - including their path through the conformal infinity cap.  Coming next:

Sheaf of totally isotropic planes

P.S.5. 08-07-23 8:15 I do not understand. Need to sort all this in my head

P.S.6. 9:31 

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice always, but for the sake of God and humanity, not for the sake of sacrifice.

Sri Aurobindo

A Brush With the Dark Side of Science

 How easy it is to join the dark side in our society – I know from my own unfortunate experience, when I was the guilty one.

In 1997, in collaboration with Philippe Blanchard from the University of Bielefeld, I was organizing an international conference “Quantum Future – From Volta and Como to the Present and Beyond”, dealing with some of the fundamental issues of quantum theory. 

We had a lot of first class speakers, famous physicists and philosophers, signed up to attend. Luminaries such as: Howard Carmichael, Bernard.D’Espagnat, Rudolf Haag, Serge Haroche, Klaus Hepp, John Klauder, Roland Omnes, Henry Stapp, Akira Tonomura, William Unruh and others. We also invited Giuseppe Vitiello from the University of Salerno, who gave a talk about Quantum dissipation and brain dynamics”. His talk was not well received by Klaus Hepp who gave a talk on a similar subject: “Towards the Demolition of a Computational Quantum Brain”.

(On this subject see also Michael Abraham, "The Science of Freedom")

When it came time to publish our conference proceedings, we chose Springer Verlag, one of the best known scientific publishing companies. But Springer had chosen Klaus Hepp as their scientific advisor, and I learned, through Philippe, that Hepp had put a veto on publishing Vitiello’s paper! We were told that if we insisted on publishing his paper, Springer was prepared to refuse to publish our proceedings! There was no referee report that could be argued with, just the opinion of one person: Klaus Hepp.

After some discussion with Philippe I decided not to fight with Springer. Springer published our proceedings, the paper of Klaus Hepp is there, but Vitiello is not even listed as a participant!*

Conference proceedings  1999

Quantum Future

From Volta and Como to Present and Beyond. Proceedings of Xth Max Born Symposium Held in Przesieka, Poland, 24-27 September 1997

Editors: Philippe Blanchard, Arkadiusz Jadczyk

It does not even matter whether Hepp was right or not. Even if Vitiello’s paper was too speculative and not convincing, that should have been decided by independent and objective referees, and not just by the opinion of one competitor in the brain research domain! Vitiello had to publish his ideas somewhere else. 

My Double Unveiled

The dissipative quantum model of brain

Author

Giuseppe Vitiello | University of Salerno

What was so dreadfully gut-wrenching about this situation was that I liked Giuseppe, I liked his far-reaching unconventional ideas, and I was in a friendly relation with him. 

Giuseppe Vitiello - Books

By subsuming myself to the manipulations of the publisher I put a burden on my conscience that has never eased, and also I lost a creative and curious friend.

But I learned a lesson about the ways Science works, and also, even more important, about myself, about my own weaknesses. Let me note here that some people get manipulated into these situations and, once they commit an unconscionable act, it just makes it easier to do more and more along that line. Others find it so painful that they never do it again. In this respect, there seems to be another sharp division between scientists – and people in general – similar to that between those who are curious and those who are not.

* Though in our Preface we wrote:

In addition to the papers included in this volume, the following invited presentations were given:

I. Bialynicki-Birula (Warsaw): "Rotational Frequency Shift"

D. Diirr (Munich): "Quantum Theory Without Observers"
B. Mielnik (Warsaw): "Quantum Measurement: Walk in the Dark"
G. Nimtz (Cologne): "The Photonic Tunneling Analogy and Superluminal Tunneling Velocities"
C. Piron (Geneva): "The Quantum Theory as a Theory of the Vacuum Field"
A. Tonomura (ARL Hitachi Hatoyama): "Dynamical Observation of Quantized Vertices in Superconductors Using Electron Waves"
G. Vitiello (Salerno): "Quantum Dissipation and Brain Dynamics"
H. Weinfurter (Innsbruck): "Quantum Entanglement, Randomness and Information"

In addition to these invited lectures, there were also informal seminars given by P. Bussey, P. Gonzalez-Diaz, A. Kracklauer, R. Olkiewicz, A. Orlowski, A. Ruschhaupt, W. Slomczynski, L. Vacchini and F. Winterberg and lively discussions among all the participants.

Which amounts to:

Do We Have a Quantum Entangled Brain?