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Where are our memories of today or yesteryear stored? How does a baby spider know how to build its web? What directs the astronomical series of molecular motions that causes an tiny egg cell grow into the enormous physiology that is you and me? What is consciousness? The answer to these seemingly disparate questions might be surprising.
Today much is known about the structures of the brain. But still almost nothing is known about how the details of memory are actually stored and recalled. Might memory stream into our minds from a vast, expanded dimension of time? The possibility might seem absurd. However, when one turns to the instinctive memory of animals, the mystery of memory becomes that much more perplexing. Exactly how does an orb weaver construct its web? Scientists assert that its instinctive memory must be carried in its genes. But when one carefully scrutinizes this explanation, one finds that it relies on truly insurmountable improbabilities.
"Mind, Memory, Time" examines the holes in the conventional scientific theory. The inquiry relies on the dissident views of eminent scientist such as the Nobel Prize winners Erwin Schrodinger, Werner Heisenberg, and Sir John Eccles. It offers a new theory of life, mind, and memory based on the modern physicists' weird world of quantum mechanics and block time. It places the material world squarely in a vast dimension of conscious intelligence.
The material basis of scientific reality has not changed in four hundred years. Since it was first proposed by Rene Descartes, it has been a powerful tool for understanding the nature of life and the mind. But it is reaching its limit. It is time to examine its foundation and look deep into the abyss of the unknown. Focusing on the great mysteries, one finds glaring evidence that the modern, material view of reality is on the verge of a profound revolution. We face a new reality that is far stranger than most of us would guess.
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- Sales Rank: #535689 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-20
- Released on: 2012-11-20
- Format: Kindle eBook
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A bold and profound analysis of consciousness and memory
By Stephen E. Robbins
This is a brilliant book. Gunther begins with his childhood question, watching a spider spin his web: Can a spider, he wondered, be explained as a little robot, operated by so many genetically programmed neural levers? Can DNA direct the trillions of molecules to build the spider's cells, organs, legs, body and brain, and as well, direct the incredibly complex behavior by which the spider builds his web? One can understand the general operation of a machine - a car engine, a computer - as a device manufactured by external forces, with steel and wire forced into rigid shapes to direct and constrain the forces - the hot gases, the electrons - that operate the device. But put a hole in the engine block or snip a few computer wires, and the forces of operation quickly escape, i.e., without precise confinement these directed forces quickly move to their natural state of equilibrium - a state of high entropy - and the machine dies.
A spider is a massive, organized, spatially constrained, dynamic complex of intricately interacting cells. A cell, however, is a fluid blob, a watery world, and the cell's molecular forces are not constrained by wires, tubes, or steel. Yet somehow the forces of the living cell are self-constrained, in constant complex motion, in entropy-defying, high dis-equilibrium. How do we explain this equilibrium-defying, self-constraining force, applied continuously over time, over vastly complex interrelated motions, to include, globally, the entire spider and his behaviors? This was the question of the great physicist, Erwin Schrődinger, in "What is Life?", and he could find no answer in the laws of physics; he felt there must exist organizing fields. Yet biologists, in a discipline sans fields, routinely seem to feel they know better than Schrődinger, assuming they have solved the problem.
Gunther attacks this great question in a style of thought that I wish was not so rare, for in it we are treated to a series of the most concrete examples, descriptions and thought experiments, and only after these concrete views do we move to the high abstractions to which the book is led. We view a bacterium scaled to the size of the World Trade Center, we view the detailed "instinctual" behavior of an amoeba where the behavior is so complex and intelligent that if scaled to the size of a dog we would struggle to distinguish the two in terms of complexity, we sprinkle magic DNA dust into a pool of molecules to see how/if we would achieve complex organization, we fly migrations with birds, we see a magnet acting as another dimensional field of force creating patterns, we view what a feat of intelligence (dubbed "instinctual") it actually is to build (blindfolded like the ill-seeing spider) an orb spider's web when scaled to human size.
In all this we consider Schrődinger's problem and Heisenberg's similar thoughts, we view Lashley's destruction of then (and, in fact, yet now) models of the brain re memory storage, we consider Eccles' model of how immaterial mind might act upon the matter of the brain using quantum uncertainty, we view the tremendous problem DNA has in explaining the phenomena, instinctual behaviors and the organization of life, we see in remarkable examples how the line is virtually non-existent between "instinctual memory" (as in the spider's web) and consciously formed memory such as learning a tennis serve. We see the great problem of storing any form of memory in the watery, continuously changing molecular world of the brain or in viewing this brain-world as a computer. Gunther's great hypothesis is that all memory is stored in the past, in the "block time" which relativity is felt to imply. Memory retrievals involve a form of readout from this block time of relativity, even to the point of the genes being but index keys as it were for retrievals of the great patterns of organization and experience - the dynamic process of building the spider's web, the organizing forces and form of the cell. These patterns appear to have all the properties of a field of a force acting on the brain - or the cell, or the spider - from another dimension. It is an hypothesis that is built and reinforced with great force throughout this remarkable book.
It was Bergson who argued, in Matter and Memory (1896), that the great problem of the origin of consciousness hinges on the question of whether or not memory is stored in the brain. The failure to grasp this and the ubiquitous assumption that memory is stored in the brain, underlie the great failings in current theories of consciousness. Bergson too argued that experience is not, and cannot be, stored in the brain. My own book Time and Memory: a primer on the scientific mysticism of consciousness, also with the terms Time/Memory in the title, is I believe, a nearly precise compliment to Gunther - the two should be book ended together, each defending the same thesis from rather different angles. Bergson too, in his theory of "dynamic schemes," felt that the dynamic templates for a learned action or behavior are stored in the dimension of time. Where Gunther and I/Bergson differ, but with little detriment to Gunther's thesis, is firstly in the model of conscious perception - the origin of the image of the external world. In Bergson's model - a model that presciently saw the brain as a reconstructive wave modulating a 4-d holographic universal field - perception/experience is not occurring within the brain and so cannot be stored there due to this fact alone. Gunther rightly emphasizes the role of memory fields in block time organizing, forming and giving precision to our perception of objects and events in the world, but he has a bootstrap problem as to how any image of an event/object arises initially or at all. Secondly there is the role of relativity, for in reality, relativity is simply the classic metaphysic taken to its logical conclusion; it actually stands in the way of the coherence of Gunther's theory. In its support of block time, it is misinterpreted, and Bergson's model of time is the more appropriate. On the flip side, my own work struggles with the interrelation of the form of memory (that might be) stored in the brain (e.g., motor memory) and that which is not (experience), but Gunther's heavy arguments (along with Lashley) that nothing - no form of memory - is stored there must now be heavily considered. But looking into this and other comparisons in the future, I leave to coming readers of Gunther's wonderful work.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Thought-provoking and evidence-based
By Burha
This book takes a hard look at biological and mind-research evidence, identifies gaps in conventional theories, and courageously explores hypotheses that could fill those gaps. The author's ideas link to major philosophical traditions, from Platonic forms, Jung's archetypes, Akashic records, and internal or teleological factors in evolution. But Gunther treats us to a wholly scientific appraisal of such concepts, with delightful examples drawn from the behavior of, for instance, amoebas and spiders. Even if you end up disagreeing with some of Gunther's speculations, you will find this path to considering them a delight.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Great for those who have explored both metaphysics and atheism, and are still on the fence.
By Amazon Customer
I highly recommend this book for those whose mind is open enough to think out of the box; and especially for people who have explored both metaphysics and atheism, and are still sitting on the fence. When I read Gunther’s book, “Mind Memory Time” I had previously explored what people like Dawkins and other experts have to say about atheism. I appreciate their rigorous logical pursuit of knowledge and many of their assertions. However, they provided me with no compelling or interesting theories or food for thought about the origin of life, consciousness, instinctual and unconscious processes, and the phenomena of choice.
This is the first book about consciousness that I read that clearly identifies and explores the major role memory plays for life to exist. Most writers seem to lump in memory with consciousness or the life force; or completely ignore a discussion about the role of memory. As a biologist, I found it intellectually stimulating to discover and contemplate the vital roles that memory plays not just in the operation of the human mind, but in every action of every cell of my body, and specifically in the billions of molecular factories in each cell!
The detailed, and scientifically backed, arguments in Gunther’s book have convinced me to keep an open mind about the possibility of an intelligent non-physical life force that may be holding my body and mind together. Perhaps, if the life force does exist, it is my true nature and the underlying beingness that connects all of us.
Gunther suggests that modern biologists have an opportunity to take an imaginative leap of the sort that physicists have taken in recent years. Just watch a few documentaries on the Science and the Discovery Channels, and you can immerse yourself in the strange world of quantum mechanics and nuclear physics. For example, in modern physics, much credibility is given to string theory, multiple universes, simultaneous realities, dark matter, dark energy, etc. Currently there appears to be little doubt that dark energy and dark matter exist—even though our smartest scientists don’t know what it is or how to measure it! However, the “stuff” appears to be everywhere!
Perhaps, the “life force,” like dark matter, also exists everywhere! When existing mechanistic biological theories can’t explain how chemicals in living packages defy known laws of entropy, perhaps it is time for biologists to think out of the physical box—more like modern physicists!
In addition to exploring many aspects of consciousness, Gunther explores the various types of memory processes required by living cells to stay alive, reproduce, make choices, and to grow in complexity. For me this is similar to, although far more complex than, all of the services a modern Information Technology (IT) department provides to a large corporation. The cell must have its own “IT services” that provide virus protection, accounting and supply-chain services, access to memory storage retrieval and backup, ability to troubleshoot and repair systems that fail; and be available 24/7.
There are two camps of explainers. One camp believes that all the IT (information) required by cells to stay alive, interface with the environment, reproduce, and grow in complexity is physically contained in (or passes through) the DNA of a single cell such as a single celled organism or a fertilized egg. The other camp believes that “outside help” from a non-physical intelligent force is required to defy entropy and to fulfil the astronomically large and complex IT requirements of living organisms. Gunther explores both explanations, and concludes that the latter makes more sense. He draws from the writings of a variety of Nobel Prize winning scientists to support his conclusions.
As a chemistry instructor, Gunther clearly and simply explains how chemicals behave in test tubes. Then he shows how chemicals behave very differently in living organisms. He makes a strong case for how purely physical and mechanistic explanations for the origin and sustenance of life are inadequate. He acknowledges that the material resources residing in DNA play a crucial physical role; however, it is statistically improbable that the DNA alone could contain all the memory and coded intelligence to simultaneously account for all of the following:
• differentiation of a single fertilized egg into many different types of cells such as muscle, blood, bone, skin, liver, brain, heart, etc.
• coordination of billions of molecular machines, and factories that simultaneously build and recycle themselves – while seamlessly integrating with the millions of supply chains of other cellular factories in the fluid environment of cells. For more on this see his YouTube video.
• ability to interface and adapt to ever changing environment conditions such as food supply, temperature, and chemicals.
• ability to efficiently, and with a 99.99+ accuracy rate, integrate all the interdependent relationships of the different types of cells and organs of the body.
• instinctual memory, knowledge, and IT support required for a huge variety of organisms to carry forward the lessons learned by previous generations.
• consciousness and self-awareness IT support for higher organisms.
• on-going abilities to support both unconscious and consciously acquired learnings by each organism along with the ability to pass on some of these learnings as instincts to future generations.
The number of molecular, membrane, and cellular relationships that must be coordinated sequentially in time is astronomical! Gunther convincingly argues that purely mechanistic biological theories must concede that all the intelligence behind the physical structures and ongoing life support systems must flawlessly pass through the DNA in each cell that divides; and in higher organisms, the single cell fertilized egg. Gunther often uses statistical probability analysis to illustrate how unlikely such IT services could originate solely from code in the DNA. He asserts that there must be another animating force or organizing principle that is working with the DNA to synergistically achieve the astronomically improbably physical properties and behavior we observe in living beings. For a preview of how Mr. Gunther approaches this challenge check out his YouTube video.
What then is the source of all this information? Gunther proposes that living organisms receive a significant amount of memory support from what theoretical physicists call “block time,” also known as the time-space continuum. Although he discusses a great deal about “block time” in his book, I must say that I am not currently smart enough to fully wrap my head around such an esoteric theory. However, I am smart enough to doubt that all IT requirements, memory storage, and intelligent support for all life processes is contained solely in the DNA.
When you’re on YouTube, you may also wish to watch my video that depicts close-up slow motion imagery of a spider’s use of instinctual memory and intelligence in constructing a web at http://bit.ly/1tlXJ2D. What’s the source of its instinctual memory?
My blog is http://bukaymedia.com/wp.
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