Informations from Nowhere

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This post was written in August 2007.

I actually wanted to write a story about an elderberry bush, but apparently the meditative handling with the fruits of this bush and the following consumption of them, have released completely different resources, and I would like to let my tendency to extreme thinking simply let flow here and now…

I'm currently reading a book that's indescribably exciting to me, and it almost automatically triggers me to once again catapult myself into outsized thinking processes. The book is by Bruce H. Lipton with the German title “Intelligent Cells – How experiences control our genes”. The original English title is “Biology of Beliefs”, which seems almost more appropriate to me, because it is not ostensibly about the intelligence of the cells, but about how this intelligence is brought to life, so to speak.

In this book, the (cell) biologist Bruce Lipton describes his path as a scientist, on which he naturally questioned the origins of life itself while researching cells - from single-celled organisms to well-organized multicellular organisms (humans). At a certain point he realized that in order to gain a general (scientific) understanding of all connections, including biological ones, dealing with quantum physics could not be avoided. To put it very simply: as cells are also matter, combinations of atomic structures, they correspond to the laws of physics just like all other matter.

The insights of quantum physics open up a completely new view of these combinations of atomic structures and call for rethinking in many regards. Because in contrast to Newton's atomic model, which describes these structures as solid, tangible matter, the quantum physicists discovered that all atoms (including physical ones) consist of vortices of energy that constantly rotate and oscillate, so when you look closely they are nothing more than not visible energy.

At this point I would like to quote a section from the book because it was the trigger for throwing my thinking process out of the "normal" pathway.

The matter in our world simply appears to be made of "thin air." Pretty crazy when you think about it. Here you sit, holding this book in your hands, but would you look at the material substance of this book with an atomic microscope, then it would become clear that you don't have anything in your hands.

Of course, this idea is a very special one if you really allow it. But in my opinion it hasn't been thought through to the end, because logic tells me: If I have to look at the material substance of the book through an atomic microscope, then I also have to look at the material substance of my hands through an atomic microscope - and wouldn't see anything either. Likewise, myself and the chair I'm sitting on, the house around me, etc. Ultimately, there is nothing (a person) in nothing (on a chair), holding nothing (a book) in nothing (the hands), and reads in it. This – reading – seems to be the crucial point: because this is not matter, it exists unchanged. So I wonder what it means: it conveys information. So the essence behind all this nothingness seems to be the transmission of information.

When I now go back into the material world, I actually find confirmation of this everywhere and on every corner. Regardless of the area or level, the foundation for everything that happens is the exchange or communication of information. This is of course nothing new, but in connection with this different perspective from quantum physics, one question finally comes into my focus:

If the exchange of information is obviously possible in the dimension of nothingness, why then formats a material, visible world itself for the same purpose?!?