Look Inside – The Baseless Fabric of this Vision

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Check out the structure and topics that are considered in the book - The Baseless Fabric of this Vision.

In Part I, The Flame of Cerebral Commotion, we investigate the subject of consciousness and philosophy of mind. Here, we try to pin down what is meant by "awareness" and attempt to qualify it as a physical property of the universe.

An interest to those curious about consciousness may be the "Primer on the Phenomenontology of Consciousness." Here, the author models mind as a "seamstress of sense." A "seamstress" that weaves the vivid tapestry of experience together with senses - the many varied modalities of consciousness. The section also surveys the philosophical school of "phenomenology" to uncover the invariant structures that form conscious experience. It then seeks to show how these are "ontological" — that despite their inherent intangibility — the flows and forces operant in conscious experience are physically real. Hence, the "phenomenontology" of consciousness. 

 

In Part II, The Baseless Fabric of this Vision, we paint the quantum field theoretic image of reality. Here we lay out a thorough and critical examination of quantum physics while giving special attention to admonishing what is fact and what is interpretation.

Of particular interest, in the chapter "How to Kill Zombie Cats," a solution to the vexing problem of Schrödinger's cat is considered. Lying fully within the currently accepted bounds of quantum theory, the "local-state solution" to the problem of definite outcomes reveals itself. First, the author shows how Schrödinger's initial interpretation of his own work was flawed. Then, with a proper intuition regarding the strictly quantum-mechanical process of decoherence, a self-evident and logical result appears.

 

In Part III, The Mindfield, a unique metaphysics is put forward. One that attempts to unify mind and matter by leaning the previous two parts. The source of all Life, the Mindfield is that part of timelessness we live and know as consciousness itself.

In this section we uncover what holograms and information has to do with the quantum nature of reality. And finally, we reveal what consciousness actually is. 

 

At last, in the Glossary, the astute reader will find many abstract concepts better defined. Every bold word that appears throughout the book is found here.