Physicists Find Evidence That The Universe Is A 'Giant Brain'

[sonamdhargey]

I think the universe is pure consciousness and energy interconnected to living thing in the universe which i think very much influnce the karma that Buddha has been emphasizing. What is your take on this?

The idea of the universe as a 'giant brain' has been proposed by scientists - and science fiction writers - for decades.

But now physicists say there may be some evidence that it's actually true. In a sense.

According to a study published in Nature's Scientific Reports, the universe may be growing in the same way as a giant brain - with the electrical firing between brain cells 'mirrored' by the shape of expanding galaxies.

The results of a computer simulation suggest that "natural growth dynamics" - the way that systems evolve - are the same for different kinds of networks - whether its the internet, the human brain or the universe as a whole.

A co-author of the study, Dmitri Krioukov from the University of California San Diego, said that while such systems appear very different, they have evolved in very similar ways.

The result, they argue, is that the universe really does grow like a brain.

The study raises profound questions about how the universe works, Krioukov said.

"For a physicist it's an immediate signal that there is some missing understanding of how nature works," he told Space.com.

The team's simulation modelled the very early life of the universe, shortly after the big bang, by looking at how quantum units of space-time smaller than subatomic particles 'networked' with each other as the universe grew.

They found that the simulation mirrored that of other networks. Some links between similar nodes resulted in limited growth, while others acted as junctions for many different connections.

For instance, some connections are limited and similar - like a person who likes sports visiting many other sports websites - and some are major and connect to many other parts of the network, like Google and Yahoo.

No, it doesn't quite mean that the universe is 'thinking' - but as has been previously pointed out online, it might just mean there's more similarity between the very small and the very large than first appearances suggest.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/11/27/physicists-universe-giant-brain_n_2196346.html?just_reloaded=1

[fruven]

Interesting. What about us living in a holographic universe? Imagine that we are living inside a holographic universe we wouldn't be able to distinguished what is real and unreal because we are not the observer any more. We are part of the picture. Asking between real and unreal is an invalid question. However the mind is unaware of it therefore it thought it is confined in the 'world' some of the things can be controlled for example how you move your body but some of the things you have no control over you tell yourself it is natural occurrence. But in a holographic universe all things can be real and unreal at the same time. Or it doesn't become into being until someone look at it, ie when there is an observer. Who is the observer? The mind is the observer and thus the mind's mental projections affect the observed.

The Holographic Universe - 1 of 5 - Quantum Physics	Small | Large

[DS Star]

Everything we perceived in this whole universe are projected from our mind and they are inter-connected...

The Buddha said: “As a net is made up of a series of ties, so everything in this world is connected by a series of ties. If anyone thinks that the mesh of a net is an independent, isolated thing, he is mistaken. It is called a net because it is made up of a series of interconnected meshes, and each mesh has its place and responsibility in relation to the other meshes.” (Gach, 2002)

So we can see Buddha taught about dimensions and parallel universes with the emphasis on the "meshes and its relation to other meshes".

The Buddha also emphasized on the concept of "Non-self" i.e. there is no permanent self-essence in anything in the universe and that nothing is independent. These are very much similar to what Modern scientists said; the concepts and observations are the same.