I have decided to enter a blog hop hosted by Girlie on the Edge blog. The rules are you write six sentences, no more no less, using the week’s prompt word. This week it’s Matter.
1. I read about entangled particles in quantum physics—about how particles switch from matter to energy and back and how, if they’re entangled, they change simultaneously, even on opposite sides of the universe.
Now, I want to know how those particles/packets of energy keep in touch so they can change at the same time.
3. I’ve also read about matter awareness—studies that show how rats fed brains from other rats taught a maze already know how to get the treat.
4. Suppose, then, that a rabbit dies somewhere on the high plains and particles of its decomposed brain wash down into the Snake River and over the falls where they get caught in an eddy and picked up by the roots of a cedar tree.
5. Suppose further that a storm gallops across the grasslands with its sound and fury unleashing lightning that strikes the cedar, which, being full of resin and all, explodes into flames.
6. Does the fire have any recollection of having been a waterfall?
Nothing like a little Monday metaphysics 😀 Welcome to Six Sentence Stories, Faith! I really enjoyed this, so glad you linked up.
Gives one pause, doesn’t it?
The whole entangled particles concept has given me the shivers since I read about it.
well!
Expose the concept of self-awareness to that entanglement idea and what do you get?
Proof of the immortality of the soul.
no! really! hear me out! (lol)
If you consider that our awareness is essentially recollection*, sort of being the leading edge of an un-raveling string, we remember the past from a position, effectively in the future.
If there were no afterlife/continued awareness when we die, then all the recollection that comprises our lives would be extinguished…retroactively.
If the string is cut, it would disappear backwards to it’s point of origin.
I am aware, therefore my consciousness has not….will not end,
cha ching! immortality!
fun Six.
Welcome to the Six Sentence Story.
(Six Sentence Story unofficial motto: “…and on the seventh day god said… looks good…wait! wait, let there be semicolons too**)
*credit to Carlos Castaneda who said this (far more eloquently) in ‘Tales of Power’, totally borrowing the idea
** ’cause without semicolons, some us would be in trouble with our stories (not to mention any names but it rhymes with Cakefield… lol)
Glad you joined us. The SSS activity is a favorite of mine. It makes me think