Book Title (Working):

"The Fifth Dimension: Consciousness, Sentience, and the Quantum Threshold"

Introduction

This paper is my guess about how the universe is set up based on what we know now, which, isn’t a whole lot.

We are totally in the dark about the universe. What it really is. How it came to be what it is. Why it came into being. We are conscious, yet we are clueless about what consciousness actually is. It’s all a huge mystery to us. Most of the research into consciousness has been using the assumption that it is an outgrowth of the four dimensional spatial/time universe. That somehow, in each individual sentient being on our planet, be it an amoeba, a cockroach, a human being, that consciousness is somehow conjured up in that organism and that, somehow, that consciousness identically matches across every one of the trillions of creatures on the planet. No one seems to have considered that maybe consciousness is not an outgrowth from our brains or from the four spatial/time dimensions. Because, if it did, you would think we may have made an iota of progress all of these centuries in figuring out what it is. But we haven’t. In my opinion, there is a real good chance that, working scientifically in the four spatial/time dimensions, you’ll never figure out what consciousness is.

Another thing is whether there is an underlying intelligence in this universe. I think that it is extremely unreasonable to think that all of this just haphazardly fell together randomly. In my opinion, there is too much intricacy, way way way too many things that would have to have gone just right for it all to have fallen together without intelligent guidance along the way. Of course, there is the argument that if you don’t believe that this could have come together randomly, then why would you believe that a much more intricate, higher intelligence that could create all of this just happened. And, that’s a fair point. But, my take is that, based on what my limited scope of what I can see and experience, it just didn’t happen. It was done intelligently. And, I can’t even begin to venture a guess as to how anything came into being beyond that.

As an outgrowth of the universe being a conscious entity and an underlying intelligence to the universe, I also hypothesize that there is a unifying catalytic force in the universe, as yet undiscovered by us, that coerces atomic particles into combining in ways that are useful to the ultimate creation of sentient brains in the four spatial/time dimensions. The thought here is that, as mentioned above, the earth is too complex and intricate to have just come together randomly, no matter how many billions of years it’s been in the making.

I have some ideas, a hypothesis if you will, about some of this. Nothing is proven, just trying to piece things we know and think we know together as a possible explanation to some of this. The two big assumptions are an intelligent universe and that the universe is a conscious entity not borne out of the spatial/time dimensions. The rest of it is the mechanics of how it works based on these two underlying assumptions.

 

Overview: My Thoughts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Part I: The Universe is a Conscious Entity

The prevailing thought in the world is that consciousness is conjured up in the brain. That everything from amoebas to cockroaches to humans all conjure up a window into the world that is totally consistent across all species and all individuals down to the tiniest detail.

And, of course, we have found no evidence whatsoever to support the notion that the brain of whatever creature converts chemical reactions and electronic impulses into awareness.

It’s odd to me that this view of consciousness is so widely and universally accepted pretty much without question by everybody. It’s just taken for granted. Each of us conjures up this world view in our brains and that all of the world views just match, identically.

And, if all of us creatures disappeared, there would be nothing left. No consciousness, no awareness, nothing.

Hypothesis: Consciousness is there, and we tap into it, like a radio tuning into a channel. We are antennae and our brains work with the “signal” that we get. And, we can transmit and receive.

Just from an efficiency point of view, look at computer networks. There is the internet sitting on servers and there are PC’s and phones that have some brains on them, but most of everything is on the servers and the PC’s just tap into them. Why would we have the entire internet on every single machine and what a nightmare to maintain and keep everything consistent?

Anyway, there’s no proof one way or the other.  But, to me, it’s intuitively obvious, it’s all not kept in each of our brains.

Chapter 1: The Myth of Uploading Consciousness

 

 

Part II: The Big Bang. There is an Underlying Intelligence to the Universe

Hypothesis: There was only consciousness prior to the Big Bang.

And somewhere in that consciousness was a great intelligence.

For whatever reason, this intelligence decided to add spatial/time dimensions to the universe and was able to execute the Big Bang to create those dimensions. Aside from the creation of matter and energy, forces, acting via mathematical properties, were able to evolve that matter and energy into a physical universe. The fact that this spatial/time universe behaves according to formulas seems to be a pretty good hint that this was all planned and set into motion.

There is also a connection between the spatial/time dimensions and the conscious dimension and that they connect at the quantum level.

 

 

Chapter 2: Dimensions Beyond the Observable

 

 

Part III: Technological Intrusions

Hypothesis: A separate conscious dimension from the four spatial/time dimensions that communicates with those four dimensions at the quantum level explains a couple of quantum conundrums .

·       Entanglement: Two entangled particles instantaneously synchronize their opposite spins when one of their spins changes.  Because both particles are quantumly communicating with the conscious dimension, the conscious dimension “knows” the change of state instantaneously as there is no time factor in the conscious dimension. And, therefore, the two particles’ states are synched instantly regardless of distance in the spatial/time dimension.

 

·       Superposition: A particle is in multiple states until “observed” which collapses the particles’ wave function to a result. It’s like a magic trick. It appears that the particle and the observer get quantumly entangled and once this entanglement takes place, the particle’s wave function collapses We see the particle in it’s superposition state and then we see it in it’s final, collapsed wave state. This takes a bit of time in the spatial/time dimension, minimally speed of light amount of time. Meanwhile, the particle goes about changing it’s state, but this is done via the conscious dimension, which is instantaneous and beats our spatial/time dimension observation to the punch every time. There is a bit of controversy here as it is not known how the particle and the observer become entangled. However, the timing of it appears to suggest that the conscious dimension is intimately involved.

 

Chapter 3: The Tree and the Machine

o   Quantum Waves / Particles (Fundamental Physics):

o   Wave-particle duality is a core concept of quantum mechanics: particles like electrons or photons behave both like particles and waves depending on the situation (e.g., in the double-slit experiment).

o   Quantum states are described by a mathematical function called the wavefunction, which encodes the probabilities of where a particle might be or what state it might be in.

o    Wavefunction Collapse In quantum mechanics, particles like electrons or photons exist in a superposition — they are in multiple possible states simultaneously, described by a wavefunction. This wavefunction gives probabilities for where the particle might be or what value it might take if measured.

§  Before measurement: The system is in a superposition — multiple states at once.

§  After measurement: The wavefunction "collapses" to a single outcome. This is not due to physical touching or detection in the classical sense — it's more subtle and controversial.

o    “Observation” and Quantum Measurement The term “observation” is a bit misleading — it’s not about a conscious observer watching something. In quantum physics, observation means any interaction that causes a quantum system to become entangled with its environment in a way that gives definite, classical information. For example:

§  In all these cases, the act of measurement destroys the superposition and forces the system into one of its possible states.

Chapter 4: Quantum Computers and the Accidental Tap

 🔹 In Quantum Computers

Quantum computers exploit superposition and entanglement to do calculations in parallel.

But once the result is needed:

So yes, it appears that measurement collapses the wavefunction, and in that sense, “observation” influences the system.

·       What quantum computers are actually doing.

·       Argument: They may be unintentionally interacting with the consciousness field in a disruptive way.

·       Consequences of artificial wavefunction collapse without proper feedback.

To note, once again, that there is controversy as to how the observation actually triggers the wave function collapse. It appears that the particle is consciously aware of the observer, whatever that means. The existence of a conscious dimension that both the particle and the observer participate in appears to make this all happen.

 

 

 

 

 

Part IV: The Undiscovered Catalytic Force – Information Gravity

Hypothesis: consciousness drives evolution by feedback and reinforcement. The universe is not just computational, but conversational – and that we, as conscious beings, are part of its dialog. The mind is not an emergent property, but a cosmic principle. Consciousness-first cosmology. Atoms are not coerced unnaturally, the laws themselves are written in a language that leans toward the mind. We are not just a product of the cosmos, but a participant in its purpose.

 

Chapter 5: Evolution as Access

o   Physical constraints (gravity, charge of the electron, etc.) are finely tuned to allow life and minds to exist

o   Consciousness, as the fifth dimension, requires / shapes such fine tuning – not as a byproduct, but as a design constraint

o   The Informational-Gravity force ensures life and mind friendly arrangements are favored among random fluctuations

o   The fifth dimension induced Informational-Gravity force can cause atoms to combine not randomly but algorithmically, as well.

o   The Informational-Gravity force can also act thru quantum potentials, influencing decoherence paths subtly toward life and mind

o   The Informational-Gravity force also implements for Morphic Resonance. The conscious dimension “remembers”  what has occurred in the past, indexed by DNA in the case of sentient beings, and continually updates and evolves that information and feeds back the updated information back to the sentient beings, via DNA key creating, in essence, an evolutionary feedback loop.

o   Evolution and structure are not purely random, but are nudged by future potentials as communicated by the Informational-Gravity force. This is, in essence, a quantum-scale attractor, bridging between blind chance and divine intention.

o   The basic rules for evolution and structure are probably quite simple. However, even with a relatively small simple group of tools, very complex systems can and will emerge. It’s just the way things work.

o   It turns out that it is very hard to write a bunch of equations that will adequately describe a complex system. Equations work to a point, but once the system gets reasonably complex, trying to describe it mathematically falls under its own weight. The best way to approach trying to determine what a system will do at that point is to best try to describe what equations describe what the underlying dynamics of the system are and then run a ton of simulations and step back and see what happens.

o   My guess is, with an infinite universe and an infinite time frame, that there are probably trillions of attempts at generating a four dimensional space/time universe that does justice to where the conscious universe can adequately experience itself. Certainly our human experiment has been an abject failure. Look at the state of the world and the fact that we will most likely extinguish ourselves by the end of this century. Humans, for all their potential, are just a bunch of idiots, destroying everything in our path.

o   Biological evolution as not just survival-based but access-driven: species evolve better connections to the fifth dimension. The fifth dimension animates the four, like a sculptor shaping clay from the inside.

 

Part V: Sentient Brained Creatures – Communicating with the Conscious Dimension

Hypothesis: We are the reason that all of this was set into motion. If I were a piece of intelligent consciousness, I would probably seriously consider creating something like the Star Trek Holodeck where I can go out and party a bit. Create a physical universe, evolve it to the point where I could experience it and then keep evolving it from there. Doesn’t seem to be much point in creating a universe of rocks and trees. Not sure what the point is in creating sentient creatures either other than as an interesting pastime.

Chapter 6: The Sentient Interface

 

 

 

Chapter 7: The Nature of Two-Way Contact

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Part VI: DNA and the Information Store

Hypothesis: The way we evolve is by our two way dialog with the conscious information store.

Chapter 8: DNA as the Cosmic Address

Chapter 9: Morphic Resonance and Collective Memory

 

Part VII: The Conscious Singularity

We don’t know what we are messing with by quantum computing.

Chapter 10: Metaphysical Hazards of Quantum Experimentation

Chapter 11: Redefining the Singularity

I have to confess that I haven’t really looked deeply at too many other theories of how the universe is supposed to fit together. My ears perk up when someone else’s ideas fit into what I tend to believe is going on. But, if their ideas don’t seem to match mine, I haven’t been able to summon up the interest to go exploring. The universe as some sort of a simulation wouldn’t surprise me. You could consider the Big Bang spawning an evolving universe guided by the laws of physics as a possible simulation. Panpsychism seems to line up pretty well with the model I am suggesting. It makes consciousness a fundamental part of the universe.  Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic resonance certainly fits in with the consciousness as a fifth dimension model. In fact, it’s an integral part of it.

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Part VIII: Moving Forward

We’re not evolving so good.

Our species are a doing a bad job of stewardship of our planet. We are sitting on the razor’s edge of making ourselves extinct either thru something like a nuclear war or through environmental catastrophe as we continually select the worst of us to become our leaders and lead they do, right into the abyss.

It wouldn’t surprise me if the powers that be have a backup plan, such as alien life on a bunch of other planets. It would not only make things a helluva lot more interesting, but also not having your eggs in one basket because things could go horribly wrong in Plan A, as they are going on earth.

It will all be duly recorded and noted how we screwed it all up.

Chapter 12: Toward a Conscious Civilization

 

Part IX: In Conclusion: A New Paradigm of Being