The Two Great Enigmas

There are two enigmas in the world of science that our minds can scarcely grasp that I would like to discuss here. The first is the physical reality of our own brains, the second is the extreme velocity of the speed of light.

The enigmas of our minds is that it cannot really grasp what it is. To fully understand our own brains, we would have to actually be "smarter" than our brains, which is impossible since our brains are all we have to work with.

Just try to comprehend with your brain all that it does. It continuously processes the input from your senses with extreme precision and compares it with memory taken from your entire life. The brain holds memory with unfathomable detail from everywhere your consciousness has ever been.

Try to understand the great complexity the brain has to handle just for a task as simple as walking. Think of all the muscles in the body that have to contract at just the right tension at just the right time just to take one step, it is mind boggling and a very limited part of the brain must handle this. How complex must the brain be to acheive the great feats of knowledge, art, science and, invention that humans have. We can achieve these things but cannot understand the process by which they were acheived in the brain because the brain cannot be smarter than itself.

The consciousness is only the beginning of the brain's capacity. The conscious must be supported by the subconscious. The brain must tell the lungs every little detail of how to take every breath and the heart to take every beat and the digestive system to process food. The simplest movements such as chewing, drinking, walking, typing, driving, and, focusing the eyes involve extremely complex instruction from the brain. Each muscle must get just the right nerve impulse at just the right moment.

Of course we cannot build a robot with anything remotely like the capacity of our brains. How can we? The brain cannot conceive of something more complex than itself. Our very limited ability to create artificial intelligence testifies to the impossibility of the brain fully comprehending itself. For the brain to completely understand itself would be like the body running faster than itself, it is not possible.

The second of the two great enigmas that I would like to discuss here is the speed of light. It is so far removed from our daily reality that, like our brains, we cannot begin to even grasp it. The speed of light is 186,282 miles per second or 300 million meters per second. That is more than 670 million miles per hour or 1080 million kilometers per hour. The cars on the QEW between Niagara Falls and Hamilton do not even go that fast.

The speed of light is just mind-boggling. It is so far removed from the daily reality we experience that is just a number with little real meaning except for "very, very fast".

Those who have read my Theory of Stationary Space thus far may know what I am getting at. As I showed in the theory, there is no speed of light. Einstein's Special Theory of relativity revolves around the immunability of the speed of light and the relativeness (or relativity) of everything else such as mass and time passage. But yet we can find no physical reason why the speed of light is what it is. For something so absolute and which the functioning of the universe seems to revolve around, this seems very strange.

But I detailed in the theory how the apparent speed of light is simply the speed at which our consciousness moves along the bundle of strings comprising our bodies and brains. This means that the extreme complexity of our minds and the apparent mind-boggling velocity of light is a manifestation of the same thing. When we measure the speed of light, we are actually measuring the complexity of our consciousness. This complexity is so great, so naturally beyond our ability to grasp (because it is our own minds that are doing the grasping) that it requires 300 million meters of travel along the bundle of strings comprising our bodies and brains to get what we perceive as one second of consciousness.

This may seem bizarre, and it is, but remember that for something with such apparent great importance as the speed of light, we can find no physical reason for what it is and everything else about this theory of mine fits neatly together, as I have described. When we measure the speed of light, we are actually measuring the complexity of our own consciousness.