The human species is special because we contain general intelligence. Engineers believe they can build computerized artificial intelligent (AI) versions of human behaviors, because they believe our brains are classical computers. But, humans are Real Intelligent (RI) living systems that exhibit many extraordinary behaviors that are not possible to produce by purely classical mechanisms of any kind. Extraordinary behaviors are also exhibited by advanced quantum computing (QC) machines, thereby creating a technology race and investment boom in both AI and QC technologies. The deep reality explored by this book combines these two ideas (QC + AI) in a conversational style between two world renowned PhD scientists. We propose that our quantum minds exist independently of and interact with our individual brains. We support this model by reviewing the research where people have directly interacted with other quantum and probabilistic systems.
Our source science model proposes that thought is intimately connected to the science of informational protophysics, which is the quantum source of our universe and every “thing” in it. This narrative journey recognizes that information, thought, and meaning are primarily dependent on the hyperdimensional states used by both neural and quantum computing. Just like all quantum models, source science leads to extraordinary understanding regarding the space-like entangled nature of thoughts, meaning, emotions, space, and time. After describing our deep, holistic, intimate, and sacred nature, we conclude by making unexpected predictions about our human potential and the future of our human society.
A cutting edge book co-written by two scientists. Matzke brings a computer and information science background and Tiller brings a material science background. It is a book that will appeal to those interested in the intersection of quantum physics and spirituality. It may also appeal to open minded futurists.
First, the bad. Matzke’s rigorous math in the early chapters will lose most readers. However, if you allow yourself to skim those sections enough to understand the gist the rest of book is much easier to digest although still contains a lot of technical information and terms.
Having a moderate level of exposure to and understanding of quantum physics terminology will help. The book would have been much easier to digest if the terminology was explained in a sequential manner as terms were introduced but you are instead left with the headache of flipping to the back of the book to understand terms or pressing through and understanding by inference and context.
What I enjoyed about the book was the multidisciplinary approach to understanding big questions such as - What is consciousness? What are thoughts? What is mind?
The authors point out the inconsistencies and inadequacies of our current mainstream cosmological, scientific and philosophical models and then provide their own theories. Of these includes the fact that things like near death experiences, out of body experiences, synchronicities, remote viewing, precognition, telepathy etc. are difficult to impossible to explain or understand by the current scientific paradigm.
Matzke and Tiller, mostly led by Matzke’s theory of bit physics and a hyper dimensional model of understanding mind and space/time, propose a source science model. (A bit is considered the smallest detectable change of information in a black hole.) The authors go over the limitations of classical physics and how source science might reconcile the contradictions and seemingly unexplainable phenomena.
Matzke’s seems to get his inspiration from the combination of his computer and information science background and from Robert Monroe and the channel Abraham-Esther Hicks.
If you can follow the terminology and groundwork Matzke lays, he provides an interesting theory on how Abraham Hicks’ Law of Attraction could be understood in mathematical, source science, terms. This mainly relies on understanding the mind as having a function of negative entropy - that is, it can organize information into greater order. Tiller’s material science experiments using intention host devices (IHDs) provides a groundwork for discussing this. Tiller’s IHDs, for example, showed the ability to change the pH of water. Another example, among many, which the mainstream scientific models fail to explain, is the effect of group meditation on city crime rates.
The authors are curious to understand, create and find models to explain these sort of extra sensory phenomena that our current scientific models reject, ignore and deny. Fans of Rupert Sheldake may also enjoy this book.