BURT LOVES HIS COFFEE
There are in the words of Roger Penrose, renowned Cambridge physicist and author of 'The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe' three worlds: the Platonic mathematical, the physical and the mental. Penrose is very specific as to the associative relationships between these three worlds such that a small part of the mental world may link directly to the whole of the Platonic mathematical world, of which a small part may link directly to the whole of the physical world, of which a small part may link directly to the whole of the mental world. In other words, the three worlds are associated in a very direct way whereby mind may eventually encompass all of the mathematical reality or world, yet fall within the realms of the physical world.
We do not know how much of the physical world is captured through our present understanding of mathematical laws. It is the beauty of Penrose writing that he helps to bridge the gap between our understandings of the workings of the mind, forms in mathematics, and the physical. The great mystery facing mankind is whether science or religion have even begun to scratch the surface of the physical and the mental worlds despite progress in mathematical understanding.
I personally doubt that much progress has been made, which is why the writing of the Wuh Lax series is so important to me as a personal exploration of the three realities: the physical, the quantum mental, and the mathematical.
The book 'Wuh Lax and the Cosmic Lantern' is not a trivial exercise though it is written in a way that even children of an IQ of ten years can enjoy. My feeling is that if anyone can understand the book, they are definitely very well equiped mentally. This is not arrogance on my part, but it is a statement to the effect that the realities exposed in the Wuh Lax series are not trivial, and that any understanding of the realities takes the reader into realms of understanding the are very far beyond the start of the top octile, if such a thing can be imagined.
The three realities are presented in the Wuh Lax series as I presently see them. Firstly, that the physical reality has evolution as an expression of itself, but what the evolutionists tend to miss is the overlay of multiple evolutions within a single physical world space. Yes, the world is evolving, but the pyschology and physics of evolutions are much closer to the concepts propounded by PD Ouspenski than physicists are yet prepared to acknowledge. This means that evolutionists have somewhat missed the boat in understanding more deeply the multiple processes of evolution thinking it to be a single series of events when in reality it is an overlay of multiple series of events somewhat as would occur in the Mandelbrot series or set, but not confined to that set. This is where the world of mathematics is telling us something significant about the nature of our mental and physical realities, and that we are seeing only a very small part of what it is we are being told.
Secondly, within the reality of the quantum mental world there are layers of activity that we will not understand very well at all when as a civilization of minds we have allowed our foci to be governed by linear or pythagorean conceptualizations of what mind is and are largely ignorant of other mathematical possibilities. We have allowed the minds of dictatorial people such as Hitler, Stalin, and Mao to poison and destroy the lives of huge numbers of people. If intention were a guide to behaviour, people, who should have know better, missed understanding the implications of the jail house writing of Mein Kampf with all its poisons. Indeed, we have, as civilizations go, been guilty of extreme laziness, if not the curse of sleeping at the wheel, so to speak. Our civilization seems to operate mentally as would a horse with blinkers on!
And lastly, the mathematics that most people use to operate within our physical and mental worlds is disappointingly tiresome if not outright dangerous to any emergent world civilization. In the book by Penrose, he speaks of Euclidean and hyperbolean mathematics. The physical world operates with mathematical laws and precisions that we have not yet discovered. The increased but limited use of non-linear mathematics shows us just how far we have to go. Would that our dwellings were less linear, and we might have more joy.
What the Wuh Lax series imparts are positive ways to view our three realities so as not to underachieve the potential happiness in our everyday living circumstances.