22.6.14

... concept of a macroscopic rigid and compact object is only an optical illusion, and not a physical entity

Subversive Thinking: Ken Wilber's metaphysical theory of holons, the afterlife and survival of consciousness and his book Sex, Ecology and Spirituality



Physicist Marco Biagini comments:
Also the concept of a macroscopic rigid and compact object is only an
optical illusion, and not a physical entity. The image of the object we
see is in fact only an approximate representation of the real physical
object.

No object exist in nature as we see it
;
solid objects appear to us as if they were uniformly filled with
motionless matter, while they are only sets of rapidly moving particles;
matter is concentrated in a very small fraction of the space occupied
by the solid object, mostly in the atomic nuclea, and it has no uniform
distribution as it appears to us. The laws of physics establish that the
possible properties of every particle or molecule are the same, that is
the property of exchange energy with other particles or photons, and
the property of movement; these are the properties of every quantum
particle, and no aggregate of quantum particles can have new properties.


Therefore, no real macroscopic properties exist.

The macroscopic properties quoted by materialists, are not objective
properties of the physical reality, but they are only abstractions or
concepts used to describe our sensorial experiences; in other words,
they are ideas conceived to describe or classify, according to arbitrary
criteria, a given succession of microscopic processes, and these ideas
exist only in a conscious and intelligent mind. Therefore, the
macroscopic property, being only an abstraction, presupposes the
existence of consciousness. It is obvious that consciousness cannot be
considered a macroscopic property of the physical reality, because the
macroscopic property itself presupposes the existence of consciousness.
We have then a logical contradiction. No entities which existence
presupposes the existence of consciousness can be considered as the
cause of the existence of consciousness