Three signposts for cosmic mind ultraweirdism eg tunneling

My first task for today lies within the realm of Einsteinian realism (solitons), but various things reminded me of my promise to look more actively for signposts to the possibility that great Mind Idealism (a member of the ultraweird family of possible models of physics) might be true in the end. Since Cosmic Mind Idealism (CMI?) often freaks people out, either in favor or against, let me begin with an analogy which seems safer to me ... the issue of communicating with the past in a way which could actually change it, leading to various paradoxes. When I get past that, I will move on to something in Brian's domain. (See https://drpauljohn.blogspot.com/search?q=Fockian+weirdism for discussion of three gtypes of theory of how the universe works -- Einstein realism, Fock space realism, and weirdism.) =================================== Past analogy Back when I attributed 70% probability of truth to Einstein realism, and therefore could not imagine that I myself am a macroscopic Schrodinger cat, an obvious question arose: what happens when we try to send a message back in time which would change a past which we clearly remember? Why did I even worry about that? Please forgive that some readers would need reminders of the background. First, I already knew that BOTH physics versions of realism, Einstein realism and Fock space realism,  REQUIRE the specific form of time-symmetric physics described in plain English at https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10773-008-9719-9.pdf. I had written about that many times before; Huw Price had an even more vivid paper making the same point in favor of Einstein realism which Jack and I have cited at times (though Jack believes some additional things which do not represent Price.) Thus I knew we should be able to build a "backwards time telegraph".  So what would have happened if we had built such a backwards time telegraph, and tried to use it to give warning to ourself about a bad event we could have avoided (see www.werbos.com/NATO_terrorism.pdf) or try to make money in the stock market in a way which would change the price history? When I was 70% a believer in Einstein realism, and did not think I could be a macroscopic Schrodinger cat, I believed that efforts to build and use such a system would turn it into what I called a "weirdness" generator. For example, when you try to transmit today's stock price back, your mind blurs for a moment (as Jack's may have blurred when he typed words attacking Brian for being "politically incorrect") and you type something you didn't mean which prevents the market from  changing. Or the Chinese hacker who intercepted your message, and tries to trade many billions in the past which (unlike your petty cash) would really disrupt the market... somehow ends up in a car crash or a typhoon or an earthquake, just at the right moment to prevent the change. If we assume that the Einsteinian universe is governed by Lagrange optimization, it turns out that this kind of weirdness is what the hard core PDE actually predict, as the universe "tries to reconcile tricky boundary conditions across time." (The math of this is a cousin of the math of absorbing and emitting a photon, something I was ever so familiar with long ago).  I remember wondering for a moment: based on what I see around me, I wonder whether someone from somewhere has actually built and used this kind of weirdness machine. It sure looks like it...  I remember two science fiction authors who tried to convey this idea in richer, more intuotive form. There was a short, light novel Chronoliths which did it. There were longer deeper novels by Connie Willis , a proud but gentle Irish woman Sean might love, including her thick two-volume novel Blackout and All Clear, where she first explains this "Oxford standard theory of time travel," but raises questions about whether she really believed it... at the time when I was doing the same. Yes, I "believed" it (but with 70% probability, as I now believe realism in general), but I also felt some duty to try to focus on experiences which might lead me to question it. At one point I had a list of about seven fairly compelling personal experiences which made me wonder... So now, after more experiences, and more thinking about the mechanics of quantum superposition, and reading the growing literature on macroscopic Schrodinger cats,  I have put more credence into Fock space realism. I feel little doubt that I myself am a macroscopic Schrodinger cat. (Whenever I say "meow", that is an assertion of that identity.)  The natural way to think about life from that viewpoint is Fock space realism, and almost all my efforts in physics last year were to upgrade the Fock space approach. And in life, to adapt to living in the "ocean" of 4D Fock space. And yet... I have also started to wonder whether I should go back and remember that old weirdness generator. In extremis, could it be possible to imagine that all of the things we call psychic or spiritual phenomena are actually just strong clear manifestations of "Jungian synchronicity," the action of a weirdness generator (which nonetheless would still require something like dark matter and energy to allow such manifestations as we have experienced).  Or, more simply, that "we" are not patterns of what is real in Minkowski space but of the POSSIBILITIES which the Lagrangian optimization math implicitly requires ("the shadows of a cave jointly owned by Plato and Einstein").  ============ moving on So that's all ancient history for me. I drew up a list of curious signposts, and thought about it. Now I begin to wonder about Cosmic Mind Idealism (CMI), and start collecting a similar list. There are lots of things which people attribute to great mind which are NOT on my list, because the concept of Noosphere allowed in Einsteinian or Fock space realism (with dark matter and energy assumed) easily and naturally accounts for most things people think thehy need a Great Mind for. In fact, I started this post by using the term "Great Mind Idealism", but changed it to CMI because our noosphere already is a Great Mind... Great but local. Signposts to CMI would have to be a bit more. I have a list of three in my personal notes... VERY fuzzy now... incomplete of course...  (1) "reconstruction/ extreme visualization" (2) freakouts like reaction systems depicted in Inception (3) gateways like mass tunneling I will not elaborate for many reasons, except on (3). Having just read Stanislaw Lem's novel "His Master's Voice" (which I found for free on the web, just a regular google search, nothing exotic), I noted a few interesting ideas in the book (some interesting only when used as metaphors or near misses). One concerned the possibility of  the tunneling of macroscopic objects. That really should not be possible, even though it "feels plausible," in any of the QED technologies I have ever seen, but I wonder? Could it possibly be both "illegal" (even by MQED rules) but doable nonetheless? I wonder. It turns out that GATING phenomena are very fundamental in any true intelligent system at the spatial level or higher, and therefore should be predicted to exit in any CMI cosmos. Also, in my various travels, I have found "gateways" to be a very  persistent part of my first person psychic/spiritual experience (https://drpauljohn.blogspot.com/2018/11/right-brain-exploration-of-life.html). So I wonder. But... for now just wonder. I am not prepafed to propose an experiment on macroscopic tunneling, and what I do next is such hard core Einstein and math it won't fit on this list, ReplyReply allForward