For centuries, philosophers have debated the relationship between mind and matter, then modern physics has entered the debate. Below are several versions that put forward theories about the form in which our thoughts can physically be.
Noosphere on the Internet
Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest and paleontologist, described the conceptual "noosphere" in the first half of the 20th century. He predicted that in a future stage of human development, a membrane would emerge that would envelop the entire world and contain our collective thoughts and experiences.
In his book The Phenomenon of Man, he writes: “This is not some huge organism born with limbs, a nervous system, organs of perception and memory. The body of this huge living thing will appear in order to realize the aspirations that originated in thinking beings with a new consciousness."
Many people see similarities between de Chardin's noosphere and the Internet. Can the Internet be considered a reality where our collective consciousness exists?
Thoughts exist in another physical dimension
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Bernard Carr, professor of mathematics and astronomy at Queen Mary University of London, says that our consciousness interacts with other dimensions. Albert Einstein argued that there are at least four dimensions. The fourth dimension is space-time, from the point of view of Einstein, time and space are inseparable.
Carr suggests that our senses only see a three-dimensional universe, although there must be at least four dimensions. What exists in higher dimensions, our organs of perception cannot perceive. From his point of view, such dimensions should still have a kind of space for their existence.
“The only non-physical thing in the Universe that we are familiar with is the mental sphere. The existence of the paranormal suggests that thoughts can exist in a kind of space, Carr wrote.
Are our thoughts running out of time?
Dr. Dean Radin has conducted research showing that our thoughts can affect physical reality, but not the present or the future, as we might assume. “There is a possibility that our thoughts influence the reality in our past,” he says.
Radin is the head of research at the Institute of Abstract Sciences, a nongovernmental organization created by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell to study consciousness. Radin is also a visiting professor in the Department of Psychology at Sonoma State University, and has positions at Princeton University and several research groups in Silicon Valley.
He studied the human ability to influence physical reality using a random number generator. He is not the only scientist who used a random number generator to experiment on the interaction of mind and matter. But the uniqueness of his experiments lies in the fact that he studied the ability of the future intention to influence the past.
Most experiments with a random number generator follow the standard "cause determines effect" model. A person asks a thought, and it should affect the future result. Radin changed the experiment and decided to test the idea that future intent might influence past results.
He found that “the observed results are better modeled when the process goes back in time from a future 'target' than in a more complex process forward in time towards that goal,” says his study in the Journal of Scientific Exploration in 2006 - Some forms of interaction between mind and matter are more consistent with backward "movement" from the future than the resulting "push" from the present."
Wide sphere between particles
William A. Tiller, a professor at Stanford University, has hypothesized that our thoughts have a physical effect on “new level matter that appears to exist in a physical vacuum (the empty space between the fundamental electrical particles that make up our ordinary electrical atoms and molecules) …
According to Tiller, this invisible matter can be fixed, but only when it interacts with ordinary atomic-molecular matter that can be measured. It is likely that this interaction is activated by human intent, and this suggests that our thoughts physically exist in this area.