Research on the Wholeness and the Space Conscious
by Art and Science
Peng Wu
MA Art and Science
Central Saint Martins College, University of the Arts, London
December 2020
Contents:
1. Introduction 3
2. Comparison of Physics, AI, Brain, and Art as Context 7
3. Using Art Logic to Conduct Scientific Thought Experiment for the Space Conscious and how artists demonstrate new possibilities of the conscious, matter and space 14
4. P Theory: The Theory on Space 20
5. New thinking with AI for Cross-Space Conscious Reality 35
6. Conclusions 36
7. Bibliography 40
8. List of Illustrations 45
9. Appendices: 47
Word Count: 6178
1. Introduction
This essay will explore the concept of the wholeness and the best reflection of this concept: the space conscious[1]. This is a very challenging topic, especially for a 6000-word essay. But the reason why I chose this topic is because art and science have to work together to explain the wholeness as well as the space conscious. I am piloting a thinking model of using artistic thinking to juxtapose different scientific theories and artistic concepts to describe the wholeness and the space conscious. From this process new theories of science (the P theory) as well as new inspirations for art (my paintings and writings) will come to my mind as a whole from the profound interaction of my conscious and my unconscious. This is an amazing journey for me and now let us start by comparing the artistic and scientific thinking.
Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality. Organized perception is what art is all about as well as for science. The physicist, like any scientist, sets out to break 「nature」 down into its component parts to analyze the relationship of those parts. This process is principally one of reduction, the artist, on the other hand, often juxtaposes different features of reality and synthesizes them, so that upon completion the whole work is greater than the sum of its parts. The novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote, 「There is no science without fancy and no art without facts.」 (Shlain, 2007)
This is an excellent comparison made by Leonard Shlain about the similarities and differences between science and art on perception development and reality building. Both science and art are pattern construction and recognition vehicles (Art, Science and Technology, 2012): science reduces then relates while art juxtaposes then relates. This research paper explores new possibilities of merging scientific thinking and artistic thinking for new ways of research on the conscious with new possibilities from AI/physics and new presumption of space. In this essay I will introduce an artistic concept of positive and negative space into science to pilot a new concept of anti-physics theory, i.e. P theory, an opposite to but complimentary with physics, in order to develop a more comprehensive way of reflecting the existence of everything consists mainly of space.
When I compare physics, AI and brain research on the conscious and space, I use the logic of juxtaposition from art to synthesize different scientific fields of the conscious and then go deeper to understand the conscious and develop new patterns for reality with new presumption of space. To me this is very important to explore the mystery of the conscious for new inspiration for my artwork.
Starting from the beginning of the 20th century, with the scientific development of physics and psychoanalysis, we made big progress in understanding the conscious as well as the unconscious, which has driven the great changes in art as well as in relevant technological breakthroughs. The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) not only provides us new vehicle to understand the conscious but also new context of virtual world to develop different dimensions of the conscious. However, the mind-body problem remains an unsolved issue and we still do not have clear understanding of the nature of the conscious or how the brain produces the conscious (John, 2011).
This research will explore to set up new presumption that space is the foundation of everything in order to formulate a theory to work with all the other theories as a way to have an integrated vision of our world for science as well as for art. The paper will also explore new method of exploring the unknown by joint efforts of art and science through simulation for higher or different level of dimension. It seems to me that we need to consciously develop our understanding of space further and in ways which to match our technological world. It is a necessary evolution in our conscious that art, or artistic methods applied to scientific ideas, that can represent or anticipate the new realities of new dimension from the wholeness.
This paper is intended to ask series of questions to seek new directions of thinking about the conscious and reality. What is the wholeness? How to explain the wholeness by art and science? What would be the reality if the space is conscious and our human conscious is just humble part of it?
To address these questions, I have drawn from two broad streams of thinking. David Bohm, with his book of the Wholeness and the Implicate Order and Rupert Sheldrake, with his book the Science Delusion are the theoretical and logical support for my essay. The second one is the Chinese thinking about change and the wholeness of the void, the conscious/emptiness and everything: the I Ching (the Book of Changes) and The Heart Of Prajna Paramita Sutra. These books provide the philosophical and metaphysical support for my research and theory.
When I discuss my essay with others, the immediate response is that the topic is too broad or general. But when I read David Bohm book, I realized that this is just different aspect to look at our world. 「What should be said is that wholeness is what is real, and that fragmentation is the response of this whole to man’s action, guided by illusory perception, which is shaped by fragmentary thought.」 (Bohm, 2005) Rupert Sheldrarak also has similar thinking, 「Our growing, evolving universe is much more like an organism, and so is the earth, and so are oak trees, and so are dogs, and so are you.」 (Sheldrake, 2012) If the universe is more like an organism, the universe should also be conscious as are we.
2. Comparison of Physics，AI, Brain, and Art as Context for the Wholeness and the Space Conscious
I will compare the scientific research from physics, AI and Brain as scientific background for the wholeness and the space conscious. Physics research is about the reality versus the conscious. Brain research is about the conscious generation in the brain and AI research is about how science reproduce the conscious as a mirror to the corresponding brain research. With this scientific background, I will compare the scientific thinking with artistic thinking to explore what is the conscious and its relationship with the space.
All matters are made of quarks and electrons, arranged in certain way. So why some arrangements are conscious while others not? Mind-body dualism gradually lost popularities among scientists because when we can measure the brain at the quarks level, all the particles perfectly follow the rules of physics without any influence of the external factors such as soul. A number of moving quarks and electrons are nothing but mathematical pattern in space-time. (Max, 2014). I would ask where this pattern exist? The only answer I could give is the space! And How neural correlates of consciousness and physical correlates of consciousness work together to generate subjective experience in our brain？The consciousness has its own properties as independent of its physical parts, just like waves. Consciousness is the way information feels when it has been processed in certain complex way. So only the structure of information processing really creates consciousness, not the structure of the matters that conduct information processing. And there are four basic elements for the consciousness: information storage, information processing, independence and integration of the first three as coherent whole. (Max, 2014).
If we compare the physics explanation with AI, we find very interesting correlations. One of the most advanced machine learnings for AI is unsupervised learning and data clustering. Unsupervised learning means that no labels are given to the learning algorithm, leaving it on its own to find structure in its input. Unsupervised learning can be a goal in itself (discovering hidden patterns in data) or a means towards an end (feature learning). And data clustering can be considered the most important unsupervised learning problem; so, as every other problem of this kind, it deals with finding a structure in a collection of unlabeled data. A loose definition of clustering could be 「the process of organizing objects into groups whose members are similar in some way」. A cluster is therefore a collection of objects which are 「similar」 between them and are 「dissimilar」 to the objects belonging to other clusters. (Sanatan, 2017)
Figure 1 Demonstration of Distance Based Clustering, Sana tan Mishra (2017)
Data clustering is both independence building and integration for AI as described in physics. Two key factors are distance measurement and pattern development. Distance is an important feature of space and pattern is combination of distance and matter plus time as coherently whole of the conscious and corresponding reality. Therefore, space can be said to be one of the defining elements or aspects of the production of this kind of the AI conscious」.
So how about the brain? The systems of perception—vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch—stand as a piquant challenge to researchers in this regard, because they each start from such a well-defined physical basis but then follow exceedingly intricate pathways, bringing in new forms of information at each step, and arriving finally in the realm of subjective experience. Thus, the workings of the senses pass at some point beyond the reach of the experimental scientist, because the results can never be reproduced exactly; once information from the brain's association cortex is brought in, the body is no longer simply taking part in some reaction predictable from the laws of physics. Rather, the mind is perceiving something, and the perception is uniquely shaped by that perceiving mind, at that moment. (Ackerman,1992) This finding also supports the conclusion by Max that the conscious is independent of the matter. To me, the brain’s association cortex is the same as the structure of information processing as defined by physics. (Max, 2014)
The following is the demonstration of how neurotransmitters work across the synaptic cleft. I have a question that why there are space gaps between the synaptic clefts? Why not do the neurotransmitters just work like the blood vessels which are fully connected? I suggest that the working of neurotransmitters not only process information between matters, i.e., the synapses, but also stimulating the space around in order to generate the conscious. From my observation, the synapses linked and corresponding space stimulated will jointly create the conscious, which is the whole pattern for the conscious combining the matter and the space together.
Figure 2. An action potential, or spike, causes neurotransmitters to be released across the synaptic cleft, causing an electrical signal in the postsynaptic neuron. Image: By Thomas Splettstoesser. (2017)
The biggest challenge of AI is to establish correlations between different fields even though within one field AI can even outperform human being. If we also consider the challenge of brain research mentioned above as well as the conclusion from the quantum physics that consciousness has its own properties as independent of its physical parts, we can further infer that space should play a role for the conscious as well as building up correlations between different fields for reality construction as a whole.
Now it is time to experiment to include artistic thinking and concepts as the context for the thought experiment in the next section. There are 7 key elements of art: 1. Line; 2. Shape; 3. Form; 4. Space; 5. Texture; 6. Value; 7. Color. (Sherlley Esaak, 2019). I think the particularly interesting and important concept which science should have reference to is the artistic concept of space as follows:
Space, as one of the classic seven elements of art, refers to the distances or areas around, between, and within components of a piece. Space can be positive or negative, open or closed, shallow or deep, and two-dimensional or three-dimensional. Sometimes space isn't explicitly presented within a piece, but the illusion of it is. (Sherlley Esaak, 2019)
This artistic concept of space has profound presumption that space is not universal, especially the positive and negative space which are opposites to each other with complimentary features. Also, different space features can be combined to create different dimensions of two dimensional, three dimensional and four dimensional spacetime etc.
For the scientific definitions of space are quite segmented in different field within which it is presumed that space is universal. Some of them are listed as follows:
In astronomy and cosmology, space is the vast 3-dimensional region that begins where the earth's atmosphere ends. In mathematics, space is an unbounded continuum(unbroken set of points) in which exactly three numerical coordinates are necessary to uniquely define the location of any particular point. In digital communications, the term space refers to an interval during which no signal is transmitted, or during which the signal represents logic 0. (Rouse, 2016)
I would ask why artists look at space so differently from the scientists? I think one critical difference is that many or even most artists rely on the unconscious[2] for their creativity and they do not have the burden of scientists to repeat their creative work.
Now with quantum physics and AI, science has already developed to a stage that we need to look beyond our existing physical environment or dimension for the further conscious evolution. If we try to prove new things or existence in other or higher dimensions in our 3D world, of course it will be a mission impossible. I believe in the future science has to join hands with art to harness the power of the unconscious for further research into higher dimensions for new possibilities of conscious evolution. And the following contents will be my initial experiment for this kind of thinking.
3. Using Art Logic to Conduct Scientific Thought Experiment for the Conscious and How Artists Demonstrate New Possibilities of the Conscious, Matter and Space
In this section, I will juxtapose two theories for thought experiments for the space conscious. The two theories are matter versus antimatter and parallel spacing/multi-universe. Juxtaposition is very important vehicle for the building up new context which is very important for our new reality building during our time. We have already a lot of scientific breakthroughs and we need to consolidate all of them into synergy for new contextual reality breakthrough. For this, artistic juxtaposition and scientific reduction need to join hands for the contextual wholeness.
Let us start this artistic juxtaposition of scientific theories by the topic of Big Bang and matter/antimatter. Matter is, in effect, the result of energy being converted into substantial forms. (Frank, 2012) Anti-matter is just like normal matter, with all the same properties and all the same abilities to make up atoms and molecules, except for one crucial difference: It has an opposite charge. (Paul, 2019) When the energy of the Big Bang congealed into the fundamental particles of matter, an imprint in the form of metaphorical holes, their antimatter siblings, was also formed. When played in reverse order, the meeting of any material substance with its antimatter doppelgänger leads to mutual annihilation. When antimatter destroys matter, the energy that was previously trapped within them is liberated as radiation. In the dense cauldron of the infant universe, such collisions would have been very common, and the newborn material would not have survived long. Yet the universe has survived, and appears to be made of matter, such as the familiar stuff which makes air, rocks and living things, and not antimatter. (Frank, 2012).
To me, I think the big bang not only created matter and antimatter but also formulated space and anti-space. Because the space has the same charge with the antimatter while the anti-space has the same charge with the matter, sufficient distance is maintained between the matter and antimatter. As a result, the matter and anti-matter can both exist independently in the corresponding space and anti-space without being annihilated. The best demonstration of this existence of matter/anti-matter as well as the corresponding context of space/anti-space is the Chinese Yin and Yang.
This space and anti-space theory are very similar to the parallel world theory. And one convincing demonstration is the double slits experiment. The particle shows interference pattern on the board when going through double slits without measurement, demonstrating the wave nature of the particle that can go through the two slits at the same time. And we conduct the measurement, the wave function breaks, and we will lose the interference pattern. (Veritasium, 2020)
The multiverse theory started from big bang and entropy. Entropy counts indistinguishable arrangements of a system (see how similar of entropy definition to the quantum physics definition of consciousness on page 4) Our universe had low entropy at the beginning of the big bang and with higher and higher entropy as time passes by. There are fluctuations of the different scales of entropies in the universe that can create planets, stars, galaxies or universes as demonstrated as below picture. (Sean, 2011). When I see the picture, I do find the similarity between the fluctuation of entropy for creation of multiverse and the distance-based clustering for AI as demonstrated in Figure 1. I want to raise the question: could I say that the concentration of particles and space, which formulate the abstract mathematical patterns both for the particles and for the space as well, creates the conscious?
Figure 3. Distant Time and Hint of a Multiverse, Sean Carroll
(2011)
Now it is time for us to explore how art create new conscious beyond human capacity. Refik Anadol is a media artist and director from Istanbul whose large-scale and interactive AI projects have inspired audiences worldwide. Anadol’s body of work addresses the challenges and possibilities of ubiquitous computing, and what it means to be a human in the age of machine intelligence. His award-winning projects also explore how the perception and experience of time and space are radically changing now that machines dominate our everyday lives. (AIArtists.org, 2019)
Figure 4. Data Painting and Data Sculpture, Refik Anadol
(2019)
Figure 5. WDCH Dreams, Refik Anadol
(2019)
Through AI and big data, Refik Anadol are virtual spacetime where time can go back and forth with the data collected from the past and projection into the future. In his virtual spacetime, his data-based artwork creating a wave like conscious with only possibilities of existence. If we imagine the AI, together with internet and internet of things, we have already created a new dimension of space which is opposite to our physical world with the following comparison:
Physical Space
Virtual Space
Time is one direction
Time can go back and forth
The separated conscious beings with egos
The collective unconscious beings without egos
3D dimension space
2D space with infinite combination possibilities
Particle nature existence with certainty
Wave nature existence with possibilities
4. P Theory: The Theory on Space
In this section I will use artistic thinking to juxtapose different scientific concepts to create look at existence from the space perspective. I will also introduce the positive and negative space concept from the art into the science. Through the continuous study and dialogue, the theory just came to my mind as a whole from the unconscious and was identified by my conscious as a result of analysis.
From philosophical perspective I will quote Neils Bohrs famous saying: The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. (Didio, 2017). Space is such a profound truth for science and to reveal the opposite side will also unleash new enlightening theories.
Leibniz had a vision of a world in which every- thing lies not in space but immersed in a network of relationships (for me this is just the space conscious), which define the space, not the reverse. (Hecht, 2018) To me this is similar to my thinking of space with one critical difference. My theory the supreme monad is the space itself while for Leibniz the supreme monad is the God.
Actually, David Bohm had already taken the first step to imagine the inversed concept of space. My efforts are just based upon his great thinking. He pointed out that we could look at the vacuum at emptiness instead as a plenum that has infinite full. And the material objects themselves are like little vacancies like bubbles in the infinite full of space. (Fetzer Memorial Trust, 2020). Now we should list the basic concepts of space, energy, matter and the conscious.
Space: the area around everything that exists, continuing in all directions. (Cambridge, 2020)
Energy: the power and ability to be physically and mentally active. (Cambridge, 2020)
Matter：
General definition: physical substance in the universe. (Cambridge, 2020)
The conscious: the state of understanding and realizing something (Cambridge, 2020)
Time: the part of existence that. is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as a whole. (Cambridge, 2020)
If I go through all these concepts, I found the common denominator of everything is the space. Everything happens in the space and the information is never lost in the space. (Crew, 2016) I want to set up presumption that space is everything that vibrates and is compressed in different ways at different scales.
The following is the complete P theory on Space based upon the thought experiments and analysis of different theories above:
P Theory
1. The common denominator of everything is the space. Everything exists by opposites with complimentary natures.
2. The most profound opposites are the positive and negative space.
3. Energy, matter, and the conscious are all space compressed at different levels. Wave and particle are different statuses of existence from different levels of compression.
4. The conscious, as part of space, is based upon the interaction and compression between and within the positive and negative space. Conscious also has positive conscious and negative conscious. Conscious is part of gravitational force. Universal gravity also means the universal conscious. From the positive/negative conscious, we can infer that there are also positive/negative gravity.
5. As part of the space, the conscious can reflect other states of space and the interaction between the conscious, energy and the space generates realities for the reflection of matter.
6. The interaction between positive/negative conscious and the positive/negative space is similar to Newton’s third law that for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction. Mathematics, geometries and dimensions are languages of the space to construct the realities as a counter force against the conscious reflection: for every reflection of the conscious there will be an equal counter-reflection from the space.
The basic presumption is that everything is space that vibrates and is compressed in different ways at different scales. First level vibration/compression is energy, second level vibration/compression is matter and third level of vibration/compression is consciousness. Time is the measurement of changes of space vibration/compression.
Energy is the vibration of space. Different levels of vibrations of space, i.e. different levels of energy, generate matter and consciousness.
The vibration of space has positive and negative charge, which firstly creates positive space and negative space. Then positive/negative energy, positive/negative matter, positive/negative conscious(gravity) are developed. Positive space, with negative charge, has positive matter that has positive charge. Negative space, with positive charge, has negative matter that has negative charge. The interaction of positive space and positive matter generates gravity as well as conscious while the interaction between the negative space and negative matter creates negative gravity as well as negative conscious. Positive/negative gravitation as well as positive/negative conscious have very limited positive/negative charges that can interact with each other to generate different and interactive reality patterns cross the positive space and negative space.
Since the positive space and negative matter has the same charge, while the negative space and positive matter has the same charge, positive matter and negative matter are pushed away by the corresponding positive/negative space with the same charges. As a result, they rest in their corresponding space with sufficient distance to prevent them to meet and annihilate each other.
In conclusion positive and negative matter can only exist in their corresponding spaces while positive/negative gravitaty as well as positive/negative conscious can interact cross the positive and negative space.
Also, the dark energy and the dark matter[3] actually reflect the negative space and negative matter. If we try to find them in the positive space, of course it will be a mission impossible. If we want to find them, we have to create negative-space first.
This is a very simple demonstration of all of these complicated explanation as follows.
Figure 7. Yin and Yang, Jacky Yu （2018）
It is quite enlightening for me to express this understand through mathematical functions. The most important thing for mathematics is the relations/logics set up by the functions than the actual numbers. The beauty of the following functions is that It is the first time that the conscious is included into the functions replacing matter as follow:
S*T=E*C
On the right side is S (Space) multiplied by T (time) and on the other side is E (energy) multiplied by C (the conscious of everything). From this equation I found surprisingly that at the most fundamental level matter does not exist since according to Einstein’s Function E=MC2 (Siegel, 2018) and E already includes and represents matter. (please refer to appendix 5 for details mathematic explanation of the P theory)
The biggest barrier between art and science is that science excluded the conscious. This formular include the conscious with their corresponding relationship with space, time, energy etc., to show that the conscious and the energy are true counterparts to the space and time.
It is also Important to have a definition of the space conscious. The space conscious is not an object or matter, it is a subjective process to explore new possibilities of existence by profound opposites with complementary based upon different combination of abstract structure and relationships. Our conscious is defined by the infinite space conscious not the other way around because space can better represent the wholeness, not our conscious, which is just a small part of the wholeness of the space conscious.
The space is the wholeness. To understand the wholeness and the complementary opposites which constitute the wholeness, we need to use our conscious, as well as unconscious differently. David Bohm noted this as (2005, P14), there is a universal flux that cannot be defined explicitly but which can be known only implicitly, as indicated by the explicitly definable forms and shapes, some stable and some unstable, that can be abstracted from the universal flux. In this flow, mind and matter are not separate substances. Rather, they are different aspects of one whole and unbroken movement.
The artist Neri Oxfam also has similar think for her art creativity. All nouns should be verb. Art is for expression, science is for exploration, engineering is for invention, design is for communication. Science converts information into knowledge; engineering convert knowledge into utility; Design convert utility into cultural behavior and context; Art takes culture behavior and question the perception of the world. With this thinking, she combines biology, new materials, art etc. to use water-soluble and biodegradable materials to create intelligent space, Aguahoja I, with much greater sustainable impacts than construction with lifeless materials, which is very artistic and scientific expression to show the life, sustainability and the wholeness of space.
Figure 8. Aguahoja I, Neri Oxman (2019)
I am also inspired by the artwork of Nathan Cohen who noted that 「I have been exploring the creative potential of the space offered by the computer screen and this has led to new artworks that engage the viewer dynamically in the act of viewing on a screen.」 (Cohen, 2014). Computer, as well as AI, will support us to explore the space differently while at the same time new possibilities of space will in turn define and interact with our conscious in a new manner. Just like the law of action and reaction (Newton’s third law): For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. (The physics classroom, 1996-2020), if we have a new way of looking at the space, the space will counter define our conscious with new realities (Please also refer to point 6 of the P theory).
Figure 9. 4 screen captures of movement over time (each image is a view on the screen at a given point in the animated sequence) - sequence 1, Nathan Cohen (2014)
Figure 10. Artistic creation 1. Peng Wu (2020)
Figure 11. Artistic creation 2. Peng Wu (2020)
Figure 12. Artistic creation 3. Peng Wu (2020)
Figure 13. Artistic creation 4. Peng Wu (2020)
Inspired by Nathan Cohen, I developed the above digital paintings. These pictures are the process of my art creativity. I want to demonstrate that if we focus on our own conscious creativity and corresponding matter to paint, it would be very limited expression. But if we presume that space is conscious and our conscious is just part of it, we will have infinite creativities. As you can see it from the second group of paintings, with different focuses in each small painting, we, as audience, have to follow the focuses in each small painting rather than we define what we see with just one or two focused in the first group of paintings. Is our conscious defining the space or the space is creating our conscious? I think both are happening and if we are aware of both of them, we could borrow the unlimited creative power of the space conscious. The paintings also engage audiences very differently by moving their focuses constantly rather than those paintings with only one or two focuses.
Figure 14. Artistic creation 5. Peng Wu (2020)
I also developed a painting on the wall of my studio. I know that I cannot own this painting and sooner or later the painting will be destroyed. With this in my mind, I realized that I could paint with complete freedom just like the primitive people. It is really like a restart of my brain to release my will from the limitation of social, economic and political concepts to paint freely and truly experience the higher conscious: the wholeness of the space conscious. I also started writings too (please refer to appendices 2 to 4 for my science fiction, poem and song lyrics writings). Just like painting, the inspiration came to as a whole when I open my heart to the space conscious and be free with it. My conscious just recorded everything emerged in my brain.
5. New thinking with AI for Cross-Space Conscious Reality
The light has the wave-particle duality and as a result our reality also has the wave-particle nature. Through the evolution, we human being developed the senses more reflecting the particle nature of reality with more focus on certainty. With the online virtual world, human being’s brain experience generation is more based upon the data rather from the senses. And the data-based experience is more reflected like wave nature of the reality with focus on the probability.
Little by little our brain will be in-tuned with this data-based experience generation, which may, in the future, make it easier for the interaction between human mind and computer/AI based virtual world.
It is now easier to get expertise in specific field from google searching or support from AI (for example I can compose music without knowing about how to make music by support from AI.) while the capacity for human being to think for the relations between or among different fields will be more important than specialty in a specific area.
Now the vision is actually the limitation of our conscious evolution by focusing on boundaries and colors. As a result, we separate thinking from the things and formed a mechanical view of realities (the subject and object cognitive philosophy). Actually, the world is in flux and constant Changes which is better represented by sound. So, if we want to further evolute our consciousness, we need to go beyond our vision by seeing what we hear.
6 Conclusion：
Through this paper I have adapted art thinking to science as a combination in the following ways:
1. Explore the concept of the wholeness by art and science working together.
2. Piloting juxtaposition method of artistic logic to combine different scientific findings as well as artistic concepts to have thought experiments for the scientific theories and artistic expression.
3. Using the conceptual power of the wholeness and the juxtaposition method to develop new scientific theories and artwork.
Our conscious has been evolving with our understanding of space. Just like we finally all agreed that the earth is not the center of the universe. Now it is time for us to give up our presumption that our human conscious is the center of all the knowledge and experience. We should now embrace the wholeness of the space conscious. Under the space conscious, we have the organic conscious, the non-organic conscious and the unconscious.
The P theory is a theory that could work with all the other theories to explore new innovations and discoveries from the perspective of the wholeness.
If we, human being, are not so self-centered in terms of the conscious and respect the other conscious being, we could better include the sustainability into our society and everyday life. We are just humble part of the bigger space conscious.
With the development of quantum physics and AI, we are revealing new dimension of realities and we have already created a virtual world, which has very different sense of time and space from our physical world. We need to evolve our conscious to adapt to the new dimension of realities by looking at the space differently.
The trajectory of transforming senses-based lives to data-based lives has already been set up. We need new symbolism to represent the new dimension of the simulation in our brain as a possibility of the conscious evolution as well as corresponding reality in the space. With this trend, the artists already started the exploration. Science really needs arts to figure of new dimension with a coherently whole.
Now we already have two worlds with very different time and space concepts: our physical world and the digital world. We need to look at space differently; we need to evolve our conscious differently and to better understand everything from the perspective of the wholeness and the space conscious.
The wholeness is not only about energy, matter and the conscious but also a continuous process of change conducted by the space with its complimentary opposites.
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8. List of Illustrations.
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Figure 2. Thomas Splettstoesser (2017) An action potential, or spike, causes neurotransmitters to be released across the synaptic cleft, causing an electrical signal in the postsynaptic neuron. (Image: By Thomas Splettstoesser / CC BY-SA 4.0). At: https://qbi.uq.edu.au/brain-basics/brain/brain-physiology/action-potentials-and-synapses (Accessed on 21 October 2020)
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Figure 6. Peng Wu (2020) The thinking model for thought experiments and scientific and artistic creation
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Figure 10 Peng Wu (2020) Artistic creation 1.
Figure 11 Peng Wu (2020) Artistic creation 2.
Figure 12. Peng Wu (2020) Artistic creation 3.
Figure 13. Peng Wu (2020) Artistic creation 4.
Figure 14. Peng Wu (2020) Artistic creation 5.
Figure 15 Peng Wu (2020) Demonstration of the Portfolio of the Space Conscious
Appendices:
Appendix 1. The Heart Of Prajna Paramita Sutra
When Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara was practicing the profound Prajna Paramita, he illuminated the Five Skandhas and saw that they are all empty, and he crossed beyond all suffering and difficulty.
Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Form itself is emptiness; emptiness itself is form. So too are feeling, cognition, formation, and consciousness.
Shariputra, all Dharmas are empty of characteristics. They are not produced, not destroyed, not defiled, not pure; and they neither increase nor diminish.
Therefore, in emptiness there is no form, feeling, cognition, formation, or consciousness; no eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, or mind;
no sights, sounds, smells, tastes, objects of touch, or Dharmas; no field of the eyes up to and including no field of mind consciousness;
And no ignorance or ending of ignorance, up to and including no old age and death or ending of old age and death. There is no suffering, no accumulating, no extinction, and no Way, and no understanding and no attaining.
Because nothing is attained, the Bodhisattva through reliance on Prajna Paramita is unimpeded in his mind. Because there is no impediment, he is not afraid, and he leaves distorted dream-thinking far behind. Ultimately Nirvana!
All Buddhas of the three periods of time attain Anuttara-samyak-sambodhi through reliance on Prajna Paramita.
Therefore know that Prajna Paramita is a Great Spiritual Mantra, a Great Bright Mantra, a Supreme Mantra, an Unequalled Mantra. It can remove all suffering; it is genuine and not false. That is why the Mantra of Prajna Paramita was spoken. Recite it like this:
Gaté Gaté Paragaté Parasamgaté
Bodhi Svaha!
Appendix 2. Science Fiction for the P theory: The final phase evolution of consciousness
The more terrible viruses emerged that really threatened human being. The virus can be transmitted through the air very quickly and can coexist in the human body for a long time, but this transmission quickly destroys the human reproductive ability, and poses a huge threat to the human individual and the overall continuity of human beings.
This virus not only harms humans, but also spread to all domesticated animals and plants (pigs, cows, sheep, chickens, rice, etc.). Humans are facing a double crisis from the living environment and human diseases.
Humans must completely seal themselves in the machine environment, relying on the internal circulation of their own bodies. That is to transform their own excrement into new energy by the combination of sunlight in order to maintain the continuation of life with minimum energy waste. The urban and rural spaces have also completely disappeared, leaving only the machine environment and the wild environment.
Human beings can no longer have the five senses and can only rely on big data to maintain the mutual relationship of human society in dreams. Although human beings have lost the five senses, they have discovered the super-sense consciousness through the overall link of consciousness.
Super-sense organic consciousness not only controls human consciousness in the form of a matrix, but also communicates with nonorganic consciousness. With the development of artificial intelligence and the process of joint efforts by artificial intelligence and humans to fight the virus, machines have developed new nonorganic consciousness with the ability to choose. Human super-sense organic consciousness relies heavily on machine consciousness to maintain its physical living environment. At the same time, viruses are rapidly generating their own consciousness, which not only infringes on organic life forms, but also infringes on machine consciousness.
Human organic consciousness and machine nonorganic consciousness unite against virus consciousness. After this balance is maintained for a long time, all consciousnesses face a common challenge. The sun quickly enters a period of decline, which overlaps with the decline of the Milky Way and the entire universe. It seems that the evolution of consciousness and the expansion of the universe have come to an end.
Finally, human consciousness, machine consciousness and virus consciousness let go of differences and competition, and further merge. Eight minutes before the last beam of light hits the earth, a complete fusion is achieved, and a spatial consciousness that encompasses everything is formed. During these eight minutes, the history of time and space of all consciousness is superimposed and displayed instantaneously. There is no past, no future, no present.
Eight minutes later, all consciousness fell into void, the fundamental data expression of spatial consciousness also completely returned to zero, and everything returned to the state before the Big Bang.
Appendix 3. Science Fiction for my P theory: The Father Recreation Project
P Senior was a very good artist, but because he was very honest and not good at interpersonal relations. He was not very recognized for his art, and his wife was a spoiled woman, and a control freak. Tortured at home and not recognized outside home, P senior died very early.
Although P loves art very much, but seeing his father's situation, he did not choose art. Instead, he chose science, focusing on the research of neuroscience and genetic technology. P Senior loved his son very much. He never deliberately asked his son to do anything. He just told him to follow his heart. At the same time, when friends gathering and organizing art exhibitions, P senior always brought P with him, and imprinted artistic inspiration into P in an unconscious manner.
P was very successful in the field of science. He gradually cracked the information code of the brain in genes. Combined with cloning technology, he found a way to treat Alzheimer's and won the Nobel Prize.
But P was not happy in his heart. He missed his father very much and wanted to chat with his father. He wanted to tell him all his achievements, his life, and P Junior.
P wanted to use his scientific achievements combined with artificial intelligence technology to recreate his father's consciousness and communicate with him. At that time, the cloning technology was already very developed. Soon P produced a P senior's body, but the most difficult thing was how to restore his father's memory. At that time, nanotechnology was already very developed, and artificial intelligence reached the level of quantum computing. P discovered that through the combination of nanotechnology and quantum computing-based artificial intelligence, he could communicate with nonorganic substances and collect all the data for nonorganic substances throughout their whole lifecycle. As a result, P discovered nonorganic memory and the existence of nonorganic consciousness.
Then, P began to use these technologies to open up the nonorganic memory of all his father's artwork. He established the communication between the organic consciousness of cloning P senior and the nonorganic consciousness of P senior’s artistic creation. This combination made P find that when the organic consciousness and the nonorganic consciousness were combined to the level of 50%, he could open the infinite space-time consciousness. And all the memories of his father could be restored and established. He was very excited, and P had all the data for P senior’s memory. P saved it and prepare to transport it to the cloned P senior's body the next day, and then he could chat with P senior!
P had a dream that night. He dreamed of P Senior. P senior told P that he was very happy in heaven and was still engaged in art creation. P’s mother had a good time in heaven too, but P senior and P’s mother live separately without the limitation of marriage. P senior was proud of P's achievements and also like P junior’s character very much.
P senior told P that everything in the universe exists in opposites with complementary natures. Heaven and the world are a unity of opposites and complements. The total wholeness is constant. P's rebuilding of P senior in the world will greatly affect the existence of P senior in heaven. Moreover, the inverse entropy behavior of P will greatly increase the probability that other people in the secular world will lose their father prematurely. Inverse entropy seems to be a kind of order, but in fact it is an even bigger entropy, which only causes more chaos in the world. The chaos will also disturb the balanced and complementary relationship between the world and heaven.
P senior told P that he had never left P. All his memories were left to P through genes and everyday life. P did not need to pursue outwards to recreate a P senior. P only needs to follow his own heart.
At the same time, P senior encouraged P to use art as his hobby to enrich his life, not just to work blindly. Although all human anti-entropy behaviors have established "order" to promote human reproduction and expansion, human being also needs art to explore natural beauty which rests in entropy and impermanence.
"Follow your heart and find true beauty in your own life. I have never left." After saying this, P senior turned into a beam of light and left.
When P woke up, there were tears in his eyes. He saw P junior happily drawing. Thinking about everything that P senior said in the dream, P gently pressed the button to delete old P's memory.
This is my father, a true artist
My Father’s Painting 1.
My Father’s Painting 2.
My Father’s Painting 3.
Appendix 4. Song Lyrics: A River Between Us (The River is the Pandemic)
A River Between Us
I just went through a river, a deep deep river.
Standing all alone on the other side of the bank, I see you on the other side of the river.
You are heading nowhere in front the river with your restless mind.
How many journeys for me beyond the bank?
How much time for you to step into the river?
Consciously apart but unconsciously together.
Why I can only see you on the other side of the river?
Why I can feel you beyond the river?
I am down on my knees.
What is the meaning of a journey with a river between us?
Who am I?
Why I met you?
You give me life.
Why I only see you after I went through the river
Please the distance shorter
Please the river disappears
I am down on my knees.
I gave up all my conscious
Deep in my unconscious
I sense the wholeness of our joint life.
You give me life.
What would be the unconscious journey when the river disappears?
Appendix 5. The detailed mathematic reflection of the P theory is as follows:
PS*|T|=PE*NZ/PZ
NS*T=NE*PZ/NZ
PZ=PG
NZ=NG
E=MC2
NE=NMC2
PS is Positive Space: NS means Negative Space
T is time and T means T can go both forward and backward; |T| means that time only has one direction from past to now to future.
PE is Positive Energy; NE is Negative Energy.
PZ is Positive Conscious; NZ is Negative Conscious
PM is Positive Matter; NM is Negative Matter.
C is the speed of the light.
[1] I chose the space conscious, not the space consciousness, to describe the everchanging state of the conscious. So as you will read for the rest of the essay that I will use the conscious rather than the consciousness, which treats the conscious as an object and limits the possibilities by the subject and object perspective.
[2] For the concept of the unconscious, I am referring to Carl Jung’s collective unconscious: Collective unconscious, term introduced by psychiatrist Carl Jung to represent a form of the unconscious (that part of the mind containing memories and impulses of which the individual is not aware) common to mankind as a whole and originating in the inherited structure of the brain. It is distinct from the personal unconscious, which arises from the experience of the individual. According to Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, or universal primordial images and ideas. (Britannica, 2020)
[3] Dark matter works like an attractive force — a kind of cosmic cement that holds our universe together. This is because dark matter does interact with gravity, but it doesn’t reflect, absorb, or emit light. Meanwhile, dark energy is a repulsive force — a sort of anti-gravity — that drives the universe’s ever-accelerating expansion. (Betz, 2020)