Quantum Thoughts

To anyone who has read Julian Barbour’s work (“The End of Time – the Next Revolution in Physics”… which I heartily recommend), he envisions an alternative “landscape” where probability reigns and ” timeless instants” are what he terms “time capsules”, i.e., they possess within themselves “a history of configurations” (I apologize if I do violence to Barbour’s ideas!) The three interrelated and directed “instants” that I propose exist within the eye (the focal points for the three primary RGB wavelengths) that exist within quantum indeterminacy limits seem to me to be very similar to Barbour’s time capsules, i.e., they contain within themselves (or “contain by virtue of addressing a memory function within the brain”) a (two dimensional?) history of an “adjacent out-of-time, quantum-indeterminate, information-containing, instant”. It seems that an “out-of-time history” must be involved. And… it is fascinating that it is somehow (I must not use a time word!) directed (either backward or forward… which actually are “time words”!!).

We seem to believe that the vision process is something like a movie with sequential “frame rates” etc. being involved. I do not believe that nature would be so inefficient as to discard information “after each frame” as a movie projector does. It must be that the “last scene” is stored (“in memory”) and efficiently “refreshed” as necessary with new information… either backward (?) or forward within quantum indeterminacy.

Therefore it seems to me that consciousness must be derived from information processed from the retina to the brain… both centers being necessary.