What if the future is actually the past? When we look at the universe, is what we consider the past, the beginning, actually the future? Is our perception of time as human beings unique when actually time behaves differently?
Deepak Chopra recently suggested that cells retain a conscious memory which is picked up by new cells so they know what to do. He explains this by explaining how often various cells replace themselves. He suggests that when a cell, such as skin cell dies it is replaced by a new skin cell which wonders what it is. "What am I? What did my father, grandfather do?" And Deepak thinks the conscious memory of the grandfather, or father, cell is passed on to the new cell so it knows what it is and what to do. It's an interesting idea but, if time operates differently, as I suggest, maybe the cell is telling the grandfather cell, "This is is what you did, this is what you were."
If this is the case, is birth actually death? Is the question of what happens after death and where do we go actually from whence did I come? This may indicate we come from 'nothing' (an unknown state) into this state and when we die, we actually become part of someone else. The rules seem to reverse.
A flower in bloom is its birth, retiring to a seed. A grain of sand is the beginning which collects other sand particles to become a pebble. A view is not received by the eye but projected. Rain does not fall down, it climbs up. The beginning of the universe is actually our end.
Everything would be turned on its head.
If we look at the example of the flower, the seed doesn't come first but the plant. Yet is this not the case anyway? The flower starts tall and shrinks to a seed. The seed has not fallen to the ground but jumped up to be part of the initial flower.
So, is this the case? Or is time as we perceive it linear from past to future? Does gravity and the orbit of the planets our solar system follow one direction and the universe follow another idea of time?
With the double split test, the photons hit the target either as particle or wave. After realizing, that when scientists observed, the photon changed state accordingly to reach the target, the scientists didn't observe the photon and used a laser to act as the second barrier, and set it to randomly choose when to 'raise' the barrier. The test was recorded without human observation, until afterwards when they watched the recording. What they found was, basically, the photon appeared to know when the laser barrier was going to be used, or not used, and changed state accordingly, even though the laser was choosing when to 'raise' the barrier at random! So they wondered how it knew when the laser would randomly choose to activate. What they deduced was that the future outcome influenced the past, so the photon knew which state to be in, due to it knowing when the second barrier would be used.
This may sound odd, but when I came across Deepak Chopra's article, it seemed to make sense; when a cell dies it is replaced by a new cell which wonders what it is. "What am I? And what did 'grandfather' do?" And the conscious memory of the 'grandfather cell' is passed on to the new cell, so it knows what it is and what to do. Moreover, the consciousness passes from cell a to b. To reach the next cell, it has to know that it is coming back, or know the memory is moving forward aware that it's dying.
Deepak does not go in to reincarnation as such, and I (and only in my opinion) do not believe in reincarnation. I do believe in something happening when we die and the migration of the soul though. I personally believe in each soul/person being unique, and also each individual being an expression of the universe, as we are all made from the same things and part of the universe, not separate from it.
So, in my eye, memories, or consciousness, could potentially be downloaded, so to speak.
As I write this, I am pondering how we know certain things: when we are born, how do we know how to breathe? Science may explain how, but why and how do we know we need to breathe? How do we know to open our eyes? How do we know we will need them? Natural selection may explain why we have eyes, and why some animals have them in certain positions, but how do we know that we need them. Is the answer as Deepak suggests? Has the being downloaded the necessary information to know what it needs? Is it because it knows the future, the end and knows what it needs to do to get to that final destination, like the photon?
Or is it due to our perception of time being unique? Does time's arrow shoot straight from past to future? Or is it only this way for us as we are caught in gravity's web?
All these things are to take out for a cup of tea, on a warm sunny, autumn day, in March. Biscuits optional
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