Re: From a physicist friend
[{"sender": "Deepak Chopra", "recipients": ["jeffrey E. [jeevacation@gmail.com]"], "timestamp": "1/2/2017 4:39:38 PM", "subject": "Re: From a physicist friend", "body": "Today's Chronicle\nhttp://www.stgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/Why-You-and-the-Universe-Are-One-10830679.ph\n\nWhy You and the Universe Are One\nwww.sfgate.com\n\nThe accepted view of reality holds that human beings exist in the\ncontext of a vast physical universe \"out there.\" Sir John Eccles, a\nfamous British neurologist and Nobel laureate, declared, \"I want\nyou to realize that there exists no color in the natural world, and no\nsound — nothing of this kind; no textures, no patterns, no beauty,\nno scent.\" What Eccles means is that all the qualities of Nature,\nfrom the luxurious scent of a rose to the sting of a wasp and the\ntaste of honey, are produced by human beings. The most distant\ngalaxies billions of light years away, have no reality without you,\nbecause everything that makes any galaxy real— with the multitude\nof stars with their heat, emitted light, and masses, the positions of\nthe distant galaxies in space and the velocity that carries each\ndistant galaxy away at enormous speed—requires a human\nobserver with a human nervous system. There are extremely faint\ntraces of photon activity in the brain, but the optic nerve doesn't\ntransmit photons to the visual"}]