
The Quantum Screen: The Enigmas of Modern Physics and a New Model of Perceptual Consciousness
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Narrated by:
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River Kanoff
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Samuel Avery
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What is the connection between physics and consciousness? In this groundbreaking new audiobook, Samuel Avery presents the quantum screen, a paradigm-shifting model of perceptual consciousness and of the world. This model looks to the enigmas of modern physics to demonstrate the primacy of consciousness - the essential oneness of spirit and matter.
Our intellectual culture is divided between two poles - science and religion. It's often assumed that these two disciplines - each individually essential and intriguing - cannot speak to one another. Physics cannot answer spiritual questions. Theories of consciousness have no place in the laboratory. In fact, the opposite is true.
While mental and physical experiences appear to be separate realities, Avery believes that a new understanding of dimensions (space, time, and mass) will unite them. Dimensions as structures of perceptual consciousness will awaken a creative convergence of quantum mechanics, relativity theory, and ancient meditation traditions.
Scientifically rigorous and spiritually profound, Avery's model is far from a mere concept or belief. He offers both an explanation of the quantum screen, as well as an opportunity to experience it directly. He deftly weaves humanism into the fabric of hard science. The result is illuminating and potentially life changing, with significant implications for how we understand nature, ourselves, and each other.
"Samuel Avery gives us a refreshingly original and delightfully well-written account of Reality, ripe with clarity and larger than scientific or religious narratives have yet to grasp. I enjoyed this highly original and deeply insightful look into the essence of consciousness and its relationships with the worlds of physics and biology." - Allan Combs, PhD, President of Society for Consciousness Studies, and award-winning author of Radiance of Being and Consciousness Explained Better
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To quell a stereotype, I am not the closed minded physicist who does not believe that a connection between spiritualism, consciousness and physics may exist. There are far more elegant avenues for this connection based on what is known in physics, but it’s not the quantum screen. This is perhaps only plausible in a universe where the behaviours of physics match those described by the author… and that is not this universe.
To be fair, the topics referenced in this book are by no means simple despite their over simplification in the popular media, and unlike much of biology, chemistry and other natural sciences, physics is an unfortunately dense and complex field fraught with unintuitive nuances which generally take years if not decades to fully grasp, making it not as easily accessible as other sciences to general readers. It is even rare for someone with a bachelor in physics to fully understand the core of some of the concepts broached in this book, simply because they are often not covered until graduate level.
It is wonderful to find someone trying to bring these ideas to the general public, however, it is always important to recognise one’s own limitations, especially when presenting a weakly substantiated idea as something so absolute as a paradigm shift… even Einstein had to admit that he didn’t fully understand how to mathematically construct his theory of General Relativity, and so he sought out an expert, a mathematician (which Einstein was not). Samuel Avery would have benefitted greatly from collaborating with a doctor of physics in either the fields of quantum or gravitational physics. This would have helped to refine his ideas and lend greater integrity and credibility to them. At best his thinking is Aristotelian.
Understand the physics better and come back with a refined idea and I’d be happy to try reading one of these books again, because I am genuinely interested in peoples’ takes on these topics. Until then… it was just frustrating to listen to.
WARNING: Not a book for physicists!
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