The experienced Worldview

Let’s look at the interplay between consciousness and matter on a human example. Many adults in western culture have played as a child with building blocks made of wood and thereby acquired and developed important skills through play.

Perception

Let us perceive a wooden cube with our senses. We feel the cube as something we can touch all around and feel the resistance to the pressure of our fingers when we hold it. In our mind, we experience it as something solid. By touching all over and comprehending, we also get a spatial conception of a cube in our consciousness.

Each of our eyes sees two different, two-dimensional images of the cube. These two-dimensional images appear in our consciousness as a three-dimensional structure (Who does that? How does that happen?). To proof that understanding, we rotate the cube and get so different two-dimensional images of the cube.

Our remembered experiences explain that these different images, combined with our movements of the arms, fingers and our touch sensations create our consciousness, everything corresponds to the three-dimensional image of a wooden cube. We bring our current vision with our current sensations with our years of experience in line. We are immediately aware that there is a cube.

The process of cognition is unconsciously for our ExperienceEntity. Our experience in the recognition of a cube is so large that we even accept an two-dimensional image of a three-dimensional cube, as a cube. Here, it might lead to mistakes, because the fingering (comprehension) is missing. Our experience in the identification of processed wood surfaces is so great that we have the recognition of a cube made of wood immediately in our consciousness.

We feel the surface of the cube as a closed, continuous surface without gaps and spaces. But there are of course fine spaces in the structures of the wood. The resolution of our sense of touch is not enough to recognize this. This whole process of cognition of the cube is mostly done unconsciously, because we have learned this as an infant. Just our movements and the result of this recognition are aware to us.

Any primitive prehistoric man would also experience this above, if he had had the same experiences in his earlier life with wooden cubes.

Science

We come to other interpretations of this process of perception through the statements of sciences.  With modern imaging techniques, scientists can localize the brain regions that are required for the process of cognition a dice. Only the final awareness of the object as a cube can not be shown as a separate activity in our brain or be assigned to a specific region.

Our scientific findings tell us that the cube is continuously surrounded by another matter, namely air. We feel the air not with our hands, since the individual air components are not firmly joined together and can therefore be easily moved.

The airparticles yield the pressure of our hand so easily that either our pressure receptors in the skin do not notice them or our BodyEntity has learned that the pushing away of the air is insignificant and it is not made aware to our ExperienceEntity. Therefore we do not feel slowly moving air. For this reason, the existence of air, even from the sciences was not recognized for long in the past.

Cells

Our scientific findings tell us that this solid surface of the cube, impenetrable to our hands, consists of a developed structure of dead cells that have previously belonged to a multicellular living organisms, a tree.

Depending on the plant used, the cells may have had very different properties. They had support function in any case, and also served the transport and storage of water and minerals by the plant. During its lifetime of the plant, the plant has developed  from a single seed through cell division and proper differentiation of cells. Thus, many individual cells bound together the wooden structure to ensure and optimize system stability of the plant in the struggle for survival in its specific environment.

Each plant cell consists of a cell wall made of cellulose. The nucleus with its genetic information in the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is surrounded by a separate membrane.  Within the cell, yet other structures may exist which have specific tasks, such as photosynthesis or the production of proteins for the construction of other cells or to store the metabolic products for nutrition of the cell and for transporting away the metabolic products, which are not required ,

These are quite complex tasks for a small cell. Each cell is a complex nanotechnology factory with very complex processes that can build individual, required macromolecules from smaller molecules to serve the interests of the plant as a whole.

Every single cell of unicellular and multicellular organisms knows more about the individual response capabilities of individual molecules, atoms and their components as the entire human science.

It dominates the control of these reactions for the benefit of the cell. Only a statistical prediction of the reactions would not be very helpful, since space in the cell is available for only a few molecules.

Each cell is capable to build individual molecules inside, which it needs to survive and bring it to the needed location of the cell or in the body of multicellular organism to bring about a desired response or function. Waste products of such reactions, which can not be reused are removed from the cell. In addition, the cell creates  energy depots for times of food shortage.

All living things are composed of such cells. The realm of living beings is now divided into three domains depending on the cell type. The domains are of archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes.

Archaea are also known as primitive bacteria. They are the simple specialists, some are adapted to very extreme environmental conditions. They have no separate cell organelles in their bodies. The bacteria have as archaea no separate nucleus. Their DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is floating freely in the cell plasma (cytoplasm), but they may have different cell organelles.

The eukaryotes are the most advanced single-celled organisms. As they have a nucleus that contains the DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) and separating it from the cytoplasm and other cell organelles. They are the generalists among unicellular organisms with the greatest range of functions in a cell.
All multicellular organisms such as plants, animals and humans are composed of eukaryotic cells. The very first cell of each metazoan must have already contained all functionality to allow the construction of the body of multicellular organism.

There must be something that knows the overall plan of the multicellular being and the ability to its realization. Science assumes that all processes in each cell will be controlled by the giant molecule inside the cell nucleus, which science call as DNS. The trigger mechanism for the individual processes, however, is still unclear.

Without enlargement, we no longer see the individual cells of our cube. We see only the fibrous structure of the wood. The excellence of materialistic science have provided us with insights into the cells.

Molecules

When we look at a cell with scientific methods in more detail, we see that the structures of the cells are made of materials that we refer to as chemical substances. The contents and structural components of living cells consist of collections of chemical substances such as water, proteins, lipids, polysaccharides, enzymes and other organic and inorganic molecules.

Science tells us that all chemical substances consist of a specific arrangement of molecules, which determine the chemical and physical properties of this substance. Each cell has the ability to absorb atoms, ions and molecules from the environment to process them so that damage of the cell can be repaired, or other specific tasks are requested from outside and consequently performed within the cell.

Atoms

Furthermore, we are told by science that the individual molecules are composed of a very specific spatial arrangement of atoms. Each cell has mastered the art of arrangement of atoms in space, to produce molecules needed. If a critical molecule disintegrates within a cell, the cell may die. Either the defect is repaired by the cell itself, or the cell is degraded by the programmed cell death, and may subsequently be replaced by a new cell of the same type. The new cell is generated by the corresponding stem cells by cell division and cell differentiation.

Until now, it still looks as if the cube consists of a very large pile of useful arranged particles of matter that we call atoms. We call atoms, because science has formerly believed that these structures can not be divided furthermore and that they make up the entire space of a solid without a gap. This idea corresponds to our sensory experience of the matter but is wrong.

Elektrons

Materialistic science is advanced further and tells us that the main mass of an atom ist in he nucleus in the center of the atom and that it carries the positive there. As a counterpart to the positive nuclear charges a corresponding number of negative electrical charges carriers different orbitals (core servings) of the atom distant from the core. The ratio of the diameter of the atomic nucleus to the diameter of the outer electron orbitals is 1: 10000.

Depending on the nature of the atom (element) it has various orbitals. Individual atoms can be under normal conditions on Earth not come closer than allowed by their electrons of the outermost orbitals.

If there is a electron-connection of atoms in a molecule, then they form common orbitals which are generated by the electrons of the atoms involved. Through this connection, the orbitals of the molecules differ in shape from a round spherical shape. Molekules have different spatial orbitals and therefore different desires to connect with other atoms or molecules than the single atoms had.

The electrons are regarded as point charges, which means that they themselves have no spatial extension. Only their effect has spatial extent. This means that matter consists of empty space in relation to its volume, the ratio is 1: 1,000,000,000,000, if we assume that the core consists of a solid mass. Mass is that quality which makes gravity and inertia. But only the electron orbitals prevent that we can not penetrate  in a wooden cube with our fingers.

Nucleus Particles

But now, science has further taught us that even the neutrons and positrons of the atomic nucleus are not indivisible entities and that they belong to the group of hadrons which are representing the atomic nucleus. The hadrons in turn are each composed of quarks, which so far no one has yet proved that they exists, but could be calculated. All elementary particles of the atoms are regarded as point charges without a solid core.

In sum, this means that there are no solid particles which fill a space with a solid material. Within all matter, there is no single solid particle. All matter properties come from particles without any body.

The elementary particles have properties like the spin (magnetic property), the electrically positive or negative charge and mass. They are defined by their properties and interactions with the three fundamental forces of physics. These forces are the strong interaction, the weak interaction and the electromagnetic interaction. But these forces and interactions affect only other punctiform particles.

These forces, which are described in quantum physics, atoms, molecules and material clusters are held together and fall apart again after statistical regularity. Their apparent spatial extent results only from their spatial effect on other particles.

Although we speak of particles, this does not mean a finite spatial extent, but imagines punctate structures that can take on certain discrete values ​​of their specific properties. Not all values seem possible. Infinities and continuous values ​​are probably not possible.

Entanglement

If you think that these elementary particles have fixed properties, then you are mistaken. In atomic and subatomic level, quantum physics applies today as the benchmark. Elementary particles do not always have fixed properties here. The location of an electron in an atom can be located only with a certain probability. The way an individual photon will take can not be determined with certainty.

There are also particles that somehow belong together, which are entangled. Only when one determines a property of one entangled particle by measuring it, the other entangled particles property is simultaneously determined at this moment.

Two entangled particles have only a common sum property. If one requires to use a certain part of it, then the other one gets instantly the complement property automatically.

What does it tell us?

You are in good company, if you have not understand everything so far. The present findings of quantum physics are impossible to describe with our experience of our physical senses and can not be explained by scientific models so far. Therefore, there is no conceptual model that can describe the findings of quantum physics. So, no one really understands it.

Quantum physics consists only of mathematics. Only with the help of mathematics, the effects between elementary particles can be described. Mathematics can make statistical predictions, like the majority of the particles will behave in the trial when the initial states of these standard particles can be sufficiently narrowed.

Please note that the above mathematical descriptions of matter were developed by our human consciousness with scientific methods, although the seat of our consciousness is not to be found in our material brain.

It is also important to realize that there is no entity of matter particles that completely fills a confined space. These entities are considered as points in space that are defined by the spatial extent of their effect on other entities. A point has no spatial extent, not a small. Even this punctual center can be determined only with a certain probability.

In the macro world of our senses, we experience the effects of these entities in our consciousness as light, as a gravitational mass, which creates resistance to any change in the spatial relocations. We experience it as a matter that occupies a certain space and exerts certain effects on neighboring entities. We know them as electrical attraction or repulsion, as the magnetic attraction or repulsion.

The attraction forces enable “solid” contiguous body. The repulsive forces ensure that all matter does not disappear in a point. We experience it in everyday life by the fact that one body can not occupy the same space of another body. The size of the attraction and repulsion also determines whether we experience matter as solid, liquid or gaseous substances.

We can not perceive with our sense individual atoms, molecules or even individual light quanta (photons).  We can always perceive only a minimum, but large number of them.

Our wooden cube consists by scientific opinion only of empty space in which there is a structure of various entities which generate a structure of relationship forces in space.

Where the names of these entities refer to the principly only blurred measurable origin of the various forces and their spatial relationship effect. These entities take no space, they are not seen as solid, firm bodies. Only their effects show a spatial extent.

One can say that they make the room only be experiencable by its effects. For example, one can detect the effect which prevents that a similar entity can occupy the same place. No one has seen these tiny quantas yet, because we can see only those substances that constantly send out light quanta (photons).

A certain number of these photons are required to hit our photoreceptors in our eyes to create a stimulus that is reported to the brain. The large number per fractions of a second of such stimuli produces an image of our environment, which is then somehow passed on to our consciousness.

There are only effects

There is no solid matter that fills a certain space. There are only effects between entities that produce in us the awareness that the cube appears as if it fills a defined space and has a defined surface, and that he is surrounded only by our hands.

In reality, we feel with our hands only a phase transition between the effects among the wood molecules and the effects among the air molecules. We can very easily overcome the weak effects of the air molecules with the strong relationship of our hand molecules . However, the effects of the molecules of our hand and our muscular forces are not strong enough to alter the effects of the wood molecules.

The totality of the information that we obtain through our receptors in the body when touching and looking at the wooden cube is, unconsciously (automatically) compared to our experience. The result of this comparison generates in our consciousness the idea or illusion of a solid cube, which was made of wood.

Consciousness

Our receptors with which we see and feel are specialized body cells that respond to light or mechanical interaction. At all receptors, neurons are connected. They detect the signals and possibly pass it along. A cell which detects pressure, fires a signal in direction of the brain. At the next junction (synapse) accepts another nerve cell the signal and determines how the signal is given to other nerve cells with which it is connected. The nerve cells are made, as we have seen, only empty space, in which a network of relations (effects) in space is available.

The human being is an entity of the macro-world of fabrics and living things. Our senses are made to survive in the macro world of fabrics and the living beings. The world of entities that are not experienced with our senses, such as atoms and molecules can only be understood by entering them into a theoretical model of the world.

We are expanding our world model always by experiences we make through our sensory impressions about our individual physical and psychological environment. We recognize and experience effects of other entities to us and between others and draw conclusions from this experience. We try to build a consistent world model where all our experiences have a logic place.

But we can also think about new, not yet experienced conclusions, for not yet experienced interactions (effects) with other entities and integrate these thoughts into our worldview. At a later opportunity, we try through specific experiments or in relevant situations to confirm their accuracy or store them as not valid. Each person is working life long at his individual world model.

Now, what is your opinion the more correct view of the world, the philosophy of materialism or the philosophy of mind? After our short trip into the depths of matter, this distinction is no longer as clear as it was perhaps before. The matter has been reduced to a pure field of relationships between all matter entities, which we could simulate in a computer program.

The matter has already been quite spiritualized. It has been reduced on the information of their properties that are recognized and taken into account by other matter entities. Force fields can also not be seen, they are not separate entities. Only the spatial distribution of the effects of entities to other entities can be considered as a field.

This spatial distribution we call then field. One could also say that matter has been reduced to its basic idea as a structure of matter effects in space architecture. We have the idea that matter occupies the space and does not grant this space to other entities. I think only the effects between the individual matter entities generate the idea of ​​matter in space. There is no space without matter.

Our excursion into the depths of matter was also simultaneously a walk on the way, to the evolution of the universe has taken, only in reverse order. We finished the trip shortly before the emergence of elementary particles. Evolution is the evolution from the simple to the complex. Our little trip into the inner nature of the wooden cube has clearly shown this.

We can experience the dice only in our consciousness. The cube itself consists of what we call matter. The matter of the cube we can experience only with the help of our material body. However, the seat of our consciousness can not be located in our body, as we will see more often.