9 – Bell’s Theorem and us.
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010The significance of Bell’s Theorem on how we perceive ourselves and our world is its utter universality: Cohesiveness and relative stability in natural systems, all natural systems, are attained through the instantaneous and intimate interconnectedness of their component elements (see post #7).
Once we are able to accept the fact that human beings are natural systems made out of myriad intimately interconnected components, we will then be able to understand that in order for us to attain a certain sense of direction in space and time and a relative degree of freedom in how we adapt to our world, every one of our components – every atom, every molecule, every cell, every organ, every extremity – must be instantly and intimately linked not only with all the other components in our bodies, but also with us, the commanding component.
In other words, for us to walk to the store to buy something for dinner tonight, the atoms and cells in our right foot must be able to reach some kind of instantaneous agreement not only with the atoms and cells in our left foot, but also with us, the commanding entity in charge of the entire system.
And because most of our actions are instinctive and only a few are well thought-out and self-determined, it is this mostly untapped and unknown capacity to interconnect and unify the entire range of our components that endows us with the power … consciously or unconsciously, and for good or for bad … to affect the course of our own evolution.
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