{"id":3092,"date":"2011-04-24T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monochromist.com\/2011\/04\/24\/an-existential-life-does-objective-reality-exist\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T21:14:00","slug":"an-existential-life-does-objective-reality-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2011\/04\/24\/an-existential-life-does-objective-reality-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"An Existential Life: Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Existential Life: Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm?<\/a><\/p>\n

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fuckyeahexistentialism<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIf the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles that comprise every salmon that swims, every heart that beats, and every star that shimmers in the sky. Everything interpenetrates everything, and although human nature may seek to categorize and pigeonhole and subdivide, the various phenomena of the universe, all apportionments are of necessity artificial and all of nature is ultimately a seamless web.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Michael Talbot, The Universe as a Hologram<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An Existential Life: Does Objective Reality Exist, or is the Universe a Phantasm? fuckyeahexistentialism: \u201cIf the apparent separateness of subatomic particles is illusory, it means that at a deeper level of reality all things in the universe are infinitely interconnected.The electrons in a carbon atom in the human brain are connected to the subatomic particles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-video_graphics","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5sGHy-NS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4818,"url":"https:\/\/monochromist.com\/notes\/2009\/11\/29\/spirituality-and-science-the-holographic-universe\/","url_meta":{"origin":3092,"position":0},"title":"Spirituality and Science: The Holographic Universe","author":"monochromist","date":"November 29, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"By Michael Talbot We are really \u201creceivers\u201d floating through a kaleidoscopic sea of frequency, and what we extract from this sea and transmogrify into physical reality is but one channel from many extracted out of the superhologram. 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