Quantum Existence
Subang Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, June 4th, 2013
Salaroche

In contemplating the question of timeless-spaceless-ness, and the implications that some of W. Heisenberg’s seminal theories might bear on it, I was reminded of an article I read a few days ago dealing with Quantum Computers, which are basically conceptual siblings with non-deterministic and probabilistic computation, and how their ability to be in more than one state simultaneously (i.e., zero and one at the same time), may arguably represent a complete break with the concept of time and space.

The article mentioned a Canadian company called D-Wave, whose fiddling with quantum computational matters seems to have finally bore fruit back in 2007. As a result, the concept of Qubits (quantum bits) may still have some way to go before joining the common terminology found in popular computer lingo, but D-Wave’s Adiabatic Quantum Computers have already garnered plenty of financial interest from institutions like NASA and some Universities, not to mention Google, who have agreed to partner with D-Wave in further developing that technology.

Thus far, Quantum Computers seem to have been used mostly for research in the field of Artificial Intelligence, but some entities like Google are already looking forward to a time when QCs will be able to process some sophisticated algorithms at a much faster speed and with a higher degree of accuracy than the fastest most accurate digital computers of today do.

I find this news really fascinating and can see how the prospects of this new technology can incite debate and discussion about its future uses, but there is nothing in Heisenberg et al’s central concept of quanta that limits and restricts its application to quantum computers, or quantum mechanics, or quantum physics. Nothing in that concept keeps it from being applied to metaphysical or transcendental matters. The idea of ​​Quantum Reincarnation, for example, and as fanciful as the term may sound, dates from a long time ago.

Quantum Reincarnation is just my particular way of calling it, but the basic idea it entails is the ability to incarnate simultaneously at different points along the permanent continuum which is the absence of space and time. For example, the idea of incarnating in the twelfth, nineteenth, and twenty-first centuries at once.

And how exactly would that work? Well, given that the all-pervading Super Conscience, or Universal Consciousness, or "Self", is eternally in a constant state of "now", and given that all impermanent things (everything existing within the temporal-spatial spectrum) are only the physical or three-dimensional manifestation of the Universal Consciousness, and given that our individual Super Conscience or Atman is but a single instance of the multiplicity of the “One” Eternal Consciousness, it follows that it wouldn’t be at all difficult for our Atman to manifest itself simultaneously at several points within that timeless-spaceless continuum, which in fact is our Atman's own essence, and which in turn is the same substance / consciousness from which everything under the sun and beyond flows out as the manifest reality we all perceive.

In short, given that the timeless-spaceless continuum intrinsic in the Universal Consciousness comprehends all the imaginable and unimaginable possibilities within it, and given that our Individual Super Consciousness or Atman is one and the same with that Universal Consciousness, it follows that, from the point of view of our individual Super Consciousness, existing simultaneously at various points within time and space may well be considered as something like a piece of cake, right?

Then there would also be the single possibility of reincarnating in the past, which I think may have easily been the case of Leonardo da Vinci or even Einstein.

In any case, in letting our minds freely wonder about these subjects we may eventually come to corroborate Thomas Kuhn’s beautiful exposition of Paradigm Shifts, that the more one delves into these issues, the more we multiply our chances of finding similarities with other issues of our interest, and the more we multiply our possibilities for reaching different conclusions and even sometimes reaching to conclusions of a unique kind.

May you all be well.

Salaroche