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1990 (read it)

Title: The holographic universe

Author: Talbot, Michael, 1953

Published: New York, NY : Harper Collins Publishers, c1991. Description: xii, 338 p.: ill. ; 24 cm. Location: GRADUATE LIBRARY--Call No: QC 449 .T351

Comment: A book club (QPB) selection that fascinated me, though I thought he "lost it" in dubious speculation in the last few chapters. Physicist Jack Sarfatti posted an email comment 10. Oct. 1998 to the NewPhysics ListServ about Talbot & this book. Sarfatti said, "The problem here is that the quantum waves are in configuration space for interesting systems not in ordinary space. The "hologram" idea here is really little more than a suggestive metaphor for traces of the whole in the fragment. Talbot, who died young unfortunately, was not a physicist, but a hack writer."

Talbot's premise hinged on physicist David Bohm & neurospychologist Karl Pribram (whom I’d seen lecture in ~1975 with my psych prof who had done his grad work under Pribram.) Talbot’s work, though, provided a kernal around which or from which I reached some conclusions about consciousness. In particular I view it as a system and more especially as a stand-alone system of energies. In my picture, Talbot’s universe-hologram, "begat" a hologram that is consciousness that in turn can and does, like any child, seek congenial independence from its parent(s), to stand apart but nearly equal to and close to the parent. Each mind, then, is a universe in the making or becoming. This current universe responds to us as a doting parent, or equally possibly as a mother to the child in her belly, with each of our minds being mere cells of a larger organism of consciousness. In this regard I sent an e-mail comment that is posted separately (see Comment on Consciousness). Naturally being holographic, each piece of it contains the whole picture. Thus, the whole picture from the beginning to the end of time resides in each of us; all we need to do is sharpen our perception! Unfortunately Sarfatti disputes that.

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Dennis's comments on other books

Damasio, A. First book and comment for this bibilography
Talbot, M. Book 2 comment for this bibilography
Monroe, Robt.(1) Book 3 comment for this bibilography
Buhlman, W. Book 4 comment for this bibilography
Moore, Robert L. M. Book 5 comment for this bibilography
Cannon, Delores Book 6
Abraham, Ralph Book 7
Thich Nhat Hanh Book 8

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