Something I wanted to share, because I see it in a different way.
Sharing it here in my journal as to not to disrupt the original thread of the Brain Guild and also because I don’t know Dr_Manhattan’s real opinion and whether he maybe simplified everything on purpose so that more people can understand what he means…
My different point of view is related to these statements:
In general, I agree what has been written in this thread, except on the quoted parts.
Because, I personally think it is actually the other way around:
The information about everything is not stored on a “2D surface” but is instead stored “conceptually” in a super complex universal morphic field.
So what we experience is not “the projection of a lower-dimensional reality” but instead the projection of a higher-dimensional super complex reality down into a limited 3D world.
It is not that something 2D is projected into 3D, but rather something 100D that is projected downwards into 3D.
The quality of this projection depends on the mechanism that Dr_Manhattan desribed in his post, i.e. neural networks etc.
Into the physical world (3D world) we can only project downards that much of our consciousness and concepts that our 3D neural network allows. That’s why enhancing the physical brain allows for better conceptual downloads from the higher dimensions.
So overall, what I said does not change the holographic nature of things, it is just that in my opinion the hologram and the projector are reversed than what was described by Dr_Manhattan.
Proof:
People who were born blind (visual part of physical brains not functioning properly) can suddenly fully see when they astral project.
Not only can they see, but they see much better and in 360° field of view.
Because they switch their awareness from their 3D brain to their Astral Brain.
Since the Astral Brain is “one dimension higher” than the physical 3D brain, they are able to suddenly download much more information about reality from the universal conceptual morphic field.
The person is suddenly able to see everything, despite never having developed any 3D brain based physical neural connections for visual processing.
So it is not the physical brain that is projecting 2D information into a 3D hologram, but instead, the 3D brain trying to download a 100D concept.
And since the 3D brain is almost completely limited to 3D perception, all it can download is a 3D perception of reality and create a 3D hologram.
Reality is a way too complex concept to be stored on a “2D surface”.
Reality is conceptual and therefore qualia based.
And anything qualia based can only be stored conceptually.
So our consciousness is never “projecting 2D information into a hologram” but is downloading conceptual information “from the top” and tries to fit it in and express it through a 3D device (physical brain) – with the result of us experiencing a 3D hologram here.
We can only “download” and “translate” so much of the overall existing reality, as our current brain device allows. The brain device is not projecting consciousness and creating a hologram. Instead, the brain is downloading consciousness and concepts from higher dimensions and tries to translate it into a 3D hologram.
I hope this explanation makes sense.
