From: Deepak Chopralnnnn Sent: 1/2/2017 4:39:38 PM To: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Subject: Re: From a physicist friend Attachments: OutlookEmoji-1478302741070_PastedGraphic-1.tiff; OutlookEmoji-1478822725266_supergenes-960x200.jpg.jpg Importance: — High Today's Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/chopra/article/Why-You-and-the-Universe-Are-One-10830679.php Why You and the Universe Are One www.sfgate.com The accepted view of reality holds that human beings exist in the context of a vast physical universe "out there." Sir John Eccles, a famous British neurologist and Nobel laureate, declared, "I want you to realize that there exists no color in the natural world, and no sound — nothing of this kind; no textures, no patterns, no beauty, no scent." What Eccles means is that all the qualities of Nature, from the luxurious scent of a rose to the sting of a wasp and the taste of honey, are produced by human beings. The most distant galaxies billions of light years away, have no reality without you, because everything that makes any galaxy real— with the multitude of stars with their heat, emitted light, and masses, the positions of the distant galaxies in space and the velocity that carries each distant galaxy away at enormous speed—requires a human observer with a human nervous system. There are extremely faint traces of photon activity in the brain, but the optic nerve doesn't transmit photons to the visual Chopra Foundation Jiyo Chopra Center for Wellbeing HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032405