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What is the Connection Between Black Holes and the Brain? On Quantum Entanglement, Time, and the Human Brain: An Interview with Timen Timev (Johann Ge Mall)
Hello, Dr. Timev. In today’s conversation, we will be discussing the Universe, the cosmos, black holes, and their relationship with the human brain. However, I would like to start in an unconventional way – today is Friday the 13th, a day often associated with fatalism. To what extent does fatalism exist in the Universe?That is a very good question, particularly in regard to how modern science has tackled the concept of fatalism. The famous Marquis with 14 names, ultimately ending in ...Laplace, who was close to Napoleon, introduced the notion of ultimate determinism, or fatalism, in science. His law states that if we know the velocity, mass, and momentum of a given particle, we can predict its future billions of years ahead. In reference to this rigorous and unavoidable necessity, which somewhat governs the Newtonian world, Marquis Laplace said that there is not so much fatalism as there is strict scientific determinism. This implies that there is fate, but no absolute freedom. Fatalism strips the Universe of freedom, and us of free will.
However, I believe that modern science, particularly quantum physics, has uncovered the antagonist to fatalism and strict determinism, as it introduced objective freedom into the Universe. Subjective freedom of the spirit was once seen as the freedom of will, thought, and consciousness, meaning that even if fatalism existed, it could be nullified through our subjective means. People once believed that only they were free, while everything else – ruled by laws that govern solid bodies, galaxies, mountains – could not be free. Could they possibly have freedom? The grandeur of quantum physics refuted the claim that the immense masses of the Universe cannot cease their automatic movements without disrupting the Universe. It turned out that the Universe harbors within itself an element of self-liberation, which brings it closer to the spirit. The Universe itself resists fatalism and strict, absolute, iron-clad determinism. This is its objective indeterminism, or the objective freedom of the Universe, which suggests that it can unpredictably alter its course at any moment.
On what basis?
On the basis of an inherent impulse towards self-liberation, or what Epicurus once called clinamen, which means the spontaneous deviation of a particle, a charge, or a body from its predetermined path. The beauty of subjective freedom lies in the human mind’s ability to uncover and disorganize instincts. The freedom of the human mind coincides with the freedom of the Universe, as well as Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, which, in a way, governs all of physics. This principle assists the subjective freedom of humanity in finding a channel, a correspondence, and the courage to claim its own freedom. After all, if there exists an objective freedom within the Universe itself, then we are justified in our claim to subjective freedom.
Here arises a very delicate question: How is it possible that these enormous masses of galaxies and billions of stars rotate in a precisely determined order, maintaining proportions among them, if they do not adhere to their laws? The laws, proportions, and constants are, in fact, determinism and fatalism, yet despite them, they possess a freedom that does not impede their compliance. It turns out that the Universe is a devilishly beautiful invention, a sort of compromise between fatalism and freedom.
Can we say, in this context, that the world was mathematically designed and ordered?
Yes, it can be said, but only partially. The answer to this question reveals how much humanity understands part of the Universe and how much it does not. The world could be mathematically ordered if the gods or evolution only used the mathematical language and numbers. However, if they relied solely on these, they would have constructed only a quantitative Universe. This would mean that numbers alone are insufficient tools or materials. If the relationship between numbers, ideas, thoughts, and concepts organizes this quantitative Universe, which carries uniqueness in its quality, it introduces a homogeneity. A purely quantitative Universe implies that all kinds of individual events in the world could be reduced to the same quality.
In reality, the triumphs of mathematics are built upon its beautiful conditionality. Instead of adding and multiplying diverse essences, it equates everything to one essence, making it easier to operate. Mathematics might be a tool used by evolution or the gods to simplify infinitely complex qualitative and individual universes. For us, it serves to create an overarching view that soothes us because it is easily manipulated. I believe that mathematics is one of the most convenient instruments the gods use to present things to us as a game, even though I know, deep down, that they are not games but rather dramas and tragedies. Humans should not dwell too long on the mathematical principles of the game but should rise from the triviality of signs to something more dramatic and serious. The principle of seriousness is lost in mathematics. As Bertrand Russell said:
"Mathematics is a game where we never know what we are doing or whether what we are doing is true or not."
In other words, he meant that mathematics is a pure syntax and divine arrangement, which, if not connected to some interpretation of reality, remains an empty game.
How can we deepen our understanding of these processes occurring in the cosmos and around us? How can we stimulate super-sensory knowledge in a way that allows us to view things in the Universe from a perspective beyond our Earthly one?
To address this specifically, I have prepared a series of lectures designed to familiarize you with how we can escape both sensory and earthly limitations. I will explain how to adjust the mind and senses to frequencies that not only encompass larger parts of the Universe but also possibly reach beyond what is usually visible. This is a very long and complex issue, but we have several tools to guide us. First, we must transition from geocentrism to astrocentrism, similar to Copernicus' revolutionary shift. Just as Copernicus overturned the view that Earth is the center of the Universe, establishing instead that we revolve around the Sun, the current perspective that humans are the center of the Universe is also being dismantled.
When the terms "center" and "Universe" are used together, it implies that the Universe must have a center. But as Pascal said, "If the Universe is a sphere whose center is everywhere, and whose circumference is nowhere," then the Universe is infinite, and every point within it is its center. This speaks to the super-nonlocality that quantum physics leads us toward, and here we can begin to discuss black holes.
Before we go deep into the topic of black holes, which is deep and serious, is it possible to reflect on the extent to which the world we live in is real, or is it simply an appearance?
The question of whether the world is merely an appearance is precisely the one posed by Schopenhauer in his work The World as Will and Representation. Before him, Kant also grappled with this issue. Is everything simply our perception? Are we surrounded only by phenomena that, according to modern science, are produced by our brains? To what extent do we ourselves produce holograms? In fact, we create a holographic reality, and we ourselves are holograms as well.
In ancient times, a wise man was once asked, "What is a soul?" He replied, "The soul is the sun that shines on me right now, the soul is the nature I see, the soul is the beloved hand I touch." Everything is soul because what seems material or sensory to us is perceived through our senses, and these senses provide materials to the soul. In other words, everything passes through the senses and the soul, which leads to your very appropriate question – isn’t the world we see merely a construction of our senses, and is there anything beyond our perception? Let me answer this scientifically, based on modern research. The Universe that appears to us as houses, trees, nature – in short, everything we call sensory data or this sensory image – is constructed by the modern brain. Everything consists of waves and vibrations. However, the universal wave that reaches us is not divided into energies and information; it is a single, energy-informational wave that our brain divides and bifurcates into two branches.
The entire world is divided into what we call energy, excitement, and matter on one side, and on the other side, we see that we have information, thoughts, and the ability to calculate and form concepts. Mathematics, thinking, logic, and concepts seem to belong to a world of ideals, spirit, and mind, while on the other side, we encounter a world of matter. The misleading aspect of our perception is that our brain separates this unified wave into thinking energy and energetic thought. From the galactic ray, or from the entire Universe, there is constantly flowing a kind of amalgam, a blend in which thought, information, and energy are intertwined. This constitutes a single wave, but our brain, with its two hemispheres, divides this unified wave – what I call a continuum of energy and information – into a wave of energy and a wave of information. One wave gradually forms as matter, energy, and bodies, while the other manifests as the wave of our thoughts. We do not think with energies but through concepts, signs, and categories. This is known as symbolic thinking, whereas the gods think directly with the energies themselves.
What I want to express is that the Universe, which we encounter as different objects and sensory inputs, is constructed by our brain because it divides the unified wave into a wave of energy and a wave of information. And what is essential here? The very act of dividing this unified wave gives rise to space. The distance between the wave of energy and the wave of information becomes space, and time becomes the temporal spark that begins to circulate continuously between every point of energy and every point of information. This circulation is what we perceive as time, and it is specifically the motion between the wave of energy and the wave of information. The division of the unified wave also creates the perceptual cell in which all our perceptions and our time are confined. The time we live in is the time through which we constantly travel, at different speeds, between the wave of energy and the wave of information.
Does this mean that time does not exist outside the human brain?
The time that moves between the wave of energy and the wave of information is secondary, human time – linear and sequential. However, there is also an objective time of the Universe, which is primary and primordial; it is not our secondary sense of time. This is cosmic time, and it is precisely this that I will talk about in connection with black holes. We can imagine that cosmic time is a huge bubble of temporal substance, within which the energy-geometric universe is contained – our Universe, which represents an energy-geometric hypercube, a hypersphere, or some kind of torus, floating and moving within this bubble of primordial time.
Let’s summarize: We live within our perceptions, which form a perceptual cell. The Universe that physicists have been studying since its inception (14 billion years ago) has been proven to be expanding, and it is enclosed within this cell. The studies of physics through formulas and concepts are essentially studies of sensory perceptions, and we are confined within them. If we view our perceptions as a kind of holistic unity, which I call the perceptual cell, then we are trapped inside it. Here’s the comedic aspect: What is it?
The expansion of the Universe is the expansion of our perceptual cell. The more the wave of energy separates from the wave of information, the more the perceptual space expands, and the Universe also expands. The expansion of the Universe is the expansion of our perceptions, and conversely, if the Universe were to contract, the wave of energy and the wave of information would come closer together, restoring the original non-symbolic thinking, i.e., the energetic thinking of the gods or evolution. The state of the Universe before the Big Bang, or the state of the cosmic black hole, represents a condition where the wave of energy and the wave of information formed a higher energy-information wave, in which our sequential time did not exist.
Your question was whether another world exists beyond our sensory world, the one we perceive. According to the space-time continuum of Minkowski–Einstein, our space-time world is confined within what is known as the "light cone." The light cone is the mathematical representation or geometric figure that illustrates the limits of our world. Why is it called a light cone? Because the speed of light surrounds the Universe from all directions, acting like a global photonic mirror. The constant chase between photons, resembling a beautiful dance of two lovers, generates their shared vibration, which creates the electromagnetic field, and this is emitted as light. Its speed is the speed of light, and note that within our Universe of perceptions and senses, nothing can move faster than the speed of light. This means that the speed of light acts as a world framework.
Imagine that our Universe is a reflective sphere carved out from all sides, and within the hollow of this reflective sphere, where the speed of light moves, our world is enclosed. Our world is surrounded on all sides by the mirror of the speed of light. This is not merely a convenient analogy, because when light waves and photons reach the speed of light, the speed acts as a mirror – they reflect and begin to return. This is the reason why everything in our Universe spins and repeats, and this repetition stabilizes the Universe as long as we are enclosed in the mirror of the light cone. This world of our perceptions, senses, representations, and perceptions, in which the Universe is confined, was called the "light cone" by Minkowski and Einstein. The boundaries of our Universe are defined by the light cone.
I would like to show you this diagram (see Fig), which I first presented to Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking many years ago. Stephen Hawking was pleased that I visually explained what the light cone represents. In the diagram, you can see the future and the past, and in between, I have depicted the present as a point where the past transitions into the future. Why is the present just a point? Let me explain the diagram as a whole: You see how the light cone is constantly deforming and taking different shapes. This happens because the time of the light cone is our linear, sequential, subjective time, which can change continuously. In contrast to this, there is an antagonistic, perpendicular time, which Hawking calls "imaginary" time, and he considers it to be the objective time of the Universe. In it, all possibilities are given simultaneously, and from it come all potential arrangements and trajectories. The future is structured in a quantum, possibilistic, and multivalent way.
When is our world born, and how is the present formed?
Imagine the drum of a lottery machine, in which all the balls are spinning at once – this is the world of infinite possibilities that exists in the quantum future. From time to time, one ball falls out of the lottery drum of the quantum, infinite future, and when this ball drops, the present is created.
Does our right to choose determine which ball falls out?
That is the Gordian knot – don’t rush with the question! Let’s continue: We said that from time to time, a ball drops, creating our present. According to the Copenhagen interpretation, without the intervention of our senses and without the involvement of our mind and consciousness, it is impossible for the infinite, possible world of the future to become the singular, realized world of the present. The world of the present arranges in sequence the events that, in the quantum world, are given simultaneously. If we take a glass, it can only stand in one position, and then another. In this world, where the glass is simultaneously full and empty, spinning, broken, and whole in the infinite quantum future, here, in this world, it will be either upright or tilted, whole or broken. What is simultaneous in the quantum world is sequenced in the world of the present.
I would like to get to the comedic moment – how the theories of parallel universes were created today. Even Stephen Hawking got caught up in this comedic situation! He says, "If this is an electron, we can be aware of its wave function because we can reduce it and observe it from the outside." The wave function of an electron means that the electron occupies all possible positions, all possible states, and moves along all possible trajectories. The moment we apply our consciousness or senses and perceive the electron, we translate it into a single state. It exists in one single state, which is why Hawking says, "It is possible that our consciousness reduces the wave function of the electron, transforming it from infinite possibility to one possibility." But here, even he reaches the question of ignorance: "How, if we want, can we observe the wave function of the entire Universe?! It is impossible to reduce the wave function of the Universe because we would have to step outside the Universe, and our consciousness is incapable of stepping outside the Universe!" – Here lies the error of the great genius!
The philosophical and psychological definition of consciousness, however, states that it holds a dual status: it is completely free to be outside the Universe, while at the same time being the entirety of the Universe itself. Therefore, the ignorance of contemporary physicists, despite their genius in their narrow fields, leads them to the mistaken belief that it is impossible to observe and hence reduce the wave function of the entire Universe because one cannot step outside the Universe. This misconception forced them to claim that the wave function cannot be reduced. Due to their inability to exit the Universe with their consciousness, all the possibilities of the wave function remain distributed and intact, with each one giving rise to a separate universe. Thus, they created the theory of multiple worlds and numerous parallel universes. Do you understand the comedic aspect here?
Let me provide another example that stems from their inability to grasp polyphonic thinking. The renowned physicist Brian Greene, a learned writer and author of The Fabric of the Cosmos, The Elegant Universe, and The Hidden Reality, raises the same elementary questions from the perspective of the fathers of quantum physics, who would likely be astonished and ask, “Why do our grandchildren ask such elementary questions of ignorance?!” Brian Greene himself says: “How is it possible that I can be in several places at once? How is it possible for an electron to be simultaneously here and there?” They cannot come to terms with non-locality because they lack what is known as polyphonic musical thinking.
In music, different tones exist simultaneously in various positions, and in a chord, multiple tones come together without clashing but rather complement each other to create harmony. Polyphonic musical thinking is the thinking of simultaneity, where several melodic lines move simultaneously without hindering one another. Polyphony and harmony, which are vertical in music, offer a vision that encouraged all mystics and great philosophers to believe that besides the time of sequence, the Universe also possesses a much more encompassing cosmic time of simultaneity and polyphony. What I am suggesting is that the theory of parallel universes arose because we decided to burden the Universe with billions of copies, to split it into multiple replicas representing all the possibilities of the wave function. I, who accept the theory of parallel universes, am split into billions of copies, meaning I have doppelgangers everywhere. There are sextillions of individuals like me, sextillions of universes that I perceive, and all the possibilities of the wave function are continuously multiplying.
In this line of thought, I find yet another misunderstanding: the inability for these multiple worlds to gain existential validity, meaning each one fails to exist as being, rather than remaining as ideal worlds. The world of all possibilities, created by Leibniz and proven by quantum physics, is a world of potentialities, but it has not yet become a world of real ontological possibilities where perception exists. In order for perception to be born, the leap must be made from the infinite potential future to the real perceptual present. Therefore, the quantum future of infinite possibilities must be reduced to a single possibility in the macroscopic present in order to give birth to a perceptual world – a real one, with chairs, tables, and stars. The problem is that we cannot escape reduction! All these parallel universes that physicists postulate should be born through the reduction of their infinite quantum futures into the present, perceptual universes where senses exist.
In this way, the Universe is enriched with so much baggage that it becomes unimaginable, given the principle of economy that underlies its foundation. Metaphorically speaking, here, stupidity and comedy are trying to feel shame for having burdened the Universe with so much baggage!
This does not mean we reject the possibility that parallel universes exist – no! However, according to my research, these multiple universes are not parallel but mutually perpendicular. This perpendicularity is essential because for a new Universe to be born, distinct from the previous one, it must move in a dimension that is absolutely perpendicular to the preceding and subsequent universes. Recently, physics has begun to correct itself, and one of the leading scientific trends in physics is the acknowledgment that the universe is born out of nothingness, i.e., the spontaneous birth of universes or a universe from nothingness. Since nothingness is the constant reservoir from which universes are born, each new universe or event must carry an unprecedented difference from the previous one. If something is not entirely different from its predecessor, if it does not bear some indestructible distinction from the prior universe, there is no reason for it to appear. The law of the birth of new events or new universes demands absolute novelty, and this novelty can only be guaranteed if a new universe is created in a dimension that is always perpendicular to the previous one.
That is why these universes are not parallel but mutually perpendicular. And since they are, it will not be so easy for us to jump from one universe to another. Thousands of science fiction stories that suggest, for example, if I rob a bank in Universe Alpha and escape the crime by moving to parallel Universe Beta, I won't be prosecuted, are absurd. Science has created a blend of partly real and partly ridiculous science fiction, which is entertaining but rooted in pseudo-logic.
Dr. Timev, on the topic of black holes, I’d like to start with a metaphor: The Moon, for example, during a new moon, is invisible from Earth. It needs sunlight to become visible to us. Similarly, occult knowledge and spiritual insights remain invisible to most people unless they engage in concentration, contemplation, or meditation. Only when our thoughts illuminate them do they become visible to us. What is needed to shed light on the mystery of black holes, and what is the connection between black holes and the human brain?
What a beautifully interconnected chain of questions, forming a celestial necklace! Your example of the Moon, just as we don’t see it during a new moon, and similarly, how ordinary people lack the sensory faculties to perceive the future or possess any esoteric knowledge, is spot on. Everything revolves around tuning into the corresponding frequency – it’s not about practicing specific exercises, but rather living a fully spiritual and meditative life to adjust ourselves to such frequencies. This connects to many issues, for which I have developed and taught various “stellar practices” over the years. Here, we can also discuss to what extent we are dependent on the Sun and to what extent we are connected to the Universe.
It is appropriate to explain the existence of a non-local quantum entanglement between the chain of black holes and the chain of our brains. I’m not sure if you’re aware, but it turns out that galaxies are connected on a string due to the fact that the central black holes of 10, 15, or even 30 galaxies are interconnected, rotating at the same frequency and in the same direction. They act simultaneously according to a shared order. Regarding the interconnectedness of our brains, there are many theories that confirm the existence of a collective unconscious and the fact that our brains are connected, regardless of our individual will. It turns out that black holes and our brains are linked and built according to the same matrix. The analogous structure leads to analogous behavior, and analogous structure leads to analogous feeling.
I’ve given this example before: Why do all trees on Earth sense one another? Why do all stars feel each other? Why do all hydrogen and helium atoms throughout the Universe influence each other? Why is there telepathic communication throughout the Universe? Because if the Universe is composed of 99% hydrogen atoms, which is the case, their combustion transforms them into helium nuclei – which are the stars. The Universe is not only made of the same substance but is also constructed from the same dynamic matrices, the same dynamics, kinematics, and statics. All of this means that the coefficient of similarity and symmetry binds the entire Universe together. Fractals are just a particular case of this. The Universe, in fact, is born from various acts and auto-inversions of symmetrical forces – I collectively call them “general symmetrical forces.”
Here we can discuss the two types of interactions that provoke different questions: Why is quantum interaction non-local, as seen in quantum teleportation, while our interaction in the macroscopic world is local?
What is the nature of local interactions?
First and foremost, they are interactions through differences. Local interactions require that for one particle to interact with another, it must act causally through some kind of signals. However, signals cannot travel faster than the speed of light, and from this, we conclude that there are essentially two types of interactions. One type is through differences and asymmetry, which requires the transmission of signals. For example, gravity is transmitted through the particle known as the graviton, or light, which is transmitted by the photon. There are also gluons and other particles that act as carriers of strong and weak interactions. Every interaction has its own carrier particle, and the Universe consists of two types of particles – those that are the subjects of interaction and those that act as mediators of the interactions between them. Particles are signals that act at a finite speed up to the speed of light.
In addition to interaction through signals, there exists another type of interaction – interaction through symmetry. The example of symmetrical interaction, as described by Descartes and his student Huygens, is that if we place two or more clocks side by side and wind them up to run simultaneously, they do not physically interact with one another, yet they show the same time. Leibniz called this pre-established harmony, and I continue this thought by discussing interaction through symmetry, which is interaction through memory – the kind of telepathic interaction that explains why all the stars in the Universe communicate telepathically with one another, why all hydrogen atoms or all trees on Earth sense each other. To repeat the formula: the same structure – analogous structure leads to analogous behavior and analogous feeling, which explains telepathic interaction as seen in the Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox, quantum entanglement, and non-local interactions.
We’ve delved into quite long scientific excursions, but let’s return to the topic of black holes. It requires a certain sequence to clarify the latest discoveries in physics – the theoretical breakthroughs made by Juan Maldacena, Stephen Hawking, Gary Horowitz, Leonard Susskind, and Gerard ’t Hooft, some of whom are Nobel laureates. These discoveries are essential to our discussion. Stephen Hawking and Horowitz discovered that instead of displaying the full three-dimensional body, the information in a black hole (a black hole being a three-dimensional object) only appears on the surface of its event horizon. This led to the hypothesis that the Universe is some kind of hologram.
Juan Maldacena, along with his students, including Leonard Susskind and Gerard ’t Hooft (Nobel laureate, 1999), demonstrated something even greater! They proved that the description of a universe, which takes on the status of a black hole, and another universe, which does not have the status of a black hole, can be mutually symmetrical and bi-active. In other words, we can describe in the same way, analogously, two universes that have entirely different statuses. Earlier, we discussed that our Universe is enclosed within the light cone, and the light cone is the world of space and time in which we live. We said that no event can pass through the speed of light and remains inside the photonic spherical mirror that encases our energy-geometric Universe.
If we look again at the diagram (see Fig. 1), we will see that if time moves perpendicular to the linear time of the light cone, it deforms and reforms the cone, and ultimately the entire light cone, the whole of our space-time world, enters the realm of consciousness – this is from the perspective of transcendental psychology. Starting from the discoveries made by Juan Maldacena, Leonard Susskind, however, demonstrated that what lies outside the light cone is inside the cosmic black hole! In high theoretical circles, this discovery became a modern aphorism: "What is outside of the light cone is inside the black hole, and what is outside the black hole is inside the light cone." It turns out that what is beyond the light cone falls inside the cosmic black hole, as if the Universe is surrounded by a global black hole, and what is outside the event horizon of the cosmic black hole is, in turn, inside the light cone.
What does this mean? It means that the boundary of the light cone and the event horizon of the cosmic black hole coincide! The fact that they overlap indicates that if we step outside the light cone, we will find ourselves inside the black hole, and vice versa. Recent studies, with which even Hawking agreed, established that information is not destroyed or lost in the black hole, and it is possible for it to exit.
Is this transformation in some way? We know that black holes absorb matter, but isn’t this similar to the human brain, which processes all kinds of matter, information, and massive amounts of data that are incomparable to computers, while also thinking, reasoning, imagining, and performing different functions? It absorbs everything, transforms it in some way, and emits it as information. Isn’t this what black holes do as well?
Yes! You have summarized the topic and even recounted it! One of the greatest mysteries of the brain is perhaps identical to the mystery of black holes. In fact, the secret mechanism of a black hole, as it absorbs energy and information, is its ability to transform energy into information. This is exactly what our brain does. From here, we can draw the analogy: doesn’t our brain function in the same way as a black hole? Even in my youth, when I first began speaking about black holes, I thought that if the Universe can create a black hole where all the laws of physics collapse, and where all physical particles suddenly disintegrate into their ideal elements (such as molecules breaking down into atoms, atoms into protons, protons into quarks, and beyond quarks—what?), we end up with something like quantum foam, some kind of energy, because matter is just condensed energy, right? And energy is a kind of inherent excitation of something that underlies everything—that is, information or thought.
In this sense, I came to realize that black holes, by absorbing energy, events, light—everything—are capable of transforming them. They manage to intersymmetrize. The most difficult process, which remains inconceivable for us, is the conversion of energy into information. But our brain, just like black holes, performs this operation! Transforming a process that is energetic into one that is informational is extraordinary, as these are the furthest apart processes. Informational processes are of one kind, and energetic processes are of another. The question is that black holes can perform a kind of mutual transformation through a process I called intersymmetrization when I developed my model of the brain as a black hole. Intersymmetrization means this: energy breaks down into smaller and smaller particles, into smaller and smaller quanta, which eventually become symmetrical with the quanta into which information itself disintegrates. We can imagine a level above both energy and information where the structure of events—the construction of energies and information—becomes identical, and they can mutually transform into each other.
Dr. Timev, the human brain processes enormous quantities of data as information, and at the same time, it has imaginary abilities—dreams, emotions—it’s truly a phenomenal organ. But how can something weighing only 1,300 grams, on average, fit within the vast structure of our Universe, even from a purely physical standpoint? And where did it originate from?
What necessitated the emergence of the human brain? We should have started with this! After many theoretical introductions, let’s get to something that is clear and requires no formal education. To understand what evolutionary necessity imposed the creation of the brain, the best explanation is this, which is understandable to any mind: Let’s assume that the entire Universe, which the ancients called Anima Mundi, i.e., the World Soul, was entirely animate in the eyes of the ancient human. And indeed it is! We now know that at the deepest, smallest scale—at 35x10^-33 mm—there is no energy or matter, but rather some plasma that possesses sensitivity. Therefore, sensitivity is scattered throughout our entire Universe. So, what then imposed the necessity for this sensitivity to begin to converge, to collect, to cluster, and to start forming a cell, which in turn would create sensitivity—ganglia—and for these ganglia to group and form the brain, which would then continue to grow over billions of years?
In our conditions, we know that life on Earth has existed for 4 billion years, but over those 4 billion years, a mystical and almost miraculous process occurred: sensitivity began to be drawn together and congealed, growing and forming into the brain. One of the most serious and beautiful questions of knowledge can be posed here: Who or what directed the gathering of this scattered sensitivity throughout the Universe? That’s why I think that time’s arrow is responsible! If the form of all forms is space, then the overall direction of all energies and excitations is time. The arrow of time forced this scattered, universal sensitivity to gather, and not only to gather and coalesce but also to gain direction. This directionality has culminated in what we now know as the brain.
The association between the arrow of time and the arrow of the brain – the fact that the brain has grown from small beginnings like the brain of an amoeba or a fish, gradually developing – leads us to ask: what is the connection between time and the brain? Why does the brain, from small beginnings, continue to grow, evolving through various stages from an amoeba's brain to that of a fish, and ultimately to the human brain?
Let’s assume that this is the sequence, although there are other theories...
Yes, there are other theories, but the alignment of time’s arrow with the arrow of the brain—meaning that it gradually grows and moves in a particular direction—has an intentionality, a directedness that culminated in one of its peaks, which is the human brain. What is the connection with time?
If we go back to the first question, we said that the brain is perhaps the only machine in the cosmos that, in addition to processing information through time, also processes time itself within the flow of thought. With this premise, and now that we understand that the brain, over 4 billion years, has been growing and converging, progressing from the brain of an amoeba to the brain of a fish to the human brain, all of this suggests something extraordinary: If the brain has been growing over 4 billion years, or even from the very beginning of the evolution of the Universe—14 billion years—then can you imagine the enormous amount of matter and energy it corresponds to? The equivalent amount of energy and mass would be multiple galaxies or at least one galaxy. That’s sextillions of tons of substance!
How is it possible that something weighing only 1,300 grams can contain the equivalent of so many billions of galaxies?
That’s exactly the question I ask—how is that possible?! How could these sextillions of tons of substance, corresponding to 4 billion years, be contained in what amounts to a nanostructure weighing just 1.3 kg? This leads us to think that perhaps the brain was formed as a result of a black hole that, instead of imploding energy and matter, imploded time! Time has been so compressed that moments have collapsed into a single instant—4 billion years compressed into one second—and this compression of time formed the structure of our brain. Our brain is not made primarily of energy, geometry, or information, but of time. The substance of which our brain is composed is time, and specifically, imploded time. Therefore, we should imagine the brain as a temporal black hole. A black hole forms when a massive amount of matter and energy implodes under the force of gravity, compressing into an infinitesimally small size. You asked how those sextillions of tons of substance, accumulated over 4 billion years, fit into 1,300 grams, but the question is even more surprising: why does this immense amount of matter present itself not as matter, but as time?
If it presents itself as time, it means that there is a mechanism that can coil and compress this massive quantity of matter into time. But then, let me ask the question – why is the brain a network of 100 billion neurons? Just as we can coil a massive thread of billions of kilometers into a ball, time, from which the brain is constructed, is coiled into the network of neurons. These 4 billion years, coiled into a few seconds or minutes, are in fact coiled into the form of these 100 billion neurons. If we cut through a neuron, we see that it functions with electrical signals, but clearly, these electrical signals are just a mask, a surface phenomenon, while the actual substance of the neuron is made up of time. The very substance that composes the human brain is temporal substance. That’s why we say the brain not only processes information within time but also processes time itself. Neurons are the ones that convert time into energy and energy into time.
Now it becomes understandable what happens during sleep and during wakefulness. But for that, we must first accept a preliminary hypothesis. All physicists know that when a particle reaches the speed of light, something called tachyons appear. As the particle accelerates, its energy increases, and when the particle exceeds the speed of light, the energy disappears—these are called tachyons. Some scientists believe they move backward in time, but I don’t accept this hypothesis. A tachyon is a particle. Let’s assume, first, that an electron moves at the speed of light. Once it reaches the speed of light, if it suddenly disappears, it means it loses all its energy. If a particle loses all its energy, it not only becomes massless, but it also becomes non-energetic. My hypothesis is as follows: based on Einstein’s formula—if we take matter and accelerate it to the speed of light, or as in the formula E = mc², energy becomes equivalent to matter as matter accelerates. But if we accelerate energy to a speed beyond that of light, the hypothesis is that energy ascends and transforms into time.
In other words, when particles move at subluminal speeds and reach the speed of light, once they exceed it, they transform from energetic particles into particles or waves of time. That’s why we say they exit the light cone. In fact, what lies outside the light cone and what is inside the cosmic black hole is time. The cosmic black hole is filled with time. The same is true of the vacuum. The vacuum is an empty space from which energy has been removed, but occasionally virtual particles—an electron and a positron, for example—will briefly emerge. These particles appear for such a short period of time that it cannot even be measured, which is why they are called virtual particles. These particles appear and disappear, and physicists describe this sudden appearance and disappearance as quantum vacuum fluctuations. I believe that when energy is extracted from the quantum vacuum, what remains is time because the energy we observe is only that part of time which moves faster than the speed of light. When it reaches the speed of light, it falls into the light cone, opening geometric dimensions, and becomes a part of time. When it enters these geometric dimensions, it turns into energy.
I introduce the hypothesis that there is a rhythmic movement of time descending from outside the light cone and transforming into energy, into excitation. This excitation, which is the excitation of time, can descend into excitation within the geometric dimensions and be called energy. In turn, energy can ascend back into time if it exceeds the speed of light. Einstein’s formula suggested that mass, when accelerated to the speed of light, becomes energy, and when energy is accelerated even further, it can ascend and transform into time. Time remains the universal medium in which the energy-geometric ball of the Universe floats. Today, all great physicists agree that time remains the greatest enigma. The biggest problem in physics is time, because until now, all of physics has been primarily spatial physics. Spatial physics lends itself easily to calculations, but on the other hand, all spatial and energetic events are calculated within the framework of time. Everything is dependent on time! Everything is dependent on time, but time itself remains a mystery, an enigma for physics. It is far more than just a fourth dimension added to the three spatial ones.
With this hypothesis, that by accelerating mass to energy, it can be accelerated further to time, and with the understanding that our brain is imploded time, what happens during sleep and what happens during wakefulness? It has long been known that we cannot live without sleep; during sleep, we need to recharge our batteries in order to continue existing. It turns out that if I sleep for 8 hours tonight, those 8 hours of sleep guarantee that I will have the energy to live through the next 16 hours. In other words, the 16 hours of wakefulness are dependent on the preceding sleep. The most apparent hypothesis is that when we begin to sleep, we descend from the neocortex (the outer layer of the brain) down into the paleocortex (the ancient brain), and not only there—we descend into the quantum realm, the ultramicroscopic quantum world. Since our brain is a temporal black hole, a reservoir of time, when we sleep, we descend into this reservoir. The brain, which is a compressor and generator of time, gathers this time and transforms it back into energy so that we can live through the 16 hours or two-thirds of the day.
You can imagine these 16 hours of time as 16 hollow containers, which we fill with time while we sleep, converting them into energy, which we then expend during wakefulness. When we sleep, we return to the interior of the brain’s black hole, where thought is a unified wave—an energetic one—and our wakefulness generates the perceptual cell that divides the unified wave into the wave of energy and the wave of information. In fact, we are constantly moving in and out: during sleep, we enter the brain’s black hole, pass the event horizon inside the black hole, and recharge ourselves with time, which we then transform into energy to live through the waking hours. This is precisely what modern physicists have proven: what is outside the light cone is inside the black hole, and what is outside the black hole is inside the light cone. The light cone is our wakefulness! The light cone of Minkowski–Einstein, this space-time world, is the world of perceptions—esse est percipi—to exist means to be perceived. All of physics, through the concepts of energy, information, theory, mathematics, and equations, contemplates sensory experiences. The entire world is built out of senses and perceptions, which we observe through concepts. Concepts are like binoculars, the glasses through which we view the world, because humans see what they know, and these things must be very clear!