(This will trigger the hardcore materialist)
Please feel free to poke holes in my argument.
1 – Humans, like everything else, are made of atoms.
2 – If the nucleus of an atom is the size of a soccer ball, the closest electron is 6 miles (10 km) away.
3 – The electron itself is in a state of superposition – both a particle (a thing) and a wave (pure information) at the same time – until observed or measured.
4 – What’s between the nucleus of an atom and the closest electron is empty space.
5 – We still don’t know if “empty space” is really empty. Most likely, it appears empty to accommodate the limitations of the individual human mind.
6 – My suspicion (with 0 empirical proof) is that the “empty space” between the atom’s nucleus and the closest electron is the “Information Field”, the field of pure possibility or potential, which many call “God”
7 – Even if we assume that the electron is always a particle (it is not), if we were to remove all the “empty space” out of all the atoms that make up a human being, the human being would be only 20 microns big (20/1000 mm). We will literally need a microscope to search for the human being.
8 – Therefore, a human being is mostly an Information Field rather than a thing
9 – If a human being is mostly an Information Field, and what’s outside of a human being is also the same Information Field, it only seems plausible to me that…
10 – A human being is intimately connected to – or even is – the Information Field itself.
Therefore, a human being is:
- An Avatar of individuated Consciousness that appears as a body
- Mostly a potential or possibility, constantly taking shape (perhaps at Planck time frequency and shaped by the beliefs and expectations of the individual mind… but that’s for another argument)
End of argument.
Alright, where am I going wrong with this line of thinking? I welcome all logical (but friendly) criticisms.
Granted, I’m not quite following the scientific method – you can’t have a suspicion (no. 6) in the middle of the argument.
Still, an interesting thought experiment.