The vast majority of current scientific research is based on inductive logic: because by experience it is observed that some A’s behave in a B way, it is concluded that all A’s behave in a B way, until this hypothesis is refuted by a paradigm-defying anomaly. In fact, for most experimental results, a triplicate reproduction of the same result is considered sufficient evidence. However, old hypotheses are regularly falsified and replaced by newer ones. Therefore, the vast majority of science is based on the belief in the generalizability of particular cases. The rules and abstractions are based on a collection of experimental data. It is an ascending way of acquiring knowledge about phenomena.

Many scientists despise the results obtained through introspection or religious meditation experiences. However, the large number of similar experiences described by various enlightened people from different horizons, should have led to the scientific abstraction of the rules in them and perhaps to the conclusion that the patterns that emerge from such experiences are as valid a belief as the inductive logic belief of scientists. .

When trying to understand the world around us, it is indeed useful to derive rules from phenomena, as it helps us choose strategies if similar events occur in the future. For those who have never had a momentous experience, the Roman adage “Natura Magistra Artis”, nature shows how it works, it is prima facie the only valid way to acquire knowledge. When we go beyond the level of control of the physical world, to the level of social interactions, expression and the question of our purpose – if any – in life, we can choose to apply “that which works” and derive from it a morality, but eventually we’ll hit a ceiling.

When we apply our scientific inference techniques we will end up concluding that everything is transitory in nature and we will eventually die. A very unsatisfactory conclusion, which has led to the frantic search for technological solutions to prolong life or even achieve immortality.

Religions promised otherwise. The body can be mortal, but the soul is immortal. In Advaita Vedanta (non-dualistic Hinduism: “Everything is God”), the ultimate reality of everything is a single Soul, Brahman or God, whose nature is absolute and is called sat-chit-ananda (existence-knowledge-bliss). Everything is consciousness, that is, the consciousness of God and the world we see around us is embedded in it as an illusory manifestation of it, called Maya.

I have always been a seeker of truth, knowledge, science and God. For many years I worked as a scientist in the field of biochemistry, seeking to understand the nature of the “life” phenomenon. I have also practiced Yoga and have found the Advaita Vedanta approach to be the most promising springboard for gaining a meaningful understanding of God and the world.

Since I have not yet been able to achieve that experience of communion with God called Samadhi, I must trust what has been transmitted by what I consider to be authoritative sources (for example, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali). For the rest, I can play with hypotheses and postulate to what extent science can fit into the notions conveyed by the rishis. Of course, this involves a number of fantasies, but I consider this to be part of my “Svadyaya”. The process of gathering information about the nature of the true Being. Such a fantasy can be apparently useless and falsifiable, as was the case with Leibniz’s Monadology; on the other hand, it can give other incentives to test these notions and come up with useful experiments and / or insights, even if it is falsifying my hypotheses. . My hypotheses are not just the product of absurd and fantastic combinations of characteristics, which normally do not co-occur, no, they are based on surprising analogies, between Vedantic principles and scientifically observed phenomena.

One of the great riddles of Advaita Vedanta for me is how the One Soul, Brahman, which is also said to be the Sound AUM, can give the illusion of being many souls or jivas. I have already postulated in the past the existence of an infinity of God-quanta (theons), which are identical and therefore one and the same, but that notion sounds contradictory. Here’s an additional hypothesis on how these theons may be only individual apparent quanta, but actually form a single self-recursive wave function. The analogy comes from Mandelbrot’s mathematical collection, a fractal structure, in which at any given level of detail one finds the same shapes. The Mandelbrot collection is not the only known auto-recursive pattern; there are also the “Julia collection” and others.

Imagine that the wave function AUM is also a self-recursive pattern, then the essence of the apparently individual jivas can be considered as the repetition of the same archetype that is the wave function AUM at a different level of aggregation. When you look deeper into the edges of the Mandelbrot feature (which looks like a meditating Buddha from the side or a dog’s head from above), you’ll find this same shape over and over again.

That is also the essence of holograms, where each component produces the same shape.

Therefore, perhaps the individual jivas are just one part of the same AUM wavefunction in a different fractal dimension at the edge of the same sound / vibration.

Just as the Mandelbrot function produces a wide variety of beautiful colors and shapes on the edges of the collection when viewed from a certain perspective, similarly this material-energetic world of Maya that we see around us could be the edges of the collection. The AUM wave function and the jivas repeat the archetypal form.

Furthermore, it conforms to the notion that the world of Maya is only a small part of the manifestation of God: only the edges of the AUM sound form the observable material-energetic universe. Like the Mandelbrot collection, the center is unaffected, silent and happy.

When you continually chant AUM, which is considered the preeminent technique for self-realization in this age called kali-yuga, at a certain point you will resonate with it. This song is said to lead you to self-realization or God-realization.

In fact, everything is one great AUM vibration, but just as waves create interference patterns, the AUM vibration generates the observable world. Regarding this, it is remarkable how inert matter generates all kinds of patterns, which have the shape of atomic orbitals: On YouTube there is a small fragment of a collection of rice grains to which sound of different frequencies is applied: the grains they come together and disperse to resonate in orbital-like patterns.

Vivekananda once described that matter itself is inert, but that it is by virtue of the living force of Brahman that matter is formed and added. Since matter / energy quanta (theons) are nothing more than wave functions or vibrations themselves, matter / energy itself is also the manifestation of the AUM sound at another level of aggregation. The interference pattern can produce the “triguna” nature of matter: tamas (inertia as a result of the cancellation of waves), rajas (movement, when the waves do not cancel or resonate) and sattva (harmony, that is, resonance of waves). Also at the atomic and molecular level an analogy can be made with this triguna nature of matter: the nucleus of an atom is relatively inert (tamas), the electrons are in continuous motion (slits) and when a union between atoms occurs there is resonance (sattva), giving rise to molecular orbitals. Sattva can also exist as a pure photon or released energy, which when captured by matter results in an excited state or higher energy molecular orbital. The solid aspect of matter is only there because rajasic electrons move so fast around the nucleus or in molecular orbitals, like a tornado. It is logical that all quanta are entangled, because in the end they are part of a single wave function.

Note that in this reasoning both energy and matter are forms of Maya, while others (techno-shamanists like /: set AI on the one hand, Peter Russell on the other) have respectively postulated that “released light or energy” it is the ultimate nature of God or a good analogy with it. In Vedanta, energy and matter like Maya are only a small part of the manifestation of God. To speak in terms of AUM as a fractal: they are simply the edge.

This would also fit the notion that Devas, brilliants, stars or angels are just sattvic of nature.

Finally, similar analogies can probably be made at the kernel substructure level, but I’ll leave that topic for a further article.

All patterns, all information (Maxwell’s demon: energy and information are interconvertible), all material and energetic existence in the end can be considered as Maya and nothing more than a manifestation of AUM, which is the only existence. So everything we are so attached to, all our habits and idiosyncrasies that we call “I”, in the end are not permanent since our existence is nothing more than the AUM vibration. We will realize this when we achieve resonance with him. All the contradictions between the concepts of Vedanta and modern science are only apparent prima facie, but they evaporate after further investigation.