Dear Eckard Blumschein
As you know the title of my paper is 'Ultimate Reality and Non-material Origin of Universe', it has two parts. First part is ultimate reality and second part is non-material origin of universe. First part deals with the discovery of ultimate reality and the second part is a hypothesis based on the findings of the first part. Your comments are on the second part. It seems you have not understood the first part of my paper. Please read the discussion between me and Cristi Stoica from Dec.5 to 16 to understand the first part that proves what is ultimate reality. Please find below the gist of the discussion.
I have defined ultimate reality as an entity that remains unchanged at all times and under all conditions; and have proved by thought experiment following Einstein that the knowledge of self existence called undifferentiated consciousness (UC) is ultimate reality. The thought experiment consisting of a few simple questions that can be answered by almost every person along with a brief introduction is as follows;
"It is a fact that every one knows without any doub that he is. But perhaps no one has asked how he knows that he is? When I asked this question to a friend, he uttered "what what"! He was a bit perplexed because he had never thought about his existence. I elaborated the question. I am now asking the elaborated question to you (reader). Others know that you are by seeing your face (your main physical identity), but you can not see you own face, then how you know that you are? You can see your face in the mirror; do you see a mirror to know that you are? Or do you see or touch your body or hear your voice or use other two other sense organs to know that you are? Or do you think of your body to know that you are? Or do you think whether you are or you are not to know that you are?
I have asked these questions to more than 100 persons including the one in FQXi essay contest. The unanimous answer to all the questions was no. I said, it means that you know that you are without using your five senses and thinking. Is it true? All of them said yes. But when I said, it means that you know that you are without using your five senses and brain which implies that the knowledge of self existence (UC) has independent existence, almost all found it difficult to accept.
Why it is difficult to accept this rational conclusion? Because so far all the knowledge that we have, has been acquired, without any exception by using our five senses and brain. Therefore we are not prepared to treat our knowledge of self existence as an exception though, there is unquestionable reason for treating it as exception, and that reason is, there is nothing else other than the knowledge of self existence that we know without using five senses and thinking. When i pointed it out to them, they agreed that the knowledge of self existence (UC) is independent of five senses and brain. It means that the particular consciousness namely the knowledge of self existence (UC) has independent existence and is not caused by our five senses and brain.
As defined above ultimate reality is that entity which remains unchanged under all condition and all times. It is the experience of one and all that the knowledge of self existence (UC) remains unchanged through out the entire life of every person under all conditions (healthy or sick, happy or sad, calm or angry etc. and all times (young or old). No one has ever known that he is not. There is nothing except (UC) in the experience of one and all that remains unchanged at all times and under all conditions. It means that the the knowledge of self existence (UC) is ultimate reality.
The second part of my paper is a very simple hypothesis. It says that UC being ultimate reality ever present was before the Big Bang. The universe originated from UC as there was nothing else.
You may call UC as God. In that case the main difference between my paper and the statements of Aurelius Augustinus and Newton is that I have proved what is God where as they both assumed it. My paper shows that in essence both are right.
With best wishes,
Prem N. Tiwari
