A hologram

Unlike a camera, which has only one point of light reference, a hologram has two or more points of light references. The intersection points of the two light waves contain the whole information of both reference points.
A LASER is used as the light source so the waves are coherent

A LASER is projected onto a partially silvered mirror called a beam splitter. This mirror splits the original beam into two beams. One beam travels through a lens that diffuses the light onto the object being recorded. This light, called the object beam, is reflected off the object onto the film plate. The second beam is bounced off a mirror and then through a lens that diffuses the light directly onto the film. This beam is called the reference beam. The same light source needs to be used for both beams so the waves will have perfect intersection points

Communication theory by Debby West (from the web): http://hologram.net/theory/thrymenu.htm

Chaos-system studied by computer
Benoit Mandelbrot

When iterative equations are applied to points in a certain region of the complex plane, a fractal from the Mandelbrot set results

Benoit Mandelbrot was born in Poland in 1924. […] [Some time after 1977, and] with the aid of computer graphics, Mandelbrot was able to show how [an almost forgotten mathematician] Julia’s work was a source of some of the most beautiful fractals known today. The Mandelbrot set is made up of connected points in the complex plane. The simple equation that is the basis of the Mandelbrot set is included below.

Changing number + fixed number = Result

In order to calculate points for a Mandelbrot fractal, start with one of the numbers on the complex plane and put its value in the "Fixed Number" slot of the equation. In the "Changing number" slot, start with zero. Next, calculate the equation. Take the number obtained as the result and plug it into the "Changing number" slot. Now, repeat (iterate) this operation an infinite number or times. When iterative equations are applied to points in a certain region of the complex plane, a fractal from the Mandelbrot set results.

Edited from article on the net by Author: Manus J. Donahue http://www.duke.edu/~mjd/chaos/chaosp.html

Fractals make up a large part of the biological world.

[…] It is now established that fractals are quite real and incredible; however, what do these newly discovered objects have to do with real life? Is there a purpose behind these fascinating images?
The answer is a somewhat surprising yes. Homer Smith, a computer engineer of Art Matrix, once said, "If you like fractals, it is because you are made of them. If you can’t stand fractals, it’s because you can’t stand yourself." Fractals make up a large part of the biological world. Clouds, arteries, veins, nerves, parotid gland* ducts, and the bronchial tree all show some type of fractal organization. […] Understanding and mastering the concepts that govern fractals will undoubtedly lead to breakthroughs in the area of biological understanding. Fractals are one of the most interesting branches of chaos theory, and they are beginning to become ever more key in the world of biology and medicine. […]
*[A salivary gland situated in front of and below the ear]

Edited from article on the net by Author: Manus J. Donahue http://www.duke.edu/~mjd/chaos/chaosp.html

The second law of thermodynamics.:

The amount of disorder in the world
Can never decrease…?.

One of science’s most cherished laws; the second law of thermodynamics. says that the amount of disorder in the world can never decrease. A display of stacked-up boxes in a supermarket is always in danger of falling down, but once fallen it is never in danger of righting itself. It takes fewer bits of data to specify the positions of those boxes if they’re stacked up in a pyramid than if they’re littering the floor.

Information grows along with disorder.

If black holes obey the second law, they can’t just wipe out information. Where do they store it all? Well, black holes have something else that can never decrease, their surface area. Jacob Bekenstein, then at Princeton University, and Stephen Hawking of the University of Cambridge worked out that the surface area and the disorder in a black hole must be proportional. In information terms, there is roughly one bit per Planck area of the hole …“ that is, for each square that measures 1o-35 meters on a side. But that.s vastly less than one piece for every Plank volume. So when a volume of space is crumpled into a black hole, a huge chunk of information is seemingly wiped out of existence. Indeed, that’s what Hawking maintains. But it means undermining quantum mechanics …“ a theory in which information is always preserved …“ and abandoning the link between disorder and information. Most theorists weren’t sure what to make of this tension, but some would simply not hear of such a flouting of the laws. In 1993, there came a radical explanation. Working independently, both Leonard Susskind at Stanford University, and Gerard Hooft at Utrecht University saw that information might be preserved if it lives…? in just two dimensions of space, as opposed to the obvious, common-sense choice of three. The idea certainly seems consistent with what we know of black holes.
But if true, Susskin and Hooft realized, it has to apply to everything […].

From New Scientist 27 April 2002 the Hollow Universe by J. R. Minkel

You really cannot get more than a surface-worth of information
into any volume

You cannot get more than a surface-worth of information
into any volume

The practical upshot is that the information limit for a black hole applies to everything. You really cannot get more than a surface-worth of information into any volume. But how can that be?

Maybe, Susskind and Hooft proposed, nature is storing the data about its most basic building blocks like a hologram. In a conventional hologram, a laser beam bouncing off an object is mixed with another laser beam and the resulting interference pattern is recorded on a flat surface. Shine new light onto the recording and a lifelike three-dimensional image leaps out.
If nature works like this, then information somehow lives on the boundary of any region of space-time.

From New Scientist 27 April 2002 the Hollow Universe by J. R. Minkel

Dr. Karl Pribram’s whole brain theory states that the brain stores information throughout the whole brain. There is not a specific location for a specific memory. Communication theory by Debby West (from the web): http://hologram.net/theory/thrymenu.htm

Indras net

In the Heaven of Indra, there is said to be a network of pearls,
so arranged that if you look at one you see all the others reflected in it.
In the same way each object in the world is not merely itself but involves every other object and in fact IS everything else.

"In every particle of dust, there are present
Buddhas without number…

Fritjof Capra: The Tao of Physics.

Know Thyself

You are the content of your consciousness; in knowing yourself you will know the universe. This knowing is beyond the word for the word is not the thing. The freedom from the known, every minute, is the essence of intelligence. It.s this intelligence that is in operation in the universe if you leave it alone. You are destroying this sacredness of order through the ignorance of yourself. This ignorance is not banished by the studies others have made about you or themselves.

You yourself have to study the content
of your own consciousness.

J. Krishnamurti, Krishnamurti.s Journal.

The Body is not an object
The Body is not an object
It’s not even a concrete event,
It’s not even materialistic.
It’s a molecular process,
It’s a moving event

Stanley Kelemann

The material stuff within [the boundary of the perceived universe], the objects that we perceive and touch, is just the unpacked higher-dimensional manifestation of that hologram.
That is the holographic principle […]. Physicists hope to make sense of the holographic principle, because the potential pay-off is huge. To many, the idea means that we shouldn’t be looking for a fundamental theory in the here and now of ordinary space, but in a stranger place. Perhaps the truest, most economical theory is one that does not operate in terms of conventional space-time, but somehow lives on space-time’s edge. […] Smolin and Markopoulou have suggested that a hologram act as a limit on the information that can pass across a surface in space-time, rather than as a limit on the total amount of possible information. In this view, we will have to stop thinking about things, as fundamental features of reality. Instead of things, reality would be made of processes, such as information flow. […].

From New Scientist 27 April 2002 the Hollow Universe by J. R. Minkel

The world is sacred

Do you want to improve the world?
I don’t think it can be done.
The world is sacred. It can’t be improved.
If you tamper with it, you’ll ruin it.
If you treat it like an object, you’ll lose it.
There is a time for being ahead, A time for being behind;
A time for being in motion, A time for being at rest;
A time for being vigorous, A time for being exhausted;
A time for being safe, A time, for being in danger.
The Master sees things as they are,
Without trying to control them. She lets them go their own way,
And resides at the center of the circle.

Tao Te Ching