Proving the impossibility of physical movement, based on the assumptions of modern science
This proof, based on the assumptions of modern science and medicine, reveals how we are unable to move our bodies even for the simplest of tasks, such as blinking an eye, or lifting a finger.
It needs to be recognised that the common denominator for all experience of physical movement is our personal thoughts and feelings (awareness). Events that we believe occur independent of our awareness, cannot be classed as events per se, but as unverified, speculative beliefs about imagined events (since we have not experienced them).
- Scientific Assumption #1: The standard, widely-accepted scientific solution for explaining the paradox of physical movement (often referred to as Zeno's Paradoxes) is fully resolved by the mathematics of infinite series - that we are able to traverse each point in an infinite sequence of small 'infinitesimal' contiguous and continuous steps in finite time, thus enabling everyday movement of our bodies etc.
- Scientific Assumption #2: Neurological activity (namely, firing of neurons in the brain, electrical signaling in the body) is the cause for all our thoughts and feelings (awareness).
- Scientific Assumption #3: Physical movement of our bodies directly corresponds to, and results from neurological activity, and that 'subconscious' processes are still the result of neurological activity. Any movement of bodies, or parts of bodies is controlled by neurological processes that start, continue and stop such movements. That is to say, for each and ''every'' physical effect (of physical movement) there is an identifiable physical cause.
- Scientific Assumption #4: Each thought, choice and movement we initiate originates with electrical activity in the brain (namely, with the firing of neurons).
- In view of the fact we cannot think the infinite, for whatever we think, we will need to think again, and again ... ad infinitum (thus never fully completing our task of thinking the infinite), there can be no 1:1 correspondence of neurological/thought activity with each infinitesimal step in movement, since there is no corresponding "infinite firing" of neurons. (In any event, the carriers of electrical signals (electrons) required for muscular contraction and movement are quanta that, according to quantum theory, do not move continuously, thus do not provide the continuity of signal and muscular movement required by point 1)*.
- As a corollary of point 5 (above), '''Scientific Assumption 1 in conjunction with Assumption 3''', requires that for each and every one of the infinite infinitesimal movements, including movements that must occur at and below the Planck length, there must be some identifiable physical, neurological cause, That is to say, the standard, widely-accepted infinite series solutions to Zeno's Paradoxes requires that our physiology initiates movements shorter than the Planck length – well beyond any measurable limits of quantum theory, and well beyond any currently proposed or theoretical neurological/physiological/quantum-physical processes. On this basis one or more of the above assumptions must be invalid, or the theoretical limits of quantum theory are incorrect. In addition, and as stated '''Scientific Assumption 1 involves absolute determinism''', in that for each point within the infinite sequence of points when traversing any arbitrary length, there exists an associated physicality (measurable, tangible, physical 'particles' or frames of particles). In effect, movement of one's finger requires that it is composed of not only quantum particles, such as quarks, but also 'sub-quantum' particles - 'super-quarks', and 'super-super-quarks' ... ad infinitum. Thus, string theories and other theories involving multi-dimensional solutions (that extend beyond our tangible 3-dimensional physicality) are disallowed by the strict deterministic requirements of Assumption 1, again confirming that physical movement, when based on these assumptions, is impossible.
- Ipso facto physical movement of our bodies, when based on these Assumptions, is impossible since the neurological activity that causes infinite infinitesimal sub-Planck-scaled physical movements, has yet to occur, and cannot occur.
Recommended articles:
- The Real Scandal of Quantum Mechanics (Prof. Richard Conn Henry, The Johns Hopkins University)
- The Mental Universe (Prof. Richard Conn Henry, The Johns Hopkins University)
- A Clearer Light (Prof. Richard Conn Henry)
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