Illustration for a Conversation with A. V. Kaminsky

This is a fragment of a presentation from a lecture course devoted to the history of life on Earth. I have not yet begun posting that course, but these few slides will be useful for the conversation with A. V. Kaminsky taking place here. The fragment of the presentation given here was prepared for a lecture delivered in September 2010. It is an introduction to the course, in which the question of the origin of the Universe and its nature was considered. Here I quote the following book: Michael Talbot. The Holographic Universe. Russian translation: Moscow, Sofia Publishing House, 2004. 368 pp. The ideas presented here characterize one of the unusual (though, as I understand it, still scientific) views of reality. I need them mainly in order to justify the slide (with Kazan Cathedral and a fragment of Dali) with which I ended the lecture; I placed it at the end of this excerpt from the presentation. ... The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox was a thought experiment by means of which Albert Einstein, in his dispute with Niels Bohr, sought to prove the incompleteness of quantum mechanics. At the time when the paradox was proposed, no possibilities existed for testing it. The diagram shows the “optical” version of the paradox proposed later by David Bohm. Its essence is explained in more detail on the next slide. The possibility of experimental verification appeared much later.

An alternative interpretation was developed by David Bohm.

Bohm’s “aquarium” metaphor.

The behavior of one fish is monitored by two cameras placed differently. The observer, who sees two screens, does not know that the same fish is shown on them, and with surprise registers a connection between the behavior of what seem to him to be two different fish.

This is simply an explanation of the principle of holographic recording.

The absence of clear localization of mental functions gives the operation of our brain certain holographic features. ...