String Theory & Consciousness

[brento1138]

String Theory interests me quite a bit lately, as scientists have seen "blips" of matter enter our three dimensional dimension from possible other dimensions.

So, let's look at dimensions this way.

Dimension 1
Dimension 2
Dimension 3

The above 3 dimensions make up our "physical" dimension.

Dimension 4 = Time
Dimension 5+ = ?

Basically, a theory I've heard about is that every bit of energy or matter that exists in our physical dimension has some kind of "friend" or "partner" equivalents in other dimensions. As such, we can also see blips of stuff appear or vanish in our dimension which possibly have greater parts which exist in other dimensions and don't fit so well here.

My question is this: Is it possible that animal or human consciousness has a "brother" or "partner" equivalent which exists in another dimension? And that it needs a specific combination or "key" to be able to exist in this particular dimension?

I know this may sound a tad religious or like a conversation that a psychedelic drug might bring on, but I'm an atheist who doesn't do drugs...

This string theory may be able to sort out many things which appear in our universe, which don't quite make sense. Perhaps we have scientific explanations for what consciousness is, but really, all it is is what we see with our own eyes and tests which are limited to our physical dimension. Therefore, isn't science quite limited in one sense?

Personally, I know this isn't science, but opinion, but life sure doesn't seem to "fit into" this cold, dark, expanding, large, universe of energy bursts. Perhaps we really do come from somewhere else...

Thoughts?

[Zman69]

I came across your entry on “String Theory & Consciousness” after Googling “dimensions consciousness "String Theory"”…no surprise there.

I have been reading “Present at the Creation” by Amir Aczel. Chapter 12 deals with String Theory and multiple dimensions. I’m not a particle physicist (or any kind of physicist for that matter) but the whole idea of unifying General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics intrigues me. Several years ago PBS aired a show on String Theory and this talked about the idea of multiple dimensions.

As I read Aczel’s ideas about more then one dimension something clicked in my head (my consciousness!) that said that is where the other dimensions lie. That is in consciousness, thought, dreams etc. that we really know so little about. This led to my Google search and finding your comments.

There really could be something to this but I have no idea on how to pursue it.