User:Neuroscience325

I'm an undergraduate majoring in cognitive science (combining the study of artificial intelligence, psychology, and philosophy), focusing on the computational mind, and minoring in game programming--and have transitioned through four previous majors: physics, computer science (and business), mathematics (and economics), and then computational neuroscience. Post-graduation, I'd like to begin my career as a software engineer before eventually transitioning back into academia, setting off on the long road to getting my Ph.D.

I'm very interested in the nature of randomness in the universe and anticipate attaining masters degrees in mathematical finance/financial engineering, studying stochastic processes as they relate to financial markets, and perhaps also electrical engineering, studying the physical basis for the computational technologies that I have been engineering with since the age of 13.

In high school, I took two years of AP Physics along with BC Calculus, self-studied AP Computer Science A, and also thoroughly enjoyed both levels of AP English. My highest SAT category was writing--nearly perfect at a 780--though I applied to all of my colleges as a physics major--I remember those foregone times fondly).

After these masters degrees, after I've taken the time to understand this more qualitative side of things, I'd like to finally get my Ph.D. in some sort of Physics or Applied Science--something huge on abstraction and computation and quantum theory.

Steven Weinberg once said that there were two types of physicists--the sage and the magician:


 * The authors of physics textbooks are usually compelled to redo the work of the magicians so that they seem like sages; otherwise no reader would understand the physics. Planck was a magician in inventing his 1900 theory of heat radiation, and Einstein was playing the part of a magician when he proposed the idea of the photon in 1905. It is usually not difficult to understand the papers of the sage-physicists, but papers of magician-physicists are often incomprehensible. In this sense, Heisenberg’s 1925 paper was pure magic.

There is also, however commonly neglected, a third category of physicist that often goes unmentioned--namely, the poet-physicist, as the good Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Dr. Wolfgang Pauli, Dr. Albert Einstein. And especially Dr. Erwin Schrodinger.

Now, are you a Wu Li Master?

Some necessary viewings to be a well-educated individual:

J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ph.D. Physics, Father of the Atomic Bomb—The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer:
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62sOIWAq_B8

Robert Jahn, Ph.D. Physics, Princeton University—Psyleron: Princeton Mind-Matter Interaction Research:
 * https://vimeo.com/4359545

Fritjof Capara, Ph.D. Physics, University of Vienna--The Tao of Physics:
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBJFJVZMnlo

Richard Alpert, Ph.D. Psychology, Stanford University—Love Serve Remember Movie:
 * "I was feeling very dissatisfied with psychology. It wasn't describing what was happening in my heart."
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8XXdBoOv_U

Timothy Leary, Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, UC Berkeley—The Man Who Turned On America:
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6jmGSS955g

Recommended readings on the Philosophy of Physics and Foundations of Psychology--the type of stuff I tend to edit around here:


 * Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (1958), HarperCollins
 * Niels Bohr, Atomic Physics and Human Knowledge (1961), Dover
 * Erwin Schrödinger, Mind and Matter (1958), Cambridge University Press
 * Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World (1960), Cambridge University Press
 * Arthur Miller, 137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession (2009), W. W. Norton & Company
 * David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980), Routledge
 * Rupert Sheldrake, Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation (1981), Park Street Press
 * Robert Anton Wilson, Quantum Psychology (1990), New Falcon Publications
 * Wolfgang Pauli & Carl Jung, Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters 1932-1958 (2001), Princeton University Press
 * Fritjof Capra & Pier Luigi Luisi, The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision (2014), Cambridge University Press
 * David Kaiser, How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival (2011), W. W. Norton & Company
 * Bruce Rosenblum & Fred Kuttner, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness (2006), Oxford University Press
 * Robert Jahn & Brenda Dunne, Quirks of the Quantum Mind (2012), ICRL Press
 * The Complementarity of Consciousness (1991), Robert Jahn, PEAR Technical Note
 * On the Quantum Mechanics of Consciousness, with Application to Anomalous Phenomena (1985), Robert Jahn & Brenda Dunne, Foundations of Physics
 * Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, et al., What is Life?: The Intellectual Pertinence of Erwin Schrödinger (2011), Stanford University Press
 * Quantum Physics of Consciousness (2011), edited by Penrose et al., Journal of Cosmology

Some other people & articles to check out--seriously do, you'll expand your view of the world tremendously:

Erwin Schrödinger (1887—1961)
 * —Successor to Max Planck, University of Zürich
 * —1933 Nobel Prize in Physics
 * —Director, Dublin Institute for Advanced Study
 * —Author: What is Life (1944), Mind and Matter (1958)

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904—1967)
 * —Studied under Max Born at the University of Göttingen
 * —Early associates: Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac
 * —Notable doctoral students: David Bohm
 * —Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory
 * —Chief Advisor, Atomic Energy Commission
 * —Director, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study

Robert Jahn (1930—present)
 * —Dean Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
 * —Physics Ph. D., Princeton University, Plasma Physicist and Aerospace Engineer
 * —Founder, Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research laboratory
 * —Vice President Emeritus, Society for Scientific Exploration
 * —Chairman of the Board, International Consciousness Research Laboratories
 * —Author: Margins of Reality (1987), Consciousness and the Source of Reality (2011), Quirks of the Quantum Mind (2012)

Harold Puthoff (1936—present)
 * —Director, Austin Institute for Advanced Study
 * —Electrical Engineering Ph. D., Stanford University
 * —Continuing work on parapsychology, zero point energy, electrodynamics, antigravity
 * —Involvement: Stargate Project, Parapsychology research at SRI, Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program
 * —Author: Mind-Reach (1977)

P. S. What do you think NASA, the Air Force, and others are up to right now?

Mass Modification Experiment Definition Study (An Air Force Report)
 * http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_10_3_forward.pdf

Dr. Robert Wood (longtime personal friend to James S. McDonnell) on Secret Aerospace Projects at McDonald-Douglass
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMs7Y4EyjdI

Zero point energy--it'll make you think
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizable_vacuum
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_electrodynamics
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb_shift
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Lamb
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casmir_Effect
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Propulsion_Physics_Program

And the other two electrical engineers you ought to be fascinated by:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison

And other cool physics and IT you ought to read up on:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenoarchaeology#Probe_SETI.2C_or_SETA
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracewell_probe
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2045_Initiative
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_the_Study_of_Extraterrestrial_Intelligence
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_University

And some quantum religion too:
 * http://topyaps.com/top-10-interesting-facts-about-erwin-schrodinger
 * http://www.academia.edu/260503/_Mysticism_in_quantum_mechanics_the_forgotten_controversy_
 * https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/hacking-consciousness-consciousness/id919606163

T. T. Brown
 * http://ttbrown.com/defying_gravity/13_NFTRH_3_hemadethingsup.html
 * http://www.thomastownsendbrown.com/
 * http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/supressed_inventions/suppressed_inventions25.htm
 * http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/tesla/lostjournals/lostjournals06.htm
 * http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/11.08/pwr_antigravity.html?pg=1&topic=&topic_set=
 * http://www.alienscientist.com/brown.html
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Townsend_Brown
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Alfred_Biefeld

Antigravity
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_gravity_control_propulsion_research#Forward.27s_protational_field
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Forward
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
 * https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/antigravityworldgrid/ciencia_antigravityworldgrid05.htm

Electrogravitics--it'll make you think even harder than zero point energy made you think
 * http://www.alienscientist.com/brown.html
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Research_Foundation
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Institute_for_Advanced_Studies
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrogravitics
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionocraft
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biefeld%E2%80%93Brown_effect
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-gravity#Thomas_Townsend_Brown.27s_gravitator
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_gravity_control_propulsion_research#Brown.27s_gravitator

Human Potential and Creativity--and subquantum processes
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Potential_Movement
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esalen_Institute
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holomovement
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wholeness_and_the_Implicate_Order

And finally: Hidden Thermodynamics:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm#Quantum_theory_and_Bohm-diffusion
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_de_Broglie#Hidden_thermodynamics
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_process
 * https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/the-lamb-shift/
 * https://gravityandlevity.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/being-pushed-around-by-empty-space-the-casimir-effect/
 * http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/lamb.html
 * http://www.calphysics.org/articles/Forward1984.pdf
 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blojNMW-Ias