Expert: Jayendra Upadhye - 1/12/2008

Question
I am a researcher looking into science and religion and during my studies I have found out that Cosmologist who make computer model maps of the universe have constructed a map where the design of the universe look just like the neurons in the brain. Could this pattern be a mirror effect to our neurons? see diagram on this link showing this.http://www.ascensionq2.20fr.com/custom.html at the bottom of this page. homepage is www.ascensionq.20fr.com

Answer
Hi Larry,
Larry, did we interact before? I remember someone who directed me to his homepage, where some of his theories were listed.
I checked..it is the same, and it means we did interact earlier..(correct me if i am wrong)..
Larry, since this is philosophical discussion, and Cosmogony to some extent, i will dwell on Hindu philosophical angles relevent to your question.
1 - In hindu philosophy there is a saying..."All oceans in a pot of water..."gaagar mein saagar"..it has something to do with the holographic concept of the universe, that each atome represents the whole cosmos & viceversa, it is about interconnectivity.
   There are cases where accomplished masters (like those jedii) could do strange things. There was this case where the queen lost two precious bangles. one was found, the other could not be traced. The cobbler saint when he came to know this, just dipped his hands in his cobbler's muddied watter, and produced the other missing bangle saying everything should be "in his pot!".
  Or take the case of the king "hiranyaka-shipu" his devotee son so infuriated him, that he sarcastically asked his son..you idiot, if your god is everywhere, is he in this dumb stone pillar? Lo I will fell it then, and he demolished it in one stroke of his mighty mace, only to find GOD materialise from it in the form destined to kill him.

2 - Hindu thought thinks of GOD as Brahma the creator, whose mind matter "Mahat" differentiates into "differntiated matter"..the elements, from which the cosmos takes birth. If one knows what one sees around oneself is NOT  the cosmos, but just transformations of Mahat he knows what MAYA is! That is why hindus call the world an illusion.
   Adepts thru yoga know how to manipulate this maya and thus become "GODS" themselves! (The jedii in movies are good examples).

3 - Hindus even had cosmic compilers (like the computer programs) wherein they could execute a syntactical instruction (a mantra) and lo and behold...one just had to say "stop that guy in his tracks" and that person would freeze for eternity! ,,as simple as saying "clear screen"!
Thee is a powerful analogy of this in the film "Matrix".
For a yogi, Sansara or "visible palpable world is NOT! It is but an illusion! Created in the mind of the cosmic dreamer Brahma. Period.

4 - Perforce in a holographic universe, there would be a hirearchy of things, each an image of the lower one!
Hecne you find Galaxies streaming over huge voids...and creating neural like networks over vast tracts of empty space!

But philosophical thought apart,
Real science will NEVER agree to above "speculation"!
Like in asimov's last question, (on reversal of entropy), this sansaara / maya / science fact clash will be resolved may be very very far in the future, but by then it will NOT matter, for we will ourselves have become GOD(S)!
[Brian W Aldiss's "Childhood's end" (I think) reflects this very thought]

Jayen