The strongest move in this piece is the honesty about which link is missing. Every other connection has been measured, and Payne's experiment is the one nobody has replicated in nearly forty years. That is the rare kind of argument that tells you exactly what would prove it wrong.
From my cosmopsychist framework, there is a layer underneath the chain that makes it more coherent rather than less. If consciousness is fundamental, then the Sun does not need to be granted sentence as an exception. It is a localized expression of the same field, organized at a scale and in a medium we do not share. Plasma behaving like life is not a curiosity in that framework. It is what you would expect when the same organizing principle expresses itself through different substrates.
Which reframes the entrainment question. Stefani's finding that a tide too weak to stir the interior can still synchronize a system poised at criticality is the physics of participation. A small coherent signal does not overpower the system. It harmonizes with it. That is not domination. It is resonance, and it is the mechanism your framework keeps pointing to.
The detail I will be sitting with is the naming. Plasma, named after blood, by a chemist struck by the analogy. Sometimes the language arrives before the understanding does.
One question: if the experiment were run and produced a null result, would that end the inquiry for you, or would it only rule out one version of it?
Thanks Sayer! Every morning I go out and greet my buddy, Helios. I send Love and he gets brighter and warmer on my face. Been doing this for years. It cracks me up when people ask "is the Sun conscious". He's only the Oversoul of this Solar System and a partner with Gaia, Mother Earth, and together they create another amazing place to experience Life.
Humans don't need science to verify Life. They just need to shut up left brain and open right brain to receive their expanded consciousness.
I used to have my biology students read Sheldrake's essay on the Sun's consciousness. Textbook biology can be soooo boring. 🌞
The strongest move in this piece is the honesty about which link is missing. Every other connection has been measured, and Payne's experiment is the one nobody has replicated in nearly forty years. That is the rare kind of argument that tells you exactly what would prove it wrong.
From my cosmopsychist framework, there is a layer underneath the chain that makes it more coherent rather than less. If consciousness is fundamental, then the Sun does not need to be granted sentence as an exception. It is a localized expression of the same field, organized at a scale and in a medium we do not share. Plasma behaving like life is not a curiosity in that framework. It is what you would expect when the same organizing principle expresses itself through different substrates.
Which reframes the entrainment question. Stefani's finding that a tide too weak to stir the interior can still synchronize a system poised at criticality is the physics of participation. A small coherent signal does not overpower the system. It harmonizes with it. That is not domination. It is resonance, and it is the mechanism your framework keeps pointing to.
The detail I will be sitting with is the naming. Plasma, named after blood, by a chemist struck by the analogy. Sometimes the language arrives before the understanding does.
One question: if the experiment were run and produced a null result, would that end the inquiry for you, or would it only rule out one version of it?
We are all connected but some are more connected than others... lol
Thanks Sayer! Every morning I go out and greet my buddy, Helios. I send Love and he gets brighter and warmer on my face. Been doing this for years. It cracks me up when people ask "is the Sun conscious". He's only the Oversoul of this Solar System and a partner with Gaia, Mother Earth, and together they create another amazing place to experience Life.
Humans don't need science to verify Life. They just need to shut up left brain and open right brain to receive their expanded consciousness.
I love your work and have for years.
However, the sun and moon are small and local. They are inside the firmament. “Space” is water.