IMMATERIALITY

What are the possible fields of immateriality?

• The first is undoubtedly the void, both physical and quantum
• The second is the psyche in animals and humans in particular
• The third is what the human mind conceives of as time or its flowing and which represents the continuous and irreversible transformation of the physical world known as entropy and the dynamics of the expansion of the universe.

Are there any possible relationships between these three fields and if so, what are they?

If we refer to the second field, that of the psyche, we can certainly consider that the psyche is related to the neurons present in the brain and perhaps in the nerve centres of the most primitive animals, or beings as diverse as octopuses. That is, it has a correlation with the physical and therefore quantum world. This also implies physical immateriality, i.e. the vacuum between atomic components. What could be the correlation between this quantum vacuum and the immateriality of the psyche?

Time derives from a mental conception that associates the physical world perceptible in the so-called present moment with a continuous transformation initiated by a world that is now immaterial due to physical obsolescence, which is called the past, but which leaves irrevocable marks in the present moment, a transformation therefore also specularly projected into a physical world that is not yet completed and therefore in itself also immaterial.

What, then, could be the relations of immateriality between past, future, quantum and physical void and psyche? Temporal immateriality includes in its conception the notion of dynamics, of transformation from past to future. There is a dynamic in the other two fields: in the physical and quantum vacuum, certainly because quantum matter is constantly evolving and moving, as are all the components of the physical world, and therefore constantly modulating empty spaces. What about the psyche?

If we refer to compulsive thoughts (see Eckhart Tolle) we can certainly state that the psyche also undergoes a form of structural dynamics that is unstoppable even if non-linear in contrast to how the temporal dynamic might appear at first glance.