A to B and back again- the soul

Still reading Schwartz and Russek, and he came to a really good point that took me a sec to pick up on but is really good.

One of the big concepts he mentions is non-material reality. Imagine a two-object system that consists of A and B. A and B transfer energy all day long and are different at time 1 than they are at time 2 due to the nature of their interaction (I'm skipping over part of the main crux of Schwartz's argument by simplifying the interaction like that). When these two objects interact, they do so through the "vacuum"- or the space between them.

Physicists have spent some time pondering exactly what the vacuum is- they currently assume that two objects transfer some sort of force carrier (mesons are the current force-carrying candidate) that moves through the vacuum and delivers information by its unique energetic structures. This doesn't hold for all interactions, of course, it can't be proved yet for gravity because no mathematical model allows for a force-carrying gravity particle. It also can't be proved for objects that are entangled, there's just no equation that allows for "strange action at a distance".

Schwartz takes the interaction for granted- that there is some sort of radiant and energetic information expressed by all objects in reality at all times. To interact with each other, different objects are actually interacting with this radiant info-field. That's not to hard to assume, there are quite a few examples of force-carrying particles that have been predicted and found- photons come to mind.

So if all objects are radiating this info-field, then we are awash in information at all times. We know this to be at least partially true by pointing our primitive telescopes anywhere at all- there is a lot of information out there, and it's constantly bombarding us as a background hum. This info-field is omnidirectional, even though we study the interactions between two objects, the field is actually available to any objects not in the study.

So the fields of objects A and B interact and revise with regard to the flow from A to B and the flow from B to A. Schwartz's point is that the fields can and do continue to exist in the "vacuum" in the absence of A and B. There is only one contiguous vacuum, and it is what allows interaction, and hence all of reality, including A and B, to exist. So, in the absence of the generating power of the fields, a virtual memory still exists of their interaction, a spinning vortex that will be unrecognizable after the generating power stops, but is not gone. This "memory vortex" is free-flowing around in the vacuum, just waiting to be accessed.

My first sticking point here was getting around matter and energy being different. Imagine A and B are two electrodes in a filament and their interaction is manifest as visible light. Turn off the power and there's no more light. Or is there? Everything that light shined on was changed slightly by its energy. If we see the filament as A and surrounding objects as Bs, then the into-field is still in existence and could be accessed with the right equipment.

By the same token, imagine our eyes are A and the brain is B. The two create a memory vortex between them. This vortex is the essence of the interaction, and thus the most important aspect. Logic suggests that in the absence of the eyes, it is still totally possible for the memory vortex to process light and generate neural impulses, for from the perspective of the brain, that's all that ever happened with the eyes, they processed light and generated neural impulses. This is not to say that someone can see without eyes- rather that the eye-brain memory vortex is how visual information gets to the brain. And this vortex is not some mystical thing- it's photons and other measurable phenomena. Hence the idea of out-of-body experiences and clairvoyance- since the brain does not depend on the eyes to see, an interaction with the eye-brain memory vortex is enough to generate neural impulses that the brain then "sees". And since that vortex is in the contiguous vacuum, there are quite a few things indeed that could interact with it.