http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnQLsERqTIg - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMG7LA4Rsq8&feature=related - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOzP6XhtAXo&feature=related - Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du0LqsBe_iw&feature=related - Part 4 (Conclusion)

I am a dork. I find this fascinating. If you are a dork or just cool, have fun!

Yip - I got carried away, began with the series and I just kept going. He's got the gift of gab for sure and an intellect that makes you wonder how he manages to come down to a level of general understanding.

Somewhere along the way we seem to have lost the grest science fiction which prepared us for what was coming - what has come and some of it is yet to come - but in sight.

I miss good science fiction but Kaku speaks it, from his center of knowledge, from a very real level of experience and with a vision that can make imagination come alive.

So plastic - what does his vision say to you - will we survive and become a type 1 or will we self-destruct?

He is a true visionary and a fantastic physicist to boot.

I respect Michio Kaku's work. Where I think that the next step in evolution will be inward he seems to find a symmetry of both the interior exploration and the external world. Like he says... "If I were god, how would I design the universe?"

I like to believe in harmony, in a singular consciousness through which all life is connected.

I also believe that this life is rather transient, and that the impermanence of it all feeds into itself. Nothing lost, nothing gained. All is and has been and will be simultaneously.

*smile*

Michu kaku is nifty!

I would like to better understand the connections you are making in your statements.
(A singular consciousness) Are you connecting this consciousness with mysticism, god/creator which exhibits creative intention? Or something else, like a single universal DNA which was divided as the bubbles of the Big Bang, carried away tiny pieces? You can imagine those DNA pieces becomeing strings through the universe, or quarks that would come together with other DNA bubbles to form the known elements. Like the cells of our own body, the various pieces of the original would differentiate as they developed or foung other pieces to unite with. Can you see symmetry in that? Can you see a singular consciousness, like the DNA of a specific organism?



Transient as in constant flux, ever emerging from the prior? A type of evolution in which the individuality of a moment is the development of causation derived from a prior moment?

I'm not sure I agree with your final statement because the supporting structure of our own universe is believed to be temporary. Therefore its dissolution would also preempt access to the spacetime in which it had once existed. But as long as our known spacetime continuum exists (our universe)we may have accessabilty to both past and future, and even alternative universes which are part of the structure. In other words if string theory proves to be a structural support of the universe, it is also subject to emergence/evolution and distruction - in fact it may well be the vibrating structural strings of the universe which are the instrumental force behind recombining the universal DNA by pulling it in upon itself - only to begin again at some point with completely different results.

I'm not saying those are my opinions - it's actually what I call my science fiction, thought processes I have had and obviously they may be foolish and completely laughable. That's why I like discussing this stuff - exchanges of ideas or science fiction.

Consciousness probably isn't the best term. I think that the conscious mind is necessarily subjective in the reality that's understandable, but just like string theory relates the idea of inter-connectivity through vibration, harmony, and resonance I think of god the same way.

I think everything is god, that all energy is composed of the same fundamental elements, that there is a multiverse and that all possibilities exist constantly. God consciousness is just the lack of physical or mental manifestation, ringing at the truest tone, or however you would see symmetry.

And transient more in the sense that everything is fleeting, temporary and yet understandably infinite. Inexplicable duality without dismay. A pretty picture without colors. Hehe.

Of course, all of these beliefs are based on my fundamental ignorance to the higher concepts that are readily accessible to me, at least in their theory. The more we understand the more human we become, I think. Right now I'm closer to an ape with a notebook.

When I said that I admired individuals like Michio for thinking about the inner journey in comparison to the external one, I meant it in the sense that I have a really hard time combining the two in my own personal relationship with god and the universe and everything else. My journey so far has been rather solipsistic and self-loathing, but I'm working on that because I want to be more like god, and god isn't boring like I tend to be. *smile*

But, yeah, you could call that my science fiction gospel. At least for now. It's changing constantly. I'm mashed in the time stream and I appreciate when anybody breaks down information in a way that makes me feel included while still reminding me I'm rather dumb.

Cheers!

Most excellent reply, very interesting. It would be good to hear how it develops and changes as you go along.

Cool! A science popularizer who hasn't sold out to make all his money by completely distorting science.

There is an another interview with him here:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/skepticsguide/skepticast2009-01-15.mp3

Jump to minute 29:00 for the interview.

I like Michio, he seems able to effortlessly navigate the transition between idea (fiction, or possible, but not known) and fact.

Science needs imagination more than ever, but it needs to be grounded in data, and always in the proper forum.

His shows such as Sci-Fi Science is great becuase it allows an improvisational style of sci-fi imagination, but then tempers it with real physics.

Michio Kaku is a rock-star (or as close as you can get to one in the world of theoretical physics ). I read one of his books on string theory a couple years back and totally loved it. I wasn't aware of this series until just now, so thank you! I'm excited to watch this.

He recently chimed in on the gulf of mexico spill crisis and wrote this article for bigthink a couple weeks ago:

http://bigthink.com/ideas/20227