"Understanding Trinities: Part 2 – Rational & Scientific Trinities"
BOOK III: The Enigmatic Mystery (Science & Religion) – Consideration #215
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Tuesday November 18, 2025
“Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science…”
– Robert Green Ingersoll
PREFACE
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Hegel’s concept of reality fits in well with modern 20th century science; reflecting a more academic representation of a reality trinity as a combination of Thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis. According to Hegel, our perception of reality appears as a consistent conflict between older ideas about reality (Thesis) and newer ideas about reality that challenge them (Antithesis). Hegel argues that it is this constant conflict between Thesis and Antithesis that leads to Synthesis, or a new understanding of reality, which directly reflects the historic pattern of human development; ultimately ending with an understanding of Absolute Truth.
“Hegel proposed that there was no proof that the universe was objectively real.”
Over time, this constant evolution of thesis and antithesis leads to the inevitable synthesis that Hegel called “Absolute Truth.” What is critical to understand about Hegel’s philosophy is that it is not dependent on any kind of “objective” reality. Unlike all previous paradigm shifts regarding the nature of reality, Hegel proposed that there was no proof that the universe or anything in it was objectively real. Ultimately, reality was a complete abstraction of the Mind.
Ironically, Hegel’s philosophy of Absolute Idealism was the only Western philosophy capable of conceptualizing the shift in science from empiricism to complete rationalism. In fact, it could be argued that current rational quantum abstractions would not be possible without Hegel’s philosophical and metaphysical foundation for a universe that was not empirically or objectively “real.”
CONSIDERATION #215 – Rational & Scientific Trinities
Hegel sets the stage for Einstein’s scientific theories of Relativity involving Space, Time, and Gravity, as well as Quantum Mechanics. Einstein begins to unravel our traditional empirical understanding of the universe as being composed of separate independent tangible factors such as space and time. He shatters Descartes’ previous “thesis” about the universe being strictly divided into “body” or tangible measurable “things” in space, and “mind” or intangible non-measurable things which exist outside of physical reality.
“In Einsteins’ universe these factors are not certain and consistent independent factors…”
Einstein essentially challenges Descartes’ thesis about “certainty” regarding the empirical universe and proposes an antithesis suggesting that how the universe worked was “in fact” not certain, but relative depending on various interdependent factors including time, space, and gravity. In Einsteins’ universe these factors were not certain and consistent independent factors, but relative and interdependent relationships that affected how the universe works. Einstein’s Relativity Theories began a shift in science moving it away from Descartes’ empirical understanding of reality to a more rational consideration of reality.
“He challenged the strict division of the universe into Mind and Body…”
Einstein broke the limits typically associated with empirical factors such as time, space, and gravity in a way that completely changed our perception of how the universe worked. He challenged the strict division of the universe as being a dichotomy of Mind and Body; the universe was not as certain or divided as Descartes thought. This radical transformation in our perception of how the universe worked at the “macro” level of reality foreshadowed the next major antithesis of modern science: quantum reality.
Just as Relativity Theory had altered our perception of the universe, Quantum Mechanics shattered our perception regarding the basic building blocks of empirical reality called atoms. Originally considered the smallest indivisible unit of matter, this atomic abstraction synthesized into a trinity of subatomic particles interacting to manifest a single atom. The “modern atom” consisted of a positively charged “proton,” a negatively charged “electron,” and a neutrally charged particle called a “neutron.”
However, much like time, space, and gravity, the three atomic constituents acted as interconnected and interdependent variables of reality, and not three independent particles. Although atoms were considered the building blocks of “matter” there was another factor in the universe called “waves.” Traditionally, waves were not considered “matter,” however the distinction between matter and non-matter, or particles and waves, turned out to be very uncertain at the quantum level of reality.
Relativity theory devastated the once commonly accepted notion of independence regarding such “constants” as time, space, and gravity; Quantum theory shattered the once commonly accepted independence of waves and particles, or matter and non-matter. In Quantum Reality subatomic particles have the capability of acting as particles or waves depending on the specific circumstances of the situation. Meaning there is no inherent difference between matter and non-matter. The determinate factor in whether or not subatomic particles act as waves or particles is related to Quantum Consciousness. Quantum Consciousness is affected by other Consciousness, such as human consciousness.
POSTSCRIPT
We are now entering a new paradigm shift into what I call Quantum Consciousness. Quantum Consciousness consists of Empirical Reality manifested through particles, or matter, a Rational Reality manifested through waves, or non-matter, and a Quantum Reality, serving as the neutral source that generates and manifests both particles and waves, or matter and non-matter. This neutral quantum force manages the process responsible for the manifestation of particles and waves based on the influence of quantum and non-quantum consciousness.
“Why does our long chain of empirical and rational links eventually lead to a new quantum reality?”
This third “quantum” factor may be the synthesis necessary for transforming the dualism of Rationalism and Empiricism into a new consideration and understanding of both science and religion. Why does our long chain of empirical and rational links eventually lead to a new quantum reality, and could this new reality be the link that synthesizes Religion and Science into a new transcendence of Quantum Rationalism and Quantum Empiricism; ultimately resulting in a new understanding of Quantum Reality and how it connects the two?
“Could quantum reality be the missing piece to this puzzle?”
For more than 3,500 years human beings have been focused on understanding and balancing the nature of their rational and empirical reality without success. Could quantum reality be the missing piece to this puzzle? How might Quantum Consciousness be connected to the Eastern concept of Tao and the Western concept of God? What, exactly, is Quantum Consciousness and how is it connected to Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing? Most importantly, how is all of this connected to us?
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(Previous related Substacks: #205: Artificial Geist: Hegel & Artificial Intelligence, #203: The Nature of Consciousness, #201: The Nature of Physical Reality, #196: Empirical & Rational Morality, #191: Wave-Particle Duality, #180: A Probable God, #179: Probable Electrons, #178: God & Electrons, #164: The Quantum Qubit, #157: Balancing Rationalism & Empiricism, #153: The Rational Being (Preview), #104: Quantum Consciousness (Preview), #96: The Arch of Conscious Awareness, #38: Transcending God & Nature: The History of Geist in the World, #37:The Phenomenology of Spirit, #36: Absolute Idealism and The End of Rationalism & Empiricism, #42-#59 and #63-74: Einstein, Relativity Theory, Early Quantum Mechanics)
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Frank says “This neutral quantum force manages the process responsible for the manifestation of particles and waves based on the influence of quantum and non-quantum consciousness.”
My proposal is that this “neutral quantum force” potentially/might have a “spooky connection” to the evasive, Gravitational Waves that physicists recently detected via LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory). These first gravitational waves happened when two black holes crashed into one another. The collision happened 1.3 billion years ago. But, the ripples didn’t make it to Earth until 2015!