New Semester

I have around twenty students. The textbook is here. You can follow the class here.

I want to emphasize the following:

The concept of consciousness represents a state of mind. When we go to sleep it changes, there may be dreams. When we are thinking, images appear, like an image of my deceased mother going to cook. This state of mind, as far as we know, has never existed before Homo sapiens appeared on Earth. When there is consciousness, knowledge appears, now knowledge changes the Universe.

The current cosmology teaches, that more than thirteen thousand million years ago, almost everything was different. From before that moment, which is called the Big Bang, we do not know what was the same to things today, “Time” allows us to perceive change and permanence. Some things change, others stay the same.

By mass, the amount of matter participating in consciousness is practically zero, but nevertheless, it exists, and it is important. Our pointy heads resemble antennae, we see each other’s eyes, and through them, we know what we mean when we talk.

Consciousness is social. Before each one of us was born, our ancestors constructed social consciousness, as we grow inside a community, we build our own personal consciousness, and through our children we pass the biological conditions to acquire this social consciousness  to the future of the Universe. Besides the external marks to guide our consciousness, there are internal marks, passed to our children by chemical combinations, which allow the permanence of biological traits. DNA is one of these repositories of information for our children.

Some of  the stages in the evolution of the Universe are: quarks and leptons, tied together with gluons, weak bosons, and photons. Protons, and neutrons, turning into two main types of nuclei: Hydrogen, and Helium. By gravitational attraction hydrogen nuclei, i.e. protons, and helium, made of two protons, form stars; these stars turn hydrogen, and helium into carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, among other nuclei. Big enough stars explode throwing new elements in space. Dust and water provide bench tables, where other molecules like alcohol, are formed. Even the complex molecule, glycine, may be present in the so-called molecular clouds in space.

At some moment in this race towards complexity, life appeared on Earth. After life, consciousness followed.

It is unlikely that my failings will stop my consciousness growth. They would definitely hamper this growth, but not stop it. The Otomi in Mexico have been living under very harsh conditions, and they keep moving in their quest for knowledge. The young otomis come to the United States to get money for their families in Mexico.

My friend Antonella Faggetti de Glockner, my sister Sandra Cantoral, and other enlightened women, are helping to bring about, communication between different social consciousness. We do not have to go to Alpha Centauri, to meet intelligent beings outside our European Cosmovision. On the other hand, the Cosmovision I use here, can be understood by all conscious beings we know. This could  truly be, the first Cosmic Vision on Earth. This vision is presented in “The New Universe and the Human Future”, by Abrams and Primack.

On January 20, 2013, Barack Obama took office for the second time. He is the 44th President of the USA. He changed health care in this country, he built social consciousness for his two daughters. On Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day, there was an inauguration ceremony for the first African American President of the USA. The life of this country has been hard, Lincoln could not participate in Reconstruction, I hope Obama can implement Immigration Reform.

I am excited!