Carl Gunther

Memory structures our consciousness. Without memory, how could we know who we are, where we are, what we’re doing, or if we even exist? Common sense says memory is engraved in the brain. But is it? The possibility that our memories are contained in the Growing Block Universe (GBU) which holds the entirety of the past corresponds to our memory’s hyperdimensional structure. Moment by moment, the sights of the world about us instantly enter memory’s ever-growing order of events. Continually we understand the present from an amalgam of past experiences. Peripheral tendrils of our consciousness extend deeply through memory’s vast network of meaning to identify everything we see and hear. Recall of an event has the hazy sense of looking through time to that actual point in time as through it still exists in a greater dimension. What evidence suggests our memories actually reside in the GBU? As moving creatures interact with their world, they display behaviors of conscious mind extended through their memory’s hyperdimensional volume. Like humans, their awareness of the world's three-dimensional structures instantly enters their memory's chronology of events. Honeybees display innate perceptual understanding of their environment and four-dimensional spatial memory of the landscape when they fly to flowers miles (km) from their hive. However, much of their memory is innate, not learned. Migrating monarch butterflies display extraordinary innate spatial memory’s four-dimensional structure when they fly thousands of miles from across the US to congregate at tiny spots high in the mountains of Mexico. Orb weaver spiders display the hyperdimensional complexities of innate perceptual and procedural memory when they locate and build their intricate webs. The possibility that their DNA can gain, carry, and perfectly imprint these creatures’ brains with the hyperdimensional complexity of this innate perceptual, spatial, and procedural memory vastly exceeds the bounds of logic. The dimension of Time is deeply embedded in every aspect of the living world. What is the alternative? Their nonphysical consciousness extends through time and space to access the common memory of the species residing in the GBU. This resolves the "hard problem" of consciousness. If the innate memory of these creatures resides outside their brains, this provides compelling evidence ours does too. And consciousness is a nonphysical connection through space and time which science has yet to acknowledge.

BS Chemistry Boston University 1973

MS Chemistry Georgetown University 1977

MBA  Cornell University 1979

Books - Chasing Memory: Exploring the Dimension of Conscious Mind,  Mind Memory Time; A Quest into the Nature of Reality,  The Vital Dimension.

Galileo Commission Presentation: Memory and Mind Emerging from the Growing Block Universe.