Journey to the Source of Consciousness

Fred Van Oystaeyen

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Journey to the Source of Consciousness offers a bold and unconventional exploration of the nature of reality, time, and consciousness through a mathematical and philosophical lens. Using a self-developed Dynamic Interval Moment model, the author challenges classical notions of causality, existence and observation, proposing that reality is shaped not by continuous time but by discrete manifestations of events, where objects do not exist at moments but across intervals.Moving from physics to biology and linguistics across multiple disciplines, the author argues that creativity, fantasy, and even free will emerge from structures formed in a non-existent void, culminating in a provocative reimagining of the Big Bang as a Big Exodus from this abstract realm, inviting the reader to reconsider the fabric of reality through a mind-expanding journey that unites scientific insight with deeply original metaphysical thought. Fred Van Oystaeyen, born August 16th, 1947, has a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physical Sciences from the Free University of Amsterdam. He is currently professor emeritus at the University of Antwerp, where he’s spent most of his teaching career, and a prolific researcher, having written more than 300 paper publications in international scientific journals, authored 28 mathematical research books, edited the proceedings of 24 congresses he organised; directed more than 20 UE research projects.He started the subject of non-commutative algebraic geometry in 1972-1975 and applied it in his DIM-model for reality in his book Time Hybrids in 2021. During his career, he was awarded Honorary professor at Beijing Normal University in 1985, Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Almeria, Spain, where a street near the university is named after him, and also at the University of Brussels in 2019. In his personal time, Fred writes poetry, collected in his book Music From the Forest I Died in, Distant Drums of Silence, takes care of succulent plants and listens to Blues music. He is married, father of three children and grandfather of three grandchildren.

Disponibile da: 27/09/2025.

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