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The coherence of thinking

    Coherence is a pattern that permeates our human minds. Coherence is associated to logic and mathematics and also philosophy. There is even coherence in our human religions. There is also coherence in our own personal way of living.
    Because our mind that is consciousness, thoughts, memory even imagination, originates in the brain, which is made of matter and physical processes (neurons, synapses, electrical and chemical signals), the coherence permeating our mind and its physical constitution is no doubt integral part of Nature.

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Coherence and consistency

    Coherence, which is logic differs a bit from consistency which is uniform in the sense of conforming to a principle. Yet the words coherent and consistent have so many common grounds that they could be used indiscriminately. In this web-page though, we restrict the use of coherence as being a quality of the human mind; on the other hand consistency (in this web page) is exclusively used as a quality of the universe or of the laws of physics.
    Even though this segregation fits and seems appropriate, we reconize that it is somewhat artificial. It is temporarily used (in this web page) for the sake of clarity.

The consistency of reality

    Consistency is a quality that permeates Nature. Consistency is a physical quality of Nature. And a mirror image of Nature's very physical consistency is the coherence found in our minds. The consistency of nature transcends our human coherence though.
    Now let us exit our thinking process; let us feel (that is perceive as a physical sensation) the consistency of Nature. The consistency of Nature "occurs" in the physical yet dynamic beating of our hearts, the physical process of our thinking (as described in the above section), the unending renewal of human generations; beyond our own body, the consistency of reality "occurs" in the repetition of days and nights (the physical spinning motion of Earth) the repetition of the seasons (Earth's cyclic motion around the Sun); and beyond yet our solar system, consistency "occurs" as cosmic events that we witness.
    At the other end of the physical spectrum that is at the atomic scale, consistency also"prevails". Atoms forming matter including our own body do not disintegrate and when they do they do for a reason. Most importantly in view of the internal dynamism of the atom, the integrity of an atom (and of matter for that matter!) "occurs" consistently rather than "exists" as inert matter (inertia) as considered in physics.
    The consistency of Nature is not a human concept nor a human thought. Nature's consistency, whatever its nature, occurs independently of human thinking coherence.

Human thinking and reality

    In this website and in the gravimotion theory the distinction made between the coherence of our thinking and the consistency of nature is of the essence. The reason is that I have been seriously asked more than once the question: "But what is reality?" The person asking being obviously convinced that reality doesn’t exist, because at the sub-atomic scale, physics theory concludes Nature is not foreseeable! My feeling is that such a person consciously decides that human thinking coherence only is true and that it prevails over the consistency of nature! Usually that question pops up after exchanges occur about the irrational conclusions of the quantum theory. In the eye of the person who asks the question, the quantum theory leads to an “inconsistent” nature (from our human coherent point of view) and reality cannot exist! Only our coherent thinking does!
    I came to the conclusion that some people (mainly adepts of the quantum theory), based on the coherence of their thinking, question the consistency of Nature!
    This page and the gravimotion theory, in spite of physics' conclusions, stick to the idea that the consistency of Nature instead prevails over our human thinking coherence.
    Human thinking can only imagine reality, just as a portrait represents a person.
    And as a portrait is not "the person" it represents, likewise any theory is not "the reality" it describes.
    We then must humbly recognize that our minds' coherence and logic do not necessarily match the consistency of Reality. Most importantly that entails that reality does "occur" and is not an "illusion of our minds"! As such gravimotion's mission or goal differs greatly from that of physics, see for yourself click Differing targets

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