MS#134. The Emergence of Spacetime from the Akasha, 2011 With Sisir Roy, ISI Calcutta. Subjects: Consciousness, Computational Math Abstract: In our recent book (Abraham and Roy, 2010) we have proposed a math- ematical model for the quantum vacuum as a model of consciousness. We emphasized that the quantum vacuum is not identical to cosmic conscious- ness. The word akasha is translated in English as space or ether. In the Eastern tradition ether has two phases, subtle and gross. In our model, the nodes of a network correspond to subtle ether, while the physical space created in temporal slices by condensation corresponds to gross ether. In essence, the akasha is a subtle background against which everything in the material uni- verse becomes perceptible. In this essay we expand on the self-organization of the gross ether from a subtle (submicroscopic) cellular network, with special emphasis on the illusion of time, and the apparent paradoxes such as precog- nition, retro-causation, and entanglement. [PDF] 23 pages, 300 KB Last revised by Ralph Abraham