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Mind and matter are complementary aspects of the same reality.
There is only one solution to that greatest of all mysteries, the origin of everything. But to understand it requires that we go on a mental journey, perhaps the most daring ever undertaken. It is a voyage into Deep Time, a voyage that begins with genesis and ends in the very remote future of a universe that, quite astonishingly, contrives to become aware of itself.
A metaphysical exploration of the origin and nature of Time, Quantum Mechanics and other issues. The goal of this exploration is to provide some alternative viewpoints to many of the popular interpretations and dogmatic beliefs that surround these topics, such as the notion of the Quantum Multiverse, or the interplay between pre-determination and free-choice. The hypothetical scenarios described herein attempt to be anchored in principles from basic physics, dressed up with hand-waving and imagination. One particular (heretical) hypothesis is advocated: Quantum mechanics (and time itself) is a side-effect, an outcome of physics at Planck scales, rather than inherent in it.
The nature of subjective conscious experience, and its consequences in intentionality, remain the central unsolved problem in science and one of critical importance to humanity's future as sentient observers and autonomous participants in a world history we are coming to have ever more pivotal influence upon.
Synchronicity is the conscious perception in a physiological time track of the simultaneous manifestation of the multi-dimensional universe. It is the conscious recognition that all events, objects, relationships, points of view, perceptions and interactions are one thing viewed from different perspectives. Synchronicity is also a reflection of what you believe you reality to be.
Many scientific communities study how the human brain makes possible perception, memory, and even attention. But for historical reasons, we have no scientific community for exploring consciousness -- including our own experiences of the world, of each other and of ourselves. It is probably the most important neglected topic in science.
Research shows that babies process language better in their right ears, and music better in their left ears. Previously it was known that the brain processes sound differently in each hemisphere; this new research shows that the differences extend all the way to ears.
Language developed primarily as a tool for forming the organization directed towards common results: Therefore, language (and also personal consciousness mediated by the language) was primarily directed towards generation of the cooperative organization. Thus, a word is basically not a symbol representing something, but a proposal for common action. It is precisely the common result that is stored in language, and, therefore, the language reflects the history of mankind and its culture. Language is the historical collection of the results of human cooperation.
Cultural evolution can be modeled through principles of variation and selection very similar to darwinism. This implies a shift from genes as units of biological information to a new type of units of cultural information: memes. A meme is defined as a cognitive-behavioral pattern that can be transmitted from one individual to another one through communication. Since the individual who transmitted the meme will continue to carry it, the transmission can be interpreted as a replication: a copy of the meme is made in the cognitive system of another individual, making him or her into a carrier of the meme. This process of self-reproduction, leading to spreading over a growing group of individuals, defines the meme as a replicator, similar in that respect to the gene. Memetics can then be defined as the discipline that studies memes.
Some observers foresee the development of systems that are far more intelligent and complex than anything currently known. One name for these hypothetical systems is artilects. With the introduction of artificially intelligent non-deterministic systems, many ethical issues will arise. Many of these issues have never been encountered by humanity.
The overwhelming question in neurobiology today is the relation between the mind and the brain.
Mindfulness makes a full man. A full man speaks with an open mind. And like a parachute, the mind works better when it is fully opened. This awareness is the key to unlock the door from conflict and strife as well as wholesome thoughts emerge.
All things depend on each other for their existence. A man cannot see himself as different from (let alone being superior to) other beings because his body is solely dependent on food, which means he is dependent on plants, water, oxygen, etc. for his existence. At the same time his mind also exists dependently because the existence of thoughts rely on sense data which are derived from the external world of objects and persons. The whole universe must be seen as an immense net: if only one knot in it is shaken, the whole net vibrates. Man owes allegiance to the world because he is dependent on it for his existence both physically and mentally. His attitude towards the world should therefore not be the arrogance of a pampered only child but one of humility: the world was not made for him alone, nor is the world always made out in his favor. Worldly conditions have no favoritism; they are neither kind nor cruel but neutral. Man exists because the rest of the world allows him to do so.
War begins in the minds of men. In the Vedic science of consciousness, moreover, war is said to begin not in the individual minds of politicians or generals, but rather in the collective consciousness of entire societies.
The conscious brain poses the most serious unsolved problem for science at the beginning of the third millennium. Not only is the whole basis of subjective conscious experience lacking adequate physical explanation, but the relationship between causality and intentionally willed action remains equally obscure.
The quantum resonance is a paradigm of essential aspects inherent in experience (or existence). It is a theory of life; in some sense, it is also a theory of everything. Quantum resonance theory provides some explanation for questions that remain mysterious within more conventional paradigms, such as the origin of life, consciousness, the observable laws of probability, and the nature of subjective experience.
All our knowledge of the physical universe is gained through the immediate conduit of our subjective experience and our intentionality in turn has major impacts on the physical world around us.
We are in the mess we are in today because scientists don't intuitively know what they are doing, nor do they care about our common environment, and the social implications of their technical work. They are just robots following orders.
Information is encoded by nonrandom synchronization of neuronal ensembles or cell assemblies within a brain region, rather than by discharges of dedicated cells. Since random neural activity is the most probable, deviations from the regulated levels of local synchronization, regional interactions and sampling periods constitute negative entropy. Integration of activity encoding sensory information, recent and episodic memories, expectations, planned actions, interoceptive stimuli, affective states and levels of motivation is required to yield a global percept. Spatially extensive, essentially statistical information must be transformed into a seamless subjective experience. The inadequacy of connectionist concepts to account for this process points to the need for a paradigm shift.
Experiments with remote perception and Random Event Generators performed over the last decades show small but significant anomalous effects. Since these effects seem to be independent of spatial and temporal distance, they appear to be in disagreement with the standard scientific worldview.
Life did not originate from the random movement of particles, simply because it is far too complex. Instead the evolution is a quantum system - genetic code exists in a quantum multiverse and cells are able to choose advantageous mutations.
Complex Systems is a new field of science studying how parts of a system give rise to the collective behaviors of the system, and how the system interacts with its environment. Social systems formed (in part) out of people, the brain formed out of neurons, molecules formed out of atoms, the weather formed out of air flows are all examples of complex systems. The field of complex systems cuts across all traditional disciplines of science, as well as engineering, management, and medicine. It focuses on certain questions about parts, wholes and relationships. These questions are relevant to all traditional fields.
A complex system is not the same as a chaotic system. In general, complex systems tend to evolve away from the extremes of absolute order or what looks like complete randomness. Currently, the key theoretical concepts are self-organization (the formation of regularities in the patterns of interaction) and selection (through system constraints). Selection seems to act in many self-organizing systems to constantly push the system back to some boundary' between order and chaos. Around this edge', these systems appear to carry out the most complex behavior and adapt most readily to changing environments.
Organisms change how strongly they interact with others in such a way that they reach the boundary between order and randomness, thereby maximizing the average fitness of the organisms.
A system can perform the most sophisticated computation at the boundary between order and randomness. Adaptive agents can develop good solutions to extraordinarily difficult problems.
It is interesting that the 'binding problem' - how sensory experiences being processed in parallel in different parts of the cortex are bound together to give the conscious expression we associate with our integrated perception of the world - has not direct solution in terms of being hard-wired to some collection point - the ultimate seat of consciousness. Every indication is that consciousness is distributed and bound together by non-linear resonances in the brain which is exactly what we would expect in a situation self-resonances were being used as part of a transactionally super-causal solution to the perceptioncognition dilemma.
Consciousness may violate the basic quantum principle, according to which the nonorthogonal single states can't be distinguished. This implies that the physical world is not causally closed without consciousness, and consciousness is a fundamental property of matter, thus provides a possible quantum basis for panpsychism.
Quantum physics could be involved in consciousness in two ways. In the first, quantum uncertainty could occur in the brain and this could be used to affect the outcome of information processing; in the second, consciousness itself could be prior to all other things and be involved in some unknown way in the branching process.
Transactional decision making differs from quantum computation in that the boundary conditions, instead of being a superposition leading to a measurement of a computed solution are a superposition leading to an open-ended decision which does not have a precise computational answer but rather may anticipate a future state of the brain. However in other respects, the biological substrates providing capacity for quantum computation and transactional decision making would strongly overlap providing a potentially common and complementary functional design.
In the transactional model of conscious intentionality, subjective consciousness enters into the picture as the inner complement of the quantum non-local hand-shaking process which violates the causality of initial states determining future states, which we associate with the Newtonian universe and temporal determinism. This occurs as a consequence of special relativity and the fact that the boundary conditions of collapse include future contingent absorbing states. Since the quantum transaction appears to be cosmologically general to all quantum interaction, its manifestation in resolving the fundamental questions of interaction with the physical world adopts a wholly cosmological dimension in which the sentient conscious brain becomes a central avenue for the expression of quantum non-locality in space time.
Selves form a hierarchy and self experiences its subselves as mental images and is in turn a mental image of a higher-level self. Selves can have common subselves and this makes possible fusion and sharing of mental images. The experience of self is a statistical average over quantum jumps occurred after the last 'wake-up' and the theory of qualia can be formulated in terms of statistical physics.
The brain is the 'local' creator of time, space, and space-time as our special maps of the reality we 'observe' and participate in.
If the brain is a quantum system, rather than a classically deterministic one, its states are not entirely determined because of quantum uncertainty.
The quantum information wave is a mental wave. Consciousness is generated in this mental wave when its attached brain reacts back on it to transform classical information from the material world to the quantum information of the mental world.
The post-quantum two-way action-reaction between the mental quantum information wave and the material brain configuration of caged SETs coherently phase-locked by the Crick electric field oscillation violates quantum randomness.
When we come to consider a real world chaotic system based on molecules, we can see that Lorenz's butterfly effect extends naturally down in scale to a random kinetic encounter growing into a butterfly-sized fluctuation and hence a hurricane. So the underlying source of fluctuation in macroscopic chaos is kinetic randomness.
Biological structures such as tissues, and organisms are cosmological structures, culminating the interactive phase of symmetry-breaking, as fundamental as stars and galaxies to the cosmic design.
Classical interpretations of Gödel's formal reasoning, and of his conclusions, implicitly imply that mathematical languages are essentially incomplete, in the sense that the truth of some arithmetical propositions of any formal mathematical language, under any interpretation, is, both, non-algorithmic, and essentially unverifiable.
From a fundamental standpoint, however, it does not matter how useful quantum computation turns out to be, nor does it matter whether we build the first quantum computer tomorrow, next year or centuries from now. The quantum theory of computation must in any case be an integral part of the world view of anyone who seeks a fundamental understanding of the quantum theory and the processing of information.
The potential quantum basis of conscious anticipation leads to a stunning re-evaluation of our role in the universe. Far from being the most fragile and improbable of physical systems, the conscious brain may manifest the most fundamental aspects of quantum reality.
This leads to a deep question shared by all human cultural traditions from the dawning of shamanism, through Vedanta to the Tao and even in the Judeo-Christian prophetic tradition, that mental states of awareness and subsequent happenings are interrelated. If historicity is interactive with both the quantum realm and the existential condition, what are the consequences for science, society and cosmology itself? Our description of reality here suggests that the physical universe has a complement - the subjectively conscious existential condition. Such a view both of the cosmological role of evolution to sentience and the brain as an interface between the cosmic subjective and the physical universe puts us right back into the centre of the cosmic cyclone in a way which Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Leonardo and Albert Einstein would have all appreciated. Consciousness is then not just a globally-modulated functional monitor of attention subject helplessly to the physical states of the brain, but a complementary aspect to physical reality, interacting with space-time through uncertainty and quantum entanglement in a manner anticipated by Taoist and Jungian ideas of synchronicity.
It is suggested that to follow the example of animal behavior studies in seeing communication more as a means to manipulate others than as a means to inform them. In other words, most communication serves for the purpose of social influence, defined as change in one person's beliefs, attitudes, behavior, or emotions brought about by some other person or persons.
The future will be shaped by a complex mixture of inexorable trends, random events, and the actions of key individuals and institutions. Because of this complexity, there is no rational technique that can be used to forecast the future. Thus, the best method for projecting future trends and events is to gather as much information as possible and, then, to depend on subconscious information processing in the brain and personal intuition to provide useful insights.
Human civilization, and with it the biosphere, is becoming increasingly brittle and fragile to the mildest of astronomical disruptions, which could take out our food distribution systems, sever our communications and render much of the arable area of the planet unproductive. It is essential for the evolutionary robustness of our future survival to preserve the full diversity of life, particularly the species upon which we depend in their natural viable state in well-conserved habitats, yet we are systematically on a global basis undermining the very source of our own genetic future. Not only is there wholesale destruction of species and genetic diversity by habitat destruction but we are failing to adequately maintain the natural habitats and diversity of even those food, medicinal and commercial species upon which our livelihood depends.
The question is whether present trends can be controlled and the gap bridged before a tragic and grotesque fate overtakes homo sapiens. To give a positive answer to this question, one must assume that the human being possesses still untapped resources of vision and creativity as well as moral energies which can be mobilized to bail humankind out of its predicament?
Evolutionary theory predicts the inherent selfishness of the individual. Therefore, we would not expect communication to develop as a means of informing others of the truth, if such truth gives the recipient an advantage at the expense of the sender.
The advent of unbridled genetic modification is likely to exacerbate this problem further through the loss of the viable natural varieties through the devotion of the vast proportion of the arable areas of the planet to non-viable engineered varieties, the loss of natural diversity through aggressive marketing of patented varieties, the disruption of the immortality of the germ line through terminator and leaky exorcist technologies and the horizontal transfer of engineered traits into natural ecosystems through cross-fertilization. On the same count the human gene pool is on the brink of a new kind of genetic war fought thorough germ-line engineering and cloning ambitions, for utopian and selfish ends, without a clear idea of where humanity is heading genetically, or the interaction between the components of our genome. The extensive use of reproductive technologies such as IVF, routine Caesarian intervention and surrogacy to both undermine our natural viability genetically and technologize and dislocate our natural reproductive protocols, which have sustained the emergence of humanity in evolutionary time. Only by developing a consensual social ethic which preserves the personal autonomy of our reproductive process and safeguards the living diversity of the biosphere is it likely humanity will survive minor astronomical, climatic and social onslaughts over cosmic time.
Humans are able to construct mental representations and models of possible interactions with their environment. They can use these mental models to identify actions that will enable them to achieve their adaptive goals. But humans do not use this capacity to identify and implement the actions that would contribute most to the evolutionary success of humanity. In general, humans do not find motivation or satisfaction in doing so, no matter how effective the actions might be in evolutionary terms.
Objects remain in wave-like quantum superposition until observed by a conscious human being. Does human consciousness cause the collapse of the wave function?
Industrial plants extract energy and building blocks from raw materials, just like the digestive system. Roads, railways and waterways transport these products from one part of the system to another one, just like the arteries and veins. Garbage dumps and sewage systems collect waste products, just like the colon and the bladder. The army and police protect the society against invaders and rogue elements, just like the immune system.
The Society of Mind theory asserts that the mind is the product of the interaction of a vast society of distinct and individually simple processes known as agents. Agents are the fundamental particles from which minds are built, and together produce the many abilities we attribute to minds.
As more and more nations of the world move into the Information Age, telecommunications and information processing will lead humanity to become increasingly integrated and interconnected. Although it may seem that this interlinking has come upon us very suddenly, it is the result of a trend towards greater interconnectivity that is as old as humanity itself.
The fact that complex organisms, like our own bodies, are built up from individual, living cells, led to the concept of superorganism. If cells aggregate to form a multicellular organism, then organisms might aggregate to form an organism of organisms: a superorganism. Biologists agree that social insect colonies, such as ant nests or bee hives, are best seen as such superorganisms. The activities of a single ant, bee or termite are meaningless unless they are understood in function of the survival of the colony.
The core analogy between the World-Wide Web and the brain is the one between hypertext and associative memory. Links between hyperdocuments or nodes are similar to associations between concepts as they are stored in the brain. However, the analogy goes much further, including the processes of thought and learning.
As computers are already interconnected, the merging of humans into a super-high-bandwidth computer network will bring about the next level of human evolution: a human-computer meta-network.
The network supports the development and uptake of logic-related technologies and solutions that have a positive impact on areas such as health, safety, leisure and the environment. Computational logic is significant for the verification of safety-critical software and hardware, the specification and verification of embedded systems and security issues of the internet and web-based applications.
Humanity has reached a crossroads in its evolutionary path. Computers, satellites, fiber optics, video recorders and other technology, are the catalysts linking our planet into one, worldwide community - a "global brain". This technology, combined with a the rapidly growing human potential movement, is helping to create a collective consciousness that is humanity's only hope of saving it from itself.
The only way for us to humanely survive dangerous technologies is to foster a society that's increasingly transparent and, ultimately, radically transparent. Having everyone's eyes looking at everyone else and not worrying so much about privacy is really the only way to have enough eyes looking around to make sure that nothing too dangerous happens.
The Implicate Order has to be extended into a multidimensional reality; in other words, the holomovement endlessly enfolds and unfolds into infinite dimensionality. Within this milieu there are independent sub-totalities (such as physical elements and human entitites) with relative autonomy. The layers of the Implicate Order can go deeper and deeper to the ultimately unknown.
Smart software is alien, even if this alienness is often hidden behind friendly or even humanoid user interfaces. They live in a world of information totally unlike human experience and do not share many of the basic assumptions of humans. AI programs might not have a sense of self-preservation (which billions of years of relentless evolution has hammered into human genes), or even the concept of a distinct self.
It is collective consciousness that is truly one and indivisible, and it is the responsibility of each human person to contribute towards the building of this consciousness of mankind, this noosphere!
The next stage in evolution is a socialization, the development of a Noosphere, consisting in a continuously progressing integration of the individual mind contents.
The risk of the human species going extinct soon has been systematically underestimated.
Thinking of the future, however, we need to consider the advancement of the inner noosphere from the perspective of technology. Computer networking and artificial intelligence(AI) conceivably could contribute towards the construction of the outer life of the noosphere, but the potentiality of cyberspace could enhance inner comprehension and growth of both the individual and the noosphere.
The views of the Artificial Intelligence community could be seen to be split into two camps on this issue : According to weak AI , the principle value of the computer in the study of the mind is that it gives us a very powerful tool But according to strong AI , the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind ; rather , the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind , in the sense that computers given the right programs can be literally said to understand and have Self.
Creating superintelligence through imitating the functioning of the human brain requires two more things in addition to appropriate learning rules (and sufficiently powerful hardware): it requires having an adequate initial architecture and providing a rich flux of sensory input.
Once artificial intelligence(AI) reaches human level, there will be a positive feedback loop that will give the development a further boost. AIs would help constructing better AIs, which in turn would help building better AIs, and so forth.
The role of the intellectual includes communicating. Intellectuals are not just people who know things but people who shape the thoughts of their generation. An intellectual is a synthesizer, a publicist, a communicator.
Eventually the amount of reality we create for ourselves will far exceed the amount of reality being explored and discovered in the external universe. The quantity and quality of the noosphere will expand faster and grow more complex than the known physical universe being explored and archived. The highlight of any experience will probably be the interaction of intelligent beings with each other.
In the human brain, knowledge and meaning develop through a process of associative learning: concepts that are regularly encountered together become more strongly connected. It is possible to implement simple algorithms that make the web learn from the paths of linked documents followed by the users.
We can assume that in the following years virtually the whole of human knowledge will be made available electronically over the networks. If that knowledge is then semantically organized as sketched above, processes similar to spreading activation should be capable to retrieve the answer to any question for which an answer somewhere exists.
The advent of so-called human civilization is threatening in the next century to cause a mass extinction more serious than the cretaceous-tertiary event that wiped out the dinosaurs. The process is caused both by direct impacts such as deforestation and habitat destruction and by genetically modifying the very species upon which we depend without conserving their naturally viable forms, so that our future becomes brittle and fragile, dependent on maintaining artificial growing environments and high-tech food distribution processes which would be disabled globally by the slightest of astronomical disturbances, leading directly towards human extinction. For a single species to cause a mass extinction of life's diversity, possibly lasting 10 million years in one century is thus terminal folly.
The spreading activation principle allows questions that are ill-posed: you may have a problem, but not be able to clearly formulate what it is you are looking for, but just have some ideas about things it has to do with.
A substantial increase in human population would therefore not be possible, except at the expense of other life-forms with which humans compete but on which humans also depend, or by finding a way to reduce this human impact on other life forms while human population continues to grow.
The basic problem we face today is moral degeneration and misused intelligence. In spite of all the advances made by science and technology, the world is far from being safe and peaceful.
Genuine happiness cannot be defined solely in terms of wealth, power, children, fume or inventions. These no doubt bring some temporary physical and mental comfort but they cannot provide lasting happiness in the ultimate sense. This is particularly true when possessions are unjustly acquired or obtained through misappropriation. They become a source of pain, guilt and sorrow rather than bring happiness to the possessor.

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