Consciousness

 

Consciousness is the tool that we use to examine the external world with. We'd better check this tool out and know it as best as we can. The new concepts of the nature of consciousness will revolutionize our way of thinking about our perceptions and understanding of outside world. They describe why we percept outside world in a classical level and not quantum mechanical level.  In the Quantum Brain chapter, I have discussed the mechanism how our classical views and classical logic are built inside our awareness.

 

Zeros and Infinities

One may ask why there is the tendency to avoid zeros and infinities in theoretical physics. The answer is these domains cannot be designated to any entity inside space-time universe. All of the elements in our world is finite, Therefore infinity can not be defined in outside world. Zero is not measurable s we can not comprehend it. But the fact is zeros and infinities are very powerful elements in our mathematical calculations. So we have to embrace them. If we cannot accommodate them inside our universe may be we have to accept their existence outside it. Our everyday experience, modern physics and specially quantum mechanics suggest that there are factors affecting our everyday endeavor, which cannot be attributed to the familiar classical physics. Just like zero and infinity which are affecting math calculations but we cannot assign them to any element in space-time. It seems that we have to open our scopes to new horizons.

 

On the other hand, many believe that if an out of universe entity exists we cannot observe or understand it. So they prefer to leave it untouched or ignore it. The presented model in particle wave chapter suggests that we are constantly in contact with this entity in more a profound level. So by this definition, singularity should be comprehensible.

 

One may rightfully oppose this concept being a physical model because it lacks the mathematical structure that a physical model should have. Conjectures derived from complex number system mentioned in the related chapter are used as a crude base for this model. However, it is not detailed enough math savvy readers. Underneath, I am drawing this mathematically consistent structure to convince these readers.

 

This is a mathematically fine structure, but as Wolfgang Pauli once said, only the details are missing. I hope the details can be worked out by future minds. The main reason for not presenting a serious mathematical framework for the model is my lack of proficiency in mathematics. Any help from readers to construct a proper formalism for the model is greatly appreciated.

 

Many believe that if we accept a kind of outside entity affecting our world, we have to blindly accept a supreme power that we don't have any clue about it. This would imply that science accepts religion.
Lee Smolin describes it very clearly. He denotes, if we accept that amongst countless possibilities, our universe chose the one, which is hospitable to life, we have to accept that something outside our universe made the decision:

 

 “This is the exact point at which science becomes religion. Or to put it better, it will be rational to use science as an argument for religion.”²⁷

 

Of course, linking to religion with all of its shortcomings is not acceptable to mainstream science. Thus, this choice is out of question. However, this reminds me how fifteenth century priests were so afraid of any new scientific thought or finding.