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A Philosophical Intake Based on New Findings on Astrophysics, Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness
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Dr. Mohsen Kermanshahi
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Wheeler (1990) and Chalmers (1995) realized how important the information is in such context. Chalmers, by stating that information must be considered as an essential property of reality as matter and energy, and that “conscious experience be considered a fundamental feature, irreducible to anything more basic”. Wheeler, with its famous “the it from bit” concept that allows us to unite information theory to consciousness and physics writes:
...Every it – every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself – derives its function, its very existence, entirely - even if in some contexts, indirectly - from the apparatus-elicited answers to yes-or-no questions, binary choices, bits. Norbert Wiener put this identity on the very conceptual basis of cybernetics stating that ‘information represents negative entropy’, and prophetically emphasizing that ‘information is information, not matter or energy.’ Consciousness is conceived as a non-local flow of meaningful quantum-informational activity, interacting actively with each part of the universe through the holo-movement. 20
Conclusion
The holonomic brain theory by Karl Pribram demonstrates how wave interference phenomena can produce perception of objects in the brain. The theory which was first introduced to solve the puzzle of the non-locality of the memory storage was based on many experiments by Pribram. Later on Karl Lashley showed that perception of vision is also nonlocal and therefore can be related to holographic principle. In addition, the holonomic brain theory, based on its spectral fundamentals, can explain enormous capacity of the brain to store data, photographic memory and many more brain functions.
According to Dr. Pribram, consciousness does not need a part of nervous system to physically accommodate it. Although he believes “the transformation which is a spread function spreads a pattern within the confines of a sensory receptive field (brain).”
Mind you that one of the major hypothesis in this model is that mind is an extension of singularity. Holonomic Brain theory asserts that the consciousness has a spectral nature. According to Dr. Pribram radioastronomy patches of holograms can be seamed together to spread the pattern to a larger territory re transforming it into space-time. Stanislav Grof suggests that mind is interrelated with other minds and is part of a continuum.
Here I propose that consciousness is out there without any physical base. Just like information, which is out there? We use lens and screen to display the information embedded in a beam of light. Similarly, we need a spatial scene and physical tools to illustrate the consciousness. So I view the mind, as a separate entity from so-called physical brain, similar to Plato’s view.
The Holonomic Brain theory suggests that conscious awareness is a state of wave function and not a material based entity.
In this model, I also postulate that information is present in no dimension zone, in an entity out of spatial domain. If we know as a fact that space can be expanded and contracted, we also have to accept that space can cease to exist, as it would happen in the pre-Big Bang era. I freed myself from ties. I passed the boundaries. I jumped off the cliff. And guess what? It was not dangerous or scary at all. There was not just darkness. A new paradigm opens up. A tangible and deterministic world exists out there. We can take the risk and receive the rewards. Now it seems to me that the major paradoxes possess explanations if we leave our ken. We will look at those paradoxes later together.
