Complexity: an essential requirement for intelligent life

Time evolution of the universe

According to general relativity, clocks and time can only be defined correctly in the presence of matter. In other words, interaction is an essential ingredient and generator of time. More precisely, the consequence of "static" time is that the universe is static and unchanging for outside observers. Inside, participants perceive the evolution of the cosmos through entanglement. Entanglement triggers interaction (decoherence), which evolves toward polar singularities, called white and black holes. The poles also appear in particular solutions of Einstein's field equations. The gravitational effects of black holes aided their discovery, but white holes remain difficult to observe due to negative-curving, bulging fields, which deflect incoming energy, even light. As their names suggest, they might be the source of illusory light rays, which poses a significant challenge to their discovery. 

Thanks to string theory, it is widely accepted that the universe has more dimensions than we experience. In string theory, the holographic principle recognizes the horizon as the information depository for a given volume of space (Susskind, 1994). The holographic principle states that the accumulation of information on the horizon, via interactions, turns particles into information-saturated black holes. The Euclidean spatial field, which determines the highest level of complexity, applies to our world and to life. Evolution is an ever-increasing complexity that works through the self-organization of matter into stars, planets, and living creatures such as us. The apex of evolution is the appearance of the still-evolving, brilliant mind, which cannot be a uniquely human quality. Some other planets in some other galaxies necessarily nurture life.

The universe's drive toward complexity is humbling, as the most complex matter known to man is the human brain. Nevertheless, the idea that evolution, including societal progress, is channeled toward complexity and order suggests a shining future for the cosmos' intelligent occupants, including mankind.

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The science of consciousness: the bridge between science and spirituality

Meditation in Sri Lanka by Sarvodaya Shramadana

It is an ancient desire to grasp and understand the universe. The hypothesis introduced by the book,'The Science of Consciousness,' incorporates the mind within cosmic evolution. It examines complexity increase via material interaction, culminating in the intelligent mind. It is a cosmic unity that resonates with ancient intuition but is based on recent scientific research.

The book concludes that three elementary particle classes form the foundation of the universe. These elementary particles are the matter fermions (such as the electron), the mind, and the cosmos. Their identical energy structures and analog operational principles form a fractal structure of vastly different energy levels and sizes. The smallest are material fermions; their immense frequencies provide massive energy levels. Fermions make up the luminous fireballs of stars and the organic matter of biological organisms. The second, lesser energy-producing level is the mind. In contrast to matter, which takes shape in space, the mental world (minds, societies, or ecosystems) exists in time. Finally, the largest structure is the universe, encompassing everything in space and time. Therefore, the universe organizes space and time with gentle wisdom.  

The hypothesis outlines an Aristotelian complexity: an organic, interconnected universe. It is also congruent with Hinduism, where Atman is the individual Self, and Brahman is the Ultimate Reality, the divine essence of the universe. Atman (the inner Self inside man) and the Brahman, the whole universe is one. In monotheistic faiths, the cosmos is honored as God, and Man was created in His image. 

It also recognizes the karmic consequences of actions. The negative attitude mind is overwhelmed by details. Unable to see clearly, it is biased, judgmental, and controlled by the environment (making it matter-like). Only the positive attitude mind has free will (making it God-like), the wisdom to accept objective reality. However, the positive attitude mind has no incentive or motivation to seek change. 

The hypothesis recognizes time as information and introduces the theory of gravity and emotions. Its new vision of evolution has implications for social sciences and economics.

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Change your motivation to boost your mental potential

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The biological brain gives rise to the physical mind. Interaction with the environment is an energy- and information-exchange process. Interactions trigger energy imbalances — we call them emotions — which trigger actions to restore the neutral state. This is mental regulation. Thus, the environment regulates animal behavior by triggering appropriate emotions, which in turn elicit actions that extinguish those emotions. Emotions integrate the brain (and the organism) seamlessly into its environment. 

Orienting in time, the mind interprets stimuli as binary codes, either past or future. The emotional history forms the mind's temporal landscape. The new is based on the promises and possibilities in unsecured, unknown situations, which can even be threatening. But they can also come with opportunities, such as food or finding a mate. The past corresponds to the need for safety and security, which can lead to boredom. Therefore, both the future and the past can trigger both positive and negative emotions. From mice to whales and humans, mental regulation is based on these basic orientations—positive or negative attitude.

Negative emotions are the tools of destruction, whereas positive feelings are the success generators of the mind. However, even positive feelings can produce emptiness and superficiality, which mitigates failure. Inversely, negative emotions can be turned around, making mental brilliance and success. This complexity gives rise to perplexing real-life examples: promising young talents ending as a miserable failure and inauspicious beginnings leading to spectacular success. This way, the individual creates his own history. 

Therefore, attitude, through positive or negative emotions, is a fundamental component of personal success. Goal orientation is an imaginary mental compass that moves toward the future by automatically supplying an appropriate attitude in any situation. Even rats remember location clues better when working toward a goal. In human subjects, the motivation to obtain rewards reduces conflict-related activation, thereby enhancing performance. In computer simulation studies, a goal-oriented effort was a superior success method (Wissner-Gross and Freer, 2013). Working through adverse circumstances produces confidence, the mental capital for resolve, and motivation toward success. Inversely, belief permits goal-oriented work. 

A more detailed explanation for some of these and other questions about the mind can be found in the book, The Science of Consciousness. 

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The four step plan for creative success

Raphael: The School of Athens (Plato)

We live in a century of immense change. Yesterday's answers cannot resolve the problems we face. Creativity especially shows a close correlation between professional achievement and leadership. However, creativity is vital to improving work performance and is essential in solving everyday problems of our increasingly complex lives. Creativity is a productive lifestyle that enhances the quality of life overall. Although intelligence measures show a gradual increase due to positive social and technological environments, the trend is different for creativity.

Creativity requires alternating between divergent and convergent thinking, culminating in the aha moment and making a discovery pleasurable. Although arbitrary creative ideas happen to anybody, it takes systematic preparation to achieve mental excellence, which is essential to achieve long-term creative success. There are four crucial elements of creativity. 

(1)  Understand the problem. Knowing the crux of the contradiction or the problem is necessary to create or find a solution. However, too many details can be confusing and misleading. Your insight of the problem must be to the point, sharp as a needle, to puncture the perceived resistance of the difficulty.

(2)  Accept the place where you are. Creativity is not linear progress. Most often, creative solutions come to those not positioned well in the organization or even those outside. The lower you find yourself compared to your expectations, the better you are set for a breakthrough.

(3)  Be immersed in the problem. All creative people have a hundred percent mental commitment. They cannot be disturbed! Whereas environmental disturbances disrupt most people, creative minds thrive in stressful situations, further sharpening their resolve toward the goal.

(4) Keep a light disposition. Children do not feel inhibited by expectations or social pressure. Their genuineness allows them to see the essence of things with creative potential. Playful activities possess inner freedom, which is conducive to creativity. Eliminating shaming, criticism, and pressure will allow creative instincts to flourish.

This last point is essential. Mental commitment is not a forceful and rigid concentration; creative people do not seem to work on the problem at all! Einstein often received creative inspiration while chatting with friends or engaging in mundane activities. Mozart enjoyed light-hearted partying with friends, but he could 'see' a whole symphony in a creative moment. 

Creativity visits a straightforward, playful mind: live with a clear conscience. Go for a walk; focus on a mantra or meditation to liberate your mind from a negative mindset. Mental house cleaning will often immediately create space for a creative solution. Keep going even if you receive an unworkable, faulty answer at first. If you are persistent and optimistic, innovative solutions will visit you.

Creativity cannot be planned for but can be cultivated. 

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Black holes: science and imagination

Simulated black hole (Wikipedia) 

Black holes are a favorite subject not only in science but also in the popular imagination. Their mysterious nature is twofold. First, black holes are ‘black,’ therefore invisible, second, their horizons form a singularity, beyond which even physics is unknowable. For this reason, black holes easily lend themselves to bizarre ideas. Black holes originated as a consequence of Einstein’s general relativity, although it was a mathematical conclusion reached by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916. For a long time not only the interpretation of Schwarzschild's solution was missing, but black hole detection was also a technical impossibility. Today black holes are the subjects of films, and scientific speculation, connected by supposed wormholes to distant worlds, entangled particles, lost information. 

Black holes form by the gravitational collapse of extremely dense matter. In the last stage of black hole formation, a horizon develops, which irreversibly separates it from the rest of the universe. However, these ideas have been called into question recently. Almheiri and colleagues (2012) examined black hole entanglement and found that black hole horizons function as firewalls, burning up any unwitting trespasser. This conclusion is supported by Landauer's principle, which states a thermodynamic connection between energy and information. Since black holes are information-saturated, they would be devoid of energy. This way, incoming particles would have to transform all energy into information.
As a consequence, black holes are the end of time, matter, and all existence. Nothing more than their information-saturated horizon, black holes cannot be approached. This way black holes can be likened to the fabric of a balloon, formulating the outer boundary of the universe.

This way, there is no possibility of wormholes in and around the black holes. Although the suggestion, that black holes are gateways to other universes is exciting, it is also without any scientific validity. Like the banks of a river that contain the body of water, black holes seem to merely enclose the universe. As the riverbed can inform about the past of a river, black hole horizons are information depositories, although inaccessible, about the history of the cosmos.

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Consciousness research: waiting for a breakthrough

The twentieth century has seen a scientific revolution. General relativity claims that fields are a crucial, deterministic part of reality. Quantum mechanics and string theory have introduced a difficult-to-predict and non-intuitive physical world. Biological Sciences also opened many secrets; Watson and Crick unveiled the structure of DNA in 1953. We learned intricate details of the cell's enzymatic pathways, and a recent achievement is human genome sequencing. Discovering the nature of consciousness should be a sweeping transformation that affects how we view ourselves and live our lives. 

It is not that we do not think about the mental world. On the contrary, people have been interested in their minds for thousands of years, making consciousness perhaps the most discussed philosophical subject. The ancient philosophical questions of whether the mind's nature is physical, spiritual, or dual have progressed surprisingly little since then. However, the progress in understanding brain operation during the twentieth century prepared the ground for science to investigate the true nature of consciousness.

What do we know about the brain? Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Korbinian Brodmann were the early pioneers of brain anatomy. Cajal's neural drawings still illustrate anatomy textbooks, and cortical areas are named after Brodmann. The brain's electric activity was first studied by Hans Berger in 1924. Over the past two decades, careful and ingenious studies have shown the crucial, interrelated relationship between frequencies and brain function. The shocking realization is not that a person's attitudes cause the brain's neural activity but that the concerted firings of neurons give rise to emotions, attitudes, and, finally, specific behavior. 

String theory daringly states that energy vibrations are matter. However, the material brain gives rise to spontaneous energy vibrations. These oscillations form a self-regulating system. When the brain's energy neutrality is disrupted, emotions emerge, dictating actions that restore an energy-neutral state. Indeed, unity is an essential feature of the mind. The body's representation in the brain allows a feeling of oneness with the body. Ideas and thoughts form a highly fluid, malleable mental background over which interaction with the outside world becomes possible. 

The mind is a sensory kaleidoscope of transient ideas and possibilities that distill a single decision or understanding. The sensory "forest" coalesces a unified experience: all other options cease to exist once we decide on a problem. As early as 1957, the powerful inner drive to maintain cognitive consonance was recognized by Leon Festinger. His cognitive dissonance theory states that incongruent belief or behaviors forces a mental change to avoid the frustration of cognitive or emotional discrepancy. People are willing to sacrifice their core convictions for mental congruence. The constancy of self becomes particularly apparent when changes, even dramatic ones, affect the body or the brain.

The memories and accumulated experience of the cortex constantly change. Of the billions of photons hitting the retina and the millions projected to the optic nerve, only a few thousand bits of information, or even fewer, produce conscious perception. Therefore, consciousness is a highly subjective (holographic) mental landscape, unknowable, with the power to surprise even the self. The holographic self is experienced differently by the viewer and the self. Although separate, consciousness is an interconnected part of the material world. The physical basis for evolution and consciousness science is the subject of The Science of Consciousness, my 2015 book.

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The Science of Consciousness, a book you want to read

The book ‘The Science of Consciousness' introduces a new physical worldview. It proposes that the mind is a self-regulating physical system and an elementary particle, which interacts through elementary forces, called emotions. The complex neural organization of birds and mammals allows the formation of emotions based on the mind’s homeostatic regulation. Emotions are energy states of the brain, which become the tools of survival; with them, dangers can be avoided or overcome, and opportunities can be found. Animals with more sophisticated emotions appear later in evolution, and they exhibit great evolutionary advantages. Emotions allow them to be warm-blooded, form the mysterious world of consciousness, and form love to raise their young.

The mind's elementary forces are the emotional equivalents of gravity, electromagnetism, and the weak and the strong nuclear forces, which permit for the first time the real classification of emotions. Newton's laws and the laws of thermodynamics apply to material systems over space but govern emotional interactions over time. Thus the mind is a temporal fermion. Humans and even mammals exhibit hysteresis-like behavior, interference, entanglement, and the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The Pauli exclusion principle leads to territorial needs. The brain always recovers its energy-neutral state, the default mode network, which turns it into a quantum system. It is found that human decision making can be best described by quantum probability.

Recognizing the mind as a self-regulating system and an elementary particle can open the book of understanding animal and human behavior, social and physiological problems, uncover possible cure of mental diseases, and lead to better animal welfare. Understanding the nature and operation of emotions is like having a new city map or a GPS in a car. It becomes possible to navigate our lives and reach our goals. 

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