Consciousness based quantum computer

The brain’s gradually improving responses to stimuli molded the mind into the structural, organizational mirror of physical systems. Therefore, social interaction engenders particle-like features, such as uncertainty, hysteresis, and territorial needs. The brain’s operational symmetry vis-à-vis the physical world produces the mind, a functional analog of elementary particles. In the brain, all change is based on sensory processing. Perception of sensory stimulus or reading road signs is involuntary and automatic because sensory stimulus impinges on the mind through the shifting energy balances of the brain. As photons are the fundamental forces for interaction, and emotions transfer energy between people and emotional animals. Feelings are energy imbalances of the brain, which trigger actions that recover the energy neutral state. This essential connection with the environment must also characterize AI. In a robot, in place of neurons, sensory pattern perception can be formed by, for example, 'superconducting synapse.'
A highly precise response is possible by utilizing deep-learning systems, which are getting more powerful. In the computer ‘brain,’ just like in the organic brain, the energy balance would continuously change depending on field effects, automatically and ultimately would recover the energy-neutral state. This whole process would be choreographed according to the principle of least action, which corresponds to an intelligent response. Response reformulates the stable, standing-wave state of the system. Energy imbalances would equal the emotional states of mammals and birds. Propagation of stimulus is a series of activation that strengthens connections between units; the energy need is reduced in previously activated units. Subsequent activation channels the signal according to the principle of least action, leading to a segregated modular structure.

Current quantum computers need to be carefully insulated from environmental interaction due to sensitivity to noise, i.e., interference. However, the brain is a temporal quantum system, which interacts across temporal coordinates (see: Consciousness, a Cosmic Phenomenon). Temporal quantum systems, such as the brain, are insulated by the temporal rhythm of neural activation. Energy imbalance manifests as emotions. Hence, emotions are unstable and move the system towards equilibrium; the exact neuronal activation path is the function of both the original stimulus and past behavior. This way the cortical brain, regulated by its energy states, formulates an intelligent response. Read the whole article Deli, E., (2017). Consciousness inspired AI system. AISB Quarterly. (145) 6-11.

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Cognitive phenomena show quantum, particle-like features

Animals try to gather nutrients and avoid physical dangers; they actively enhance their access to information – thus survival – via the sensory system. Because the sensory organs are information-grabbing machines, interaction through sensory stimulus corresponds to energy-information exchange. 

The subtle regulation of the path, rhythm, and extent of brain frequencies turn the brain into a complex yet ingenious system. However, the brain is much more than a finely regulated circuit board. Electric flows generate associations, meaning, and memory in ways reminiscent of quantum networks. Quantum theory can model mental phenomena in fields as diverse as search engine optimization, psychology, economy, and sociology – in some cases, for nearly a century. More than 70 recent national surveys examined the order effect of successive attitude questions and found human judgment satisfying quantum probability theory. In quantum systems, the outcome is highly dependent on the context of measurement, and likewise, almost all cognitive processes, such as memory, decisions, and perception, are contextual. In social science, quantum theory can predict how the order of questions affects the outcome.

The cortex neuronal activation pattern triggers corresponding memories or experiences and forms a "temporal horizon." Reminiscent of the observer effect in quantum mechanics, the brain's quantum-like evolution maintains the mind's unity and permanence. Measurement (interaction) actively changes the particle being measured, and in the brain, it corresponds to cognitive change. The mental world is sectioned into a steady, step-wise progression of perception or learning, such as the empowering moment of riding a bike for the first time. This is the same for recognition, getting a joke, or meeting a friend. There is a moment of inspiration when a new balance is formed and understanding clicks. Conscious awareness holds mental content "fixed," "frozen," within a discrete but continuous phenomenal unity. Because sensory processing converts spatial relationships into temporal rhythms, the material world's spatial relationships are translated into a temporal evolution. 

The brain's gradually improving responses to stimuli molded the mind into the structural, organizational mirror of physical systems. Therefore, social interaction engenders particle-like features and quantum characters, such as uncertainty, hysteresis, and territorial needs.

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The science of karma, a case study

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Karma recognizes a cause and effect relationship between intent, thoughts, actions (cause), and that individual's future (effect). It is part of major religious beliefs and forms the essence of the just-world hypothesis. Good intent and good deed contribute to good karma and future happiness, while an evil plan and bad act contribute to bad karma and future suffering. 

Because actions and even thoughts always have a two-fold effect, karma has psychological support. Doing your best is a generosity of effort that tends to earn the respect of colleagues, clients, and friends. Likewise, diligence and care give satisfaction and contentment of a job well done, but sloppy, careless work degrades trust. Reliable people, good workers are more trusting not only in themselves but also in others. People keep a distance from those who are not reliable. 

The distrust infects the judgment of a careless person. When the carpenter executes inferior, sloppy, negligent work, he will not want to move into the house he built, the tailor will not want to wear the suit, and the shoemaker would not like the shoes. He who cheats will be afraid of being cheated. This occurs because everything is connected to everything else. Happiness makes everything seem easy and carefree; bad news, on the other hand, overshadows every aspect of the mind with an unhappy tint. For this reason, anxiety, regret, and worry are involuntary. For example, individuals with depression may want to stop themselves from ruminating but are often unable to deviate from their negative thoughts. Further, it can be shown that the difficulty of controlling thoughts is true not only in the depressed state but in any other highly charged emotional state.

Meditation is usually a prime example of controlling one’s thoughts. However, meditation always occurs in a resting mental state or close to it. Resting-state is a neutral state of mind, which is relatively emotion-free, permitting considerable conscious control of thinking. This can be imagined as a ball on a hill. The emotional state represents a tilted ground, where the ball's path is deterministic. On the flat ground (an emotion-free mental state), manipulating the ball movement in either direction requires little effort. 

An emotionally charged mind (in energy imbalance) cannot be easily controlled. For example, a joyful event, danger, or a sudden significant personal change exerts substantial control over one's thoughts. However, gently encouraging your thoughts toward stability and acceptance via meditation, prayer does reduce stress; it mitigates sadness, anxiety, or other disturbances.

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Is time real?

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According to general relativity, clocks and time can only be appropriately defined in the presence of matter. In other words, interaction is essential for change, which is time. It is not time that measures change, but change literally formulates time. Without interaction, time stands still. This means that time is a local phenomenon, but the global state of the cosmos is static, and called the 'Principle of static time.' The Principle mechanism of static time views entanglement as a clock system that allows one to perceive the evolution of the universe. Deprived of such clock system, outside observers would find the universe static and unchanging. Therefore, time is the privilege of inside participants. Interaction would necessarily evolve toward polar singularities. The existence of poles, called white and black holes, also appears as the consequence of Einstein’s field equations.

Black holes are a natural choice for an information-saturated pole of the cosmos. Black holes have been identified indirectly by observing their gravitational effects, but as of today, the opposite pole has not been found. Einstein's equation hint of the existence of white holes, hypothetical regions with negative-curving, bulging topology, which deflect incoming energy, even light. Thus they are the source of illusory light rays; a fact reflected in their name and which would pose a significant challenge to their discovery.

So time or age expresses our topological 'distance' from the white holes (located within cosmic voids). Therefore time is information accumulation that manifests as a topological distance from the big bang. Thus, significant time travel is impossible for biological systems, but possible for material objects. You can find more detailed information in my book, The science of consciousness, or manuscript, Consciousness, a Cosmic Phenomenon.

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Emotions, the energy states of the brain

Einstein's general relativity uncovered gravity as the field geometry measured by its effects. Consciousness evolved in interaction with the material world, absorbing its operational principles. Increasingly sophisticated responses to stimuli engendered a brain operation that mirrors the physical world. For example, society forms a temporal field analogous to gravity. We cannot see or touch the temporal field, but its presence constantly regulates our behavior. The temporal field can cause powerful emotional reactions, such as shame, pride, joy, etc. In this process, emotional self-regulation guides attention and cognitive functions, including perception, memory, thoughts, and behavior. We do not have to be conscious of our feelings to be regulated and influenced by them. 

Sensory perception is an automatic, involuntary process. We cannot 'decide' not to process sensory stimuli or read road signs because stimulus impinges on the mind by shifting the brain's energy balance. Moreover, sensory perception also requires energy, which the brain 'pays' for through the energy requirement of brain frequencies. Thus, sensory processing is an energy-information exchange with the environment. 

The brain's highly fluid neural organization allows an active balancing of electromagnetic gradients based on charge conservation. The above drawing represents the stimulus path from the sensory cortical surface toward the frontal associative regions. The energy requirement of neuronal activation extinguishes the information flow and forms an electric potential between the limbic and cortical areas, which reverses the flow via slow oscillations (Figure above, #2). The information flow reversal from the frontal brain recovers the neutral energy state. The sensory transmission toward the sensory cortex by fast oscillations and response by slow oscillations indicates the polarity effects of the brain's electromagnetic flows.

Computer simulations based on EEG, fMRI, and other techniques can pinpoint the tendency for unhealthy emotional states (i.e., the brain's energy balance) in patients and predict proneness for depression, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), anxiety, and other conditions (there are already some results on this front). You can find more detailed information in my book, The Science of Consciousness, or manuscript, Consciousness, a Cosmic Phenomenon.

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Is consciousness a cosmic phenomenon?

What is the place of intellect and consciousness in the universe? This is the subject of my article "Consciousness, a Cosmic Phenomenon" my article* in the Journal of Consciousness Exploration and Research (JCER). According to the hypothesis, mental processes are analogous to physical ones; like photons and emotions, the fundamental forces of motivation carry energy. Through inspiration, photons generate light, and emotions help recover mental balance. 

Cosmological evolution, which increases complexity, culminates in the intelligent mind; it also gives rise to the poles of the universe, the black and the white holes. Thus, just like material particles, the intellect is an elementary constituent of the cosmos. 

At the time of death, the sensory organs cease to operate. An electric spike can be measured about 60 to 120 ms after the body becomes pulseless. Without sensory interaction, the mind moves toward its polar position, information, or energy. The polarization triggers a journey toward one of the poles of the cosmos. An energy-rich, positive mind converges towards expanding white holes, whereas information-saturated negative souls become part of the black hole horizon. 

In the expanding white hole, space is infinite, yet everything feels neighborly, and the infinite feels like a moment. The opposite is true for black holes, where the moment feels like an eternity but is weighed down by a two-dimensional tightness, where everything is far and beyond reach. As an elementary particle, the universe joins with the mind and matter into an organizational unity. These three interconnected, interdependent building blocks form a fractal structure. Intelligent life is a microcosm of the universe, and the mind is an active participant in cosmic evolution. 

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*Deli, E., Consciousness, a cosmic phenomenon—A hypothesis. (2016) Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research 7(11): 910-930.


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From Aristotle to Mach's principle

Aristotle, marble portrait bust, Roman copy (2nd century BC) of a Greek original 

Our 21st-century world boasts a highly interconnected society, unprecedented technological development and increasing democratization all over the world, yet scientific literacy is lagging behind. Even science seem to be struggling with some basic questions, such as time, gravity or space. In many ways we still think in terms absolute time and space, inherited from Newtonian physics, However, the need for unique reference frame contradicts some basic, contemporary requirements of science, such as Mach's principle, which disfavors the existence of a particular orientation, i.e., reference frame. Although in a different context, the scientific and philosophical principle was debated since antiquity. For example, Aristotle viewed space only epitomizing the place of objects. Newton, however, built his theory on absolute space.

Aristotle's idea was reformulated in Mach's principle, which strongly motivated Einstein. According to Mach's principle, all locations and all motions are relative; the results of the measurements should not depend on the choice of coordinates assigned to events. Inertial mass is determined by the mass distribution of the universe and inertia is caused by the gravitational action of distant matter. Mach's revolutionary insight is the realization of the impossibility to measure changes with time. "Time is the abstraction at which we arrive by the changes of things." Nevertheless, in contrast to its name, 'relativity' it still contains absolute elements and does not resolve the problem of the origin of inertia and fails to follow Mach's principle.

Let's examine the global picture of the universe about Mach's principle. It is known that black holes have immense field strength. Current findings even show that black hole horizons are information blocking, two-dimensional firewalls that cannot be approached. This is only possible if black holes form the outer boundary of the universe. In this case, Mach's principle is automatically followed due to dimensionality differences of space. The exponentially increasing field strength close to the black holes would lead to greater inertia and the smaller field strength in cosmic voids would generate small inertia.

Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist, and philosopher 

In the Aristotelian view, a vacuum does not exist. In Newtonian physics vacuum is just a void, in quantum mechanics vacuum energy gives rise to virtual particles, in a process of constant creation and annihilation, and dictated by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. The universe might agree with Aristotle with a twist, however. If a vacuum would increase the dimensions of the universe, then a vacuum would lead to the expansion of space and lead to the experience of dark energy. This vacuum would generate a pressure at opposite regions i. e., the black holes of the universe. The pressure extends into gravitational regions as excess gravity, called dark matter. This simple, organically unified picture of the cosmos leads to an intuitive understanding of space and time as fundamental, interconnected fields. More information can be found in my book, 'The Science of Consciousness.' Such organic unity of the cosmos certainly would fit well with Aristotle.

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