Mind Science

Surmounting the Cartesian Cut Further: Torsion Fields, the Extended Photon, Quantum Jumps, the Klein-Bottle, Multivalued Logic, the Time Operator Chronomes, Perception, Semiosis, Neurology and Cognition

Authors: Diego L. Rapoport
Comments: 89 page.

We present a conception that surmounts the Cartesian Cut -prevailing in science- based on a representation of the fusion of the physical 'objective' and the 'subjective' realms. We introduce a mathematical-physics and philosophical theory for the physical realm and its mapping to the cognitive and perceptual realms and a philosophical reflection on the bearings of this fusion in cosmology, cognitive sciences, human and natural systems and its relations with a time operator and the existence of time cycles in Nature's and human systems. This conception stems from the self-referential construction of spacetime through torsion fields and its singularities; in particular the photon's self-referential character, basic to the embodiment of cognition ; we shall elaborate this in detail in perception and neurology. We discuss the relations between this embodiment, bio-photons and wave genetics, and the relation with the enactive approach in cognitive sciences due to Varela. We further discuss the relation of the present conception with Penrose's theory of consciousness related to non-computatibility -in the sense of the Goedel-Turing thesis- of quantum processes in the brain.

Is Dowsing a Useful Tool for Serious Scientific Research?

Authors: Jeffrey S. Keen
Comments: 22 pages, 10 Figures, 3 Tables.

It is well known that the act of observation can appear to affect the results of certain scientific experiments. However, some research techniques into the causes of this phenomenon have been branded as non-scientific due to the mind producing personal, un-metered, and seemingly inconsistent results. This research into the reasons for this variability has produced two important conclusions. First, a powerful technique for studying the mind has been established, in which confidence exists because measurements using this technique have led to universal constants. Subsequent use of this technique in further research has shown that the mind and the perception of an observer may be significantly affected by the local and non-local environment, and is dependant on the time of the day, month, or year on which those measurements are made. This research has led towards a greater understanding of the structure of the universe and its connection to consciousness and information. It has also demonstrated that it is possible to communicate information faster than the speed of light.

Surmounting the Cartesian Cut: Torsion Fields, the Extended Photon, Quantum Jumps, the Klein Bottle, Multivalued Logic, the Time Operator Chronomes, Perception, Semiotics, Neurology and Cognition

Authors: Diego L. Rapoport
Comments: 79 pages

We present a conception that surmounts the Cartesian Cut -prevailing in science-based on a representation of the fusion of the physical 'objective' and the 'subjective' realms. We introduce a mathematical-physics and philosophical theory for the physical realm and its mapping to the cognitive and perceptual realms and a philosophical reflection on the bearings of this fusion in cosmology, cognitive sciences, human and natural systems and its relations with a time operator and the existence of time cycles in Nature's and human systems. This conception surges from the self-referential construction of spacetime through torsion fields and its singularities; in particular the photon's self-referential character, basic to the embodiment of cognition ; we shall elaborate this in detail in perception and neurology.

Learning to Cooperate for Progress in Physics

Authors: Jonathan J. Dickau
Comments: 11 pages. The author plans to present this paper at the 11th Frontiers of Fundamental Physics conference, which is in Paris, France July 6-9, 2010.

At the 10^th Frontiers of Fundamental Physics symposium, Gerard 't Hooft stated that, for some of the advances we hope to see in Physics in the future, there must be a great deal of cooperation between researchers from different disciplines, as well as mathematicians, programmers, technologists, and others. Accomplishing this requires a new mindset; however, as so much of our past progress has come out of a fiercely competitive process - especially since a critical review of our ideas about reality remains an essential part of making progress and checking our progress. We must also address the fact that some frameworks appear incompatible, as with relativity and quantum mechanics, which remain at odds despite years of attempts to find a quantum gravity theory. I explore the idea that playful exploration, using both left-brained and right-brained approaches to learning, allows resolution of conflicting ideas by taking advantage of our innate developmental strategies. It may thus foster the kind of interdisciplinary cooperation we are hoping to see.

Why Create When there is no Recognition, no Reward?

Authors: Ron Bourgoin
Comments: 2 pages

Why run the race when there is no trophy? The creative human being is often not recognized, not rewarded. What to do?

Contextuality: a Philosophical Paradigm, with Applications to Philosophy of Cognitive Science

Authors: Carlos Gershenson
Comments: 12 pages.

We develop on the idea that everything is related, inside, and therefore determined by a context. This stance, which at first might seem obvious, has several important consequences. This paper first presents ideas on Contextuality, for then applying them to problems in philosophy of cognitive science. Because of space limitations, for the second part we will assume that the reader is familiar with the literature of philosophy of cognitive science, but if this is not the case, it would not be a limitation for understanding the main ideas of this paper. We do not argue that Contextuality is a panaceic answer for explaining everything, but we do argue that everything is inside a context. And because this is always, we sometimes ignore it, but we believe that many problems are dissolved with a contextual approach, noticing things we ignore because of their obviousity. We first give a notion of context. We present the idea that errors are just incongruencies inside a context. We also present previous ideas of absolute being, relative being, and lessincompleteness. We state that all logics, and also truth judgements, are contextdependant, and we develop a "Context-dependant Logic". We apply ideas of Contextuality to problems in semantics, the problem of "where is the mind", and the study of consciousness.

Processes of Consciousness

Authors: Flavian Vasile
Comments: 9 pages.

This paper presents consciousness as the sum of describable processes, without limiting it only to verbal understanding. Consciousness is presented as a buffer space of the unconscious, accessed by any mental decision-taking processes. Consciousness is composed of sequential outputs of non-conscious processes that form, as frames in a picture, the impression of our ego continuity. The functional consequences of this point of view are then further discussed.

Improvement of Weber's and Fechner's Laws on Sensations and Stimuli

Authors: Florentin Smarandache
Comments: 3 pages

In this paper one uses a mathematical modeling of psychological processes and one improves the Weber's Law and Fechner's Law on sensations and stimuli.

We Tell Students to Distrust Common Sense, Then We Criticize Them for Their Inability to Use Common Sense: a Comment on Archiv:1003.4288

Authors: Ron Bourgoin
Comments: 2 pages

The authors of Archiv:1003.4288 study a student named "Jim". "Jim" displays a propensity for believing his mathematical solutions rather than what his common sense tells him. He is a student taking an introductory physics class. The authors wonder why mathematical solutions take precedence over common sense. In this brief note we cite as the root cause of the problem the fact that we tell our students to distrust their common sense. When we arrive at relativity theory, for example, we inform our students that common sense is useless in relativity theory. We tell them that common sense is useless in quantum mechanics. Is it any wonder our students believe whatever the math tells them?

Cognitum Hypothesis & Cognitum Consciousness: How Time and Space Conception of Idealistic Philosophy is Supported by Contemporary Physics

Authors: Dainis Zeps
Comments: 11 pages

May we imagine that materialistic and idealistic thinkers were both right in all point concerning mind and matter they have quarrelled for centuries? May we imagine that in quarrel for primacy between matter and mind both claims for primacy are right and only our good will is required to accept that ultimate reconciliation? May we imagine that all thinking activity of all men on earth and elsewhere is one collective movement being seen and still in progress from our side and essentially one from the side of the universe? It is only point of good will not of reasoning itself. Neither contemporary physics is about to deny it but rather support.

Thinking on the Other Side of Zero

Authors: Alan Joseph Oliver, Bevan Reid
Comments: 191 pages, The book was lodged with the Australian National Library on August 31, 2006. The deposit number is LD06/5742

The article consists of the premise that consciousness cannot be an artefact of the brain based on personal experiences and observations. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are offered in support of the premise through the obvious connection between the philosophy in them and my experiences. A layman's understanding of physics suggests that some of the explanations from Yoga and letters from some scientists suggest that in my experiences two minds have become entangled. How this can happen is dependent on the state of the mind of the seer, which needs to be completely empty. This condition of emptiness is something rarely discussed, and since I seem to be in this state most of the time, I believe it is worth exploring.

The SSM Model Aka Latent Sense Development

Authors: Leon Neihouse
Comments: 19 Pages.

A new model of objective reality consists of three separate and independent embedded environments. An outer one of Space contains our conventional world in which bounded shapes are of an atomic nature, SuperSpace is enfolded within Space and contains bounded shapes that are light in nature, and MetaSpace is enfolded within SuperSpace and contains bounded shapes that are beyond consensus powers of human description. All three environments are pervaded by consciousness with an immortal consciousness motivating our MetaSpace form, which is linked to our SuperSpace form, which is linked to our Space form. The activation of latent senses in our Space form will permit direct apprehension of these separate embodiments and allow an implicit understanding of the union and purpose of this trimorphic construction. The model further hypothesis that we are in the midst of a watershed event for the human race in which latent senses are becoming activated that will permit direct and immediate apprehension of these three separate but embedded environments with the result that a New Man will walk upon the face of the earth.

The Principle of Existence: Toward a Scientific Theory of Everything

Authors: Huping Hu, Maoxin Wu
Comments: 70 pages.

In the beginning there was prespacetime (GOD) by itself e⁰ = 1 materially empty and spiritually restless. And it began to imagine through primordial self-referential spin 1=e⁰=e^iM-iM=e^iMe^-iM=e^-iM/ e^-iM = e^iM/e^iM ... such that it created the external object to be observed and internal object as observed, separated them into external world and internal world, cause them to interact through self-referential Matrix Law and thus gave birth to the Universe which it has since passionately loved, sustained and made to evolve. In short, this is our hypothesis of a scientific genesis (principle of existence). In this work, we shall lay out its ontological and mathematical foundations which shall include gravity and consciousness. We will then discuss its implications and applications and make predictions etc.

Signal-Nonlocality Signature of Inner Consciousness

Authors: Jack Sarfatti
Comments: 3 Pages.

What physical object in the brain et-al is the hologram? It must be a ground state condensate of some collective mode that is biologically relevant, e.g. Freeman-Vitiello model [i]. My key point here is that signal nonlocality violation (Antony Valentini [ii]) of orthodox quantum physics is a necessary condition for inner qualia to emerge - for our consciousness to form. [iii]

The Causes of Variations When Making Dowsable Measurements Part 2 Daily Variations Caused by the Earth Spinning on Its Axis

Authors: Jeffrey S. Keen
Comments: 13 pages

This is the second of a 5 part series of papers examining several local and non-local factors which affect dowsing measurements on a daily, monthly, annual, or ad hoc basis. Via the use of a standard yardstick, this paper quantifies significant variations in its length during the course of a day. In general, perceived measurements gradually increase in length during daylight hours, and continually reduce during the night. The major turning points are the local times of sunrise and sunset. To a lesser extent tides have an influence, but other perturbations are present that require further research. As well as tides and the Sun's photons, several additional contributory factors are identified such as the Earth's spin on its tilted axis, gravity, solar wind, or a possible subtle energy emitted by the Sun. But is the repeatable daily pattern of changing length caused by biological effects in the dowser, or in the information obtained by the dowser? In other words, is the above list of physical local and non local factors acting directly on the dowser's brain and body, or are these factors causing changes in consciousness via the Information Field? The latter is the "front runner" in the theory of dowsing.

The Causes of Variations When Making Dowsable Measurements Part 1 Introduction and Personal Factors

Authors: Jeffrey S. Keen
Comments: 7 pages

Although some people dismiss dowsing because of perceived inconsistencies of results, this variability can be of great benefit in researching the factors that cause the phenomenon of dowsing. Experimental results, using robust scientific techniques and protocols for measurements, are starting to show not just how dowsing works, but its use as a tool in scientific research into the understanding of consciousness and the universe. This paper is the first of a series and shows why different dowsers obtain different results for the same measurement. The personal interpretation of observations by the dowser's mind, including possible physiological effects is covered in this paper. Surprisingly, the general reasons for this variability are numerous, including the superimposition of many local and non-local factors, and depend on different times of the day, month, or year on which those measurements are made. As the reasons for the variations involve different branches of physics, including gravity, quantum physics, cosmology, and astrophysics, the following complimentary papers should assist comprehension of the unexpected but exciting findings. Part 1 - Introduction and Personal Factors Part 2 - Daily Variations caused by the Earth Spinning on its Axis Part 3 - Monthly and Annual Variations caused by Gravity Part 4 - The Effects of Geometric Alignments, the Structure of the Universe, and Subtle Energies Part 5 - Communicating Information Instantaneously across the Galaxy In the wider context, the conclusions of this research suggest that concepts such as the mind, consciousness, or even the menstrual cycle are affected not just by our local environment on the Earth, but by the cosmos in general.

A Standard "Yardstick" and Protocol for Dowsing Research Measurements

Authors: Jeffrey S. Keen
Comments: 6 pages

For the calibration of dowsing measurements, a practical standard "yardstick" has been adopted that involves dowsing pure geometry: in particular a dot (0-dimensional), as this produces a dowsable line, the furthest point of which is a precise measureable boundary. The advantages of this technique include an easy to produce universal standard, which is very practical, provides precise measurements, and is easily repeatable. The validation of this technique is proven as members of a group dowse the same phenomenon. Successful ground breaking research using this yardstick includes quantifying how dowsing measurements vary over time, and how earth energies and cosmic factors change dowsed dimensions.

Information Transfer Consciousness-Matter

Authors: Amrit S. Sorli
Comments: 3 pages

Thought experiment here describes consciousness as a basic frequency of quanta of space QS that have a size of Planck 1,6*10^-35m. Atom has a size in range 10^-10m. The question is how extremely small QS can communicate with an atom that builds up molecules which constitute living cells. One can predict existence of some hypothetical quanta which are transferring information i.e. basic frequency of QS to atom. Several experiments have been done which show some unknown energy is entering living organism in growing phase and leaving it at the time of death. It seems this energy is spread out in space and additionally concentrated in living organisms. Additional concentration causes increasing of the mass of living organism regarding the mass of same dead organism. This unknown energy spread out in cosmic space and additionally concentrated in living organisms could also be "dark energy".

E8 for Psychological Types and Physics

Authors: John C. Gonsowski
Comments: 8 Pages, Updates the author's 1999 and 2001 papers in the e-journal The Enneagram and the MBTI.

James Reynierse says: "You have it exactly right when you refer to the symmetry of type beginning with the Pair interactions. My colleague and fellow researcher John Harker and I have frequently discussed these relationships in terms of the natural symmetry of type... showing a circumplex structure for the MBTI is interesting and instructive" E8 and its subalgebras are mapped to MBTI types and Enneagram numbers. In the process, analogies with the use of E8 in physics are explored. Down at D3, a Process Circumplex is constructed from MBTI type pair interactions and an analogy is shown with conformal gravity and its rotation, boost, translation, and special conformal bivectors. At D4, an analogy is constructed between the Enneagram's Law of 7 (1-4-2-8-5-7) and the electroweak force. Also, the Enneagram's Law of 3 (3-6-9) is related to the color force. At D5, an analogy is constructed between the Enneagram's first (1-2-3-4) and second (8-7-6-5) quaternities and the real and imaginary dimensions of complex spacetime. At E6, the analogy constructed is between two additional Enneagram patterns and matter/antimatter. E7 and E8 relate to brane universes and perhaps to multiple MBTI type spaces encoded in the brain.

Consciousness as a Basic Frequency of Quantum Space

Authors: Amrit S. Sorli
Comments: 2 pages

Penrose describes consciousness as a result of quantum gravity acting on the neurons of the brain. Consciousness is non local; it does not exist exclusively in the brain. Here it is introduced idea that consciousness is a basic frequency of quantum space. Human brains have ability to "connect" and harmonize with consciousness. In scientific experiment consciousness acts as an observer.

Dowsing Geometry and the Structure of the Universe

Authors: Jeffrey S. Keen
Comments: 45 pages

Comprehension of the structure of the universe currently concentrates on attempting to link quantum physics with general relativity. Many researchers, including the author, believes that the solution lies not just in physics, but involves consciousness and cognitive neuroscience together with understanding the nature and perception of information. This paper combines these latter factors in a non-orthodox approach linked by geometry.
Developing an analogy to X-ray crystallography and diffraction gratings may prove useful. We are not using electro-magnetic waves, but consciousness. Confidence in this approach is justified for several reasons. Some of the patterns observed when dowsing seem similar to those produced by diffraction gratings or x-ray crystallography. But in particular, as a result of numerous experimental observations, we know that waves are involved in dowsing.
In the following data base of different geometries, researchers are invited to find if mathematical transformations exist that would explain relationships between the mind generated geometric patterns observed by dowsing, and the physical source geometry that creates those patterns. This should help demonstrate how dowsing, the universe, and consciousness are connected, and the mechanisms involved. An analogy is to Crick and Watson discovering the structure of DNA by using Rosalind Franklin's diffraction images.

TGD and EEG

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 432 pages

The TGD based general view about EEG developed in this book relies on the following general picture.

1. Magnetic body is the key factor in TGD inspired model of EEG and nerve pulse. Magnetic body acts as intentional agent using biological body as motor instrument and sensory receptor. There would be entire hierarchy of magnetic bodies associated with various body parts and characterized by the p-adic length scale and the level of dark matter hierarchy labeled by the value of Planck constant. The hierarchy of counterparts of EEGs associated with photons, Z⁰ and W bosons, and gluons at various frequency scales involving dark bosons with energies above thermal threshold by the large value of h would make possible communication and control. In particular, cyclotron radiation from Bose-Einstein condensates at magnetic body and Josephson radiation from Josephson junctions associated with cell membrane and other bio-electrets would be involved and cyclotron and Josephson frequencies would correspond to EEG frequencies.
2. DNA as topological quantum computer vision suggests a rather detailed view about how genome and cell membrane interact. Nucleotides and lipids would be connected by magnetic flux tubes carrying dark matter with varying values of Planck constant and define braiding affected by the 2-D flow of the lipids in liquid crystal state and giving rise to a topological quantum computation with program modules defined by liquid flow patterns resulting via self organization process in presence of metabolic energy feed.
3. Sensory qualia could be associated with the generalized di-electric breakdowns between sensory organ and its magnetic body. The cyclotron phase transitions of Bose-Einstein condensates of biologically important ions generated by the dark EEG photons at the magnetic body could generate m analogs of somatosensory qualia identifiable as our cognitive and emotional qualia. Long ranged charge entanglement made possible by W MEs (topological light rays) could be essential element of motor control and generate exotic ionization of nuclei (new nuclear physics predicted by TGD) in turn inducing classical electric fields at space-time sheets carrying ordinary matter. These fields generate various responses such as ionic waves and nerve pulses yielding the desired physiological responses. The plan of the book is roughly following. The chapter describing the magnetic sensory canvas hypothesis is followed by a model for nerve pulse and by three chapters devoted to EEG. A speculative chapter discussing the possible role of exotic neutrinos in hearing and cognition concludes the book.

TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 682 pages

This book tries to give an overall view about TGD inspired theory of consciousness as it stands now. The basic notions TGD inspired theory of consciousness are quantum jump identified as a moment of consciousness, self identified as sequence of quantum jumps analogous to bound state of particles, self hierarchy with sub-selves experienced by self as mental images, and sharing and fusion of mental images by quantum entanglement. The topics of the book are organized in the following manner.

1. In the first part of the book TGD inspired theory of consciousness is discussed. There are three summarizing chapters giving a view about how ideas have evolved. There are also chapter about Negentropy Maximization Principle, about the notion of self, and about sensory representations.
2. The second part of the book contains two chapters about the relationship between experienced and geometric time. The first one is more than decade old. The second one - inspired by zero energy ontology and written quite recently - provides a rather detailed vision about how the arrow of geometric time correlating with the arrow of experienced time and the localization of the contents of sensory experience to a narrow time interval emerge. The chapter explaining TGD based view about long term memory is also included.
3. The third part of the book summarizes roughly decade old view about intelligence and cognition. p-Adic physics as physics of cognition and intentionality and many-fermion states as representations of Boolean statements are the key notions. In zero energy ontology also quantal versions of logical rules A → B realized as quantum variants of Boolean functions emerge at the fundamental level. A chapter about the role of dark matter hierarchy, in particular about topological quantum computation as a universal information processing tool, would be needed to make the picture more complete.
4. The fourth chapter is devoted to remote mental interactions. The theoretical motivation for taking remote mental interactions seriously is that exactly the same mechanisms which are involved with the interaction between magnetic body and biological body apply also to remote mental interactions in TGD Universe. One could also understand why these phenomena are rare: a kind of immune system making it impossible for foreign magnetic bodies to control and communicate with the biological body possessed by a particular magnetic body would be a highly probable (but perhaps not unavoidable) outcome of evolutionary process.

Mathematical Aspects of Consciousness Theory

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 478 pages

This book discusses general mathematical ideas behind TGD inspired theory of consciousness.

PART I: New Physics And Mathematics Involved With TGD
The Clifford algebra associated with point of configuration space ("world of classical worlds") decomposes to a direct integral of von Neumann algebras known as hyper-finite factors of type II1. This implies strong physical predictions and deep connections with conformal field theories, knot-, braid- and quantum groups, and topological quantum computation. In TGD framework dark matter forms a hierarchy with levels characterized partially by the value of Planck constant labeling the pages of the book like structure formed by singular covering spaces of the imbedding space M⁴ x CP₂ glued together along four-dimensional back. Particles at different pages are dark relative to each other since purely local interactions (vertices of Feynman diagram) involve only particles at the same page. The phase transitions changing the value of Planck constant having interpretation as tunneling between different pages of the book would induce phase transitions of gel phases abundant in living matter.

Part II: TGD Universe as topological quantum computer
The braids formed by magnetic flux tubes are ideal for the realization of topological quantum computations (tqc). Bio-systems are basic candidates for topological quantum computers. In DNA as tqc vision nucleotides and lipids are connected by flux tubes and the flow of lipids induces tqc programs.

Part III: Categories, Number Theory And Consciousness
Category theory could reflect the basic structures of conscious thought. The comparison of the inherent generalized logics associated with categories to the Boolean logic naturally associated with the configuration space spinor fields is also of interest. The notion of infinite prime was the first mathematical invention inspired by TGD inspired theory of consciousness. The construction of infinite primes is very much analogous to a repeated second quantization of a super-symmetric arithmetic quantum field theory (with analogs of bound states included). Infinite primes form an infinite hierarchy and the physical realization of this hierarchy imply infinite hierarchy of conscious entities and that we represent only a single level in this hierarchy looking infinitesimal from the point of view of higher levels. The notion of infinite rational predicts an infinite number of real units with infinitely rich number theoretical anatomy and single space-time point becomes a Platonia able to represent every quantum state of the entire Universe in its structure: kind of algebraic Brahman=Atman identity.

Magnetospheric Consciousness

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 388 pages

This book is about the notion of magnetic body, which is key actor in TGD inspired model of living matter and predicts a hierarchy of generalized EEGs associated with the magnetic bodies responsible for communication and control. Not only personal magnetic bodies of living systems need to be relevant and the idea about entire magnetosphere as a conscious system controlling the behavior of biosphere emerges naturally.

1. Part I discusses the idea about magnetosphere as a fractally scaled up version of biological body and brain. p-Adic fractality and dark matter hierarchy give some plausibility to this idea. Also a vision about evolution in many-sheeted space-time is discussed.
2. Part II introduces the notion of semitrance involving quantum entanglement of subself of self, say subsystem of brain, with remote system. The entanglement of sub-systems of two unentangled systems possible in many-sheeted space-time means sharing and fusion of mental images (say stereo vision). The notion of finite measurement resolution justifies this concept. Semitrance could have been basic control and communication tool of collective levels of consciousness during the period of human consciousness which Jaynes calls bicamerality. The idea that human consciousness might have had totally different character for only few millenia ago, finds additional support from the notions of super- and hyper genome implicated naturally by the dark matter hierarchy and the notion of magnetic body. The identification of memes as hyper-genes looks attractive. The evolution of hyper-genome could have driven the explosive evolution of human civilizations during last two millenia.
3. Part III entitled "Crazy Stuff" discusses the idea that crop circles are due to intentional action of magnetospheric higher level self or a higher level self using magnetosphere as a tool to build them. Two special crop circles, Chilbolton and Crabwood crop circles, are discussed. The proposal is that they provide information about the genomes of life forms responsible for them. The most science fictive identification for these life-forms would be ourselves in distant geometric future using time mirror mechanism to affect geometric past.

Bio-Systems as Conscious Holograms

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 516 pages

Brain as a hologram is an old idea and it emerges naturally also in TGD framework both at quantum and classical level, which by quantum classical correspondence is expected to reflect what happens at the deeper quantum level. The book is organized as follows.

1. The new view about the relationship between experienced and geometric time underlies the notion of 4-D dynamical hologram. Therefore the first part of the book contains three chapters about this topic reflecting the development of ideas. The first one is more than decade old. The third one written quite recently is inspired by zero energy ontology and provides a rather detailed vision about how the arrow of geometric time correlating with the arrow of experienced time and the localization of the contents of sensory experience to a narrow time interval emerge.
2. Second part of the book is devoted to the development of hologram idea. Also a general model of sensory qualia and a model for sensory receptor as electret, which are very abundant in living matter, are discussed.
3. The third part of the book is devoted to water memory and metabolism. The title suggests a connection between these two and this kind of connection has indeed emerged. A discovery - certainly one of the greatest surprises of my professional life - popped up as an outcome of an attempt to understand the mechanism behind water memory for which rather strong support exists now. The idea was that dark nuclei which sizes zoomed up to atomic size scale could provide a representation of genes with dark nucleons consisting of three quarks representing DNA codons. It turned out that the model for dark nucleon consisting of three quarks predicts counterparts of 64 DNAs, 64 RNAs, and 20 aminoacids and allows to identify vertebrate genetic code as a natural mapping of DNA type states to amino-acid type states. The population of dark nuclei would be new life-form possibly responsible for the water memory. The chapter about metabolism represents a model of metabolism based on the identification of universal metabolic energy quanta as increments of zero point kinetic energies emitted or absorbed as particles are transferred between space-time time sheets characterized by different p-adic primes.

Does Lateral Specialization in the Brain Arise from the Directionality of Processes and Time?

Authors: Jonathan J. Dickau
Comments: 8 pages

It has been accepted from about 1980 that there is lateral specialization of brain usage for humans, and it has more recently come to light that a lateral division of labor also takes place in the brains of other animals. However; during that time there has been no universally successful general model of cognitive lateralization. Instead, we have a topical landscape where there is no clear consensus, various models are cited in support of different research results, and there have been few comparative reviews of the available models as the topic has become too broad. This paper suggests a unifying principle that accounts for many aspects of lateral specialization in the brain, and offers tools to help develop a better general model of lateralization. Simply put; the two halves of the brain appear to address opposite phases of directional processes. While the left brain can take things apart and separate or distinguish the individual pieces, the right brain appears better at assembling those pieces, seeing how they fit together, and making them function as a congruent whole. But this same metaphor extends to a wide range of transformations which are directional and/or reversible. The key element, which makes this idea universal, is that many events in life are irreversibly directional, as they are tied to the ongoing flow of time. That is; time itself is a directional process which compels all creatures to move forward, in terms of our own evolution in time. This explains why even relatively primitive creatures develop brains that are laterally specialized.

Logic, Nature and the Town Council

Authors: Marvin E. Kirsh
Comments: 10 pages, This manuscript is currently in peer review, accepted for conference proceeding (poster session) "Non Duality and Science" (San Francisco Otober 2009)

Consider, in the study of the evolution of human beings, consciousness, and intelligence, the hypothesis that men are a special instance of the reflection of nature, and later in return to this notion, as unproven hypothesis, consider the dynamics of a town meeting when asking about intelligence, consciousness, the genes or evolution, when questioning to scientific rigor, the origin and nature of the logic that pervades existence. If reasoning is a special (or specially evolved) property exclusive to humans how might one account for its lowered or appearing absent property in other species if each by necessity of the assumed hypothesis also reflect nature. Is there a separate nature for each species (excuse the pun) or is the nature of each species the same as a unique, one, nature (reflects) as a single unique entity.

Induction, Space and Positive Ethics

Authors: Marvin E. Kirsh
Comments: 4 pages, available at: Ludus Vitalis, vol. XVI, num. 30, 2008, pp. 225-228.

One may purport that ones' awareness of space for scientific purposes comes about from a potential awareness of its' absence that is derived from times when ones attention is not focused on it. Yet simply one might extract the notion that space and entailed properties of it are elemental - i.e. conceptually non reducible and that from which all emanates. The words non-ethical induction, entailing the existence of ethical induction, if compared in a corresponding manner (to indivisible space and the attentive awareness of it), also entail that the ethics of induction in science are dependant on attentive focus. In the following description, I will attempt to draw some logical conclusions employing this analogy regardless of its potential validity or invalidity and then relate these conclusions to actual circumstances in order to lend them substance.

The Hard Problem of Consciousness Studies

Authors: Marvin E. Kirsh
Comments: 14 pages

The question addressed by the hard problem of philosophy (3), how cognitive representation is acquired from the physical properties of self and the external, is examined from a perspective originating with Boethius(14) that knowledge is dependant on the nature of the perceiver and discussed with respect to the philosophy of George Berkeley (1,2,7) concerning the existence of matter with respect to perception. An account of the trails of history, scientific method, with respect to the naming and delineation of the hard problem suggest that its topic of address is a factor of plural elements-perceived as singular, a monism, only an aspect of its universality is perceived. A surface aspect is what seduces scientifically and, as a result, a confusion involving excessive abstraction and perceptually absent empirical fact, is postulated to accompany a false morality-an inclination to conquer it from scientific method is attributed to a seduction by naturally existing perplexity that is intermingled with unknown physical elements, themselves rooted from the same singular perplexity such that an ensuing interrogation targeted at the physical world and unavoidingly overlapping with the strictly philosophical has taken place. An invisible paper thin but sharp and self denigrating third facet to the commonly known philosophical walls, within the perplexing and the logical incongruence's, an artifact of perception and modeling of nature, results in a combined scientific (physical) and philosophical (reflective) assailing of natural paradox in a pursuit to summit human sufferings that are suggested to be, at least in part, of an unnatural and physical origin. Included as a conceptual tool is a section that discusses all possible human behavior as intuitively contained by the set of all the possible paths of nature emerged up to present and continued to emerge.

Is Dowsing a Useful Tool for Serious Scientific Research?

Authors: Jeffrey S. Keen
Comments: 16 pages, 10 Figures, 3 Tables.

It is well known that the act of observation can appear to affect the results of certain scientific experiments. Even though research has shown that the mind is much more than the brain, some research techniques into the causes of this phenomenon have been branded as non-scientific due to the mind producing personal, un-metered, and seemingly inconsistent results. This research into the reasons for this variability has produced two important conclusions. First, a powerful technique for studying the mind has been established, in which confidence exists because measurements using this technique have led to universal constants. Subsequent use of this technique in further research has shown that the mind and the perception of an observer may be significantly affected by the local and non-local environment, and is dependant on the time of the day, month, or year on which those measurements are made. This research has led towards a greater understanding of the structure of the universe and its connection to consciousness and information. For example, it is demonstrated that the mind's ability to communicate information from across the solar system is much faster than the speed of light.

E8 for Psychological Types and Physics

Authors: John C. Gonsowski
Comments: 8 Pages, Updates the author's 1999 and 2001 papers in the e-journal The Enneagram and the MBTI.

James Reynierse says: "You have it exactly right when you refer to the symmetry of type beginning with the Pair interactions. My colleague and fellow researcher John Harker and I have frequently discussed these relationships in terms of the natural symmetry of type... showing a circumplex structure for the MBTI is interesting and instructive" E8 and its subalgebras are mapped to MBTI types and Enneagram numbers. In the process, analogies with the use of E8 in physics are explored. Down at D3, a Process Circumplex is constructed from MBTI type pair interactions and an analogy is shown with conformal gravity and its rotation, boost, translation, and special conformal bivectors. At D4, an analogy is constructed between the Enneagram's Law of 7 (1-4-2-8-5-7) and the electroweak force. Also, the Enneagram's Law of 3 (3-6-9) is related to the color force. At D5, an analogy is constructed between the Enneagram's first (1-2-3-4) and second (8-7-6-5) quaternities and the real and imaginary dimensions of complex spacetime. At E6, the analogy constructed is between two additional Enneagram patterns and matter/antimatter. E7 and E8 relate to brane universes and perhaps to multiple MBTI type spaces encoded in the brain.

TGD and EEG

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 432 pages

The TGD based general view about EEG developed in this book relies on the following general picture.

1. Magnetic body is the key factor in TGD inspired model of EEG and nerve pulse. Magnetic body acts as intentional agent using biological body as motor instrument and sensory receptor. There would be entire hierarchy of magnetic bodies associated with various body parts and characterized by the p-adic length scale and the level of dark matter hierarchy labeled by the value of Planck constant. The hierarchy of counterparts of EEGs associated with photons, Z⁰ and W bosons, and gluons at various frequency scales involving dark bosons with energies above thermal threshold by the large value of h would make possible communication and control. In particular, cyclotron radiation from Bose-Einstein condensates at magnetic body and Josephson radiation from Josephson junctions associated with cell membrane and other bio-electrets would be involved and cyclotron and Josephson frequencies would correspond to EEG frequencies.
2. DNA as topological quantum computer vision suggests a rather detailed view about how genome and cell membrane interact. Nucleotides and lipids would be connected by magnetic flux tubes carrying dark matter with varying values of Planck constant and define braiding affected by the 2-D flow of the lipids in liquid crystal state and giving rise to a topological quantum computation with program modules defined by liquid flow patterns resulting via self organization process in presence of metabolic energy feed.
3. Sensory qualia could be associated with the generalized di-electric breakdowns between sensory organ and its magnetic body. The cyclotron phase transitions of Bose-Einstein condensates of biologically important ions generated by the dark EEG photons at the magnetic body could generate m analogs of somatosensory qualia identifiable as our cognitive and emotional qualia. Long ranged charge entanglement made possible by W MEs (topological light rays) could be essential element of motor control and generate exotic ionization of nuclei (new nuclear physics predicted by TGD) in turn inducing classical electric fields at space-time sheets carrying ordinary matter. These fields generate various responses such as ionic waves and nerve pulses yielding the desired physiological responses. The plan of the book is roughly following. The chapter describing the magnetic sensory canvas hypothesis is followed by a model for nerve pulse and by three chapters devoted to EEG. A speculative chapter discussing the possible role of exotic neutrinos in hearing and cognition concludes the book.

TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 682 pages

This book tries to give an overall view about TGD inspired theory of consciousness as it stands now. The basic notions TGD inspired theory of consciousness are quantum jump identified as a moment of consciousness, self identified as sequence of quantum jumps analogous to bound state of particles, self hierarchy with sub-selves experienced by self as mental images, and sharing and fusion of mental images by quantum entanglement. The topics of the book are organized in the following manner.

1. In the first part of the book TGD inspired theory of consciousness is discussed. There are three summarizing chapters giving a view about how ideas have evolved. There are also chapter about Negentropy Maximization Principle, about the notion of self, and about sensory representations.
2. The second part of the book contains two chapters about the relationship between experienced and geometric time. The first one is more than decade old. The second one - inspired by zero energy ontology and written quite recently - provides a rather detailed vision about how the arrow of geometric time correlating with the arrow of experienced time and the localization of the contents of sensory experience to a narrow time interval emerge. The chapter explaining TGD based view about long term memory is also included.
3. The third part of the book summarizes roughly decade old view about intelligence and cognition. p-Adic physics as physics of cognition and intentionality and many-fermion states as representations of Boolean statements are the key notions. In zero energy ontology also quantal versions of logical rules A → B realized as quantum variants of Boolean functions emerge at the fundamental level. A chapter about the role of dark matter hierarchy, in particular about topological quantum computation as a universal information processing tool, would be needed to make the picture more complete.
4. The fourth chapter is devoted to remote mental interactions. The theoretical motivation for taking remote mental interactions seriously is that exactly the same mechanisms which are involved with the interaction between magnetic body and biological body apply also to remote mental interactions in TGD Universe. One could also understand why these phenomena are rare: a kind of immune system making it impossible for foreign magnetic bodies to control and communicate with the biological body possessed by a particular magnetic body would be a highly probable (but perhaps not unavoidable) outcome of evolutionary process.

Mathematical Aspects of Consciousness Theory

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 486 pages

This book discusses general mathematical ideas behind TGD inspired theory of consciousness.

PART I: New Physics And Mathematics Involved With TGD
The Clifford algebra associated with point of configuration space ("world of classical worlds") decomposes to a direct integral of von Neumann algebras known as hyper-finite factors of type II1. This implies strong physical predictions and deep connections with conformal field theories, knot-, braid- and quantum groups, and topological quantum computation. In TGD framework dark matter forms a hierarchy with levels characterized partially by the value of Planck constant labeling the pages of the book like structure formed by singular covering spaces of the imbedding space M⁴ x CP₂ glued together along four-dimensional back. Particles at different pages are dark relative to each other since purely local interactions (vertices of Feynman diagram) involve only particles at the same page. The phase transitions changing the value of Planck constant having interpretation as tunneling between different pages of the book would induce phase transitions of gel phases abundant in living matter.

Part II: TGD Universe as topological quantum computer
The braids formed by magnetic flux tubes are ideal for the realization of topological quantum computations (tqc). Bio-systems are basic candidates for topological quantum computers. In DNA as tqc vision nucleotides and lipids are connected by flux tubes and the flow of lipids induces tqc programs.

Part III: Categories, Number Theory And Consciousness
Category theory could reflect the basic structures of conscious thought. The comparison of the inherent generalized logics associated with categories to the Boolean logic naturally associated with the configuration space spinor fields is also of interest. The notion of infinite prime was the first mathematical invention inspired by TGD inspired theory of consciousness. The construction of infinite primes is very much analogous to a repeated second quantization of a super-symmetric arithmetic quantum field theory (with analogs of bound states included). Infinite primes form an infinite hierarchy and the physical realization of this hierarchy imply infinite hierarchy of conscious entities and that we represent only a single level in this hierarchy looking infinitesimal from the point of view of higher levels. The notion of infinite rational predicts an infinite number of real units with infinitely rich number theoretical anatomy and single space-time point becomes a Platonia able to represent every quantum state of the entire Universe in its structure: kind of algebraic Brahman=Atman identity.

Magnetospheric Consciousness

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 388 pages

This book is about the notion of magnetic body, which is key actor in TGD inspired model of living matter and predicts a hierarchy of generalized EEGs associated with the magnetic bodies responsible for communication and control. Not only personal magnetic bodies of living systems need to be relevant and the idea about entire magnetosphere as a conscious system controlling the behavior of biosphere emerges naturally.

1. Part I discusses the idea about magnetosphere as a fractally scaled up version of biological body and brain. p-Adic fractality and dark matter hierarchy give some plausibility to this idea. Also a vision about evolution in many-sheeted space-time is discussed.
2. Part II introduces the notion of semitrance involving quantum entanglement of subself of self, say subsystem of brain, with remote system. The entanglement of sub-systems of two unentangled systems possible in many-sheeted space-time means sharing and fusion of mental images (say stereo vision). The notion of finite measurement resolution justifies this concept. Semitrance could have been basic control and communication tool of collective levels of consciousness during the period of human consciousness which Jaynes calls bicamerality. The idea that human consciousness might have had totally different character for only few millenia ago, finds additional support from the notions of super- and hyper genome implicated naturally by the dark matter hierarchy and the notion of magnetic body. The identification of memes as hyper-genes looks attractive. The evolution of hyper-genome could have driven the explosive evolution of human civilizations during last two millenia.
3. Part III entitled "Crazy Stuff" discusses the idea that crop circles are due to intentional action of magnetospheric higher level self or a higher level self using magnetosphere as a tool to build them. Two special crop circles, Chilbolton and Crabwood crop circles, are discussed. The proposal is that they provide information about the genomes of life forms responsible for them. The most science fictive identification for these life-forms would be ourselves in distant geometric future using time mirror mechanism to affect geometric past.

Bio-Systems as Conscious Holograms

Authors: Matti Pitkänen
Comments: 518 pages

Brain as a hologram is an old idea and it emerges naturally also in TGD framework both at quantum and classical level, which by quantum classical correspondence is expected to reflect what happens at the deeper quantum level. The book is organized as follows.

1. The new view about the relationship between experienced and geometric time underlies the notion of 4-D dynamical hologram. Therefore the first part of the book contains three chapters about this topic reflecting the development of ideas. The first one is more than decade old. The third one written quite recently is inspired by zero energy ontology and provides a rather detailed vision about how the arrow of geometric time correlating with the arrow of experienced time and the localization of the contents of sensory experience to a narrow time interval emerge.
2. Second part of the book is devoted to the development of hologram idea. Also a general model of sensory qualia and a model for sensory receptor as electret, which are very abundant in living matter, are discussed.
3. The third part of the book is devoted to water memory and metabolism. The title suggests a connection between these two and this kind of connection has indeed emerged. A discovery - certainly one of the greatest surprises of my professional life - popped up as an outcome of an attempt to understand the mechanism behind water memory for which rather strong support exists now. The idea was that dark nuclei which sizes zoomed up to atomic size scale could provide a representation of genes with dark nucleons consisting of three quarks representing DNA codons. It turned out that the model for dark nucleon consisting of three quarks predicts counterparts of 64 DNAs, 64 RNAs, and 20 aminoacids and allows to identify vertebrate genetic code as a natural mapping of DNA type states to amino-acid type states. The population of dark nuclei would be new life-form possibly responsible for the water memory. The chapter about metabolism represents a model of metabolism based on the identification of universal metabolic energy quanta as increments of zero point kinetic energies emitted or absorbed as particles are transferred between space-time time sheets characterized by different p-adic primes.

Does Lateral Specialization in the Brain Arise from the Directionality of Processes and Time?

Authors: Jonathan J. Dickau
Comments: 8 pages, This paper, in its current form, was submitted to the journal Quantum Biosystems.

It has been accepted from about 1980 that there is lateral specialization of brain usage for humans, and it has more recently come to light that a lateral division of labor also takes place in the brains of other animals. However; during that time there has been no universally successful general model of cognitive lateralization. Instead, we have a topical landscape where there is no clear consensus, various models are cited in support of different research results, and there have been few comparative reviews of the available models as the topic has become too broad. This paper suggests a unifying principle that accounts for many aspects of lateral specialization in the brain, and offers tools to help develop a better general model of lateralization. Simply put; the two halves of the brain appear to address opposite phases of directional processes. While the left brain can take things apart and separate or distinguish the individual pieces, the right brain appears better at assembling those pieces, seeing how they fit together, and making them function as a congruent whole. But this same metaphor extends to a wide range of transformations which are directional and/or reversible. The key element, which makes this idea universal, is that many events in life are irreversibly directional, as they are tied to the ongoing flow of time. That is; time itself is a directional process which compels all creatures to move forward, in terms of our own evolution in time. This explains why even relatively primitive creatures develop brains that are laterally specialized.