arXiv:math/0604265v2 [math.DG] 19 Jan 2014
... In this section, we briefly recall the basics of Lorentzian geometry and compare them to the Riemannian situation (see [17, 28, 48, 83, 89, 114] for further details). Let, throughout this article, M be an n-dimensional manifold, oriented if necessary. A Lorentzian metric on M is a symmetric bilinear ...
... In this section, we briefly recall the basics of Lorentzian geometry and compare them to the Riemannian situation (see [17, 28, 48, 83, 89, 114] for further details). Let, throughout this article, M be an n-dimensional manifold, oriented if necessary. A Lorentzian metric on M is a symmetric bilinear ...
The challenge of consciousness with special reference to the exclusive disjunction
... denied that we may have conscious experiences at all in addition to having neurons or X-fibres firing in our brains? I argue: Some statements say that the hills around Pretoria contain minerals of hematite and are matters of third-person descriptions. This statement can be objective in the sense tha ...
... denied that we may have conscious experiences at all in addition to having neurons or X-fibres firing in our brains? I argue: Some statements say that the hills around Pretoria contain minerals of hematite and are matters of third-person descriptions. This statement can be objective in the sense tha ...
Editorial Inaugural Issue Let All Truth Seekers Be the Vessels to
... geometry when axioms of congruency are stipulated, essentially hiding in the formality what is sense-certain.” The work of Dick Richardson illustrates from the mystical point of view “consciousness, time and prespacetime as consciousness finds it to be.” Richardson argues that “only things in time a ...
... geometry when axioms of congruency are stipulated, essentially hiding in the formality what is sense-certain.” The work of Dick Richardson illustrates from the mystical point of view “consciousness, time and prespacetime as consciousness finds it to be.” Richardson argues that “only things in time a ...
The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
... evanescent patterns in some sort of cellular automaton: that is, a huge array of bits, different in detail but not in essence from Conway’s famous Game of Life,1 getting updated in time by simple, local, mechanistic rules. So it’s striking that Turing’s own views about these issues, as revealed in h ...
... evanescent patterns in some sort of cellular automaton: that is, a huge array of bits, different in detail but not in essence from Conway’s famous Game of Life,1 getting updated in time by simple, local, mechanistic rules. So it’s striking that Turing’s own views about these issues, as revealed in h ...
A quantum physical argument for panpsychism - Philsci
... state change of a large number of neurons. It may only involve some systems smaller than neurons. For example, in the Penrose-Hameroff orchestrated objective reduction model (Hameroff and Penrose 1996; Hagan, Hameroff and Tuszynski 2002), the appearance of a conscious perception only involves the mi ...
... state change of a large number of neurons. It may only involve some systems smaller than neurons. For example, in the Penrose-Hameroff orchestrated objective reduction model (Hameroff and Penrose 1996; Hagan, Hameroff and Tuszynski 2002), the appearance of a conscious perception only involves the mi ...
Spin as Primordial Self-Referential Process
... Penrose-HameroffÊs self-organized objective reduction model of spacetime geometry (Hameroff and Penrose, 1996) also implies that the spacetime dynamcs is driving by certain self-referential process. In addition, CahillÊs work on a self-referentially limited neural-network model of reality (Cahill, 2 ...
... Penrose-HameroffÊs self-organized objective reduction model of spacetime geometry (Hameroff and Penrose, 1996) also implies that the spacetime dynamcs is driving by certain self-referential process. In addition, CahillÊs work on a self-referentially limited neural-network model of reality (Cahill, 2 ...
Consciousness in the universe A review of the ‘Orch OR’ theory ScienceDirect
... Diósi–Penrose (DP) scheme of ‘objective reduction’ (‘OR’) of the quantum state. This orchestrated OR activity (‘Orch OR’) is taken to result in moments of conscious awareness and/or choice. The DP form of OR is related to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and space–time geometry, so Orch OR sugg ...
... Diósi–Penrose (DP) scheme of ‘objective reduction’ (‘OR’) of the quantum state. This orchestrated OR activity (‘Orch OR’) is taken to result in moments of conscious awareness and/or choice. The DP form of OR is related to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics and space–time geometry, so Orch OR sugg ...
Why the brain is probably not a quantum computer Max Tegmark
... that interaction with the environment is probably small enough to be unimportant for certain neural processes [30], whereas Zeh [31], Zurek [32], Scott [33], Hawking [34] and Hepp [35] have conjectured that environment-induced decoherence will rapidly destroy macrosuperpositions in the brain. It is ...
... that interaction with the environment is probably small enough to be unimportant for certain neural processes [30], whereas Zeh [31], Zurek [32], Scott [33], Hawking [34] and Hepp [35] have conjectured that environment-induced decoherence will rapidly destroy macrosuperpositions in the brain. It is ...
Consciousness, the Brain, and Spacetime Geometry
... phenomenon of quantum state self-reduction-the "objective reduction" (OR) referred to above. This is the main thread of argument in Shadows of the Mind.2 The argument that conscious thought, whatever other attributes it may also have, is non-computable (as follows most powerfully from certain deduct ...
... phenomenon of quantum state self-reduction-the "objective reduction" (OR) referred to above. This is the main thread of argument in Shadows of the Mind.2 The argument that conscious thought, whatever other attributes it may also have, is non-computable (as follows most powerfully from certain deduct ...
Complexity Science, Living Systems, and Reflexing Interfaces:
... (1982, 1983) reported that electromagnetic energy penetrating into cytoplasm would self-focus inside filaments whose diameter depend on symmetry breaking (Bose condensation) of ordered water dipoles. The diameter calculated was exactly the inner diameter of MTs (15 nm). In any case, all phenomena oc ...
... (1982, 1983) reported that electromagnetic energy penetrating into cytoplasm would self-focus inside filaments whose diameter depend on symmetry breaking (Bose condensation) of ordered water dipoles. The diameter calculated was exactly the inner diameter of MTs (15 nm). In any case, all phenomena oc ...
IEEE Transactions on Magnetics
... consequence of my past experience as a young child when I was attacked by one. In essence, my current thoughts of dogs are the result of the entanglement of feelings of discontent and fear in the presence of dogs. Albeit this example may seem a little trivial at this time, the connection to system d ...
... consequence of my past experience as a young child when I was attacked by one. In essence, my current thoughts of dogs are the result of the entanglement of feelings of discontent and fear in the presence of dogs. Albeit this example may seem a little trivial at this time, the connection to system d ...
Isoqualitative Gauge Curvature at Multiple Scales: A Response to
... C and D, a sharply spiked statistical distribution of assayed outcomes for C leads necessarily to continuously sinusoidal oscillations of probability amplitudes for D, and vice versa. It is problematic for “agnostic” quantum cognitivists/interactionists that the groups of observables definable as ca ...
... C and D, a sharply spiked statistical distribution of assayed outcomes for C leads necessarily to continuously sinusoidal oscillations of probability amplitudes for D, and vice versa. It is problematic for “agnostic” quantum cognitivists/interactionists that the groups of observables definable as ca ...
A new theory of the origin of cancer
... of malignancy rather than a mere byproduct. In normal mitosis chromosomes replicate into sister chromatids which are then precisely separated and transported into mirror-like sets by structural protein assemblies called mitotic spindles and centrioles, both composed of microtubules. The elegant yet ...
... of malignancy rather than a mere byproduct. In normal mitosis chromosomes replicate into sister chromatids which are then precisely separated and transported into mirror-like sets by structural protein assemblies called mitotic spindles and centrioles, both composed of microtubules. The elegant yet ...
The role of quantum physics in the theory of subjective
... mechanics as a whole within this general understanding. The focus of this paper will be on quantum theory, which I believe holds the key to the issues, and I will be largely taking for granted the conventional consensus for the main physical theories within quantum mechanics. Approaches to quantum t ...
... mechanics as a whole within this general understanding. The focus of this paper will be on quantum theory, which I believe holds the key to the issues, and I will be largely taking for granted the conventional consensus for the main physical theories within quantum mechanics. Approaches to quantum t ...
“Anticoherent” Spin States via the Majorana Representation
... curious geometry.”[3] I was astounded to learn that a complex spinor could be fully visualized in a way that preserved rotational structure. In the context of spin-3/2 states, it was as if I were being offered a glimpse of four-dimensional complex space. And poised in that veritable hall of mirrors ...
... curious geometry.”[3] I was astounded to learn that a complex spinor could be fully visualized in a way that preserved rotational structure. In the context of spin-3/2 states, it was as if I were being offered a glimpse of four-dimensional complex space. And poised in that veritable hall of mirrors ...
1996 Orchestrated Objective Reduction of Quantum Coherence in
... Debates, eds. Hameroff, S.R., Kaszniak, A.W. and Scott, A.C., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 507-540 (1996) ...
... Debates, eds. Hameroff, S.R., Kaszniak, A.W. and Scott, A.C., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 507-540 (1996) ...
IOSR Journal of Mathematics (IOSR-JM)
... evolving according to U, is not assigned any actual physical „reality‟, but is taken as basically providing the needed „book-keeping‟ so that eventually probability values can be assigned to the various possible outcomes of a quantum measurement. The measuring device itself is explicitly taken to be ...
... evolving according to U, is not assigned any actual physical „reality‟, but is taken as basically providing the needed „book-keeping‟ so that eventually probability values can be assigned to the various possible outcomes of a quantum measurement. The measuring device itself is explicitly taken to be ...
how many universes are necessary for an ice cream to melt?
... Obviously, the celebrated Boltzmann’s formula S = ln W (in ”natural” k = 1 units we shall use in the entire discussion) suggests that the required number is Nmin ∼ exp (Smax − S0 ), where Smax is the entropy of the state of maximal probability of the matter in our domain (what would be traditionally ...
... Obviously, the celebrated Boltzmann’s formula S = ln W (in ”natural” k = 1 units we shall use in the entire discussion) suggests that the required number is Nmin ∼ exp (Smax − S0 ), where Smax is the entropy of the state of maximal probability of the matter in our domain (what would be traditionally ...
... Standing in stark contrast to these physical requirements are the conditions that exist in and around animal brains. Brains are warm, wet, biological constructs, honed by evolution to exhibit the sort of robustness and durability needed for survival in the world. Although to some extent they are pro ...
URL - StealthSkater
... one could understand the spin of the electron and positron in the EPR thought experiment. It was not until almost 30 years later that Bell proposed a similar theorem (Bell, 1964, 1966) that made it much more clear what assumptions had to be made about hidden variable theories in order to eliminate ...
... one could understand the spin of the electron and positron in the EPR thought experiment. It was not until almost 30 years later that Bell proposed a similar theorem (Bell, 1964, 1966) that made it much more clear what assumptions had to be made about hidden variable theories in order to eliminate ...
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... cannot exceed k+1. Now comes the most important new feature (which sounds to me like my postquantum back-activity): "... unlike Penrose's formula for the value of a spin network, their [i.e., the deformed quantum spinnets] CAN detect information about the embedding of the network in the spatial mani ...
... cannot exceed k+1. Now comes the most important new feature (which sounds to me like my postquantum back-activity): "... unlike Penrose's formula for the value of a spin network, their [i.e., the deformed quantum spinnets] CAN detect information about the embedding of the network in the spatial mani ...
A Sonoran Afternoon - Quantum Consciousness
... hydrogen and carbon atoms, just as proteins emerge from the nonlinear attractions among amino acids. Tornadoes emerge from the nonlinear dynamics of air and sunshine, just as cities and cultural configurations emerge from the very nonlinear interactions among human beings. Each of these is indeed "o ...
... hydrogen and carbon atoms, just as proteins emerge from the nonlinear attractions among amino acids. Tornadoes emerge from the nonlinear dynamics of air and sunshine, just as cities and cultural configurations emerge from the very nonlinear interactions among human beings. Each of these is indeed "o ...
Paper
... amount of space. This corresponds to modern views that the black holes (defined as gravastars in this approach) can collapse down to the Plank length but not to a zero scale [14] and this establishes the limits of the third law of thermodynamics in approaching the zero-temperature final state of the ...
... amount of space. This corresponds to modern views that the black holes (defined as gravastars in this approach) can collapse down to the Plank length but not to a zero scale [14] and this establishes the limits of the third law of thermodynamics in approaching the zero-temperature final state of the ...
How Consciousness Becomes the Physical Universe
... theoretical work indicate that the ions themselves do not move freely within the ion-channel filter, but rather their states are pre-selected, leading to possible protection of quantum coherence within the ion channel for a time scale on the order of 10-3 seconds at 300K, ~ time scale of ion-channel ...
... theoretical work indicate that the ions themselves do not move freely within the ion-channel filter, but rather their states are pre-selected, leading to possible protection of quantum coherence within the ion channel for a time scale on the order of 10-3 seconds at 300K, ~ time scale of ion-channel ...
Roger Penrose
Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science. He is the Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford, as well as an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College.Penrose is known for his work in mathematical physics, in particular for his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe.