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Subject: RE: Neural networks, consciousness, and wave functions (Willard L.
Miranker)
[Philip Benjamin]
The Arizona work is based on wavefunction collapse by "consciousness" in
the conveniently submicroscopic spaces of microtubules. The circular reasoning
is too obvious: consciousness collapses wave function which then creates
consciousness! Penrose argued that gravitational effects at the quantum level
are causing wave functions to collapse automatically, emitting somehow little
bursts of consciousness that mysteriously produce (or create) our own
continuous experience of being conscious, self-aware, and alive. Nobody here
defines what consciousness is.
Philip Benjamin
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Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 9:16 PM
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Neural networks, consciousness, and wave functions (Willard L.
Miranker)
Philip is this different than Penrose's and the prof in Arizona, with
microtubules, and they argued with Tegmark over quantum computing versus
quantum field?
On Thursday, January 21, 2021 Philip Thrift
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wrote:
two papers by Willard L. Miranker (1932-2011)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_L._Miranker
Consciousness is an Information Field Induced by Hebbian Dynamics
(pdf) https://www.oden.utexas.edu/media/reports/1997/9711.pdf
Abstract: We introduce a field of information associated with the action
potentials, the latter encoding conventional unconscious neural processing. We
show that the field generates a dual representation of the neural processing
which mirrors the information states conveyed by the neural circuitry itself.
This leads to the claim that the field is the conscious experience of neural
processing. An explanation for the fitness advantage of consciousness in
evolution comes as a by-product. We start with the Hebbian synapse whose
dynamics are interpreted as an atom of awareness, and which is quantified in
terms of the signature of the time rate of change of synaptic strength. We show
how the information field is built up out of such atomic constituents. The
mathematical development shows that consciousness (i.e., the field) arises
through a coupling of Russelian-like internal (the dual information field) and
external (the primal action potential) properties of matter. This is contrasted
with a corresponding duality in quantum mechanics where consciousness itself
enters as a causal agent. The model presented is falsifiable, and a method for
verifying it experimentally is suggested.
A Neural Network Wave Formalism
(pdf)
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.594.5921&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Abstract: Using his path integral methodology, Feynman derived the constructs
of quantum mechanics from the Lagrangian form of Newtonian mechanics. By
employing a novel Lagrangian form of the canonical neural network equations, we
derive analogously a complete wave formalism for the information transmission
in neural networks.
@philipthrift
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