It is already included under THE pHYSICS, the consciousness. It is widely
accepted that consciousness or, more generally, mental activity is in some
way correlated to the behaviour of the material brain. Since quantum theory
is the most fundamental theory of matter that is currently available, it is
a legitimate question to ask whether quantum theory can help us to
understand consciousness. Several approaches answering this question
affirmatively, proposed in recent decades, will be surveyed. There are
three basic types of corresponding approaches: (1) consciousness is a
manifestation of quantum processes in the brain, (2) quantum concepts are
used to understand consciousness without referring to brain activity, and
(3) matter and consciousness are regarded as dual aspects of one underlying
reality. Major contemporary variants of these quantum-inspired approaches
will be discussed. It will be pointed out that they make different
epistemological assumptions and use quantum theory in different ways. The
historically leading disciplines in this respect are philosophy and
psychology, which were later joined by behavioral science, cognitive
science and neuroscience. In addition, the physics of complex systems and
quantum physics have played stimulating roles in the discussion from their
beginnings.
In the fundamental sciences, one typically speaks of causal
relations in terms of interactions. In physics, for instance, there are
four fundamental kinds of interactions (electromagnetic, weak, strong,
gravitational) which serve to explain the correlations that are observed in
physical systems. As regards the mind-matter problem, the situation is more
difficult. Far from a theoretical understanding in this field, the existing
body of knowledge essentially consists of empirical correlations between
material and mental states. These correlations are descriptive, not
explanatory; they are not causally conditioned. It is (for some purposes)
interesting to know *that* particular brain areas are activated during
particular mental activities; but this does, of course, not explain *why* they
are. Thus, it would be premature to talk about mind-matter interactions in
the sense of causal relations.
Of particular interest for consciousness studies are approaches that
have been developed in order to pick up Bohr’s proposal with respect to
psychology and cognitive science. The first steps in this direction were
made by the group of Aerts in the early 1990-1993), using non-distributive
propositional lattices to address quantum-like behavior in non-classical
systems. Alternative approaches have been initiated by Khrennikov (1999),
focusing on non-classical probabilities, and Atmanspacher *et al.* (2002),
outlining an algebraic framework with non-commuting operations. The recent
development of ideas within this framework of thinking is addressed in Section
4 <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-consciousness/#QuanMind>, “Quantum
Mind”. Other lines of thinking are due to Primas (2007, 2017), addressing
complementarity with partial Boolean algebras, and Folk and von Müller
(2008), indicating links between basic conceptual categories in quantum
physics and psychology.
There are quite a number of accounts discussing quantum theory in
relation to consciousness that adopt basic ideas of quantum theory in a
purely *metaphorical* manner. Quantum theoretical terms such as
entanglement, superposition, collapse, complementarity, and others are used
without specific reference to how they are defined precisely and how they
are applicable to specific situations. For instance, conscious acts are
just *postulated* to be interpretable somehow analogously to physical acts
of measurement, or correlations in psychological systems are just
*postulated* to be interpretable somehow analogously to physical
entanglement. Such accounts may provide fascinating science fiction, and
they may even be important to inspire nuclei of ideas to be worked out in
detail. But unless such detailed work leads beyond vague metaphors and
analogies, they do not yet represent scientific progress. Approaches
falling into this category will not be discussed in this contribution.
The historical motivation for exploring quantum theory in trying to
understand consciousness derived from the realization that collapse-type
quantum events introduce an element of randomness, which is primary (ontic)
rather than due to ignorance or missing information (epistemic). Approaches
such as those of Stapp and of Beck and Eccles emphasize this (in different
ways), insofar as the ontic randomness of quantum events is regarded to
provide room for mental causation, i.e., the possibility that conscious
mental acts can influence brain behavior. The approach by Penrose and
Hameroff also focuses on state collapse, but with a significant move from
mental causation to the non-computability of (particular) conscious acts.
Any discussion of state collapse or state reduction (e.g. by measurement)
refers, at least implicitly, to superposition states since those are the
states that are reduced. Insofar as entangled systems remain in a quantum
superposition as long as no measurement has occurred, entanglement is
always co-addressed when state reduction is discussed. By contrast, some of
the dual-aspect quantum approaches utilize the topic of entanglement
differently, and independently of state reduction in the first place.
Inspired by and analogous to entanglement-induced nonlocal correlations in
quantum physics, mind-matter entanglement is conceived as the hypothetical
origin of mind-matter correlations. This exhibits the highly speculative
picture of a fundamentally holistic, psychophysically neutral level of
reality from which correlated mental and material domains emerge.
Thus conc
consciousness has been in Physics since 2004 till date. Research going
on. KR IRS 241222
On Sat, 24 Dec 2022 at 18:24, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> *Mar*The Ignored History of Emotional Communication
>
>
>
> We discover a Quasar ten billion light years away from us. It means that a
> Quasar existed ten billion years ago and that we do not know, what happened
> to it during the ten billion years. We discover many Nebulae or Star
> factories, where new stars get birth from the star dust, the happenings of
> millions of years ago. The Photo of a Black Hole is taken. And now there
> are thousands of Scientists and Astronomers investing their life times in
> the study of Black Holes. We have become the chronic observers, the outside
> observers, not participating as part of the Universe. Science has become
> the big cinema Theatre.
>
> Is there at least a subject dealing with the History of emotional
> interaction and Communication on earth? Is there one subject that deals
> with the communication among the organisms of the Biosphere, where there
> must have been emotional communication and interaction based on breathing,
> smelling and sensing? We have ‘The Brief History of Time’ written by
> Stephen Hawking. But there is no book titled ‘The Brief History of
> Emotions’. We have of course the astounding work of Richard Dawkins-‘The
> Ancestor’s Tale’ tracing every life form from inception from 3.5 billion
> years ago. But there is no book on the History of Emotions of the Biosphere.
>
> Once there was actually God as the manager of emotional interactions among
> the life forms of the Biosphere. An organism exhaled its needs into the air
> and the other organisms, inhaled the communication and they responded
> instantly. There was that God component in the air. Needs were met
> immediately. Perception rested on the basic paradigm of belief in nature or
> God. There is need for the study of ‘The Rise, Decline and Fall of
> Emotional Communication among Organisms’. There is also the need to study
> ‘God under Extinction’.
>
> The core subject of Quantum Physics is notice of consciousness. Now is it
> an independent consciousness, or an extension of your own consciousness?
> The light rays or the photons bend near a large body due to gravity. If the
> gravitation is strong enough, then some of the photons may get slowed down,
> losing their speed, into speed less than the speed of light. They start
> their struggle again to regain their speed into the speed of light and that
> struggle must be in various manifestations, called consciousness entities.
> At the ultimate bedrock level of existence it must be the struggle to
> regain the speed of light. A black Hole simply eats photons and the photons
> cannot escape from the arrest. Now what is happening to the photons
> arrested by the Black Hole? Being slowed into paralysis, are they creating
> many notices of consciousness, the most intense struggle of consciousness?
> At the core of every galaxy there is a black hole. It is eating stars after
> stars, till no stars are left in the galaxy. Then what will be the ultimate
> fate of the entities, the manifestations of conscious notice?
>
> My lay man’s query is why is the subject consciousness not included in
> Physics? Why this mania for the lifeless or the basically dead subject
> matter? Why are there no parks of nature, where consciousness and emotion
> flows enjoy total freedom, the freedom from technology?
>
> YM
>
> Dada Poem (Thanks to PV)
>
> The Perplexed Brahma
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> The Notice of Consciousness by slowing the photons is living History,
>
> I created the forms of consciousness, of emotions, why stigmatized in
> science is mystery,
>
> The struggle of every manifestation, galaxy, star, planet, moon, matter to
> return to the speed of light, is the great cosmic emotion,
>
> The forms of emotions are the life forms in the Commotion,
>
> The forms of non-emotion, Machines, Robots dub emotion as contamination,
>
> Life repudiating life for science for the scientific or mechanical view,
> is my, Brahma’s agitation,
>
> The Black Holes at the center of every Galaxy eating away photons, causing
> the ultimate extermination,
>
> The denial of my emotions for science is repudiation,
>
> Oh, My Dear Saraswathi,how am I to fight Mechanization?
>
> YM
>
>
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