Various Topics on Consciousness

How Is the World Created from Nothing? by James Kowall

An answer is given to the question: how is the world created from nothing? This answer is based on recent discoveries of modern physics, including dark energy, the holographic principle, and non-commutative geometry. This answer not only solves the mystery of how the world is created, but also solves the mystery of the origin of consciousness. See http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/466

Time Reversed Self by Matti Pitkanen

Quantum measurement theory based on Zero Energy Ontology (ZEO) leads to a precise identification of the notion of self as a sequence of state function reduction at same boundary of causal diamond (CD) referred to as passive boundary. The Self dies and re-incarnates at the opposite boundary of CD as the first state-function reduction to opposite boundary of CD eventually forced by Negentropy Maximization Principle (NMP) takes place. To test this rather dramatic prediction through direct personal experience one should die first but there is a more clever manner to do it if one believes that selves form a hierarchy such that sub-selves define mental images of self. Mental images indeed die and re-incarnate all the time and this means that death of mental image should generate time reverse mental images. Is it possible to experience time-reversed mental image and how it differs from the original? Sensory-motor rhythm is a good candidate for this process: sensory mental image dies and re-incarnates as a mental imaged representing motor action. Sensory perception is motor action in reversed direction. Time reversed cognition, reverse speech and writing are interesting phenomena allowing possibility to test these ideas. Also figure-background illusion and other kinds of illusions might give support for the notion of time-reversed mental image. See http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/467

How Imagination Could Be Realized p-Adically? by Matti Pitkanen

One of the original motivations for identifying p-adic physics as a possible correlate for cognition, imagination and intentionality was that p-adic differential equations allow pseudo constants as integration constants - piecewise constant functions depending on finite number of pinary digits have vanishing p-adic derivatives. The naive idea about the realization of intentional action is that a quantum phase transition changes p-adic space-time sheet representing intention to a real one representing action. This idea was too simplistic and in the following a more refined mathematical realization based on strong form of holography is proposed. Imaginations are identified as being represented by string world sheets and partonic 2 -surfaces which can be continued to p-adic preferred extremal for various p-adic primes but not necessarily real ones. Only realizable intentions can be continued also to the real preferred extremals. See http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/468

TGD Based Model for Anesthetic Action by Matti Pitkanen

The mechanism of anesthetic action has remained mystery although a lot of data exist. The Meyer-Overton correlation suggests that the changes occurring at lipid layers of are responsible for anesthesia but this model fails. Another model assumes that the binding of anesthetics to membrane proteins is responsible for anesthetic effects but also this model has problems. The hypothesis that the anesthetics bind to the hydrophobic pockets of microtubules looks more promising. The model should also explain hyperpolarization of neuronal membranes taking also place when consciousness is lost. The old finding of Becker is that the reduction or reversal of voltage between frontal brain and occipital regions correlates with the loss of consciousness. Microtubules and DNA are negatively charged and the discovery of Pollack that so called fourth phase of water involves generation of negatively charged regions could play a role in the model. Combining these inputs with TGD inspired theory of consciousness and quantum biology one ends up to a microtubule based model explaining the basic aspects of anesthesia. See http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/469

Yoga, Samapatti & Me by Alan J. Oliver

In this article I review Samapatti and the issues the experiences have brought for me personally [1-4]. First and foremost was the question of why I am able to enter this state without any preparation. The second was the obvious question of how does this work. Over some years people had asked to sit and talk with me about their problems, despite the fact that I have no training whatsoever in counselling or any other therapies. This was the early eighties and seminars on just about everything under the sun were on offer. I joined a ten day residential for Vipassana meditation and after sitting meditating for ten days I was no different and life continued as usual. It was obvious that most of those I listened to thought I was some kind of healer, others said I was a good listener, while some asked me to teach them to do what I did. My position was that I could not possibly, or ethically, teach something that I didn’t know anything about. Not about how it worked, if it worked, why it worked and what was it that I did. At one point I was asked what I would do next, and to my surprise I said I would not do any more of this because I needed to find out how it worked. So began this long undirected journey into thinking and consciousness. See http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/471

My Impressions of TSC 2015 by Matti Pitkanen

Towards a Science of Consciousness 2015 (TSC 2015) was held in Helsinki in June 8-13, 2015. In this article, I describe my impression about the conference. The coverage is limited by my interest and scope of attendance since the number of representations was so large that it was only possible to listen only small fraction of representations. See http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/470

Why Teach Science of Internal Excellence by Pradeep B. Deshpande

Students will derive a myriad of benefits from higher levels of internal excellence that are amenable to an audit. Among them are health & wellness, improved performance in all walks of life including academic work, better interpersonal and family relationships, and less discord and violence. See http://jcer.com/index.php/jcj/article/view/472