Sunday, 27 September 2020

Self, Artifical Intelligence, and the Microbiome

 My experience is that I observe my thoughts.

What is this I ? According to Advaita/Non-dual psychology the I, is  the constant “Self”, from infancy to adulthood, throughout life. Our thoughts keep changing through lived experience, but the I,the Self, witnessing the thoughts is a constant through lived experience.

If , the cells of a human body are  constantly being replenished throughout life, then how is I, the Self a constant ?

The conclusion  of seers through meditation ( cessation of thought vibrations/concentration and focusing of outgoing thoughts inwards away from sensory input)is that: This I/Self is Awareness  or Pure Consciousness, that  permeates the entire universe, hence each living being. This awareness is realized, in human beings ,when thought vibrations cease. 

There has to be ' something ' non-changing/non-malleable in the human brain for the constant witnessing self/I to function and express itself.

I hypothesize that this universal  awareness (Brahman- in Advaita terminology) or proto-consciousness , as I would like to call it, is a universal energy field in 1-dimension(D), which I would like to denote as depth/microcosm. When vibrations or perturbations occur in this field 2D waves arise, which I define as  Atman/individual Self/witnessing I of each living being. Interactions of 2D vibrations , gives rise to more complex vibratiory patterns in 3D space , which I would call the underlying mind and subsequent more complex patterns of vibratory energy i.e. matter in 4D spacetime. The mechanism of increased complexity is  through subsequent condensation of vibratory  energy into matter via phase transitions. The brain is a physical object in 4D space time. The mind that biologists talk of today, I refer to as the emergent mind from the brain  activity in 4D spacetime, which I call as the surface or macrocosm.

Previously,I proposed based on the above, that when Artificial Intelligence (AI), becomes “sufficiently complex” it will manifest the properties of the living human body , since Brahman/Universal Awareness/Consciousness is all pervasive. However , I am re-thinking taking the human microbiome (the trillions of microbes that colonize the human body) into context. I am not sure anymore.

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Energy Barrier

Is the directional arrow of time due to an energy barrier ?
 Analogy: Uncatalyzed reaction.
May be a catalyst-like invention could reverse this.
Evolution of the wave function is like a chemical reaction that converts the initial state/reactants-to products/final state.
Phase transitions are catalysed by catalysts.

Memories-Questions

Memory= record of an event, series of events.
Does a strong memory imply greater/deeper/longer experience of subjective time ?
When the memory comes to the surface, does it involve neuronal firing which recapitulates neuronal firing pattern of when the event/subjective experience occurred first?
Why is it that repeated learning reinforces memory ? Is it because repeated learning repeats neuronal firing which is then  encoded faster as a memory record/engram ?
What is the relation between objective time, subjective time and memory ? Is memory of a subjective experience an activity encoded linearly through objective time i.e. passage of quantum states ?
Does encoding of memory involve phase transitions in brain states ?


Monday, 9 December 2019

Is_Ought

Is= knowledge, information ,observation
Ought=wisdom, meaning,causal connection hypothesis
Is= non-anthropocentric
Ought=anthropocentric/necessary bias or feature .

Sunday, 8 December 2019

Density.....

Intelligence/Information/vector/Linear------>Consciousness/Energy/Scalar/Non-Linear
Dense/Heavy---------------------------------------->Light

Analogies ?

Intelligence = Information ?
Consciousness = Energy ?

Evolution of the wave function from highly dense starting point=Parachute unpacking and opening up to expand.

Friday, 6 December 2019

Dimensions-Experience-Awareness

Experience occurs in 3 dimensional (3D) space or 4D space time.
The holographic principle says 2D codes for 3D space.
Could this 2D represent the underlying mind and 3D represent the brain/body with the phenomenal mind emerging from it. 2D is the abstract mathematical code/ subtle matter/ underlying mind which when projects itself like a hologram give rise to the brain/body/gross matter.
Brain activity =phenomenal mind in 4D space time.
Quantum fields in 1D are at equilibrium and could represent all pervading awareness. Fields in 1D are like a straight line which when replicate themselves form a 2D field. Interactions/entanglement of 1D lines  are encoded in the 2D field . When actual interactions/entanglement of 1D lines occur phase transition of the 2D field to 3D space occurs which when repeat themselves give rise to 4D space time. Time is emergent in 3D but fundamental in 4D.
Thus pure awareness also known as pure consciousness is all pervading since it is in 1D which is a constituent of higher dimensions of 2D, 3D and 4D.
Awareness is and can only be experienced but not objectified. It exists not only in our body which is in 3D but also outside our body so it has to be a universal constituent. Thus this awareness is in 1D. It is non-material in that it is an energy field at equilibrium (values for energy density are constant at all points in the line) in 1D. When this energy field in 1D replicates in a series it extends to 2D. The interactions/entanglement of 1D energy lines in 2D energy fields give rise to structure/gross matter/space in 3D via phase transition which can also be termed symmetry breaking.
I equate 1D to brahman i.e.pure awareness of vedanta, 2D to self/underlying mind of vedanta, 3D to brain as in a body, 4D to phenomenal emergent mind.
In Vedantic meditative experience when 4D mental vibrations align  , brain in 3D is no longer processing  randomn/asynchronous neural stimuli, but aligned neuronal firing occurs , so that the electroencephalogram shows constant low energy sustained but consistent synchronous firing of neurons (i,e. neural correlates), 2D fields of underlying mind no longer undergo interacting phase transitions and low energy of  equilibriated   lines of 1D are experienced. The meditator experiences calmness and oneness within and without.