The Relation between Stimulus and Subjective Experience

 The Relation between Encryption/Stimulus to Decryption/Subjective Experience.

If plasticity resides in the brain then one type of encryption/stimulus can result in many types of decoding/subjective experience by the brain. In this context the brain acts as a decoder/interpreter.

Thus, your subjective experience of interpreting a book will be "different" from my subjective experience of interpreting the sentences in a book. This interpretation will be partly dependent on my priors/preconceived notions as opposed to another human beings'. 

Avoiding Heat Death of the Universe

 Can the human race avoid heat death of the Universe by becoming an interplanetary civilization and sculpting the galactic atmosphere ?

Opinion-Advaita

 Advaita-Non duality: is not comforting. 

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.

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 ?