Quantum consciousness theory
I found this wonderful documentary about Quantum consciousness theory called "Quantum consciousness theory proves how your brain connects to the universe" via Youtube channel Universe Unfold. I cannot validate everything that is included in this because it relates to "advanced science" but the content is breathtaking and it gives you a lot to digest... (This video features an AI-generated voice inspired by Sir David Attenborough).
Some X4mat!ve statements from the documentary:
What are you?
We cannot explain why the lights are on inside your head.
Somehow inside your brain, there is a universe.
How does a collection of atoms
arranged in specific patterns "feel"?
(the hard problem of consciousness)
Physicalism
The brain is described as a biological computer.
Inputs come in, outputs go out, and whatever happens in between is just information processing.
<< this might be completely wrong>>
Each electron is a single particle and should go through one slit or the other.
It should not go through both at once. And yet it does.
(the double slit experiment)
Superposition - being in two places at once.
It stops being a wave and becomes a particle the moment you look at it.
It is meaningless to speak of the properties of a particle before you observe it.
Niels Bohr
The universe is,
at its core,
irreducibly probabilistic.
Roger Penrose
A book: "The emperor´s new mind" (1989)
Consciousness is rooted in the deepest laws of physics,
something connected to the unresolved mysteries of quantum mechanics.
Microtubules are protein structures that form the internal skeleton of cells.
Tubulin dimers behave like "a quantum computer inside every neuron in your brain"...
Orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR)
Penrose proposed that wave function collapse was caused by gravity.
Two versions of reality exist at the same time in space-time.
When the quantum superposition in the
microtubules reaches Penrose threshold,
it collapses due to quantum gravity
creating a moment of conscious experience
- a quantum event.
Consciousness is something the brain tunes into,
like a radio receiving a signal that was always there.
Photosynthesis harnesses quantum coherence.
if the act of observation collapses the wave function -
if quantum states only become definite when they are measured -
then what is doing the measuring?
So, what collapses the quantum state of the measurement device...
Consciousness is the thing that makes physics happen.
Well,
Does animal consciousness collapse wave functions?
The Integrated Information Theory (IIT)
Phi - how much information the system
generates as a whole beyond the sum of its part.
High phi means high consciousness.
Any system that integrates information
might have some degree of consciousness.
Panpsychism
The idea that consciousness is not something
the brain creates but something that is fundamental,
something that exists everywhere is some form or another.
It is suggesting that all things possess some form of mental properties.
Philip Goff
Book: "Galileo´s error"
Galileo deliberately removed from science the very thing
that at the end of the day we care about the most,
our experience.
Penrose believes:
Your brain is not a consciousness machine,
it is a consciousness antenna and the signal it is receiving
has been broadcasting since the beginning of time.
Orch OR is still a hypothesis
2023:
a study partially funded by the Templeton foundation.
Consciousness science had become a rigorous experimental discipline:
The border between conscious and unconscious is not
where we thought it was and it is not as sharp as we assumed.
What are you?
You are the universe rearranged
If consciousness is fundamental then it must
have been present before brains existed.
Before life existed. Before Earth existed...
The universe would be full of consciousness.
Life is universe becoming more conscious of itself.
Brains are the universe reaching a level of
self-organisation where experience becomes
deep enough to reflect on its own existence.
You are the universe looking at itself.
And it is wondering what it is...

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