scholarly journals Origin of consciousness: details by a new interesting model

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Di Sia
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Fundamental Property ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Quantum Theories ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Physical Universe ◽  
Fundamental Forces ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Existing Data

All great religions have used the light as a symbol of transcendence andcharacteristic of divinity, have spoken on “the divine spark that is in us”. Light indicates life; the symbol of light pervades the Bible from the first to the last page, it is the principle of creation. God has been called in various ways, but the light is the metaphor used to talk about His nature. From the point of view of physics, the light is an electromagnetic wave; the electromagnetic force is one of the four fundamental forces known today. In quantum theories of consciousness, this one is considered a fundamental property of the universe. Recent insights consider our physical universe as appeared by a phase-like transition from a universe with 10 space-time dimensions. Consciousness would be created by the electromagnetic field in relation to the SU(6) x U(1) symmetry group. The human brain is conceived as an interface organ that receives information, an element of interference from incoming data and already existing data (the subject’s memory).

scholarly journals Origin of consciousness: details by a new interesting model

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Di Sia
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Field ◽  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Fundamental Property ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Quantum Theories ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Physical Universe ◽  
Fundamental Forces ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Existing Data

All great religions have used the light as a symbol of transcendence andcharacteristic of divinity, have spoken on “the divine spark that is in us”. Light indicates life; the symbol of light pervades the Bible from the first to the last page, it is the principle of creation. God has been called in various ways, but the light is the metaphor used to talk about His nature. From the point of view of physics, the light is an electromagnetic wave; the electromagnetic force is one of the four fundamental forces known today. In quantum theories of consciousness, this one is considered a fundamental property of the universe. Recent insights consider our physical universe as appeared by a phase-like transition from a universe with 10 space-time dimensions.Consciousness would be created by the electromagnetic field in relation to the SU(6) x U(1) symmetry group. The human brain is conceived as an interface organ that receivesinformation, an element of interference from incoming data and already existing data (thesubject’s memory).

scholarly journals Engineering of a toy model of the universe based on information and memory from an ICT perspective

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Capurso
Keyword(s):  
Information Science ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Relativistic Energy ◽  
Quantum Theories ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Wave Particle Duality ◽  
Discrete Processing ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Consistent Information ◽  
The Universe

How could we describe spacetime and all the information within it? What information are we considering? Where and how the information is stored and evolves? Which assumptions should we make on space and time to even imagine possible answers? The aim of this contribution is to investigate these open questions proposing a set of assumptions for the description of a toy-model of the universe in which phenomena could be described through information from an ICT perspective. Spacetime fabric is considered through finite, discrete and logical consistent information emerging as a probabilistic space (described as an imaginary distance ict) from a quantum memory (called Tk) that stores the non-local hidden information of spatial correlation (entanglement among spacetime events). Evolution is considered in discrete processing cycles of the spacetime memory, which are related to a universal beat of reference. After defining the context in which spacetime is considered, the contribution focuses on elementary particles and on how to describe their behavior in the proposed toy-model. The relativistic energy and the wave function are interpreted from the point of view of a momentum in ict (as spatial momentum) and a momentum in Tk (connected to the particle mass, memory and beat in respect to the universal beat of reference), that are elaborated in each cycle. Following the assumptions, a physical interpretation of the wave-particle duality is suggested in the context of memory, entanglement and information. The last section addresses the cosmological scales, looking for a possible physical realization of the model and proposing how the different arrows of time should emerge in the corresponding toy-universe. Additional elaboration on the geometry of the proposed interpretation and on how metric could be described through the variables introduces is provided in the Annex.Further developments are needed for a complete description of spacetime from information. With the proposal of a coherent toy model of the universe, from the engineering hypotheses on spacetime to a possible implementation, the author would like to highlight the importance of logical consistency in all quantum theories that approach Information Science and, eventually, offer a point of view that restores the value of time and memory in the physics narrative.

Changes in the Prognosis of Functional Psychoses Since the Days of Kraepelin

1967 ◽  
Vol 113 (501) ◽  
pp. 813-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Örnulv Ödegård
Keyword(s):  
Special Problem ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Point ◽  
Course Of Illness ◽  
Dynamic Reasoning ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Functional Psychoses ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Universe

My choice of Kraepelin as a point of departure for this lecture has definite reasons. If one wants to stay within the field of clinical psychiatry (as opposed to psychiatric history), that is as far back as one can reasonably go. By this no slight is intended upon the pre-Kraepelinian psychiatrists. For our topic Henry Maudsley would indeed have been a most appropriate starting point, and by no means for reasons of courtesy. His general point of view is admirably sound as a basis for the scientific study of prognosis in psychiatry. I quote: “There is no accident in madness. Causality, not casualty, governs its appearance in the universe, and it is very far from being a good and sufficient practice simply to mark its phenomena and straightway to pass on as if they belonged not to an order but to a disorder of events that called for no explanation.” On the special problem of prognosis he shows his clinical acumen by stating that the outlook is poor when the course of illness is insidious, but this only means that these cases develop their psychoses on the basis of mental deviations which go very far back in the patient's life, so that in fact they are generally in a chronic stage at the time of their first admission to hospital. Here he actually corrects a mistake which is still quite often made. He shows his dynamic attitude when he says that prognosis is to a large extent modified by external conditions, in particular by the attitude of friends and relatives. Maudsley's dynamic reasoning was limited by the narrow framework of the degeneration hypothesis of those days. He had a sceptical attitude towards classification, which he regarded as artificial and dangerously pseudo-exact. His own classification was deliberately provisional, with very wide groups. He held that a description of various sub-forms of chronic insanity was useless, as it would mean nothing but a tiresome enumeration of unconnected details.

Canons to the Left of Him: Brevard Childs, his Critics, and the Future of Old Testament Theology

1997 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Provan
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Biblical Theology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Probable Origin ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

It is well known that the seeds from which the modern discipline of OT theology grew are already found in 17th and 18th century discussion of the relationship between Bible and Church, which tended to drive a wedge between the two, regarding canon in historical rather than theological terms; stressing the difference between what is transient and particular in the Bible and what is universal and of abiding significance; and placing the task of deciding which is which upon the shoulders of the individual reader rather than upon the church. Free investigation of the Bible, unfettered by church tradition and theology, was to be the way ahead. OT theology finds its roots more particularly in the 18th century discussion of the nature of and the relationship between Biblical Theology and Dogmatic Theology, and in particular in Gabler's classic theoreticalstatementof their nature and relationship. The first book which may strictly be called an OT theology appeared in 1796: an historical discussion of the ideas to be found in the OT, with an emphasis on their probable origin and the stages through which Hebrew religious thought had passed, compared and contrasted with the beliefs of other ancient peoples, and evaluated from the point of view of rationalistic religion. Here we find the unreserved acceptance of Gabler's principle that OT theology must in the first instance be a descriptive and historical discipline, freed from dogmatic constraints and resistant to the premature merging of OT and NT — a principle which in the succeeding century was accepted by writers across the whole theological spectrum, including those of orthodox and conservative inclination.

PHILOSOPHY AND THE MEANING OF LIFE

Think ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (60) ◽  
pp. 33-49
Author(s):  
William Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Meaning Of Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Eternal Life ◽  
Evolution Of The Universe ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
The Universe

The author sets out to respond to the student complaint that ‘Philosophy did not answer “the big questions”’, in particular the question ‘What is the meaning of life?’ The response first outlines and evaluates the most common religious answer, that human life is given a meaning by God who created us and informs us that this life is just the pilgrim way to the next eternal life in heaven. He then discusses the response that, from the point of view of post-Darwinian science and the evolution of the universe and all that is in it, human life on Earth must be afforded no more meaning than the meaning we would give to a microscopic planaria or to some creature on another planet in a distant universe. All things including human creatures on Planet Earth just exist for a time and that is that. There is no plan or purpose. In the last sections the author outlines the view that it is we humans ourselves who give meaning to our lives by our choices of values or things that are worth pursuing and through our resulting sense of achievement or the opposite. Nevertheless the question ‘What is the meaning of life?’ can mean quite different things in different contexts, and so merit different if related answers. From one point of view one answer may lie in terms of the love of one human for another.

DARK GEOMETRY

2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2275-2279 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. R. CEMBRANOS ◽  
A. DOBADO ◽  
A. L. MAROTO
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Extra Dimensions ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Missing Mass ◽  
Brane Worlds ◽  
Mass Problem ◽  
Extra Space ◽  
The Universe

Extra-dimensional theories contain additional degrees of freedom related to the geometry of the extra space which can be interpreted as new particles. Such theories allow to reformulate most of the fundamental problems of physics from a completely different point of view. In this essay, we concentrate on the brane fluctuations which are present in brane-worlds, and how such oscillations of the own space–time geometry along curved extra dimensions can help to resolve the Universe missing mass problem. The energy scales involved in these models are low compared to the Planck scale, and this means that some of the brane fluctuations distinctive signals could be detected in future colliders and in direct or indirect dark matter searches.

Anomalous Behavior of Heterogeneous Materials at Microwaves Frequencies: Introduction to Fractional Derivatives in Electromagnetism

1990 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Heliodore ◽  
D. Cottevieille ◽  
A. Le Mehaute
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Wave ◽  
Physical Meaning ◽  
Fractional Derivatives ◽  
Heterogeneous Media ◽  
Present Note ◽  
Heterogeneous Materials ◽  
Anomalous Behavior ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Unique Point ◽  
Validity Range

ABSTRACTThe present note introduces new trends in electromagnetic spectroscopy in complex media.When an electromagnetic wave propagates in heterogeneous media, some questions arise about both physical meaning and validity range of the traditional analysis. The aim of our advanced research is related to the generalisation of Maxwell's equations able todescribe both homogeneous and heterogeneous media from an unique point of view.

scholarly journals What are the wild waves saying? Yet another meditation on the predictions, searches for, and detections of gravitational waves

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (14) ◽  
pp. 1830009
Author(s):  
Virginia Trimble
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
Laboratory Apparatus ◽  
New Information ◽  
Theory Of Gravity ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Universe

A large majority of the physics and astronomy communities are now sure that gravitational waves exist, can be looked for, and can be studied via their effects on laboratory apparatus as well as on astronomical objects. So far, everything found out has agreed with the predictions of general relativity, but hopes are high for new information about the universe and its contents and perhaps for hints of a better theory of gravity than general relativity (which even Einstein expected to come eventually). This is one version of the story, from 1905 to the present, told from an unusual point of view, because the author was, for 28.5 years, married to Joseph Weber, who built the first detectors starting in the early 1960s and operated one or more until his death on 30 September 2000.

scholarly journals Biblijne argumenty ad absurdum świadectwem prawdziwości wiary chrześcijańskiej

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Janusz Nawrot
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Logical Thinking ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Argumentum ad absurdum, as a way of thinking or acting which is pointless from the point of view of rationality and predictability of a human’s action, is intentionally planned in order to justify the uniqueness and thus veracity of the existence of something compared to commonly accepted standards of behaviour. The universality of these standards is questioned by introducing factors that go beyond the patterns of commonly accepted standards. In the Bible, there are also absurd situations from the point of view of human predictability which are directly attributed to God. This absurdity of God’s action, in comparison to the rights guiding pagan religions and the rationally accepted human behaviour strengthens the faith in His existence. Going beyond the area of “normalcy” proves in the strongest way that these facts, which are seemingly at variance with logical thinking, are indeed true. These facts are paradoxically a strong and durable foundation of the Christian faith.

scholarly journals The Meta-Dynamic Nature of Consciousness

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Barnden
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Formulation ◽  
Physical Universe ◽  
Time Flow ◽  
Non Local ◽  
Physical Interactions ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Physical Laws ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Non Locality ◽  
Do So

How, if at all, consciousness can be part of the physical universe remains a baffling problem. This article outlines a new, developing philosophical theory of how it could do so, and offers a preliminary mathematical formulation of a physical grounding for key aspects of the theory. Because the philosophical side has radical elements, so does the physical-theory side. The philosophical side is radical, first, in proposing that the productivity or dynamism in the universe that many believe to be responsible for its systematic regularities is actually itself a physical constituent of the universe, along with more familiar entities. Indeed, it proposes that instances of dynamism can themselves take part in physical interactions with other entities, this interaction then being “meta-dynamism” (a type of meta-causation). Secondly, the theory is radical, and unique, in arguing that consciousness is necessarily partly constituted of meta-dynamic auto-sensitivity, in other words it must react via meta-dynamism to its own dynamism, and also in conjecturing that some specific form of this sensitivity is sufficient for and indeed constitutive of consciousness. The article proposes a way for physical laws to be modified to accommodate meta-dynamism, via the radical step of including elements that explicitly refer to dynamism itself. Additionally, laws become, explicitly, temporally non-local in referring directly to quantity values holding at times prior to a given instant of application of the law. The approach therefore implicitly brings in considerations about what information determines states. Because of the temporal non-locality, and also because of the deep connections between dynamism and time-flow, the approach also implicitly connects to the topic of entropy insofar as this is related to time.

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