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TGD INSPIRED THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS



||Introduction||

PART I: Basic Ideas of TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness
||Matter, Mind, Quantum|| Negentropy Maximization Principle||Self and Binding|| Quantum Model for Sensory Representations||
PART II: Time and Consciousness
||Time and Consciousness ||Quantum Model of Memory||About the Nature of Time||
PART III: Intelligence, Information, and Cognition
||TGD Inspired Theory of Intelligent Systems|| p-Adic Physics as Physics of Cognition and Intention ||
PART IV: Paranormal Phenomena
|| Quantum Model of Paranormal Phenomena|| TGD Based Model for OBEs||
||Appendix||



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    Introduction

  1. Basic ideas of TGD

    1. TGD as a Poincare invariant theory of gravitation

    2. TGD as a generalization of the hadronic string model

    3. Fusion of the two approaches via a generalization of the space-time concept

  2. The five threads in the development of quantum TGD

    1. Quantum TGD as configuration space spinor geometry

    2. p-Adic TGD

    3. TGD as a generalization of physics to a theory of consciousness

    4. TGD as a generalized number theory

    5. Dynamical quantized Planck constant and dark matter hierarchy

  3. Bird's eye of view about the contents of the book

  4. Contents of the book

    1. PART I: Basic Ideas of TGD inspired theory of consciousness

    2. PART II: Time and Consciousness

    3. PART III: Intelligence, Information, and Cognition

    4. PART IV: Paranormal Phenomena



PART I: BASIC IDEAS OF TGD INSPIRED THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS



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    Matter, Mind, Quantum

  1. Introduction

    1. Basic ideas of TGD inspired theory of consciousness

    2. Implications of zero energy ontology, number theoretical universality, and hierarchy of Planck constants

  2. TGD inspired theory of consciousness

    1. Quantum jumps between quantum histories as moments of consciousness

    2. Negentropy Maximization Principle

    3. Quantum self

    4. About geometric correlates of selves

    5. Questions related to the notion of self

  3. Quantum information processing in living matter

    1. Magnetic body as intentional agent and experiencer

    2. Summary about the possible role of the magnetic body in living matter

    3. Brain and consciousness

  4. Time and consciousness

    1. The relationship between subjective and geometric time

    2. Four-dimensional brain and long term memories

    3. Time and self

  5. Various types of conscious experiences

    1. Basic structure of conscious experience

    2. Cognition and p-adic physics

    3. Reflective- and proto-levels of consciousness

    4. General model for sensory experiences

    5. Emotions

    6. Directed attention

    7. Altered states of consciousness

  6. Boolean mind, cognition and intentionality

    1. Fermions and Boolean cognition

    2. Fuzzy logic, quantum groups, and Jones inclusions

    3. p-Adic physics as physics of cognition and intentionality

    4. Infinite primes, cognition and intentionality

  7. Quantum correlates of qualia

    1. Development of ideas

    2. Qualia and thermodynamics

    3. Geometric qualia and zero modes

  8. Solutions to some paradoxes

    1. Paradoxes related to quantum physics

    2. Paradoxes related to the theories of consciousness

    3. Logical paradoxes and concept of time



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    Negentropy Maximization Principle

  1. Introduction

    1. The notion of entanglement entropy

    2. Zero energy ontology

    3. Connection with standard quantum measurement theory

    4. Quantum classical correspondence

    5. Fusion of real and p-adic physics

    6. Dark matter hierarchy

    7. Is it possible to unify the notions of quantum jump and self?

    8. Hyper-finite factors of type II1 and quantum measurement theory with a finite measurement resolution

  2. Basic view about NMP

    1. The general structure of quantum jump

    2. NMP and the notion of self

    3. NMP, self measurements, cognition, state preparation, qualia

  3. Physics as fusion of real and p-adic physics and NMP

    1. Basic definitions related to density matrix and entanglement entropy

    2. Generalization of the notion of information

    3. Number theoretic information measures at the space-time level

    4. Number theoretical Quantum Mechanics

    5. Anatomy of quantum jump

  4. Generalization of NMP to the case of hyper-finite type II1 factors

    1. Factors of type I

    2. Factors of type II1

    3. Factors of type III

  5. Some consequences of NMP

    1. NMP and thermodynamics

    2. NMP and self-organization

    3. NMP and p-adic length scale hypothesis

    4. NMP and biology

    5. NMP, consciousness, and cognition

    6. NMP and quantum computer type systems

  6. Generalization of thermodynamics allowing negentropic entanglement and a model for conscious information processing

    1. Beauregard's model for computer

    2. TGD based variant of Beauregard's model and a generalization of thermodynamics

    3. Some clarifying comments



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    Self and Binding

  1. Introduction

    1. Quantum jump as moment of consciousness and the notion of self

    2. Sharing and fusion of mental images

    3. Qualia

    4. Self-referentiality of consciousness

    5. Hierarchy of Planck constants and consciousness

    6. Zero energy ontology and consciousness

    7. Evolution of the ideas about self

  2. Negentropy Maximization Principle

    1. Basic form of NMP

    2. Number theoretic Shannon entropy as information

    3. Can one define measures for the information contents of mental image?

    4. Life as islands of rational/algebraic numbers in the seas of real and p-adic continua?

    5. Hyper-finite factors of type II1 and NMP

  3. Quantum self

    1. Self as a sub-system able to avoid entropic bound state entanglement

    2. Binding and quantum entanglement

    3. General structure of conscious experience

    4. Basic consequences

    5. Can one choose between the two variants for the notion of self or are they equivalent?

  4. Some applications at brain level

    1. A simple model for cognition

    2. Cognition, learning, and negentropic entanglement at the level of brain

    3. Negentropic entanglement and the role of neurotransmitters

    4. Differences between left and right brain hemisphere

    5. Music and summation hypothesis

  5. Whole-body consciousness: physical evidence and tests

    1. Dissipation and consciousness

    2. EEG synchrony and negentropic entanglement

    3. Synesthesia

  6. Self hierarchy and the notion of magnetic body

    1. Higher level selves in biological self hierarchy

    2. Support for the notion magnetic body

    3. Some functions of magnetic body

    4. The magnetic fields associated with body parts and higher levels of consciousness



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    Quantum model for sensory representations

  1. Introduction

    1. The quantum hardware

    2. Me as a computer sitting at its own terminal

  2. General ideas about hardware of consciousness

    1. Brain as a computer

    2. Brain, EEG, and quantum holograms

    3. Generalized notions of sensory experience and motor activity

    4. The paradigm of four-dimensional brain

    5. . Music metaphor and the function of the nerve pulses and EEG

    6. Connection with the functionalistic view about brain

    7. Brain as an associative net

  3. Quantum tools for bio-control and coordination

    1. Massless extremals, magnetic flux tubes, and electrets

    2. Homeostasis as a many-sheeted ionic flow equilibrium

    3. Quantum model for pattern recognition

    4. General mechanism making possible biological clocks, alarm clocks, comparison circuits, and novelty detectors

  4. Sensory representations

    1. Concrete realization of sensory representations

    2. Is the pain in the toe in the toe, in brain, or somewhere else?



PART II: TIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS



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    Time and consciousness

  1. Introduction

    1. The concepts of self and subjective memory

    2. Psychological time and its arrow

    3. Cosmology of consciousness

    4. Four-dimensional brain

    5. Good and Evil, Life and Death

    6. Evidence for TGD based time concept

  2. TGD based concept of time

    1. Holy trinity of time developments

    2. Infinite primes and consciousness

    3. The notion of self

    4. The notions of cognitive space-time sheet and zero energy fermion pairs

    5. Some aspects of classical nondeterminism

    6. Two times

    7. About the arrow of psychological time

    8. What really distinguishes between future and past?

    9. Cosmology of consciousness

    10. Communications in four-dimensional society

  3. Four-dimensional brain

    1. The paradigm of four-dimensional brain

    2. Geometric and subjective memories

    3. Memories with respect to geometric time as simulations

    4. Are long term memories geometric or subjective memories?

  4. Time delays of consciousness and quantum jumps between histories

    1. Dissipation as evidence for consciousness

    2. Experiments related to the active role of consciousness

    3. Experiments related to the passive role of consciousness

    4. The experiment of Radin as evidence for quantum jump between quantum histories concept

  5. Good and Evil, Life and Death

    1. Life and Death

    2. Good and Evil



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    Quantum model for memory

  1. Introduction

    1. Geometric and subjective memories

    2. p-Adic physics as physics of intentionality

    3. Spin glass model of memories

    4. Mirror mechanism

    5. Third person aspects of memory

    6. Symbolic and cognitive representations of memories

    7. Biosupercomputers and memories

  2. Different types of memories

    1. Geometric and subjective memories

    2. Habits, skills, associations

    3. Spin glass model of learning and long term memories

    4. Long term memories

    5. Implicit memories

    6. Procedural memories

  3. Model for long term memories

    1. General ideas

    2. Could gravitation have something to do with long term memories+

    3. Is right brain hemisphere the quantum entangler?

    4. Going to the neuronal level

    5. Hippocampus and long term memories

    6. Micro-tubuli and long term memory

  4. A proposal for memory code

    1. Basic ideas of the model

    2. TGD view about the situation

  5. Hyper-finite factors of type II1, dark matter hierarchy, and consciousness

    1. Hyper-finite factors of type II1 and quantization of Planck constant

    2. Dark matter hierarchy

    3. Dark matter hierarchy and the notion of self

    4. The time span of long term memories as a signature for the level of dark matter hierarchy

    5. Remote metabolism, long term memory, and zero energy ontology

    6. Applying computer analogy to the model for long term memories



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    About the Nature of Time

  1. Introduction

  2. The most recent vision about zero energy ontology and p-adicization

    1. Zero energy ontology briefly

    2. Definition of energy in zero energy ontology

    3. p-Adic variants of the imbedding space

  3. Zero energy ontology, self hierarchy, and the notion of time

    1. Causal diamonds as correlates for selves

    2. Why sensory experience is about so short time interval?

    3. Arrow of time

    4. The mechanism of self referentiality

    5. Can selves interact and evolve?

  4. What arrow of time means at the level of quantum states?

    1. Arrow of time as an inherent property of zero energy states

    2. Does state function-state preparation sequence correspond to alternating arrow of geometric time

    3. The arrow of geometric time and the arrow of logical implication

    4. How experienced time and the geometric time of physicist relate to each other?: the most recent approach

  5. Time for time

    1. Flash-lag effect and its modification

    2. We live in the past: but in what sense?

    3. Kublai Khan's problem and three more surprises



PART III: INTELLIGENCE, INFORMATION, AND CONSCIOUSNESS



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    TGD inspired theory of intelligent systems

  1. Introduction

    1. Magnetic body as intentional agent and experiencer

    2. What is conscious intelligence

    3. The meanings of sensory, cognitive, symbolic

    4. Topics of the chapter

  2. How to define measures for the information content of consciousness?

    1. Various kinds of information measures

    2. Information concept at space-time leve

    3. Information theoretic interpretation of Kähler function

  3. Logic and fermions

    1. The state basis of fermionic Fock space as Boolean algebra

    2. Boolean algebra as Boolean QFT

    3. Fermions, zero energy ontology, and Boolean cognition

    4. Negentropic entanglement, fuzzy logic, quantum groups, and Jones inclusions

    5. Cognitive codes and fermions

  4. Quantum computationalism

    1. Computationalism and connectionism

    2. How connectionism emerges from TGD framework?

    3. Computationalism and TGD

    4. How brain builds the model of the external world?

  5. Holographic brain and quantum TGD

    1. Evidence for holographic brain

    2. Three explanations for the hologram like properties of brain

    3. From holographic brain to neuronal window?

    4. Possible evidence for the neuronal window idea

    5. Massless extremals as quantum holograms

    6. The notion of conscious hologram

  6. Four-dimensional fractal brain as an associative net

    1. Brain as an associative net

    2. 4-dimensional fractal brain

    3. Sensory experiences, logical thinking, associations and simulations

    4. Formation of long term memories

    5. Planning and realization of motor programs

    6. Language

  7. Connection with the neuro science view about brain

    1. A simple model for cognition

    2. Cognition, learning, and negentropic entanglement at the level of brain

    3. Negentropic entanglement and the role of neurotransmitters

  8. Could TGD provide justification for the ideas of Rupert Sheldrake?

    1. Sheldrake's theory

    2. TGD based interpretation of morphic fields and collective memory



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    p-Adic physics as physics of cognition and intention

  1. Introduction

    1. Magnetic body as intentional agent and experiencer

    2. What is conscious intelligence

    3. Topics of the chapter

  2. p-Adic physics as physics of intentionality and cognition

    1. The three non-determinisms

    2. Classical non-determinism and volition

    3. p-Adic non-determinism and cognition

    4. What cognitive representations are and how they develop?

    5. Quantization phenomena in psychophysics

  3. Various aspects of cognition

    1. p-Adic physics and imagination

    2. How dreams and hallucinations relate to sensory experiences?

    3. Are cognitive representations generated from sensory input?

    4. Cognition, sensory experience, and Boolean mind

    5. Replication of memes, and morphic fields

    6. Learning

    7. Some special aspects of cognition from p-adic point of view

  4. Frontal lobes and p-adic physics

    1. Basic functional anatomy of frontal lobes

    2. Some neurophysiological findings related to frontal lobes

    3. TGD based view about frontal lobes

    4. Goal structures and emotions

    5. Experimental support for binocular rivalry as a quantum phenomenon

  5. Cognition and DNA and protein level

    1. Symmetry breaking generates conscious information

    2. Cognitive codes as a realization of the information generated by DNA-protein symmetry breaking?

    3. M72 and M17 codes

    4. Cognitive codes and bio-systems as molecular societies

    5. Peptides as molecules of emotion and code of intentionality

    6. Questions relating to M17 code.

  6. What might be the basic principles behind molecular cognitive and sensory representations?

    1. Number theoretical ideas

    2. Representations

    3. Finite geometries and cognition

    4. Application of ideas to micro-tubuli and clathrin molecules

  7. Intentionality, cognition, and number theory

    1. Should one allow also transcendentals in the extensions of p-adics?

    2. General number theoretical ideas inspired by the number theoretical vision about cognition and intentionality

    3. Infinite primes, cognition, and intentionality

    4. Cognition, logic, and p-adicity



PART IV: PARANORMAL PHENOMENA



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    Quantum model for paranormal phenomena

  1. Introduction

    1. Development of ideas about paranormal

    2. Topics to be discussed

  2. General view about paranormal phenomena

    1. The notion of magnetic mirror

    2. Summary of the model

  3. Paranormal phenomena in biological systems

    1. Healing by time reversal

    2. DelaWarr camera and field representation of genetic information

  4. Parapsychological phenomena

    1. Extrasensory perception, precognition, and other parapsychic effects

    2. Psychokinesis

    3. Near death experiences

    4. Are communications between living and deceased possible?

  5. TGD based model for instrumental trans-communications

    1. Introduction

    2. Universe as a conscious hologram and a general mechanism for remote mental interactions

    3. Who are the senders?

    4. Knowhow problem

    5. Experimenter as a medium and amplifier of the signal

    6. How the signal is transformed to a signal in electronic instrument?

    7. Tests fo the model of ITC



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    TGD Based Model for OBEs

  1. Introduction

  2. OBEs, autoscopy, heautoscopy, and other strange experiences

    1. Phenomenological characterization

    2. OBEs induced by electric stimulation

    3. Explanations of OBEs and related experiences

  3. TGD inspired model for OBEs and related experiences

    1. Basic ingredients of the TGD inspired model

    2. Questions

    3. A more detail model for OBEs

    4. The relationship of EMDR experiences to OBEs

    5. Dark matter hierarchy, zero energy ontology, negentropic entanglement, OBEs

    6. The role of the magnetic body in the case of other brain functions

  4. The interpretation of my own OBE type experiences in terms of the proposed model

    1. Visual experiences and kinesthetic sensations

    2. OBE type auditory sensations

    3. OBEs associated with "Great Experiences"



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    Appendix

  1. Basic properties of CP2

    1. CP2 as a manifold

    2. Metric and Kähler structures of CP2

    3. Spinors in CP2

    4. Geodesic sub-manifolds of CP2

  2. CP2 geometry and standard model symmetries

    1. Identification of the electro-weak couplings

    2. Discrete symmetries

  3. Basic facts about induced gauge fields

    1. Induced gauge fields for space-times for which CP2 projection is a geodesic sphere

    2. Space-time surfaces with vanishing em, Z0, or Kähler fields

  4. p-Adic numbers and TGD

    1. p-Adic number fields

    2. Canonical correspondence between p-adic and real numbers



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