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TGD INSPIRED THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS



||Introduction||

PART I: Basic Ideas of TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness
|| TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness and of Bio-Systems: an Overview ||Matter, Mind, Quantum|| Negentropy Maximization Principle||Self and Binding|| Quantum Model for Sensory Representations||New Developments in TGD and Their Implications for TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness||
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 four 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

  3. Quantum Theory

    1. Basic ideas

    2. Construction of quantum theory

    3. Construction of S-matrix at high energy limit

  4. p-Adic aspects of quantum TGD

    1. p-Adic numbers

    2. How p-adic numbers emerge from quantum TGD?

    3. Various cognitive maps

    4. p-Adic length scale hypothesis

    5. CP2 type extremals and elementary particle blackhole analogy

    6. p-Adic thermodynamics and particle massivation

    7. p-Adic cohomology

    8. Localization in zero modes and evolution

  5. TGD inspired theory of consciousness very briefly

    1. Moment of consciousness as quantum jump between quantum histories

    2. Information gain of conscious experience

    3. TGD predicts standard quantum measurement theory

    4. Negentropy Maximization Principle

    5. The notions of self and subjective memory

    6. Summation hypothesis and binding of experiences

    7. Binding of experiencers by entanglement

    8. Mind like and material space-time sheets

    9. The notion of association sequence

    10. p-Adic--real phase transition as a transformation of thought into action and sensory input to cognition

    11. Fermions and Boolean mind

    12. Quantum theory of self-organization

  6. Bio-systems as macroscopic quantum systems

    1. Topological field quantization

    2. Formation of the join along boundaries bonds

    3. Wormhole Bose Einstein (BE) condensates

    4. Coherent light and gravitons

    5. Ionic super-conductors and many-sheeted ionic flow equilibrium

    6. Identification of mind like space-time sheets as massless extremals

  7. 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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    TGD Inspired Quantum Theory of Consciousness and of Bio-systems: an Overall View

  1. Introduction

    1. Quantum-Classical Correspondence

    2. Classical Physics as Exact Part of Quantum Theory

    3. Some Basic Ideas of TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness and Quantum Biology

  2. Many-Sheeted Space-time, Magnetic Flux Quanta, Electrets and MEs

    1. Dynamical quantized Planck constant and dark matter hierarchy

    2. p-Adic length scale hypothesis

    3. Topological light rays (massless extremals, MEs)

    4. Magnetic flux quanta and electrets

  3. TGD inspired theory of consciousness very briefly

    1. Moment of consciousness as quantum jump between quantum histories

    2. Quantum self

    3. Space-time correlates of consciousness

    4. Dynamical quantized Planck constant, dark matter hierarchy, and consciousness

    5. About the arrow of psychological time and notion of self: once again!

  4. Local p-adic physics and the p-adic fractality of the real physics and p-adic-to-real transition as a space-time correlate for the transformation of intention to action

    1. p-Adic physics and the construction of solutions of field equations

    2. A more detailed view about how local p-adic physics codes for p-adic fractal long range correlations of the real physics

    3. Infinite primes, cognition, and intentionality



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    Matter, Mind, Quantum

  1. Introduction

    1. Identification of quantum states as quantum histories

    2. Quantum notion of self

    3. Generalization of quantum measurement theory

    4. Quantum criticality

    5. TGD based space-time concept and the existence of macroscopic quantum phases

    6. p-Adic numbers and consciousness

    7. Implications of dynamical Planck constant and dark matter hierarchy for TGD inspired theory of consciousness

  2. TGD inspired theory of consciousness very briefly

    1. Quantum jumps between quantum histories as moments of consciousness

    2. Quantum self

    3. About geometric correlates of selves

    4. Bio-systems amacroscopic quantum systems

  3. Various types of conscious experiences

    1. Basic structure of conscious experience

    2. Cognition and p-adic physics

    3. Reflective and proto-levels of consciousness and Boolean mind

    4. Boolean mind and neutrinos

    5. General model for sensory experiences

    6. Emotions

    7. Directed attention

    8. Four-dimensional brain and long term memories

    9. Altered states of consciousness

  4. Quantum correlates of qualia

    1. Development of ideas

    2. Qualia and thermodynamics

    3. Geometric qualia and zero modes

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. The most recent view about cognition and intentionality at the level of basic physics

    1. Zero energy ontology, cognition, and intentionality

    2. Infinite primes, cognition, and intentionality

    3. About the arrow of psychological time

    4. Questions related to the notion of self

    5. Memory and time



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    Negentropy Maximization Principle

  1. Introduction

    1. Evolution of ideas related to NMP

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

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

  2. General conceptual background

    1. What happens in the quantum jump?

    2. The concept of self and NMP

    3. Length scale dependent definition of subsystem

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

    1. Generalization of the notion of information

    2. Generalized Quantum Mechanics

  4. Some consequences of NMP

    1. NMP and physics

    2. NMP and biology

    3. NMP, consciousness, and cognition

    4. NMP and quantum computer type systems

  5. 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

    4. p-Adic thermodynamics with conformal cutoff and hyper-finite factors of type II1



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    Self and Binding

  1. Introduction

    1. Self as a subsystem able to note generate bound state entanglement

    2. Is genuine subjective memory necessary?

    3. Binding of experiencers and quantum entanglement

    4. Binding of experiences and summation hypothesis

    5. Some consequences

  2. Quantum self

    1. Why the contents of conscious experience cannot be determined by the initial and final states of single quantum jump?

    2. Self as a subsystem able to not generate bound state entanglement?

    3. Two kinds of sub-selves?

    4. Active and passive aspects of consciousness

    5. Self as a statistical ensemble

    6. How to define measures for information contents of conscious experience?

    7. How selves wake-up and fall asleep?

    8. Self has genuine subjective memory

    9. Self as observer

    10. Self and the emergence of psychological time and its arrow

    11. Self as a moral agent

  3. Binding of experiencers and binding of experiences

    1. Binding of experiencers by entanglement

    2. Entanglement and altered states of consciousness

    3. Summation hypothesis and binding of conscious experiences

    4. Binding geometrically

    5. General structure of conscious experience

  4. Some applications at brain level

    1. A simple model for cognition

    2. Differences between left and right brain

    3. Music and summation hypothesis

  5. Whole-body consciousness: physical evidence and tests

    1. Dissipation and consciousness

    2. Synesthesia

  6. Higher levels of self hierarchy

    1. General ideas about biological self hierarchy

    2. Higher levels in biological self hierarchy

    3. Quantum entanglement with higher level selves

    4. Dark Matter Hierarchy and Self Hierarchy

  7. Ageing and death

    1. Ageing as a price for having self

    2. Ageing and death from the point of view of entanglement generation

    3. Death as disappearence of the mental image representing the physical body?

    4. Why childhood memories are recalled so intensively?

    5. What after physical death?

    6. Near death experiences



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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. Quantum tools for bio-control and coordination

    1. Homeostasis as a many-sheeted ionic flow equilibrium

    2. Quantum model for pattern recognition

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

  3. Life as symbiosis of MEs, super-conducting magnetic flux tubes, electric flux quanta, and ordinary matter?

    1. Massless extremals

    2. MEs and mind

  4. 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

  5. Sensory representations

    1. Concrete realization of sensory representations

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



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    New Developments in TGD and Their Implications for TGD Inspired Theory of Consciousness

  1. Introduction

  2. The new developments in quantum TGD

    1. Reduction of quantum TGD to parton level

    2. Quantum measurement theory with finite measurement resolution

    3. Hierarchy of Planck constants

    4. Zero energy ontology

    5. U- and S-matrices

    6. Number theoretic ideas

  3. TGD inspired theory of consciousness in the new conceptual framework

    1. Basic notions and ideas

    2. The interpretation of S- and U-matrices from the point of view of consciousness theory

    3. Negentropy Maximization Principle

    4. About the arrow of psychological time and notion of self: a critical discussion

    5. Questions related to the notion of self

    6. Time, memory, and realization of intentional action



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. Questions related to the notion of self

    9. Cosmology of consciousness

    10. Communications in four-dimensional society

    11. Can the increment of psychological time and its arrow vary?

    12. About the arrow of psychological time and notion of self: once again!

  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?

    5. Quantum physical model for Boolean mind and cognition

  4. Good and Evil, Life and Death

    1. Quantum ethics very briefly

    2. Ageing and death

    3. How the law of Karma could be realized?

    4. Are reincarnations in geometric past possible?

    5. What 'liberation' might mean?

    6. What after the physical death?: the vision provided by a more precise view about psychological time

  5. 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



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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. Quantum computation in biological length scales, Penrose Hameroff hypothesis, and mirror model of long term memory

    1. Is quantum computation possible at all in TGD universe?

    2. Macro-temporal quantum coherence and molecular sex

    3. Do quantum superpositions of tubulin molecule conformations last for a time longer than CP2 time?

    4. Long term memory and gravitational MEs

    5. Dark matter hierarchy and hierarchy of long term memories

  4. Model for long term memories

    1. General ideas

    2. Is right brain hemisphere the quantum entangler?

    3. Going to the neuronal level

    4. Hippocampus and long term memories

    5. Micro-tubuli and long term memory

  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. How the arrow of psychological time emerges?

    6. Questions related to the notion of self

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

    8. 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. Can selves interact and evolve?



PART III: INTELLIGENCE, INFORMATION, AND CONSCIOUSNESS



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    TGD inspired theory of intelligent systems

  1. Introduction

    1. The notions of association sequences and mind like space-time sheet

    2. Boolean logic and fermions

    3. Connections with computationalism and hologrammic brain

    4. The paradigm of four-dimensional brain

    5. The meaning of sensory, cognitive, and symbolic

    6. Information theoretic interpretation of Kähler action

    7. Measures for the information content of conscious experience

    8. p-Adic physics as physics of cognition

    9. The number theoretic view about information

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

    1. How to assign measures for the information content of moment of consciousness

    2. Information measures associated with selves

    3. Information measures associated with cognitive representations

    4. Information gain associated with the localization in zero modes

    5. Combining number theory and information theory

  3. Information theoretic interpretation of quantum TGD

    1. Information theoretic interpretation of action in Frieden's theory

    2. Kähler function is unique from the requirement that temporarily localized sensory experience is possible

    3. Information theoretic interpretation of Kähler function

    4. The role of electric fields in living matter

    5. Generation of artificial life by generating electric fields?

  4. Association sequences and selves

    1. Association sequences and classical nondeterminism

    2. Associations sequences of association sequences and model for abstraction

    3. Products of association sequences

    4. Replication of association sequences

    5. What is the typical time span for association sequences?

    6. Quantum entanglement between association sequences

  5. Logic and fermions

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

    2. Boolean algebra as Boolean QFT

    3. Boolean mind and neutrinos

    4. Combinatorial Hierarchy as a hierarchy of 'genetic codes'

    5. Boolean mind and memetic code

    6. How nerve pulse patterns and membrane oscillations could be coded to Boolean statements?

  6. 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?

  7. 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 and quantum holograms

    6. The notion of conscious hologram

  8. Four-dimensional fractal brain as an associative net

    1. Brain as an associative net

    2. -dimensional fractal brain

    3. Sensory experiences, logical thinking, associations and simulations

    4. Formation of long term memories

    5. Planning and realization of motor program

    6. Language



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    p-Adic physics as physics of cognition and intention

  1. Introduction

    1. The three non-determinisms

    2. Classical non-determinism and volition

    3. p-Adic non-determinism and cognition

    4. How to test p-adic physics?

  2. p-Adic physics as physics of intentionality

    1. Materialization of intentions

    2. Psychological time as front of volition identified as p-adic-to-real phase transition

    3. Entire society/biosphere as a phase transition front proceeding towards geometric future?

    4. p-Adic physics, life, and paranormal

    5. The emergence of symbols

  3. How do cognitive representations develop?

    1. Questions about cognitive representations

    2. Two kinds of cognitive representations

    3. The notion of pinary cutoff

  4. Cognition and intention in elementary particle length scales

    1. What about intention at elementary particle level?

    2. p-Adic-to-real transitions for cognitive neutrino pairs

    3. Tests for the p-adic physics at elementary particle level

  5. Various aspects of cognition

    1. p-Adic physics and imagination

    2. How dreams and hallucinations relate to sensory experiences

    3. How cognitive representations are generated from sensory experience?

    4. p-Adic teleportation, replication of memes, and morphic fields

    5. Learning

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

  6. Empirical evidence for p-adic cognition

    1. Quantization phenomena in phychophysics

    2. Metrology and 2-adicity

  7. How p-adic cognition is realized at brain level

    1. Temporal binding by synchronization

    2. Empirical evidence for synchronization

    3. Does neuronal synchronization with millisecond precision require Z0 MEs?

    4. What is the dynamics of volition and thought?

    5. A general view about the role of synchrony

  8. 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

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. Intentionality, Cognition, and Number Theory

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

    2. General Ideas about Number Theoretical Aspects of Intentionality

    3. Logarithmic Waves as Scaling Momentum Eigen States

    4. A Connection with Riemann Hypothesis

    5. The minimal extension containing e, π and log(p) and the universality of the Riemann Zeta

  12. The relationship between p-adic and real physics and realization of intentions as p-adic-to-real transitions

    1. p-Adic physics and the construction of solutions of field equations

    2. A more detailed view about how local p-adic physics codes for p-adic fractal long range correlations of the real physics

  13. The most recent view about cognition and intentionality at the level of basic physics

    1. Zero energy ontology, cognition, and intentionality

    2. Infinite primes, cognition, and intentionality

    3. Cognition, logic, and p-adicity

    4. What really distinguishes between future and past?



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. General view about psychological time

    2. Paraphysics and p-adic--to real phase transitions

    3. Magnetic mirrors

    4. How water represents and amplifies?

    5. Field representation of the genetic information

    6. General model for remote mental interactions

    7. Stochastic resonance as a mechanism of amplification

  3. Paranormal phenomena in biological systems

    1. Memory of water

    2. Healing by time reversal

    3. 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

  6. Adaptive robots as an electronic life form?



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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. Where the information processing giving meaning to what is seen is carried out?

    3. Are OBEs "only" hallucinations?

    4. Does OBE originate from an actual sensory stimulus?

    5. Why electrical stimulation induces OBEs?

    6. A more detail model for OBEs

    7. The relationship of EMDR experiences to OBEs

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

    1. Dreams and hallucinations and magnetic body

    2. Third person aspect of conscious experience

    3. Feedback to primary sensory organs via reflection from magnetic body

    4. Does imagination involve feedback via magnetic body?

    5. Sensory memories and magnetic body

  5. 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"

    4. Dark matter hierarchy, zero energy ontology, and OBEs



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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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