Is your Roomba robotic vacuum, cleaner is conscious? DO YOU THINK that your newest acquisition, a Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner that traces out its unpredictable paths on your living room floor, is conscious? What about that bee that hovers above your marmalade-covered breakfast toast? Or the newborn who finally fell asleep after being suckled? Nobody […]
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Mind Over Matter – Consciousness and the Nature of Reality
Mind Over Matter? The dominant paradigm in the world today is scientific-materialism. It has given us a lot of materialistic advantages that we can’t argue with. These include better health care and education along with a higher standard of living that we could only dream of 100 years ago. In spite of all this we […]
The Primacy of Consciousness – Peter Russell
Introduction to Consciousness Defining Consciousness Consciousness is one of the most enigmatic and profound aspects of human experience. At its core, consciousness refers to the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. It encompasses a wide range of mental phenomena, including sensations, thoughts, feelings, and intuitions. Despite its […]
Introduction to Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics
Introduction to Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics Overview of the Transcendental Meditation technique The Transcendental Meditation (TM) technique is a form of silent mantra meditation developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. It is practiced for 20 minutes twice per day while sitting comfortably with the eyes closed. The technique is said to allow the individual’s mind to […]
brain science: nulling readiness potential on free will and quantum consciousness – DataDrivenInvestor
The Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR) theory, developed by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, is an attempt to explain consciousness through physics and biology. This theory suggests that consciousness arises from quantum computations in microtubules within neurons, influenced by gravity-induced wave function collapse. These collapses are thought to generate proto-conscious events, which […]
Characterizing Consciousness Using Mathematical Tools
A recent study has drawn a novel comparison between the nature of consciousness and fermions, fundamental particles such as electrons, protons, and neutrons. This comparison is based on the Yoneda lemma from mathematics, which describes how relationships between categories can be determined by mapping objects from one category to another. This mathematical approach revealed that […]
Can Quantum Physics, Neuroscience Merge as Quantum Consciousness? – Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence
On a first glance, neuroscience and physics of quantum space don’t have much in common, but there’s a growing movement in the scientific world that explores the connection. They aim to merge the two in their quest to understand consciousness. The feeling is that the challenge is big because both of these sciences have a […]
Wild and Structured Consciousness
From the philosophical point of view, consciousness can be considered quite wild. Our experience of the things like shooting pain or encountering intense color is quite different in its mechanism from processing information that is structured. This conclusion is the result of studies of empirical nature where scientists looked at cognitive functions of our brain […]
‘Collision Course’ in the Science of Consciousness – Newswise (press release)
The hand drop test is considerably more well known than its cousin the face flick and it remains a fairly reliable, though somewhat controversial test. There’s a reason why the hand drop test is so well known. It tends to work. It’s a clever and reliable way to force a patient to make a decision […]
Beyond Space & Time: Quantum Theory Suggests Consciousness Moves on After Death
It turns out that Quantum theory suggests consciousness moves on after death. It would be more accurate to say that consciousness has an experience here and then moves to a different reality frame. Death is an illusion. There is a lot of talk out there on how consciousness works. It seems that the world around […]