http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=296 Index terms fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4553 Quantum mechanics furnishes each quantum with synchronous time in one form or another. Every participant to forming a quantum fits perfectly well into every other joining there all at once. It shares the same synchronous time. In contrast, synchronous time in interaction among interacting quanta is constructed in a bottom-up manner. A most conspicuous case of the internalist construction of synchronous time in interaction is seen in the quantum coherence to be realized in the biological realm. One demonstrative case is the occurrence of a weak magnetization along an actin filament sliding on myosin molecules as hydrolyzing AlT molecules. One more case is with the quantum coherence associated with synchronization acting in the conscious brain Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:26:33 +0200 Mon, 14 Oct 2024 13:01:30 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4553 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1326 Macroscopic quantum phases are an absolutely essential element of most quantum consciousness theories and topological geometrodynamics (TGD) is not an exception in this respect. TGD based theory of consciousness relies crucially on the notion of self hierarchy whose geometrical correlate is the hierarchy of spacetime sheets realized as a 4-surface in certain 8-dimensional space. The notion of manysheeted spacetime predicts new types of macroscopic quantum phases but the lack of direct experimental evidence for the macroscopic quantum phases has been stumbling block for more detailed developments. The crucial empirical ingredient turned out to be the observations about the effects of ELF electromagnetic fields on brain. The largest effects are obtained at odd multiples of cyclotron frequencies of various biologically important ions like Ca++ in Earth's magnetic field. Also amplitude modulation of RF and MW fields by these frequencies has effects. This leads to a surprising conclusion in violent conflict with standard physics view about world: magnetically confined states of ions in Earth's magnetic field having minimal size of order cell size and energy scale of order E-14 eV are in question. The notion of manysheeted spacetime indeed allows these states: various ions are 'dropped' to cellular spacetime sheets where the thermal noise is absent so that the ions nm form superconducting macroscopic quantum phases. The model suggests what might be called spectroscopy of consciousness allowing to identify important EEG frequencies as correlates of various primary sensory qualia and EEG patterns as correlates of emotions. Wed, 10 Jul 2024 10:54:03 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:24:56 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1326 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3091 This communication was an introduction lecture of our Symposium about Science of Consciousness. We show that a pertinent study of human consciousness should be a pluri-disciplinary approach through Biochemistry, Biology, Biosemiotics, Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Language and Logic, Nanochemistry, Neurochemistry, Physics, Psychology. We ask many questions from relevant perspectives to scientific researchers. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:09:19 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:17:38 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3091 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4414 This paper concerns human language, which is linked to the process whereby the human brain developed and adapted to its environment via the body, the senses and the intelligence of the speaking subject. We can say, first, that the subject's unconscious reaction to the impact of a sensory percept, whether complex or not, is emotional stricto sensu and physiological; a statement produced in response to this impact still pertains to feeling. A fundamental point in the problem posed here and one that entails an epistemological revolution is that, in self-awareness, various levels of consciousness come into play. We shall see how these concepts can be organized into a coherent and relevant whole in order to put forward the following hypothesis: the eruption of emotion, strictly speaking, anticipates the production of language. Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:17:32 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:17:50 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=4414 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3740 The authors propose a quantum-informational holographic model of brain consciousness-universe interactions based on the holonomic neural networks of Karl Pribram, the holographic quantum theory of David Bohm, and the non-locality property of the quantum field described by Hiroomi Umezawa. We consider this model an extension of the interactive dualism of Sir John Eccles. His ideas of an interconnection between brain and spirit by means of quantum microsites (dendrons and psychons), has deeply influenced the development of our conception of consciousness. We propose a dynamic concept of consciousness, a holoinformational flux interconnecting holonomic informational quantum brain dynamics, with the quantum informational holographic nature of the universe. Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:52:52 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:31:49 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3740 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3102 The notion of the "passage of time" addresses the experienced fact of motion in time. Depending on the respective viewpoint, we may either say that the conscious now is moving through the once-and-for-all fixed space-time universe, or we may say that the space-time universe is moving through the constant now. In this article I try to explain the "subjective illusion" of dynamical flow on the basis of a static space-time universe as it is suggested by relativity theory. The conceptual toolkit for this undertaking is provided by the philosophy of spacetime holism, which I have suggested as a useful approach to a variety of problems. While the argument has already been developed in an earlier publication from a more technical point of view, this article concentrates on the experiential aspects of the involved concepts. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:10:04 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:30:23 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3102 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3096 In an effort to simplify the complexity in the studies of consciousness, the author suggests to describe the conscious experiences as a fundamental state, the intrinsic awareness (I.A.), and functions of this fundamental state. I.A. does not depend on external environment, our sense organs, and our cognitions. This ground state of consciousness is timeless and irreducible to sub-constituents; therefore reductionism can apply neither to the analysis nor to the new theory of I.A. The methodology for investigating I.A. is proposed and the relation between I.A. and the hard problem in consciousness proposed by Chalmers is discussed. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:09:47 +0200 Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:29:44 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3096 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1077 One of the puzzling problems of describing artistic and scientific ideas and concepts is their "language", or their means of presentations. Semantic issues in verbal description specifically, and even scientific modes, often have their limitations. The notion of "anticipation" and its derivative: anticipator and anticipated, due to interconnection with both the subjective and objective world, become highly contextual, and subject to interpretation. It is suggested here that the notion of anticipation, and therefore anticipatory systems, because it falls into both domains, subject and object, would have to challenge the said problem, in order to carry a certain degree of accuracy. That is, since these two domains each have its own modes of presentation, then any discussion on anticipatory systems has to define its boundary within the ranges of domains which covers many schools of thought, from one end of extremes of objective description, to the other end of subjective description. Here we suggest that even the most extreme of subjective experience, namely mystic experiences, should not be excluded from our understanding of phenomenon. Fri, 05 Jul 2024 11:23:09 +0200 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 15:36:43 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1077 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1012 The paper addresses the nature and physiological mechanisms of awareness, conscious perception, generation of thoughts and discursive and imaginative thinking. lt shows that a high-frequency cyclic process of self-identification may underlie awareness and generation of thoughts. Self-identification is a collective neuronal activity process which forms an intensive specific excitation pattern in the cerebral cortex in response to external or internal input signals. This provides the best conditions for data categorisation by distributed long-term memory. The result of categorisation, a symbol or image, expresses their subjective sense. The symbolic mapping of data means the transiton from the physiological (objective) level to the mental (subjective) level Sensory awareness is produced by the processes of intensive mapping and explicit symbolic representation of the stimulus field in the sensory areas of the cortex. A thought is produced by the processes of intensive mapping and explicit symbolic representation of multiply connected coordinated neuronal activity of the brain in the higher associative areas of the cortex. Awareness and generation of thoughts have the same nature and similar physiological mechanisms. ,4, cyclic process of internal sensori-motor rehearsal may underlie discursive and imaginative thinking. Rehearsal is a low-frequency process and its contents are accessible to survey (introspection) by the high-frequency apparatus of self-identification which is built into the rehearsal loop. Our train of mental images, words or symbols is introspectable and controllable by means of the programming apparatus of the motor system. The interacting mechanisms of sensori-motor rehearsal and self-identification allow us form images, scenes and dialogues and watch and change them thus creating a mobile, controlled mental world. Wed, 03 Jul 2024 16:17:15 +0200 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:59:47 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1012 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1661 The members of a society (re)act according with their biological and technical spheres. with their aggregation, with their profoundness. So, a society is an implicit processor "for" relative explicit sub-processors dealing with initial information-decision-action-renewed information cycles. The scientific approach upon the transit: societal processor <=> sub-processors is an interdisciplinary one. The paper refers operative actions sub-processor as related with anticipatory sub-processor. This outlook generates an incursion inside the gap between reality and reflection, involving: societal knowledge term. ecological aggregate attitude as eco-consciousness, an approach toward Universal Consciousness term and connectionist corpus. The models of some paradoxes may be revised versus a new fuzziness approach both for operative and anticipatory actions. Mon, 15 Jul 2024 16:22:40 +0200 Mon, 07 Oct 2024 13:59:29 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=1661