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Information: From Philosophic to Physics Concepts for Informational Modeling of Consciousness

28 Aug 2018-Philosophy study (David Publishing Company)-Vol. 8, Iss: 8
TL;DR: An informational modeling of consciousness as an informational system of the human body is presented and the results are able to explain the main properties of consciousness, both the cognitive and extra-cognitive properties of the mind, like that observed during the near-death experiences and other similar phenomena.
Abstract: Information was a frequently used concept in many fields of investigation. However, this concept is still not really understood, when it is referred for instance to consciousness and its informational structure. In this paper it is followed the concept of information from philosophical to physics perspective, showing especially how this concept could be extended to matter in general and to the living in particular, as a result of the intimate interaction between matter and information, the human body appearing as a bipolar informed-matter structure. It is detailed on this way how this concept could be referred to consciousness, and an informational modeling of consciousness as an informational system of the human body is presented. Based on the anatomic architecture of the organism and on the inference of the specific information concepts, it is shown that the informational system of the human body could be described by seven informational subsystems, which are reflected in consciousness as corresponding cognitive centers. These results are able to explain the main properties of consciousness, both the cognitive and extra-cognitive properties of the mind, like that observed during the near-death experiences and other similar phenomena. Moreover, the results of such a modeling are compared with the existing empirical concepts and models on the energetic architecture of the organism, showing their relevance for the understanding of consciousness.
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TL;DR: The human organism appears therefore as a dynamic reactive informational system, actuating in correlation with matter for adaptation, by embodiment/disembodiment processes.
Abstract: In this paper it is shown that the human organisms is a binary info-matter system, composed basically by information and matter. According to the Informational Model of Consciousness presented in this paper, the informational system of the human body consists in seven subsystems, where the matter-related information component increases with respect to the “free" virtual information reflected in consciousness, from the info-connection pole of the organism to the highest matter-related component, which is defined as the info-genetic generator. To understand the transition from the free-state of received/captured information to a stably matter-related genetic state, there are analyzed the intimate cellular mechanisms of the info-transmission. It is shown that the key mechanisms consists in embodiment/disembodiment processes of information during the inter and intra communication of the cells. As a communication process between a transmitter and a target receiver entity, this process can be modeled by means of, and in correlation with specific concepts and systems of the science and technology of information, referred from simple to more complex network communication structures, and is represented by epigenetic mechanisms, allowing the acquired trait transmission to the offspring generation. From the perspective of the informational model of consciousness, the human organism appears therefore as a dynamic reactive informational system, actuating in correlation with matter for adaptation, by embodiment/disembodiment processes.

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  • ...The names of the cognition centers derive also from the main function of each of the informational subsystems which they are associated with, in a brief description as follows: (1) IGG is the informational subsystem managing the body evolution according to the genetic input information received from the two parents and is detected in consciousness as the center Icd, expressing the inherited abilities and predispositions; (2) GTS is the informational component responsible for the info-genetic generation/transmission, representing the info-genetic output of the body, and is related in consciousness as the Ic center, sensitive to associativity and social relations, but also with the responsibilities to form/create the new generation (Gaiseanu, 2018c,d); (3) MIS controls automatically the information necessary to the correct and continuous functions of the organism as a whole, detected in consciousness as a cognitive center Ia (selfstatus), connecting the body (defined as informed matter) to the nourishing matter (foods, water, air) and managing the absorption/desorption processes (connection to the matter pole); (4) IES controls the body reaction to information, especially (but not limited to) that of the hearth, which should be able to distribute the nutritive elements to the local consumers as a function of the momentary necessities, perceived in consciousness as the emotional center suggestively called Ilove (Il); this name reflects the great importance of love, which is one of the fundamental state of life (Gaiseanu, 2019a 2018d); (5) CDC is the operational and command center of information, reflected in consciousness by the decision (Iw), as an information output; (6) CASI represents actually the data library, where it is stoked the life experiences, reflected in consciousness by memory (Ik); (7) IC is the Info Connection pole of the organism, assuring the consciousness connection with the matter/anti-matter (dark matter) field, reflected in the cognitive center Ib as trust, confidence and protection (Gaiseanu, 2017a,b) and explaining in special circumstances the parapsychological phenomena (Gaiseanu, 2018d) like extracorporeal view (Gaiseanu, 2016a), the associated phenomena of NDEs (Gaiseanu, 2017a), remote transmissions by mind, and other extra-properties of the mind (Gaiseanu 2017b,c)....

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  • ...Dark matter could be actually interpreted as antimatter, according to a recent model of the universe (including our solar system (Hajdukovic, 2013)), with anti-symmetric properties with respect to matter, allowing to explain within IMC the paranormal phenomena (Gaiseanu, 2017b, 2018d)....

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  • ...Therefore, the following associated phenomena could be explained (Gaiseanu, 2016a; 2017b): regression to the infancy during NDEs (determined according to IMC by the revers time arrow of antimatter field (Carroll, 2015)), the detection of a “tunnel”-like space, interpreted as the passing from a matter-bounded (“black-hole”-like) information to a (“luminous”) mass-free informational entity in an anti-entropic (coherency) field (Gaiseanu, 2017b; 2018d)....

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  • ...…emotional state is insistently induced, the specific ligand and complementary receptor on the surface will establish a stable pair of promoters of the same emotion (or state), because the body cells themselves could “ask” the same type of emotions, if they are lived repetitively (Gaiseanu, 2018c)....

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  • ...If this is true, then an “after-life” phase of the disembodied consciousness entity could exist (Gaiseanu, 2018a)....

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Journal ArticleDOI
03 Jan 2019
TL;DR: The main informational components of consciousness are presented, which are defined as cognitive centers, allowing an overview of life and its evolution cycle from such a perspective, and suitable conclusions are deduced concerning an optimal, active lifestyle that would contribute to a successful life, aging and destiny.
Abstract: We drive our lives permanently by decisions YES/NO, and even we no longer distinguish the elementary intermediary steps of such decisions most often, they form stereotyped chains that once triggered, they run unconsciously, daily facilitating our activities. We lead our lives actually by conscious decisions, each of such decisions establishing our future trajectory. The YES/NO dipole is actually the elemental evaluation and decisional unit in the informational transmission/reception equipment and lines and in computers, respectively. Based on a binary probabilistic system, this is defined as a unit of information (Bit). We operate therefore as an informational system and we actually live in a bipolar universe, which is fundamentally informational. Indeed, the laws of nature and its equilibrium or steady state conditions are based on bipolar units with opposite characteristics, such as action/reaction, attraction/rejection, gravity/anti-gravity, matter/antimatter, entropy/anti-entropy, to enumerate just a few examples. As part of this bipolar universe, we are also bipolar entities connected to information and matter. Starting from the informational features of the human being, seven informational components are identified, forming the informational system of the human body, distinguished by their different functions, reflected at the conscious level through the center Iknow (the memory, including whole life experience), Iwant (decisions center), Iove (emotions), Iam (body status), Icreate (informational genetic transmitter), Icreated (genetic generator inherited from parents) and Ibelieve, which is the gateway to the antientropic component, favorable to maintain the life structure and functioning. Taking into account the characteristics of these centers, it is discussed the life cycle and are deduced suitable conclusions concerning an optimal, active lifestyle, that would contribute to a successful life, aging and destiny. Gerontol & Geriatric Stud Copyright © Florin Gaiseanu 401 How to cite this article: Gaiseanu F. Destiny or Free Will Decision? A Life Overview from the Perspective of an Informational Modeling of Consciousness Part I: Information, Consciousness and Life Cycle. Gerontol & Geriatric Stud .4(3). GGS.000585.2019. DOI::10.31031/GGS.2019.04.000586 Volume 4 Issue 3 these properties, but also an assessment of an extremely delicate theme, that of the existence of consciousness after death. In the Part I of this work we present the main informational components of consciousness, which we define as cognitive centers, allowing an overview of life and its evolution cycle from such a perspective. The definition and understanding of their functions allow observations and conclusions on how we can live our life optimally, accordingly to its laws and not outside of them, contributing in such manner through our decisions to a harmonious collaboration with the environment and with the society where we live in. Specifically, these conclusion are referred in the Part I especially to an optimal lifestyle for the maintenance of the mental and cognitive efficiency, while in the Part II for the follow of an equilibrated lifestyle by a personal control, necessary to assure a successful life, aging and destiny. YES/NO alternatives as an informational decisional unit Every moment of life we decide. This affirmation could seem to be exaggerated, but if we carefully analyze each of the activities that we perform daily to achieve a certain purpose, we will notice that this statement is true. Many of our behavior sequences are no longer aware, because they have become automated mechanisms. But we learned them in a past time and became automatic by a systematic repetition process. Our body is an adaptable system, always ready to learn, and probably this was and remains a key of the human evolution. New situations require a decision, always a choice between YES and NO, even if the path to the final objective requires a chain no matter as long of YES/NO elementary decisional steps. A decision we take every moment can mark the life and the trajectory that we will follow in the future. Everyday activity is actually composed by a sum of elementary YES/NO decisions, which traces our way in the life and directs us to a goal, although some of them have become undetectable at conscious level. A large part of the decisions is addressed to the body itself, in order to achieve its movements, while others act as decision elements inside of the mental operational system. But YES/NO binary alternative expresses nothing else that the information unit (Bit), as it is known for example from the computer operations. The computers work with numbers in the binary system, 0 and 1, actually functioning as switches, so 1 Bit is expressed in terms of probability in such binary systems. In the information science and technology, information is defined as a measure of the certainty, while entropy express the contrary, namely the quantity of uncertainty, or disorder. We therefore observe that we operate as intelligent, informational systems, able to capture external information by means of our senses (seeing, hearing, smelling, taste, touching) and inner information (thirst, hunger, pain and various impulses), to analyze it and to develop a decision or chain of decisions. This decision is passed to the execution organs, mainly the muscles, or is stored in the acquisition and storage system, which is the memory. We are therefore some informational systems, prepared and able to collect, process and transmit information to the inside and/or the outside of the body [6]. But we are not only the product of the environment, but also the instrument of its transformation, which can intervene on it and modify it. We are therefore dynamic reactive systems: we capture information and react by decision, changing not only the environment by direct action on it, but also our own way of thinking and thus our behavior, depending on the modification of our criteria system [7,8]. We actually live in a bipolar world, although at a first glance we are not accustomed to think in that way. But yet it seems so. It is enough to note that any “Good” has its associated “Bad”, the Good / Bad unit is constituted as a bipolar unit of two contraries, opposing each other. Indeed, we have not only relevant examples from physics, such as action/reaction, order/ disorder, entropy/anti-entropy, gravity/anti-gravity, matter/ antimatter [9,10], but also from everyday life we can easily discover them we ourselves. Many qualities or characteristics of an object or entity of any kind has its opposite. We therefore live in a world of opposite features, so in an informational world, operating as a YES/NO binary system. We accept by YES what we consider to be in accordance with our personal value scale, and classify by NOT the opposite one, rejecting it. It depends on us any choice YES or NO under some given circumstances, we are therefore our own decision-maker, the drivers of our life by our own free-will. The YES/NO unit actually ensures by its essence the balance in nature. It has recently been shown that the gravity is actually an entropic force [11], and the time arrow in an antimatter system (assimilated with dark matter [9,10], is oriented in the opposite direction to the time arrow known in the matter system [12], characteristics which we are not accustomed to operate with, but which succeed to explain the specific phenomena associated to the near-death experiences and “abnormal” or “para”-normal properties of mind such as premonition and psychokinesis [6,7]. Therefore, we have to know that even the time is bipolar, and it can be manifested in two opposite directions. Does would exist a connection between the bipolar universe we live in, and these physical properties? Do they influence or even determine our lives? Of course, YES, because we are part of this system and in correlation with it. Does nature seem to seek a balance between the bipolar contrary phenomena? YES, it looks like. And alive alike? It seems that YES, as we will explain further. The informational system of the human body and consciousness as a result of its activity The informational system of the human body according to the informational modeling [3,6,7] is represented in Figure 1. This figure reveals first of all the bipolar character of this system, connected to matter and to information. The system of components marked by white color represents the conscious level of consciousness, which we define as the Operative Information System (OIS), oriented to immediate adaptation to the environment. Its components can be defined and described as follows. (i) The Center of Acquisition and Storing of Information (CASI), dedicated to the capture and storing of information, consisting in external and internal sensors for information capture plus memory, where information is stored; this is projected into consciousness as a cognition center Iknow (which we refer for simplicity as to Ik), which actually includes all of our life experience. (ii) The Center of Decision and Command (CDC) is the operative center that takes over the information

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Florin Gaiseanu1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the meeting horizon between some ancient coherent empirical models of the humanity and modern scientific results in terms of information, as a central axis relating the universe, the human and inter-human connections, and consciousness as an informational tool for the exploration of the reality.
Abstract: From the perspective of the Informational Model of Consciousness elaborated and reported recently on the basis of the last discoveries of the quantum mechanics and astrophysics, the meeting horizon between some ancient coherent empirical models of the humanity and our modern scientific results is analyzed. These results are discussed in terms of information, as a central axis relating the universe, the human and inter-humanity connections, and consciousness as an informational tool for the exploration of the reality. Bringing into discussion the relevant recent discoveries of quantum mechanics (Higgs’ boson, disembodiment of information from the physical particles), and matter/information properties near the black holes, it is reinforced the concept of information as one of the fundamental constituent of matter and of our universe, showing that information is actually the base fabric of matter structures, living structures and universe. The huge quantity of dynamic information engaged in the living structures, particularly in the human organism, necessary to maintain the life’s functions and to allow the adaptation requirements, differentiates the living from non-living entities. It is shown that consciousness, human and universe cannot be really understood if it is not introduced on the panoramic scene a new player – dark matter, with more than 80% contribution from the matter total quantity. It is shown also that the Informational Model of Consciousness, consisting in an architecture of seven cognitive centers, converges with the ancient models of chakras, of etheric body and aura concepts, with dual Taoist concepts of universe and human body, contributing with answers to the “mind-body”, “nature or nurture” problems and even to Qualia “hard" problem, and supporting the Jung's concepts on the mind. Finally, some questions are addressed to the quantum mechanics, concerning the retro-causal effect and non-locality principle.

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  • ...…(defined earlier by Gaiseanu (Gaiseanu, 2016a)) allows to the “view” intrinsic system (“eye of mind”) to operate for extra-corporal explorations of reality, including the “scanning” of remote geographic regions, remote health diagnosis, and telepathic communication (Gaiseanu, 2016a, 2017b, 2018d)....

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  • ...This was proposed and introduced for the first time as a scene player with direct consequences on human consciousness and life intimate fabric by the physicist Gaiseanu (Gaiseanu, 2016a,b, 2017b,c) and it was mentioned later in other articles (Meijer and Geesink, 2017; Gaiseanu 2018a,d)....

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  • ...…discovery and to interpret it in terms of living structures, we will have the amazing revelation that the information of the human body, to customize to this living structure and consciousness, is actually distributed on a surface around it, as it was suggested recently (Gaiseanu, 2018d, 2019c)....

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  • ...It seems that yes, this horizon is already approached (Gaiseanu, 2018d; 2019b)....

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  • ...However, during the NDEs experiences, the transit of a “tube” to an “after-life” field is typical (Gaiseanu, 2017b; 2018a)....

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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore correlations between modern and ancient science as they apply to cognitive-sentient reality, and argue the coincidence between the ancient model of chakras and a newer cognitive-informational model.
Abstract: This chapter explores correlations between modern and ancient science as they apply to cognitive-sentient reality. The ancient wisdom and worldviews were based on a combination of reason and introspection—the frontier between certainty and uncertainty. This exploration was paramount in Egyptian, Greek, Chinese, Indian, and other cultures and philosophies. This contemplation is actually universal, and virtually all culture has contributed to the structuring of fundamental sentient patterns of cognitive reality. Taking into account some recent scientific discoveries at micro/macro levels, the concepts of certainty/uncertainty, and information science, the chapter argues the coincidence between the ancient model of chakras and a newer cognitive-informational model. Based on these correlations, a new model of cognitive-sentient exploration of reality (CSER) is discussed relative to its use as in analytical/synergistic model for research on cosmic sentience.

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09 Jul 2019
TL;DR: An analysis of the epigenetic processes and the typical steps of such mechanisms are presented and the results concerning the information are presented.
Abstract: In a series of recently published papers it was shown that the informational system of the human organism operates by means of seven components referring to memory, decisional operability, emotional reaction, autonomic driving of the metabolic processes, genetic transmission and genetic info-generation [1-3]. A special component explains some extra-power properties of the mind, revealed during the near-death experiences [4, 5] and other similar phenomena [6-8]. Such an informational architecture of the human informational system permits to approach the analysis of the interaction between the received information from the environment and conclusions on the adaptation process of the organism [3,9]. This analysis is supported also by the increasing epigenetic studies [10-12], showing that some acquired traits during the life can be transmitted to the offspring by means of embodiment/disembodiment mechanisms of information [3]. The progress obtained in this field is an encouraging stimulant to approach also the evolution process due to the adaptation to changes of the environmental conditions [13]. Therefore, in this paper it is presented first of all an analysis of the epigenetic processes and the typical steps of such mechanisms. In a second section there are presented the results concerning the information*Corresponding author: Florin Gaiseanu, Principal Senior Researcher (Professor), Science of Information and Technology Bucharest (Romania), and Barcelona (Spain). Received Date: June 28, 2019 Published Date: July 09, 2019 ISSN: 2687-8100 DOI: 10.33552/ABEB.2019.02.000532

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  • ...In a series of recently published papers it was shown that the informational system of the human organism operates by means of seven components referring to memory, decisional operability, emotional reaction, autonomic driving of the metabolic processes, genetic transmission and genetic info-generation [1-3]....

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  • ...A special informational system, defined as Info-Connection pole is responsible for the special mind properties, like near-death experiences (NDEs) and Religious and Mystic experiences (RMEs) [4-7] and other special phenomena like premonition and clairvoyance [1,8,25]....

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TL;DR: In this article, a non-reductive theory based on principles of structural coherence and organizational invariance and a double-aspect theory of information is proposed to explain the complexity of the problem of consciousness.
Abstract: To make progress on the problem of consciousness, we have to confront it directly. In this paper, I first isolate the truly hard part of the problem, separating it from more tractable parts and giving an account of why it is so difficult to explain. I critique some recent work that uses reductive methods to address consciousness, and argue that such methods inevitably fail to come to grips with the hardest part of the problem. Once this failure is recognized, the door to further progress is opened. In the second half of the paper, I argue that if we move to a new kind of nonreductive explanation, a naturalistic account of consciousness can be given. I put forward my own candidate for such an account: a nonreductive theory based on principles of structural coherence and organizational invariance, and a double-aspect theory of information.

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  • ...The phenomenological description was firstly approached by philosophy, starting with the ancient empirical observations on the universe and human body, like Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, continued with Greek contributions (Radin 2018) and with more recent contributions up to the present days (Chalmers 1995; Draganescu 1979; 1990; 2004)....

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  • ...…approached by philosophy, starting with the ancient empirical observations on the universe and human body, like Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, continued with Greek contributions (Radin 2018) and with more recent contributions up to the present days (Chalmers 1995; Draganescu 1979; 1990; 2004)....

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  • ...The overview of some philosophic concepts on information, starting from millenary oriental (Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism) and Greek (Aristotle, Platon) philosophies and arriving to the modern (Draganescu Chalmers) philosophy on information, allows to be focused on the physics concepts and mechanisms relating the information with matter, and to approach in this way the modeling of consciousness....

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  • ...374 that of the philosopher Chalmers (Chalmers 1995) and of the cardiologist Pim van Lommel (van Lommel 2006), proposed information as an adequate candidate to model consciousness, only recently a coherent modeling began to be concretized (Tononi 2004; Gaiseanu 2017c)....

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TL;DR: The information integration theory accounts, in a principled manner, for several neurobiological observations concerning consciousness, including the association of consciousness with certain neural systems rather than with others; the fact that neural processes underlying consciousness can influence or be influenced by neural processes that remain unconscious; the reduction of consciousness during dreamless sleep and generalized seizures.
Abstract: Background: Consciousness poses two main problems. The first is understanding the conditions that determine to what extent a system has conscious experience. For instance, why is our consciousness generated by certain parts of our brain, such as the thalamocortical system, and not by other parts, such as the cerebellum? And why are we conscious during wakefulness and much less so during dreamless sleep? The second problem is understanding the conditions that determine what kind of consciousness a system has. For example, why do specific parts of the brain contribute specific qualities to our conscious experience, such as vision and audition? Presentation of the hypothesis: This paper presents a theory about what consciousness is and how it can be measured. According to the theory, consciousness corresponds to the capacity of a system to integrate information. This claim is motivated by two key phenomenological properties of consciousness: differentiation – the availability of a very large number of conscious experiences; and integration – the unity of each such experience. The theory states that the quantity of consciousness available to a system can be measured as the Φ value of a complex of elements. Φ is the amount of causally effective information that can be integrated across the informational weakest link of a subset of elements. A complex is a subset of elements with Φ>0 that is not part of a subset of higher Φ. The theory also claims that the quality of consciousness is determined by the informational relationships among the elements of a complex, which are specified by the values of effective information among them. Finally, each particular conscious experience is specified by the value, at any given time, of the variables mediating informational interactions among the elements of a complex. Testing the hypothesis: The information integration theory accounts, in a principled manner, for several neurobiological observations concerning consciousness. As shown here, these include the association of consciousness with certain neural systems rather than with others; the fact that neural processes underlying consciousness can influence or be influenced by neural processes that remain unconscious; the reduction of consciousness during dreamless sleep and generalized seizures; and the time requirements on neural interactions that support consciousness. Implications of the hypothesis: The theory entails that consciousness is a fundamental quantity, that it is graded, that it is present in infants and animals, and that it should be possible to build conscious artifacts.

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Abstract: The status of the Gibbs and Boltzmann expressions for entropy has been a matter of some confusion in the literature. We show that: (1) the Gibbs H function yields the correct entropy as defined in phenomenological thermodynamics; (2) the Boltzmann H yields an “entropy” that is in error by a nonnegligible amount whenever interparticle forces affect thermodynamic properties; (3) Boltzmann's other interpretation of entropy, S = k log W, is consistent with the Gibbs H, and derivable from it; (4) the Boltzmann H theorem does not constitute a demonstration of the second law for dilute gases; (5) the dynamical invariance of the Gibbs H gives a simple proof of the second law for arbitrary interparticle forces; (6) the second law is a special case of a general requirement for any macroscopic process to be experimentally reproducible. Finally, the “anthropomorphic” nature of entropy, on both the statistical and phenomenological levels, is stressed.

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TL;DR: This paper proposes that aspects of quantum theory and a newly proposed physical phenomenon of quantum wave function “self-collapse” are essential for consciousness, and occur in cytoskeletal microtubules and other structures within each of the brain's neurons, and proposes Orch OR in brain microtubule, the most specific and plausible model for consciousness yet proposed.

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  • ...Particularly, it was necessary to approach this theme from the perspective of the quantum physics (Hameroff 1998; Hameroff & Penrose 1996; 2014), because the so called extra-power properties of mind, like the remote transmission of information by mind (Radin 2006) and other similar properties,…...

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TL;DR: An experiment in which neutrons are sent through a perfect silicon crystal interferometer and weak measurements are performed to probe the location of the particle and its magnetic moment suggests that the system behaves as if the neutrons go through one beam path, while their magnetic moment travels along the other.
Abstract: From its very beginning, quantum theory has been revealing extraordinary and counter-intuitive phenomena, such as wave-particle duality, Schrodinger cats and quantum non-locality. Another paradoxical phenomenon found within the framework of quantum mechanics is the 'quantum Cheshire Cat': if a quantum system is subject to a certain pre- and postselection, it can behave as if a particle and its property are spatially separated. It has been suggested to employ weak measurements in order to explore the Cheshire Cat's nature. Here we report an experiment in which we send neutrons through a perfect silicon crystal interferometer and perform weak measurements to probe the location of the particle and its magnetic moment. The experimental results suggest that the system behaves as if the neutrons go through one beam path, while their magnetic moment travels along the other.

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  • ...The advances of theoretic (Tagmark 2014; Gate 2010) and experimental physics (Denkmayr et al. 2013; Aharonov et al. 2013) confirm and even consolidate the Draganescu’s earlier concepts (Gaiseanu 2016a; 2017b; 2017c)....

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  • ...…maybe the determinant ones, are provided by the experimental physics, showing that under certain conditions of experiment, particles like neutrons (Denkmayr et al. 2013) or groups of particles or atoms (Aharonov et al. 2013) could be disembodied, i.e., their properties, so information, can be…...

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  • ...…entities are structured adding more information to the material structures (Draganescu 1990); (iii) information can be disembodied from matter (Denkmayr et al. 2013; Aharonov et al. 2013); (iv) the universe is an informational bipolar system (Gaiseanu 2016); (v) the informational system of…...

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