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Human/Humanity, Consciousness and Universe: Informational Relation
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 20% contribution, besides more than 70% dark energy and only 5% observable matter 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
The Quantum Frontier
The success of the abstract model of computation, in terms of bits, logical
operations, programming language constructs, and the like, makes it easy to
forget that computation is a physical process. Our cherished notions of
computation and information are grounded in classical mechanics, but the
physics underlying our world is quantum. In the early 80s researchers began to
ask how computation would change if we adopted a quantum mechanical, instead of
a classical mechanical, view of computation. Slowly, a new picture of
computation arose, one that gave rise to a variety of faster algorithms, novel
cryptographic mechanisms, and alternative methods of communication. Small
quantum information processing devices have been built, and efforts are
underway to build larger ones. Even apart from the existence of these devices,
the quantum view on information processing has provided significant insight
into the nature of computation and information, and a deeper understanding of
the physics of our universe and its connections with computation.
We start by describing aspects of quantum mechanics that are at the heart of
a quantum view of information processing. We give our own idiosyncratic view of
a number of these topics in the hopes of correcting common misconceptions and
highlighting aspects that are often overlooked. A number of the phenomena
described were initially viewed as oddities of quantum mechanics. It was
quantum information processing, first quantum cryptography and then, more
dramatically, quantum computing, that turned the tables and showed that these
oddities could be put to practical effect. It is these application we describe
next. We conclude with a section describing some of the many questions left for
future work, especially the mysteries surrounding where the power of quantum
information ultimately comes from.Comment: Invited book chapter for Computation for Humanity - Information
Technology to Advance Society to be published by CRC Press. Concepts
clarified and style made more uniform in version 2. Many thanks to the
referees for their suggestions for improvement
General Relativity and Quantum Gravity in Terms of Quantum Measure: A philosophical comment
The paper discusses the philosophical conclusions, which the interrelation between quantum mechanics and general relativity implies by quantum measure. Quantum measure is three-dimensional, both universal as the Borel measure and complete as the Lebesgue one. Its unit is a quantum bit (qubit) and can be considered as a generalization of the unit of classical information, a bit. It allows quantum mechanics to be interpreted in terms of quantum information, and all physical processes to be seen as informational in a generalized sense. This implies a fundamental connection between the physical and material, on the one hand, and the mathematical and ideal, on the other hand. Quantum measure unifies them by a common and joint informational unit.
Furthermore the approach clears up philosophically how quantum mechanics and general relativity can be understood correspondingly as the holistic and temporal aspect of one and the same, the state of a quantum system, e.g. that of the universe as a whole. The key link between them is the notion of the Bekenstein bound as well as that of quantum temperature. General relativity can be interpreted as a special particular case of quantum gravity. All principles underlain by Einstein (1918) reduce the latter to the former. Consequently their generalization and therefore violation addresses directly a theory of quantum gravity. Quantum measure reinterprets newly the “Bing Bang” theories about the beginning of the universe. It measures jointly any quantum leap and smooth motion complementary to each other and thus, the jump-like initiation of anything and the corresponding continuous process of its appearance. Quantum measure unifies the “Big Bang” and the whole visible expansion of the universe as two complementary “halves” of one and the same, the set of all states of the universe as a whole. It is a scientific viewpoint to the “creation from nothing”
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