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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
Informational Model of Consciousness: From Philosophic Concepts to an Information Science of Consciousness
On the long and well-worn road of many, but justifiable attempts of human to discover his origin, his trajectory as a
species, and a suitable understanding consciousness, his system allowing the connection to the environment and to
his own organism, the concepts and models of philosophy enunciated or experienced by millennia, meet today with
modern science concepts of physics and of science of information. Based on recent discoveries of quantum physics
and astrophysics, revealing a new understanding of our environment and starting from some philosophical concepts
on information of matter and of living structures, this work discusses the dynamics of information within the frame
of the Informational Model of Consciousness as an informational system of the human body, connected both to the
environment and to the body itself, to control the adaptation for survival. It is shown that consciousness is actually
an informational projection in the mind of seven informational subsystems, three of which forming the operative
system of consciousness for the short-term adaptation, and other three forming the programmed operating system,
dedicated to the maintenance of body and to the long-term survival of species, showing various inputs and outputs
of information. The seventh subsystem is the information pole, connecting the organism with the external
information, especially related to the extra-sensorial properties of the mind, the human body appearing as a bipolar
info-matter structure, managed by the brain. The received information is progressively integrated into the
informational system of the organism, which absorbs and emanates information as a reactive system for adaptation,
able to operate both with matter-related (codified) and non-matter related (virtual) information. As both connections
with external and internal environment (body itself) can be described in terms of information, this model opens the
gate to investigate consciousness by means of the tools of the information science, offering also answers to the
philosophic “mind-body” problem and to the “hard” problem and showing correspondences with some ancient
philosophies
Information-Matter Bipolarity of the Human Organism and Its Fundamental Circuits: From Philosophy to Physics/Neurosciences-Based Modeling
Starting from a philosophical perspective, which states that the living structures are actually a combination between matter and information, this article presents the results on an analysis of the bipolar information-matter structure of
the human organism, distinguishing three fundamental circuits for its survival, which demonstrates and supports
this statement, as a base for further development of the informational model of consciousness to a general
informational model of the human organism. For this, it was examined the Informational System of the Human Body and its components from the perspective of the physics/information/neurosciences concepts, showing specific
functions of each of them, highlighting the correspondence of these centers with brain support areas and with their projections in consciousness, which are: Center of Acquisition and Storing of Information (CASI) reflected in
consciousness as memory, Center of Decision and Command (CDC) (decision), Info-Emotional Center (IES)
(emotions), Maintenance Informational System (MIS) (personal status), Genetic Transmission System (GTS)
(associativity/genetic transmission) and Info Genetic Generator (IGG) related by the body development and
inherited behaviors. The Info Connection (IC), detected in consciousness as trust and confidence can explain the Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and associated phenomena. This connection is antientropic and informational, because from the multitude of uncertain possibilities is selected a certain one, helping/supporting the survival and
life. The human body appears therefore as a bipolar structure, connected to two poles: information and matter. It is argued that the survival, which is the main objective of the organism, is complied in three main ways, by means of: (i) the reactive operation for adaptation by attitude; (ii) the info-genetic integration of information by epigenetic processes and genetic transmission of information for species survival, both circuits (i) and (ii) being associated to
the information pole; (iii) maintenance of the material body (defined as informed matter) and its functions, associated to the matter pole of the organism. It results therefore that the informational system of the human body is
supported by seven informational circuits formed by the neuro-connections between the specific zones of the brain
corresponding to the informational subsystems, the cognitive centers, the sensors, transducers and execution
(motor/mobile) elements. The fundamental informational circuits assuring the survival are the reactive circuit, expressible by attitude, the epigenetic/genetic circuit, absorbing and codifying information to be transmitted to the next generations, and the metabolic circuit, connected to matter (matter pole). The presented analysis allows to
extend the informational modeling of consciousness to an Informational Model of Consciousness and Organism, fully describing the composition/functions of the organism in terms of information/matter and neurosciences concep
An Information Based Model of Consciousness Fully Explaining the Mind Normal/Paranormal Properties
ABSTRACT
The main informational components of consciousness are described as Operative Informational System (OIS)
assuring the reactive short-time adaptation and Programmed Informational System (PIS), assuring the life
maintenance and the species survival, working in an integrated manner with the informed matter IM (body). The
defined informational subsystems allow to describe consciousness as a sum of cognition centers defined by Ibelieve,
Iknow, Iwant, Ilove, Iam, Icreate and Icreated. The cognition center Ibelieve was defined as related with the anti-entropic field
of the bipolar universal matter/antimatter informational system, assisting the life structuring and health and
explaining the precognition, psychokinesis, near-death experiences and other "paranormal" phenomena. PIS
related activity of the cognition centers was described as the projected data in OIS by two components: (1)
personal status as survival needs; (2) the info-consequences on oneself perception and action impulses perceived
by Iam, Icreate and Icreated, reflecting together with Iknow, Iwant and Ilove the "normal" (regular) mind properties
Informational Mode of the Brain Operation and Consciousness as an Informational Related System
Introduction: the objective of the investigation is to analyse the informational operating-mode of the brain and to extract conclusions on the
structure of the informational system of the human body and consciousness.
Analysis: the mechanisms and processes of the transmission of information in the body both by electrical and non-electrical ways are analysed
in order to unify the informational concepts and to identify the specific essential requirements supporting the life. It is shown that the electrical
transmission can be described by typical YES/NO (all or nothing) binary units as defined by the information science, while the inter and intra
cell communication, including within the synaptic junction, by mechanisms of embodiment/disembodiment of information. The virtual received
or operated information can be integrated in the cells as matter-related information, with a maximum level of integration as genetically codified
info. Therefore, in terms of information, the human appears as a reactive system changing information with the environment and between inner
informational subsystems which are: the centre of acquisition and storing of information (acquired data), the centre of decision and command
(decision), the info-emotional system (emotions), the maintenance informational system (matter absorption/desorption/distribution), the genetic
transmission system (reproduction) and info-genetic generator (genetically assisted body evolution). The dedicated areas and components of the
brain are correlated with such systems and their functions are specified.
Result: the corresponding cognitive centres projected into consciousness are defined and described according to their specific functions. The
cognitive centres, suggestively named to appropriately include their main characteristics are detected at the conscious level respectively as: memory,
decisional operation (attitude), emotional state, power/energy status and health, associativity and offspring formation, inherited predispositions,
skills and mentality. The near-death and religious experiences can be explained by an Info-Connection pole.
Conclusion: consciousness could be fully described and understood in informational terms
Levels of Reality as Source of Quantum Indeterminacy
We show that the notion of "levels of Reality" introduced by Werner
Heisenberg in his "Manuscript of 1942" (1984) and by myself (1983-1985) could
explain the quantum indeterminacy. General epistemological implications of this
notion are also studied.Comment: 18 page
Mining Knowledge in Astrophysical Massive Data Sets
Modern scientific data mainly consist of huge datasets gathered by a very
large number of techniques and stored in very diversified and often
incompatible data repositories. More in general, in the e-science environment,
it is considered as a critical and urgent requirement to integrate services
across distributed, heterogeneous, dynamic "virtual organizations" formed by
different resources within a single enterprise. In the last decade, Astronomy
has become an immensely data rich field due to the evolution of detectors
(plates to digital to mosaics), telescopes and space instruments. The Virtual
Observatory approach consists into the federation under common standards of all
astronomical archives available worldwide, as well as data analysis, data
mining and data exploration applications. The main drive behind such effort
being that once the infrastructure will be completed, it will allow a new type
of multi-wavelength, multi-epoch science which can only be barely imagined.
Data Mining, or Knowledge Discovery in Databases, while being the main
methodology to extract the scientific information contained in such MDS
(Massive Data Sets), poses crucial problems since it has to orchestrate complex
problems posed by transparent access to different computing environments,
scalability of algorithms, reusability of resources, etc. In the present paper
we summarize the present status of the MDS in the Virtual Observatory and what
is currently done and planned to bring advanced Data Mining methodologies in
the case of the DAME (DAta Mining & Exploration) project.Comment: Pages 845-849 1rs International Conference on Frontiers in
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The Informational Model of Consciousness: Mechanisms of Embodiment/Disembodiment of Information
It was shown recently that information is the central concept which it is to be considered to understand consciousness
and its properties. Arguing that consciousness is a consequence of the operational activity of the informational
system of the human body, it was shown that this system is composed by seven informational components, reflected
in consciousness by corresponding cognitive centers. It was argued also that consciousness can be connected to the
environment not only by the common senses, but also by a special connection pole to the bipolar properties of the
universe, allowing to explain the associated phenomena of the near-death experiences and other special phenomena.
Starting from the characteristics of this model, defined as the Informational Model of Consciousness and to complete
the info-communication panorama, in this paper it is analyzed the info-connectivity of the informational system with
the body itself. The brain areas where the activity of each informational component are identified, and a definition of
consciousness in terms of information is proposed. As the electrical connectivity by means of the nervous system was
already proved, allowing the application of the analysis and developing tools of the information science, a particular
attention is paid to the non-electrical mechanisms implied in the internal communication.
For this, it is shown that the key mechanisms consists in embodiment/disembodiment processes of information during
the inter and intra communication of the cells. This process can be modeled also by means of, and in correlation with specific
concepts of the science and technology of information, referred to 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 of information
Introduction to the Neoclassical Interpretation: Quantum Steampunk
In a previous paper we outlined a series of historical touchpoints between classical aether theories and modern theoretical physics which showed a shared conceptual lineage for the modern tools and methods of the most common interpretations and fluid based “Hydrodynamic” treatments of an electromagnetic medium. It was proposed that, though the weight of modern experimentation leaves an extremely narrow and convoluted window for even a reconceptualization of a medium, all of modern physics recognizes a plethora of behaviors and attributes for free space and these physics are interchangeable with modern methods for treating superfluid-like continuums. Thus the mathematical equivalence of the methods do not comprise alternative physics but an alternative interpretation of the same physics. Though many individual components describing a “neo-aether” or “quintessence” are available, an overarching structural outline of how these tools can work together to provide an alternative working overview of modern physics has remained undefined. This paper will propose a set of introductory concepts in the first outline of a toy model which will later connect the alternative tools and conceptualizations with their modern counterparts. This introductory paper provides the simpler “100-miles out” overview of the whole of physics from this perspective, in an easily comprehensible, familiar and intuitive, informal dialog fashion. While this paper grants the largest and loosest introductory overview, subsequent papers in this series will address the finite connections between modern physics and this hydrodynamic view
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