"Dr. Evan Harris Walker" wrote:
[Mark Gubrud says]
> >The dominant scientific paradigm presupposes that all observable
> >phenomena are physical and ultimately explainable in terms of physics.
> >In the case of consciousness, we do not have an explanation, but we
> >believe that is only because it is an extremely complex phenomenon,
> >with the additional complication that we are trying to understand
> >and explain ourselves. Nevertheless, we anticipate that a full
> >explanation will eventually be found in terms of ordinary physics.
[Jack]
Yes, all you need to do to explain consciousness is first to posit
1. de Broglie pilot-wave dualistic paradigm of material particles and quantum
waves
2. identification of the quantum de Broglie pilot-wave as the intrinsically
mental field. Intrinsic in exactly David Chalmers sense in Dec 1995 Scientific
American.
3. recognition that the direct back-action of the material particles on their
mental quantum pilot waves generates conscious experiences
3. violates standard quantum mechanics and in particular gives
signal-nonlocality since the self-organizing feedback-control loop between
mental pilot-wave and its material avoids the "sub-quantum heat death"
(Valentini's Cambridge Ph.D.).
[EHW]
> The measurement problem exists for this very reason
[Jack]
The measurement problem is a chimera.
[EHW]
> Quantum mechanics is so extensively correct and exact that it is felt that it
> should hold
> everywhere. That it should, so to speak, hold as a philosophy. Unfortunately,
> it has no mechanism that would allow single non-dispersed states to happen,
> contrary to what we see around us.
> In the case of Prof. Dr. Klaus Hepp's page that Ark pointed out to us, Hepp
> says
> under the heading: Quantum Theory of Measurement and the Brain,
> "I[t] has become fashionable to solve the open problems in the quantum theory
> of measurement by invoking a conscious observer. There are even models in
> prestigious journals, where the ``mind'' acts on the brain by reducing quantum
> probability amplitudes to classical probabilities."
> Here Hepp has accused the quantum consciousness people of using the mixed
> quantum-classical interaction trick to give rise to state vector collapse, and
> I was rushed last night too much to have detailed the flaw in this other than
> to point out that it is not the quantum consciousness people who have
> perpetrated that falsehood. The measurement problem exists for the very
> reason one must not suppose a mixed description of physical reality if one is
> to be consistent. One can always get a solution if one is willing to treat
> quantum mechanics as just a problem solver, and not as a philosophy that must
> hold everywhere.
> Now back to Gubrud. "The dominant scientific paradigm" he speaks of is
> quantum mechanics. With the standard model for the particles and fields, and
> tucking gravity in as a distortion of the metric, it has been shown to account
> for all phenomena we have data on.
[Jack Sarfatti]
True, with one notable exception: life. Of course both classical and quantum
physics describe important aspects of living organizations of matter, but not
all aspects. Quantum physics correctly explains how x-rays, PET scans, MRI's etc
work. It does not, however, come even close to explaining how we have
consciousness.
[EHW]
> But it still has this problem that its linearity will not let it give any
> single states. But we know that we see single states when things get to the
> conscious level. This is the
> measurement problem.
[Jack Sarfatti]
As a simple read of Bohm and Hiley's "The Undivided Universe" will show, Bohm
did not abandon the quantum potential Q of his deterministically chaotic "causal
theory" as EHW claimed elsewhere, and he provides a simple alternative to the
"collapse" of the measurement problem in terms of occupied and empty "channels"
(eigenfunctions of the observable operator that the experiment is set up to
detect) since there is a real material Bohm point "trajectory" in configuration
space that is absent in the Bohr inspired pictures or informal interpretations
(including many worlds with no collapse and no "single state").
[EHW]
> And this is one reason that we Quantum Consciousness people feel that -- since
> consciousness was left out of that grand standard quantum model anyway --
> maybe consciousness has something to do with state vector collapse.
[Jack]
Correction, the "Quantum Consciousness Community" has split into an "Un-Civil
War" between the Bohrians and the Bohmians. EHW is a Bohrian. I am a Bohmian.
[EHW]
> But even if you believe this, it is not enough to just say that. You have to
> come up with a way for it to work -- (1) bringing about state vector collapse,
> on the one hand,
[Jack]
No, there is a superior alternative with no collapse.
[EHW]
> and (2) explaining the phenomenology of conscious experience on the other --
> while incidentially showing (3) why consciousness should be associated with
> the brain.
[Jack]
Yes, that piece of the whole is crudely correct, but in the wrong Bohrian
context.
[EHW]
> Why should state vector collapse -- without any magic -- be caused by
> something as mundane (at least as far as physics is concerned) as the brain?
[Jack]
Good point. The first one EHW has made to my knowledge.
> [EHW]
>
> The answer to these questions, from my perspective is:
>
> 1. That it is the nonlinear MSE (modified Schrodinger equation) -- with the
> added term in which self-referencing closed loop measurement interactions
[Jack]
I also have a self referencing closed loop, but it is not the same as EHW's. My
self referencing closed loop is between the mental de Broglie pilot wave ( aka
common shared pool of active quantum information) and its material set of
elementary particles and classical EM-weak-strong-torsion-gravity force fields.
I would like to see the math of EHW's "nonlinear MSE" and "self referencing
closed loop measurement interactions"( in an Adobe pdf attachment) since he does
not have any particles and classical force fields only the unattached quantum
information patterns. EHW's ontology is "incomplete" in the sense of Einstein's
complaint to Bohr in 1935 in the EPR paper.
[EHW]
> create the psi*psi combination
[Jack]
This is wrong since a nonlinear addition to Schrodinger equation will prevent
the "the psi*psi combination" by giving a source term in the continuity equation
for the flow of the Schrodinger quantum hydrodynamic fluid through configuration
space. I say EHW is talking through his hat here. That what he proposes is
mathematically impossible. That is, such a closed loop will prevent the
"sub-quantum heat death" needed to "create the psi*psi combination" which is the
"equilibrium of sub-quantum hidden variables" in the Bohm-Vigier paradigm. The
real closed loop of self reference opposes quantum randomness and will not only
generate consciousness, but will also cohere the zero point energy of the vacuum
for practical propellantless propulsion.
[EHW]
> -- that gives state vector collapse. AND when it happens, the added term
> (being an information measure term) vanishes. [This cuts off consciousness
> from the physical world -- just as we see -- just as the Hard problem finds
> the world to be.]
[Jack]
Nonsense. It is exactly opposite. The added self-reference nonlinear term is
what generates consciousness by violating "the psi*psi combination".
> [EHW]
>
> 2. That quantum mechanics gets into brain processes through QM tunneling at
> and between synapses in the brain, and as I have discussed elsewhere,
[Jack]
"elsewhere"? Outside the light cone? :-) Show it now.
PS before I forget Nick Herbert used a bad metaphor "the lens of quantum
mechanics". He should have said "the hologram of quantum mechanics". This is
because Nick is another Bohrian not a Bohmian. All Bohmians know that the "lens"
is the metaphor for classical physics and the "hologram" is the metaphor for
quantum physics.
[EHW]
> leads to a formula for the QM tunneling synaptic connectivity that shows the
> amount of connectivity that exists (how much information is in our
> consciousness),
[Jack]
How? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. We do not believe you
without more justification.
[EHW]
> the conditions needed for consciousness to happen (for us to wake up, as it
> were), and incidentals like the nature and cause of the sleep cycle.
[Jack]
How? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. We do not believe you
without more justification.
[EHW]
> 3. That the structure of the brain brings about (perhaps uniquely in the
> physical world) the special self-referencing closed loop measurement
> interactions
[Jack]
Hogwash and balderdash. Nanoengineered conscious android brains will show that
assertion to be wrong.
[EHW]
> responsible for creating the psi*psi combination that gives us state vector
> collapse.
[Jack]
Hogwash and balderdash.
[EHW]
> The brain, you see, is always comparing things over and over in its networks
> -- always creating those psi*psi combinations.
[Jack]
Hogwash and balderdash.
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>"Dr. Evan Harris Walker" wrote:
>[Mark Gubrud says]
>> >The dominant scientific paradigm presupposes that all observable
>> >phenomena are physical and ultimately explainable in terms of physics.
>> >In the case of consciousness, we do not have an explanation, but we
>> >believe that is only because it is an extremely complex phenomenon,
>> >with the additional complication that we are trying to understand
>> >and explain ourselves. Nevertheless, we anticipate that a full
>> >explanation will eventually be found in terms of ordinary physics.
On what basis?
Just because physics has "the best explanation" of the day?
Could that be that the "explanation" lies in entirely different view?
>[Jack]
>
>Yes, all you need to do to explain consciousness is first to posit
>1. de Broglie pilot-wave dualistic paradigm of material particles and quantum
>waves
Ok, but before you can do that, you need to identify
the uniting principle, according to which those waves
lump together to create an entity,
else you'll claim that a transformer has consciousness
just because it generates plenty of waves.
>2. identification of the quantum de Broglie pilot-wave as the intrinsically
>mental field.
Well, you need to substantiate it with experimental data at least.
> Intrinsic in exactly David Chalmers sense in Dec 1995 Scientific
>American.
>3. recognition that the direct back-action of the material particles on their
>mental quantum pilot waves generates conscious experiences
How did you jump into that?
Did you even define consciousness?
>3. violates standard quantum mechanics and in particular gives
>signal-nonlocality since the self-organizing feedback-control loop between
>mental pilot-wave and its material avoids the "sub-quantum heat death"
>(Valentini's Cambridge Ph.D.).
The "self-organizing feedback-control loop" is a level of a machine.
To control what?
According to what purpose, intent, intuition, etc.?
What is the final state of that machine?
Where are you going?
Organizing into what?
We are already "organized" sufficiently to wipe out life
on earth within literally 2 generations.
Would you call that a progress?
>[EHW]
>> The measurement problem exists for this very reason
>[Jack]
>The measurement problem is a chimera.
The measurement problem is the problem of your limited
perception, creating the measurement tools, that correspond
to your current set of beliefs, none of which can be proven
to hold in the most fundamental sense.
How do you measure consciousness?
How do you measure purpose, intent, intuition, emotion,
love, joy, playfulness, art, music, meaning of a flower?
How?
>[EHW]
>> Quantum mechanics is so extensively correct and exact that it is felt that it
>> should hold everywhere.
Ok, so what does the 2nd law of thermodynamics say?
That is one of your pillars, you see.
>> That it should, so to speak, hold as a philosophy.
> Unfortunately,
>> it has no mechanism that would allow single non-dispersed states to happen,
>> contrary to what we see around us.
Ok, thats enough.
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Please bear in mind that I am not taking any position, but am
interested in interpreting this post. Also please don't just
refer me to a textbook, I am very curious to see very brief
examples.
Does anyone recall the "barber of Seville" conundrum of
computer science? It deals with measurement of algorithms
by other algorithms...
Dale Johnson
>3. violates standard quantum mechanics and in particular gives
>signal-nonlocality since the self-organizing feedback-control loop between
>mental pilot-wave and its material avoids the "sub-quantum heat death"
>(Valentini's Cambridge Ph.D.).
>> Here Hepp has accused the quantum consciousness people of using the mixed
>> quantum-classical interaction trick to give rise to state vector
collapse, and
>> I was rushed last night too much to have detailed the flaw in this other
than
>> to point out that it is not the quantum consciousness people who have
>> perpetrated that falsehood. The measurement problem exists for the very
>> reason one must not suppose a mixed description of physical reality if
one is
>> to be consistent. One can always get a solution if one is willing to
treat
>> quantum mechanics as just a problem solver, and not as a philosophy that
must
>> hold everywhere.
>> But even if you believe this, it is not enough to just say that. You
have to
>> come up with a way for it to work -- (1) bringing about state vector
collapse,
>> on the one hand,
>This is wrong since a nonlinear addition to Schrodinger equation will
Curious question by a newbie to sci.physics:
Are you the same Dr. Jack Sarfatti who was present in the infamous Geller
"Testing" in 1974, in which Geller managed to convince you and others that
he "psychically" effected a Geiger counter?
According to Martin Gardner, in "science: good, bad, and bogus", p, 94, you
claimed at the time that Geller "demonstrated genuine pschoenergetic
ability".
If so, what is your position now about Geller?
Pardon me if this was asked here a zillion times before - I'll bet that in
that case one of the regulars will give me details.
Dale
Arkadiusz Jadczyk wrote:
> > > WE discussed other possibilities and Hepp is open to several of them
> > > (for instance non-Fock infrared states of EM field are parametrized by
> > > classical parameters.
[Jack]
> > This is fancy math that I see no physical interpretation for. What is
> > the physical meaning or relevance of "non-Fock infrared states of EM
> > field". What does that buy you in terms of anything interesting
> > physically beyond the pretty math?
>
> Perhaps you know that relativistic quantum mechanics of systems
> with an infinite number of degrees of freedom, like QED, leads to
> divergencies. These divergencies can be handled, to a extent, by
> renormalization tricks, but they show that we are using wrong math.
> We are using math that is too primitive. You see, Jack, according
> to your quote from Feynman, calculus is a "masturbation". But
> without calculus Feynman would not be able to write his PhD.
[Jack]
No that is a misunderstanding of Feynman's point that many mathematicians play
at doing physics with arcane methods that have no connection to the actual
reality. Of course the language of physics is mathematics. The goal however is
to use the least simplest mathematics possible.
Renormalization is required NOT because the math is too primitive, but because
the physical idea of the "point particle" and the space-time continuum is
simply wrong. This is a very good example of my general point. You jump to
fancy math rather than deeper physical understanding. Actually, even though
Nick Herbert embraces the wrong Bohrian mystical ontology of possibility waves
collapsing into actual things that have no real properties when not observed
etc, Nick's power is his ability to brainwash and mesmerize the gullible
public with vivid often amusing metaphors and memes in plain English. That is
why Nick is so dangerous now that he is flirting, even if only jokingly and
satirically, with Neo-Nazis and their agit-prop spreading over the Internet.
I have a similar power, but I am trying to communicate with the superior
ontology which is Bohm's. So this Psi War of Wizards is primarily between me
and Nick. The others are merely Bit Players on The Stage of Destiny. Actually,
Saul-Paul Sirag is pretty good at this as well. Fred Alan Wolf is also good at
it, but he is squarely in the same mystical camp as Nick. See "The Cradle Will
Rock". We are shaping the Culture Paradigm. Let no one be unaware that what we
are up to here has enormous political and policy ramifications for the near
future. That's why, for example, the CIA and other Intel Agencies monitor all
of this via Ron Pandolfi and others on the list. They are right to do so.
Remember "Space-Time and Beyond" had an enormous pop-culture impact way beyond
its 200,000 copies by transforming the consciousness of a lot of movers and
shakers in media and government and business. "Space-Time and Beyond" was a
psychotronic weapons system in memetic engineering. It was much more than a
book. Of course, Fred, me and Bob were "useful idiots", Forest Gumps, sleep
walking through the mine fields of Cold War Intel Games involving Ira Einhorn,
Andrija Puharich, Uri Geller, Fritjof Capra, Tim Leary, George Koopman and
many more.
[Ark]
> No! You will say. But we do not have to go beyond calculus.
> Calculus is fancy enough! But you know it is not true.
[Jack]
Red Herring. I never said calculus is enough. We do not know what is enough. I
am only saying that the goal should be to do more physics with less math at
all times. That goal is increasingly lost. Yes we need topology, projective
geometry etc in addition to calculus. We also need discrete combinatorics etc.
We may even need Finsler spaces. We seem to need differential forms as Kiehn's
work is very interesting.
[Ark]
> There is
> algebra, there is differential geometry, there is algebraic geometry,
> category theory, stochastic processes, algebras of operators .... Each of
> these is necessary in SOME part of physics. Once you develop a theory,
> then you can derive some simple relations that do not need math at all
> (like properties of Kerr solutions) . Sometimes you can guess simple
> relations. Sometimes. Only through math that we can do computer
> simulations of Nature's real phenomena.
[Jack]
There is no real disagreement here.
[Ark]
> I agree, there is a real danger of abusing math. There are so many
> papers by physicists that are just developing unnecessary math.
> But, as always, a balanced view is necessary. Each case needs
> to be dealt with on an individual basis.
[Jack]
Yes, that is what I meant. Matti P is a good example of that.
[Jack]
> Von Neumann developed (with Murray) the theory of rings of
> operators, continuous geometry (quantum logic came out of
> it),
[Jack]
So far Finkelstein's use of quantum logic has been, like hot fusion, a
complete bust. Maybe it will become useful for quantum computing?
[Ark]
> mathematical foundations for quantum theory, he was one of
> the first to discuss the role of a conscious observer in quantum
> theory in terms of a mathematical model.
[Jack]
Yes, von Neumann is the major part of the problem in the Un-Civil War because
he dressed up Bohr's mysticism with fancy math giving an irrelevant proof that
hidden variables cannot exist and also wrongly invoking consciousness to
explain the collapse of the wave function which led Wigner astray and which
today makes the Quantum-Mind Meeting in Flagstaff a major destructive force
for disinformation on the wrong side of this Quantum Un-Civil War.
[Ark]
> He developed a theory
> of self-reproducing automata and introduced an important
> concept: a system that is aware of its own state.
[Jack]
Yes, you jarred my memory. So you say that von Neumann has a quantum theory of
self-measurement? Or, are his "self-reproducing automata" classical and not
quantum? If classical, what did he mean by "aware". If quantum, what did he
mean by "aware"? Can you cite exact references and better yet can you explain
his ideas on this in more detail. This is a key point. How, using Hilbert
space mathematics, with no Bohm point, do you make a self-reproducing system
that is aware of it's own state? What is the operational definition of
awareness in von Neumann's theory? I think Wigner discusses this and I have
his papers so I will have to take a look.
[Ark]
> Do not put
> all mathematics into a trash box. Or at least do not put Cartan's
> work there before you finish reading it!
[Jack]
Red Herring. You are putting words into my mouth. That was never my point. I
was talking of the abuse of physics by numbo jumbo of arcane math with no
physical intepretation which is a growing trend.
Yes. Relatively speaking the waves continue sharing values globally and
locally.
Only a observation can result in seeing 1/2 of the values of the collaspe.
The other
side of the collaspe is a reciprocal eigenfunction approaching a zero value.
The observation is an illusion occurring only at certain time phases in a
Paul frequency trap
relative to the observer. Since the information in the observation is
shared globally, it
must effect observations of others.
>That's why, for example, the CIA and other Intel Agencies monitor all
> of this via Ron Pandolfi and others on the list.
I doubt if the CIA can see the important future coming and could care less
what any of
us think. If you are being monitored the information is forward to
superiors who are to
busy worrying about real problems and never get around to reading and
thinking about
what is important namely the importance of quantum mechanics.
> [Jack]
> So far Finkelstein's use of quantum logic has been, like hot fusion, a
> complete bust. Maybe it will become useful for quantum computing?
>
Worthless.
> Yes, von Neumann is the major part of the problem in the Un-Civil War
because
> he dressed up Bohr's mysticism with fancy math giving an irrelevant proof
that
> hidden variables cannot exist and also wrongly invoking consciousness to
> explain the collapse of the wave function which led Wigner astray and
which
> today makes the Quantum-Mind Meeting in Flagstaff a major destructive
force
> for disinformation on the wrong side of this Quantum Un-Civil War.
>
There is no collapse except for the observer in a linear time trap. The
reciprocal eigenvalues are maintained
globally, even though a local event has occurred.