Neural networks, consciousness, and wave functions (Willard L. Miranker)
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Philip Thrift
Jan 21, 2021, 7:38:54 AM1/21/21
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two papers by Willard L. Miranker (1932-2011)
Consciousness is an Information Field Induced by Hebbian Dynamics
Abstract: We introduce a field of information associated with the action potentials, the latter encoding conventional unconscious neural processing. We show that the field generates a dual representation of the neural processing which mirrors the information states conveyed by the neural circuitry itself. This leads to the claim that the field is the conscious experience of neural processing. An explanation for the fitness advantage of consciousness in evolution comes as a by-product. We start with the Hebbian synapse whose dynamics are interpreted as an atom of awareness, and which is quantified in terms of the signature of the time rate of change of synaptic strength. We show how the information field is built up out of such atomic constituents. The mathematical development shows that consciousness (i.e., the field) arises through a coupling of Russelian-like internal (the dual information field) and external (the primal action potential) properties of matter. This is contrasted with a corresponding duality in quantum mechanics where consciousness itself enters as a causal agent. The model presented is falsifiable, and a method for verifying it experimentally is suggested.
A Neural Network Wave Formalism
Abstract: Using his path integral methodology, Feynman derived the constructs of quantum mechanics from the Lagrangian form of Newtonian mechanics. By employing a novel Lagrangian form of the canonical neural network equations, we derive analogously a complete wave formalism for the information transmission in neural networks.
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