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Looking for the Physical, Logical, and Computational Roots of the Mind (by Paola Zizzi, Massimo Pregnolato): We discuss the modalities by which we humans should (and in fact, do) compute. That is, we investigate about the logical languages and the computational modes of human reasoning, and the corresponding physical interpretation. In this context, however, the classical world (physical, logical, and computational) does not seem sufficient to give a complete description of the Mind. In fact, the Mind accomplishes different tasks, where it exhibits, alternatively, both classical and quantum features. There are some novelties in two important issues: the long-standing debate on the mind-body relationship, and Turing’s question about a possible identification of the Mind with a computer. The introduction of a quantum metalanguage (QML) for the logic of reasoning is the most important feature to deal with both issues. As far as the first issue is considered, the QML is physically interpreted as a Dissipative Quantum Field Theory (DQFT) of the brain. The corresponding quantum object-language (QOL), which is the logic of reasoning, and is controlled by the QML, is physically interpreted as the Quantum Mechanics of qubits, that is, Quantum Computing (QC). Therefore, the Mind is both language and metalanguage, and the brain is its physical interpretation. Click Here.

Let us awaken to the Reality that there is 1 Creator Over 1 Creation Who is prompting us to build a New World of:

1 God 1 World; 1 World 1 People; 1 World 1 Dream;

Because we are 1 & ready to transcend!

1 God 1 World shall be:

1 God 1 People; 1 God 1 Unified Spirituality; 1 God 1 Unified Science of God; 1 God 1 Unified Ancient Teachings of God; 1 God 0 Religious Division; 1 God 0 Religious War; 1 God 0 Religious Manipulation.

1 World 1 People shall be:

1 World 1 Family, 1 World 1 Nation; 1 World 1 Constitution; 1 World 1 Government; 1 World 1 Defense; 1 World 1 Emergency System;

1 World 1 People shall further be:

1 World 1 Unified Legal System; 1 World 1 Integrated Economy; 1 World 1 Integrated Finance; 1 World 1 Integrated Education; 1 World 1 Integrated Health System.

1 World 1 Dream means:

Strive to know God Spiritually & Scientifically; Raise our levels of consciousness; Prevent war, violence & climate change; Protect the weak, the poor & the environment;

1 World 1 Dream further means:

Work for peace, happiness & prosperity; Prevent & eliminate hunger & diseases; Advance spirituality, science & technology; Love, care & help each other; Strive for a harmonious Society.

A Proposal for Memory Code (by Matti Pitkanen): In an article in the March 8 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology, physicists Travis Craddock and Jack Tuszynski of the University of Alberta, and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff of the University of Arizona propose a mechanism for encoding synaptic memory in microtubules, major components of the structural cytoskeleton within neurons. The self-explanatory title of the article is "Cytoskeletal Signaling: Is Memory Encoded in Microtubule Lattices by CaMKII Phosphorylation?" Authors propose a memory code based on the representation of bit as the presence or absence of phosphorylation and represent empirical evidence consistent with 6-bit code analogous to genetic code. In this article a different interpretation of findings is proposed. The presence of phosphate is seen as an evidence for negentropic entanglement accompanied by ATP molecule making possible memory recall by sending negative energy signal to geometric past transforming ATP to ADP and thus using single metabolic quantum. Click Here.

Molecular Uniqueness of Major Depression: Biological Remarks and Theoretical Implications (by Massimo Cocchi, Lucio Tonello, Fabio Gabrielli): The identification of three platelet fatty acids (Palmitic, Linoleic and Arachidonic Acids) brought about some subsequent classification hypotheses on Major Depression and Bipolar Disorder, which, with the passing of time, have turned into established experimental data also concerning the concepts of serotonin uptake on the basis of membrane viscosity, and showed that platelets were really similar to neurons. This evidence, together with the chance of classifying the two main mood disorders, led to some reflections on the molecular uniqueness of Major Depression, understood as a phenomenon affecting only human beings, and precisely just part of them. In this context, we can trace the human states between normality, Bipolar Disorder and Major Depression, this latter considered as a bio-molecular and existential niche. Click Here.

Higgs Boson Live Blog: Analysis of the CERN Announcement (by Philip E. Gibbs): We report here live on LHC Higgs results announcement by CERN on December 13, 2011. The result is very convincing if one starts from the assumption that there should be a Higgs Boson somewhere in the range. Everywhere is ruled out except 115 GeV to 130 GeV and within that window there is a signal with the right strength at around 125 GeV with 3 sigma significance. CERN will have to wait for that to reach 5 sigma to claim discovery and next year’s data should be enough to get there or almost. I calculate that they will need 25/fb per experiment at 7 TeV to make the discovery. A big congratulation goes to everyone from the LHC, ATLAS and CMS who found the clear hints of Higgs when it hid in the hardest place. Click Here.

Has CERN Found the God Particle? A Calculation (by Philip E. Gibbs): Following the CERN announcement on December 13, 2011, physicists have been giving some very different assessments of the chances that the ATLAS and CMS detectors have seen the Higgs boson. Combining the three things I will consider, I get an overall probability for such a strong signal if there is no Higgs to be about 1 in 30. Perhaps I have failed to account for combinations where more than one of these effects could combine. That requires further coincidences but lets just call the overall result 1 in twenty. In other words, everything considered I take the observed result to be a two sigma effect. Click Here

What is Reality in a Holographic World? (by James Kowall): The nature of a holographic world is described. This scientific description of the world is based upon the assumptions of modern theoretical physics. These natural assumptions are inherent in any unified theory, such as string theory, and in any theory of the creation of the world, such as inflationary cosmology. At their most basic level, these are the assumptions of the equivalence, uncertainty and action principles, along with the second law of thermodynamics. Any world consistent with these fundamental principles is easily shown to be a holographic world. The mathematical consistency of such a holographic world also implies something about the nature of consciousness. If that mathematical consistency is followed to its logical conclusion, in the sense of the Gödel incompleteness theorems, this scientific description of the world also has something to tell us about the nature of reality. What this scientific description of the world tells us about the nature of reality is compared to what mystics have told us about reality throughout human history.

A holographic description of the world is an observer-centric description that satisfies the covariant entropy bound of the holographic principle. In such a world, consensual reality is not a single objective reality, but many entangled worlds that share information with each other, each defined on its own viewing screen, and each observed from its own point of view. The self-concept is understood in terms of the encoding of information on the viewing screen, and the expression of personal will and universal will is understood in the sense of the flow of energy. The nature of the Self is understood as a presence of consciousness that arises at a focal point of perception, while the perceivable world arises on a viewing screen. In a nondual sense, the Source of any such world, and the Source of any individual consciousness, is understood as a void of undifferentiated consciousness. Click Here

Synchronicity: When Cosmos Mirrors Inner Events (by Iona Miller): Things often fall apart, but sometimes they fall together in the probability field. Such transformative points can be life-changing quantum leaps in self-awareness. The issue is one of 'similar things' that seemingly stop the arrow of time dead in its tracks, immersing us in the extraordinary, the mysterious. Jung and Pauli suggested synchronicity is essentially direct insight into the hidden confluence of psyche and matter. It shocks us into broadening our view of the world and the fabric of reality. Synchronicity is the core of the world and human existence. It is a unique expression of the metaphor-forming process. Repeated engagement with the spectrum of unconscious imagery impacts us resonantly on all levels by molding us with experience, emotion and memory. The synchronistic totality of all conscious and unconscious self-organizing processes has its own holistic psychic structure. Psyche and substance are two aspects of more fundamental energy, which forms a universal substrate. The artificial delineation between mind and matter blurs in both the scientific and psychological models. Synchronicity explores the borderland between meaning and spacetime, where chance meets necessity, when external and internal circumstances align in meaningful coincidence. It links the observable and unknowable, the effect of the particular and specific with the universal. In this nonlocal effect, certain qualities manifest relatively simultaneously in different or proximate places. It is a parallelism that cannot be explained causally. Is this psychic phenomenon kindled by an invisible field effect linking multidimensional spaces? Quantum mechanics reveals stunning secrets of nature, but it is a science of frozen frames, snapshots of measurement, rather than a process-oriented science that shows how they fit seamlessly together. The most fundamental archetype of process is the Field. The quantum vacuum is a dynamic massless scalar field. Scalars are just active information; a hologram is pure information. Entanglement is a property of nonlocal quantum information exchange. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/177

Review of Donald C. Austin's Book: Creative Evolution Revisited: A New Theological Theory of Evolution (by Stephen P. Smith): Suzan Mazur describes the evolution industry in crisis, given an apparent emptiness in the neo-Darwinian account. Mazur interviewed many world-wide scholars, and not just those that attended the 2008 meeting in Altenberg, Austria. Stewart Newman, Antonio Lima-de-Faria and Lynn Margulis provide among of the most interesting and credible accounts of an evolution that is not stuck in a dogmatic and hopeless neo-Darwinism. This is not to say that most scientists don`t still over prescribe Darwin`s simplistic theory, and some of these folks are interviewed in Mazur`s book. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/183

Review of D. S. Clarke's Book: Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude (by Stephen P. Smith): Clarke writes much on the difficulties that humanists and universal mechanism have in explaining consciousness. There is basically no way to extend a one-way chain of forward causes and thereby solve the origination problem. That is, there is no way to explain a proto-mentality that has no adaptive advantage as the original mentality. Clarke argues that mentality must have been always present, that it is an eternal quality. And he also extends his insights into biological evolution. Clarke attributes mentality to all natural bodies exhibiting unity of organization and homeostasis. His view is a type of restricted panpsychism he calls "atheistic panpsychism". http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/181

Articles

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More Thoughts on Light, Matter, Space & Time (by Himangsu S. Pal)

Reflections on Materialist Metaphysical Dogmatism (Part I) (by Graham P. Smetham)

Reflections on Materialist Metaphysical Dogmatism (Part II) (by Graham P. Smetham)

Reflections on Materialist Metaphysical Dogmatism (Part III) (by Graham P. Smetham)

Research by Looking Backwards: Reflexive Praxis in Search of Archaic Wisdom (by Paul Wildman, Iona Miller)

Essays

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On Atheists’ Complaint of No Evidence for God (by Himangsu S. Pal