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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
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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
Articles
Possible Quantum Model of Consciousness Interfaced with a Non-Lipschitz Chaotic Dynamics of Neural Activity (Part I)
A Possible Quantum Model of Consciousness Interfaced with a Non-Lipschitz Chaotic Dynamics of Neural Activity (Part II) (by Elio Conte, Nunzia Santacroce, Antonio Federici)
The Creative & Persecuted Minority I: An Artful Look at Science & a Scientific Look at Art (by Iona Miller, Paul Henrickson)
The Creative & Persecuted Minority II: The Nature of the Creative Process (Iona Miller, Paul Henrickson)
A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness Mapping of John C. Gowan Part I (by Iona Miller)
A Retrospective Commentary on the Consciousness Mapping of John C. Gowan Part II (by Iona Miller)
Extension of the Physical Realm (by Elemer E. Rosinger)
Reissner's Fiber, Quanta & Consciousness (by Lawrence C. Wile)
Review Article
A Transdisciplinary Look at Paranthropology: An Emerging Field of Exploration (by Iona Miller)
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Articles
The Gravitational Field of an Accelerating Mass: Gravitational Waves (by Antoine Acke): http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/403
On a New Position Space Doubly Special Relativity Theory (by Golden G. Nyambuya): http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/419
TGD Counterpart for Higgs-Like Particle (by Matti Pitkänen): http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/420
M8 - M4 x CP2 Duality, Preferred Extremals, Criticality & Mandelbrot Fractals (by Matti Pitkänen): http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/421
The Pioneer Anomaly (by B. G. Sidharth): http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/422
Essay
Return of String Theory to Symmetry & SUSY 2012 (by Philip E. Gibbs): http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/423
News
LHC Update for August 2012 (by Philip E. Gibbs): http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/424
New Science Prize Setup by Yuri Milner (by Philip E. Gibbs): http://prespacetime.com/index.php/pst/article/view/425
In Memory
Ray B. Munroe Jr. 1958-2012: Advocate of Geometric Approach to GUT (by Huping Hu):
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