A Novel Subject-Object Model of Consciousness

Abstract

The nature of the subjective aspect of consciousness is elusive and hence, there has been a lot of debate on how to quantify the subjective experience of a human in comparison to other living systems. Here, the primary concern lies with the question of the presence of consciousness in other living systems, and if so, how distinct could the experience be when compared to humans. Firstly, to probe such investigations, our current theories fall short in having an absolute definition for consciousness and whatever we observe and experience as a human brings about our present notion/definition. Failures in capturing the non-deterministic nature of living/biological entities with our reductionist and deterministic models call for a new holistic science and synergistic theories of consciousness. In this regard, present paper tries to propose a novel consc iousness model; Subject-Object Model (SOM), based on the degree of subjectivity/subjectiveness a living species would naturally embrace. It propounds consciousness as a kind of evolutionary trait and thereon claims it as an emergent property resulting from the parsimony of indexing quantities. Accordingly, it conjectures; the development of certain degree and level of complexity in a living system during the process of evolution calls for an emergence of a qualitative property (like consciousness) for better survival and optimal functioning. This provides a scale to estimate the level of consciousness and the extent of subjective experience of life across the wide living spectra.

An Essay on ‘Fracto-Resonant’ Nature of Life

“…Even though we have various theories and hypothesis trying to explain the possibilities of occurrences of consciousness and its functional aspects (Sheldrake, 1995;Lipton, 2008;Lanza and Berman, 2010;Shanta, 2015;Reddy and Pereira, 2016d;Reddy, 2016e), considering its fractal nature alone (physical/ material aspect) as the sole parameter may not provide a complete mathematical model for consciousness (Gardiner, 2013). This is because fractal information follows unidirectional property, i.e.…”

“…in fractals information flows only in one direction and backward extrapolation may not necessarily lead to the center or the governing rule. For this purpose, to construct the model of consciousness, future investigations may also need to look for a parameter (or scaling factor) that governs the qualitative nature of consciousness alongside its quantitative aspects (Reddy, 2016e).…”

Numerical Simulation of a Deep Excavation near a Shield Tunnel

“…Many studies have indicated that the simulation result which Drucker-Prager model is adopted is close to the monitoring data. [16][17] The internal frictional angle of two main layers around the tunnel are 13.0° and 23.8°, respectively. Therefore, in this paper Drucker-Prager model is used in simulating the deformation and stability of the soils and retaining structures.…”

The Emergence of Mind as a Quantum Field Phenomenon

“…does not happen within the domain of our consciousness. This is because, though the same strings of events repeat itself, these events become conscious only when these organs malfunction and this is when consciousness picks up the task of reprograming the events to stabilize the body (Reddy, 2017). This reprogramming takes place in the mind.…”

“…Quantum events within living systems are being studied under the discipline of quantum biology (Arndt et al, 2009;Reddy andPereira 2016a, 2017). There are physical structures within living systems which are known to be in a state of superposition (Hameroff and Tuszynski, 2015) similar to how a quantum computer works and stores information (Forcer et al, 2002).…”