Human Conscious Experience is Four-Dimensional and has a Neural Correlate Modeled by Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity

Abstract

In humans, knowing the world occurs through spatial-temporal experiences and interpretations. Conscious experience is the direct observation of conscious events. It makes up the content of consciousness. Conscious experience is organized in four dimensions. It is an orientation in space and time, an understanding of the position of the observer in space and time. A neural correlate for four-dimensional conscious experience has been found in the human brain which is modeled by Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity. Spacetime intervals are fundamentally involved in the organization of coherent conscious experiences. They account for why conscious experience appears to us the way it does. They also account for assessment of causality and past-future relationships, the integration of higher cognitive functions, and the implementation of goal-directed behaviors. Spacetime intervals in effect compose and direct our conscious life. The relativistic concept closes the explanatory gap and solves the hard problem of consciousness (how something subjective like conscious experience can arise in something physical like the brain). There is a place in physics for consciousness. We describe all physical phenomena through conscious experience, whether they be described at the quantum level or classical level. Since spacetime intervals direct the formation of all conscious experiences and all physical phenomena are described through conscious experience, the equation formulating spacetime intervals contains the information from which all observable phenomena may be deduced. It might therefore be considered expression of a theory of everything.

Space-Time Intervals Underlie Human Conscious Experience, Gravity, and Everything

“…There is abundant evidence indicating that the human brain processes the three basic types of space-time intervals for the creation of conscious experiences. This evidence and a neural correlate for conscious experience are outlined in detail in the paper previously mentioned (Sieb, 2016).…”

Psychological Space-Time Reinforcement Sensitivity : A Possibly Missing Link in Eysenck’s And Gray’s Personality Theories

“…One of them says "on that day I felt as if my soul left my body", and the other says "I am now someone else whom I do not know". So, here, human experience is conscious, and indeed four-dimensional, as (Sieb, 2016) said but disordered because of psychological space-time sensitivity to punishment.…”

“…Postulating a neurobiological basis for the notion of psychological space-time sensitivity is not at all an easy matter, however, it remains without any doubt, possible for conducting experimentation on the subject (and that is what experimental neurosciences, I hope, will realize), this on the one hand; and on the other hand, what has been referred to as previous studies (Ghaderi, 2015;Buhusi and Meck, 2009;Moser et al, 2017;Sieb, 2016) confirming the possibility of applying special relativity in psychological studies, allows for the inclusion of a possibly missing link in Gray's and Eysenck's personality theories, which link will be primarily based on a series of feedback processes, extending from the septo-hippocampal system to the prefrontal cortex, and with additional extension to the known neuromodulatory system influencing both BIS and BAS, and involved in a number of psychological and mental disorders, as confirmed by neurobiological studies, namely melatonin and orexin.…”

“…And concerning the way, whereby, past events are recalled, or future events expected or imagined, that is the way of mental time travelling, (Moser et al, 2015) explained the mechanism through which sharp wave activity overlaps long-term potentiation ripple activity in the hippocampus, and how this " sharpwave ripples" mechanism contribute to memory consolidation and retrieval, through the process of event replay which showed activity of place cells similar to that occurring during real experience, and in this way, the phenomenon of event replay In my opinion, freezing would impair the psychological space navigation, exposing therefore its actor to psychological space-time sensitivity to the event. So, having neuronal bases and being a four dimensional conscious experience, mental time travel must allow for special relativity to be applied to it; and this the way (Sieb, 2016) decided it to be, as he cited the neuronal structures intervening in the processes of duration perception, mental time travel, and the discrimination between past and future, namely: «the cerebellum, right PPC, right PFC, fronto-striatal circuits, and insular cortex for duration perception; the inferior frontal and superior temporal lobes, hippocampus, medial PFC, medial parietal and posterior cingulated cortex for pastfuture distinction and mental time travel», and also those intervening in synchronous and asynchronous event distinction, namely «the PFC, IPC, superior colliculus, and insular cortex», and finally pointed to «the posterior sylvian regions, PPC, and temporoparietal networks for temporal order judgment» .…”

The Physiology of Incarnation Process; Lessons from Pre-birth Experiences and Reincarnation-type Cases

“…It was argued that as physicists propose no such model; until one is offered, consciousness will not be appropriate for the learning of physicists (Rosenblum and Kuttner,2006). Recently, there has been attempts to offer provable scientific models to bring the study of consciousness within the boundaries of physics (Sieb, 2016;.…”