Proto-Experiences and Subjective Experiences: Classical and Quantum Concepts

Abstract

Deterministic reductive monism and non-reductive substance dualism are two opposite views for consciousness, and both have serious problems. An alternative view is needed. For this, we hypothesize that strings or elementary particles (fermions and bosons) have two aspects: (i) elemental proto-experiences (PEs) as phenomenal aspect, and (ii) mass, charge, and spin as material aspect. Elemental PEs are hypothesized to be the properties of elementary particles and their interactions, which are composed of irreducible fundamental subjective experiences (SEs)/PEs that are in superimposed form in elementary particles and in their interactions. Since SEs/PEs are superimposed, elementary particles are not specific to any SE/PE; they (and all inert matter) are carriers of SEs/PEs, and hence, appear as non-experiential material entities. Furthermore, our hypothesis is that matter and associated elemental PEs co-evolved and co-developed into neural-nets and associated neural-net PEs (neural Darminism), respectively. The signals related to neural PEs interact in a neural-net and neural-net PEs emerges from random process of self-organization. The neural-net PEs are a set of SEs embedded in the neural-net by a non-computational or non-algorithmic process. The non-specificity of elementary particles is transformed into the specificity of neural-nets by neural Darwinism. The specificity of SEs emerges when feedforward and feedback signal interacts in the neuropil and are dependent on wakefulness (i.e., activation) attention, re-entry between neural populations, working memory, stimulus at above threshold, and neural net PE signals. This PE-SE framework integrates reductive and non-reductive views, complements the existing models, bridges the explanatory gaps, and minimizes the problem of causation.

Towards a Theory of Everything Part II: Introduction of Consciousness in Schrödinger equation and Standard Model

“…When a subject moves, the specific SE redness also moves with the subject's correlated neural-net. These finding are consistent with the dualaspect-dual-mode optimal PE-SE framework (Vimal, 2008a;Vimal, 2008b;Vimal, 2009a;Vimal, 2009b;Vimal, 2009c;Vimal, 2009d;Vimal, 2009e;Vimal, 2010a;Vimal, 2010b). It is argued that since this optimal framework (that has the least number of problems) is valid at all three levels (classical, quantum, and subquantum physics), the introduction of consciousness in classical, quantum, and subquantum physics is also valid.…”

“…Author would like to thank (1) anonymous reviewers, Matti Pitkänen, Serge Patlavskiy, Manju-Uma C. Pandey-Vimal, Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, Shalini Pandey Vimal, and Love (Shyam) Pandey Vimal for their critical comments, suggestions, and grammatical corrections, (2) Ronald J. MacGregor (MacGregor and Vimal, 2008) for his qualitative initial help in introducing string theory in the PE-SE framework (Vimal, 2008b). The author is also affiliated with Vision Research Institute, 428 Great Road, Suite 11, Acton, MA 01720 USA; Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana, A-60 Umed Park, Sola Road, Ahmedabad-61, Gujrat, India; Dristi Anusandhana Sansthana, c/o NiceTech Computer Education Institute, Pendra, Bilaspur, C.G.…”

New Issue to Modeling Intentionality in the Field of Consciousness

“…On the other hand, the model of Globus links structure and function but fails to link them explicitly with experience. Recently, to address the explanatory gap between structure/function and experience, Ram L. P. Vimal [92] [93] explicitly incorporated the concept of subjective experience in the thermofield logic of Vitiello and Globus. In his theory, the fundamental subjective experiences are simply potentialities or possibilities that must exist on their own as mental aspects in the context of particular experiments or observations.…”

Subliminal Afterimages Via Ocular Delayed Luminescence: Transsaccade Stability of the Visual Perception and Color Illusion

“…For most researchers the attributes of color, such as hue, saturation, and brightness (Vimal et al, 1987), are subjective experiences, which are the mental aspect of color related neural-network (NN)-state; the physical aspect of this NN-state is the color related V4/V8/VO-NN and its activities (Vimal, 2009) in the dual-aspect monism framework (Vimal, 2008(Vimal, , 2010. Electromagnetic light waves (photons) visible to the human eye range from about 400 to 700 nm.…”