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We discuss the nature of reality in the ontological context of Penrose's math-matter-mind triangle. The triangle suggests the circularity of the widespread view that math arises from the mind, the mind arises out of matter, and that matter…

Popular Physics · Physics 2009-10-07 Piet Hut , Mark Alford , Max Tegmark

Common-sense physical reasoning in the real world requires learning about the interactions of objects and their dynamics. The notion of an abstract object, however, encompasses a wide variety of physical objects that differ greatly in terms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Aleksandar Stanić , Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Jürgen Schmidhuber

In physics, there is the prevailing intuition that we are part of a unique external world, and that the goal of physics is to understand and describe this world. This assumption of the fundamentality of objective reality is often seen as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-22 Markus P. Mueller

The nature of the existence, revealed through Human cognitive system, has been evolving since the development of the languages. Part of such revelations were the geometrical forms and the numbers, whose beauty and order, wondrous and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-28 Jahan. N. Schad

Physical theories must stem from observation. The possibility that perceived events are simulated, not real, raises a crucial dilemma about the credibility of known physics, known as the simulation hypothesis. To analyze this hypothesis in…

General Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Francesco Sisini

In the field theories in physics, any particular region of the presumed space-time continuum and all interactions between elementary objects therein can be objectively measured and/or accounted for mathematically. Since this does not apply…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Birgitta Dresp-Langley

Some unique source -- the world, W -- must underlie all the information realized in the universe throughout time. Perceived reality, R, is a progressively emerging representation of W in the form of the geometrical universe. Time…

General Physics · Physics 2009-03-11 Martin A. Green

I examine the hypothesis that consciousness can be understood as a state of matter, "perceptronium", with distinctive information processing abilities. I explore five basic principles that may distinguish conscious matter from other…

Popular Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Max Tegmark

The ``Hard Problem" of consciousness refers to a long-standing enigma about how qualia emerge from physical processes in the brain. Building on insights from the development of non-Euclidean geometry, this paper seeks to present a…

General Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Rongwei Yang

The question of the nature of space around us has occupied thinkers since the dawn of humanity, with scientists and philosophers today implicitly assuming that space is something that exists objectively. Here we show that this does not have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-08-12 Alexander V. Terekhov , J. Kevin O'Regan

Both empirical and theoretical objective science can only access relations, revealing nothing about the intrinsic nature of the entities "in relation". We typically refer to these entities as "matter", assuming their nature is irrelevant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

We show here that what we call visual space of consciousness, the space of what we see, is a specific space different from the purely physical one and that its properties imply that it cannot be reduced to or deduced from physical laws.…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-10-28 Iegor Reznikoff

In this essay we discuss the difference in views of the Universe as seen by two different observers. While one of the observers follows a geodesic congruence defined by the geometry of the cosmological model, the other observer follows the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alan A. Coley , Sigbjorn Hervik , Woei Chet Lim

How do different brains create unique visual experiences from identical sensory input? While neural representations vary across individuals, the fundamental architecture underlying these differences remains poorly understood. Here, we…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-05 Chihye Han , Michael F. Bonner

The feeling of a moving present or `now' seems to form part of our most basic perceptions about reality. Such a present, however, is not reflected in any of our theories of the physical world. In this short note I argue for a tenseless view…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2012-05-07 Gustavo E. Romero

This paper is a shortened version of the full paper that was published in the journal Frontiers of Psychology in May 2022. In recent decades, the scientific study of consciousness has significantly increased our understanding of this…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-21 Nir Lahav , Zachariah A. Neemeh

We argue about the following concepts:(i)introduction of endo and exo-observer of a physical system (ii) possible relation between endo, exo-observer and continuum/discrete nature of the same system (iii)the distinction about two categories…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Vernette , Michele Caponigro

The Mind-Body Problem, which constitutes the starting point for a large part of the speculations about consciousness and conscious experience, can be re-stated in an equivalent way, using the `brain duplication' argument described in this…

General Physics · Physics 2009-04-06 Germano D'Abramo

It is asserted that consciousness functionally is a vision. Biologically it is a sensation of work of a brain that converts external and internal signals into visual output. However, as we well know, human consciousness includes meaning…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-12 Boris Rusakov

Being mathematics a natural language to Mankind and to physics, it must be constantly adapted to our necessities and our natural perception. Then, mathematical concepts are not absolute to reality. Although mathematical theories are…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mauricio Ayala
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