The Outer Mind scenario

This is a preliminary version of a paper I hope to publish in a respectable journal when I have completed editing and revising my ideas into coherence. I hope you enjoy, and that it's not to confusing. Just be careful with the new terms and ask me to elucidate if something is unclear. Telling me where this idea is weak will help me to present it to mainstream scientific community.

Have fun.



Brains Possess Curiously Branelike Parameters. And HOW They Do Stuff!




Introduction

I postulate that consciousness and its content are self-dimensional and subject to laws of conscious causation. What do I mean? Well, there's a known reality of a universe of three spatial dimensions who exist and (1) are filled with physical energy inherent (2) by extension of the laws of physics. I hypothesize that in parallel to the physical brane and in command of its biological parts there is also a reality of mind (which I call the conscious brane) where there are 'mental dimensions' (or conscious involvements) who exist and (1) are filled with a here undefined consciousness-related energy which (2) fundamentally relies on laws of "psychics," as to say. In effect, what's proposed is that while consciousness is seen to us as and actually is as, a byproduct of the physical universe, it is really a consequent whose reality is of the nature of possessing self-dimensionality in the sense of its dimensions being diametrically offset to what the physical universe possesses in and of its own inherent spatial projections.



Why consider the mind to be self-dimensional and apart from the physical universe?


In other words, the mind is it's own world. That's why nobody can find it. Why? Current physics doesn't have the technological or theoretical capacity to probe hypothetical extra dimensions, so clearly the conscious dimension would be invisible to us. Like the now unverifiable branes fifth, sixth, and beyond which could possibly exist by proposed M-theories, the conscious brane and the manifestations of the laws of physics in this proposed essence of dimensionality are unobservable by us now. It's interesting to my ideas that scientists have thought to look at the physically manifest cosmic background of radiation to offer hints of interaction between the fifth dimension and our own three. Cooperatively interesting to my hypothesis that a conscious brane exists in tandem with the physical brane (& 5th etc.) is that neurophysicists and psychologists have looked to physically manifest electrobiochemistry to possibly defer us indications of the origin and physical home of consciousness within a physical information-computing brain. My hypothesis removes the home of consciousness from the brain's physicality and leaves the brain behind to project its physical world information-synthetic derivative into the psychospatial terrain of the conscious brane, our perception, thought, feeling, love, and dreaming.

A falsifiable implication of this is that we'll never find consciousness here, because it's a project in the workings of extra dimensional reality. Is it facetious of me to employ two puns to express that? Oh well, I'm nineteen and choosing to have fun with this. From these implied ideas of (figuratively) a separate fabric of consciousness cloaking the physical universe, I preliminarily derive for the name of my position the Outer Mind/Conscious Brane Hypothesis.

Also, it is important for my proposition in thinking of the mind as separate from the physical brane because this provides justification for my assertion that a different set of laws, the psychic, govern the mind. This is perhaps a novel concept which may eventually show to be implied in M-theory, that in other branes, such as the fifth dimension, the laws that govern energy caught inside that brane are entirely or slightly different in nature from the manifestation of physical laws in the physical brane. Actually, I posit that in other branes, especially the conscious, the governing laws of such branes' caught energy can be quite radically different in nature of real extension. By real extension I mean the actual consequent of the existence of certain laws. All laws have real extensions, such as gravity's real extension being the propensity of bodies in physical space to attract one another. I divide consciousness from material in a branelike sense in order to provide alternative naturalistic modes of real extension of explanatory laws. We'll see in the workings of my hypothesis' implication why self-dimensionality is an important conceptual framework for the notion of variable real extension between these branes.



How do the laws of psychics apply with respect to their governance in reference to how laws of physics apply to the physical universe?
or
How do laws of physics apply to the conscious brane?


My hypothesis goes from the notion of our self-dimensional mind (the conscious brane, from the brain) on to assert that it relies on laws of psychics independent of yet conveyed in the physical universe by use of adjunct laws of physics that allow the biological organism to project itself mentally. Let's see now, it is absolutely known that manifestations of physical laws on biological organisms can affect the mind, (the hypothetical brane of consciousness.) For example, my medicine once a day controls schizophrenic processes that threaten to obliterate my mind into disrepair and dysfunction. Metaphorically speaking, without a drug acting in my body the universe of me could potentially begin to compute from a faulty set of unbalanced constants and antisynergetic behaviour, and thus the universe of me would collapse or blow apart completely because the fine-tuning and synergy of the drug on my system would be absent. For me, either lifelong decay or sudden and intense psychotic breakdown could eventually be caused by a missing ingredient from the current physical state ensuring the prolonged health of the life of the cosmos of me, if I may use and augment cosmologist Lee Smolin's phrase in my construction.

For purposes of my hypothesis, it is important here to note that by the metaphors the universe of me and the life of the cosmos of me refer respectively to the 'psychospatial' self-dimensional conscious brane, or mind, and to the 'psychomaterial' contents of that brane, or our perceptions and decisions, to name a few. I used an account of the impact of a drug on my mind to demonstrate the (hopefully for psychopharmacology) indisputable fact that manifestations of physical law acting third-dimensionally can augment the content of the mind. If it so happens that it's true that the phenomenon of mind takes place beyond physical reality, then from the accepted and indisputable fact that specific physical phenomenon that modify the quantum state of our brain can also modify the content of our conscious vantage, it is clear that my hypothesis makes another falsifiable implication:


Information transfuses somehow between independent yet interrelated self-dimensional abodes.

What does this implication of the Outer Mind/Conscious Brane Hypothesis mean?


I've come to a beautiful point in this ideation. Does my hypothesis suffice in power to successfully act as an explanatory paradigm? Well, first thing is to notice, that while my example of medicated schizophrenia illustrates the 'interdimensional communication' possible from the body to the mind, it is clear that the communication of information is also from the mind into the body. It should be easy to see how this is true, because my mind is responsible for my writing this. This is when in my story that the second part of my hypothesis enters view. My hypothesis states that laws of psychics govern the mind. This is possibly true for a couple very important reasons:

· The laws of physics can't account for my choice and overarching subtle and deep psychological compulsion to share this with you, or the physical manifestation of that choice. Clearly though and pertinent too, the manifestation of choice is a real extension into and determinant over the quantum state of the body by the mind. Free will is the mind setting the quantum state of the body.

· Under the laws of physics, it is highly unlikely behaviour of a quantum event for the system of particles called me to unify and self-ensure thru the real extension of physical laws their inevitable quantum states into such occurrence of uncanny physical precision that we describe as free will, rational contemplation, and communicative expression.

Indeed, my hypothesis implies that nothing ever in solely physical theories will guarantee a causal agent for consciousness to arise, even though it is already apparent from and broadly consilient with my hypothesis and other scientific fields of enquiry that physical energy is the agent by which consciousness is informed.

Obviously, we scientifically know that though physically speaking our coherent and directional behaviour is highly improbable and theoretically impossible (thru solely physical means,) verily it is free will that accounts for my writing and thinking this. Nothing in current quantum physics allows, and I believe never will allow, the valid notion of a quantum event deciding in accordance with naturalistic physical laws its own state independent of the intervention of a conscious involvement governed by psychical laws. If nothing in physical law can account for free will and if my ideas are rejected, then we must invoke God to supply itself as a possible controlling principle of quantum uncertainty. My hypothesis much better accounts for free will than the previously proposed notion that it may be a physical property reducible to a proton, quark, string, 'psychon' or some nonsense like that.

The original complaint stands if that were to be true; God would live inside the psychon! Instead, free will is the result of the conscious brane, not psychons. Physical laws and psychical laws are different, and free will steers this point home! A physical law makes absolutely neccessary the occurrence of certain things. For example, gravity absolutely requires that a stone fall thru the air if hoisted and dropped. There is no contesting that. The real extension of physical law is physical absolution. However, the real extension of psychical law is by definition in opposition to the observed physical computational neccessity (wrought by laws of physics) of the universe. Psychical laws allow the energy of the universe to effect thru another kind of naturalism its own quantum realization.

This is the beauty of my potentially revolutionary idea: my hypothesis requires explaining my choice to write a paper neither God, nor a physically causal account. How? Because free will is determinedly a psychic law of the conscious brane, governing the undefined consciousness-related energy within the brane. This brane is the self-dimensional universe of mind in which consciousness-related energy stipulatively defined now to be spiritual energy does exist. We've seen, for example, that such outer mind or spiritual energy manifestations would include mental functions like belief and perception. Understandably, free will and desire are potential candidates of possible psychic laws that govern the conscious response to the perception of the content of the mind. In current and now proposed theory, the content of the mind is derived from the information-synthetic quantum function of the brain. In addition according to my hypothesis, the 'location' of such content is the self-dimensional conscious brane. The physical correspondent of such content is the quantum, or electrobiochemical state of the brain.



How else and to what extent do separate sets of self-dimensional natural law manifest and interact?


An idea of my hypothesis is that such as physical information in the physical universe is the quantum state of physical energy, conscious information in a spiritual universe has a proportional relationship to the physical world's quantum state. It has already been suggested by neurophysical research that the proposed spiritual content of the mind is physically manifest as the quantum state of the brain. For example, when mentally exposed to a word, a particular spot in the brain electrobiochemically activates, and when exposed to a different word, a different but proximal spot activates. Furthermore, when the initial word is mentally reviewed, the initial point identified activates again! Other fortuitous research has indicated what was scientifically-horribly dubbed the God spot. This is a region of the brain that activates during metaphysical or theological speculation like the relating of natural phenomenon to teleology (ie. mentally ascribing an end purpose to things). In digression from my main thesis, I personally believe a better term for this region would be the site of spiritual focus, where enquiry into divinity etcetera is more concentrated just as different words are representationally dispersed over a region of the brain associated with language. These observations like the story of my psychiatric situation are extremely highly conclusive when wanting to show that the mind can derive its content from the state of the body. In these two examples of neurophysical research, the quantum states and therefore the conscious reality of the human body were effected by physical phenomenon, the posing of a word or theological concept in the form of physical communication.

In essence the state of the body becomes the mind (which is the prevalent and hypothesized view,) and as shown in my discussion on free will as directive of quantum uncertainty, the mind also becomes the state of body. It is then true to (and now scientifically acceptable to partially) say that quantum uncertainty acts as the controller of consciousness similarly as the controller of quantum uncertainty is the real extension of psychical law. The physical world resounds in quantum perturbations that give and receive influence of the spiritual world of conscious deliberation. The grand physical paradigm continues to stand resiliently that the laws of physics unquestionably govern physical reality and produce consciousness here in an impersonal, computational way independent of any theological causation. It also stands resiliently, if my hypothesis is true, that as conscious involvements within the outer mind, our spiritual imperative is to thru willingness govern quantum uncertainty, and thus the total actual outcome of physical energy.



In conclusion, how does my hypothesis relate to a key emergent theory of evolution that "intelligent life is the architect of the universe"?

The proposed reality of conscious dimensions and the notion that alternate sets of laws of nature exist than solely physical laws, in the context of the Selfish Biocosm Hypothesis recently put forward by Science essayist and complexity theorist, Games Gardner, will provide another falsifiable implication of my claim. A general idea, I think that comes out of his ideas, is that the proposed eschaton or Omega Point corresponds both to the ontogenetic point of maximal computational potential and also to the von Neumann machine capable of the evolutionary replication of physical laws who guarantee the emergence of life and intelligence into novel spatial dimensions. My hypothesis implies that the eschaton would include the physical state of the universe, but principly rely upon a spiritual state of the conscious brane.

Dependence on the conscious brane in replication of the physical brane would remove the challenge of conceiving a cause in the physical universe for maximal computational potential. In other words, life doesn't require a Big Crunch to ensure the temperature difference that would provide sufficient free energy for an infinite amount of information processing, as speculative physicist Frank Tipler described. An example of a naturalistic mechanism for producing the eschaton that arises in context of the Outer Mind scenario is that in a conscious brane a psychic law such as desire, indefinitely amplified by application of the principle of free will, could theoretically provide sufficient free energy to achieve maximal computational potential. What do I mean to say that desire would provide free energy for MCP? Well, my desire to articulate a word precedes the computation of information into the physical articulation of my fingers on this keyboard. In this way, desire provides free energy for the determinacy of quantum uncertainty. I believe somehow, thru the activity of intelligent conscious involvements (like you or I, or our distant progeny,) life's gesture into the physical brane can increase in the levels of complex biological interaction and awareness all the way to the eschaton point where the really extending reach of consciousness into the cosmos becomes absolutely coterminous with the absolute extent of all observable.

The ideas Gardner discusses in his book Biocosm are that this eschaton would create a new physical universe with slightly varied laws which are improved upon somehow by such a way drawing from the complexity of maximal computational capacity. Included in his ideas is that somehow, this universe could imprint slightly modified laws, into the fabric of new spatial dimensions, who are somehow better endowed anthropically in their coaxing of the emergence of complex life and intelligence in an eternal cycle of birth and rebirth without any death of pertinent information concerning our emergence and cosmic evolution. My hypothesis is beautifully complimentary to these ideas, as I hope you will come to see.

A deeper implication of my ideas in conjunct with those of Games Gardner is that psychical laws are more fundamental than the physical, because since during the eschaton, the physical universe is completely alive, and the reach of spiritual energy in controlling quantum uncertainty is entirely complete. (This is the proposed nature of maximal computational capacity in place of a Big Crunch scenario which would probably kill all the life trying to self replicate the physical laws promising life.) Quite literally, I propose that eventually and previously, consciousness has taken firm hold of the governing physical principles and bent them to better suit its desires for self-actualization, -realization, and -evolution again and again thru-out time.

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