Consciousness and mind are the most undefined or ill-defined entities. I will be presenting the paper entitled – “A Universal Approach to the Problems of Consciousness” accepted at the conference – Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008, Tucson, Arizona, April 8-12, 2008. The paper defines the universal consciousness as non-local, while mind is a local phenomenon since it represents the confined consciousness within the space-time boundaries of the ego built upon beliefs, convictions, and mindsets.
When the local mind dissolves its confining boundaries it merges into the non-local One wholesome consciousness. Minds are many, consciousness is one. Minds are fragmented into many by the boundaries of the egos, while consciousness is the wholesome universal and non-local existence beyond space-time. Mind evolves in time, while consciousness exists eternally.
The following are some excerpts from my paper:
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Abstract
A multi-disciplinary and universal approach to consciousness is presented. Consciousness issues within the context of modern neuroscience and related problems in contemporary physics are addressed. Current theories of consciousness look towards information theory, information integration theory, complexity theory, neural Darwinism, reentrant neural networks, quantum holism etc. to provide some hints. These theories fall short of the rigors and quantitative measures that are normally required of a scientific theory. The most perplexing philosophical conundrums of the “hard problem” and “qualia” that afflict modern neuroscience can be resolved by a deeper understanding of the physics of the very small (below Planck scale) and very large (boundaries of the universe) scales. The modern philosophy of mind proposes that consciousness is a higher-order mental state that monitors the first or base state possibly generated by the brain.
This paper builds upon the early approaches to consciousness wherein it was proposed that the state of self-consciousness is not a separate, higher-order consciousness of a conscious experience, but represents a continuum of the lower order states generated by the brain experience. In such a larger context, many of the mysteries of physics and neuroscience can be explained with an integrated model. This paper proposes such an integrated model that provides a direct relationship between the physics concepts of space, time, mass, and energy, and the consciousness concepts of spontaneity and awareness. The observed spontaneity in natural phenomena, which include human mind, is modeled as the higher order or universal consciousness. The integrated model explains the recent observations of the universe and demonstrates that the higher order consciousness is a universal rather than a biologically induced phenomenon.
The neurobiological mind is shown to represent a subset of the complimentary states of the prevailing higher order universal consciousness in the form of the continuum of space-time-mass-energy. The proposed approach integrates spontaneity or consciousness into the existing and widely-accepted theories of science to provide a cohesive model of the universe as one wholesome continuum. The model represents the essential reality of different levels and dimensions of experience, both implicit and explicit, consciousness and matter, to be seen as equivalent and complimentary states of the same mass-energy known as the zero-point energy. The universal consciousness is shown to represent the spontaneous kinetic energy of the extreme kind, which is the ultimate complimentary state wherein everything in the universe is experienced as the zero-point energy field in a fully dilated space and time continuum.
This paper addresses the issues related to mind and consciousness within the context of modern neuroscience and related problems in contemporary physics.
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