A conscious agent, by virtue of actions that contribute to irreversibility, increases entropy. The agent during the lifespan may be characterized by a passage from the live information state [Formula: see text]1[Formula: see text] to the death state [Formula: see text]0[Formula: see text]. The superposition of such states is well recognized conceptually in psychology and belongs to the field of...
Creating machines that are conscious is a long-term objective of research in artificial intelligence. This paper looks at this idea with new arguments from physics and logic. Observers have no place in classical physics, and although they play a role in measurement in quantum physics there is no explanation for their emergence within the framework. There is a suggestion that consciousness,...
It is generally accepted that machines can replicate cognitive tasks performed by conscious agents as long as they are not based on the capacity of awareness. We consider several views on the nature of subjective awareness, which is fundamental for self-reflection and review, and present reasons why this property is not computable. We argue that consciousness is more than an epiphenomenon and...
For the past several years, I have come across occasional references to quantum neurophysiology, not least in your own academic papers on the subject. It seems to me that this emerging field of inquiry is relevant to Yoga and even Yoga therapy. Can you please state briefly the principal concerns (and raison d'être) of quantum neurophysiology? How do these concerns complement, complete, or even...