2025 IEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics
November 3, 2025
Mahendra Samarawickrama
This work advances the computational account of mind and consciousness, distinguishing them from high-performance computing. We adopt the Turing-theoretic interpretation and argue that the mind is best modelled as a universal Turing machine equipped with formally unbounded memory. Physical systems, including quantum computers, von Neumann architectures, organoids, and the brain as a biological...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
June 1, 2025
Mahendra Samarawickrama
This paper examines the limitations of analytical and computational methods in understanding reality, highlighting the secondary role of language and mathematics, which often leads to paradoxes. Gödel’s incompleteness theorems underscore the inherent incompleteness and undecidability in logical and computational systems, such as the Turing machine. We propose that consciousness, operating as a...
2024 IEEE Conference on Engineering Informatics
November 20, 2024
Mahendra Samarawickrama
This paper proposes a framework that adapts irreducible consciousness to govern human-AI co-design, positioning consciousness as central to intelligence. Drawing insights from quantum mechanics, infant cognitive development, the limbic system, and the philosophical hard problem of consciousness, we explore the implications of consciousness for human-AI codesigns. We address legal complexities,...
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
February 1, 2024
Mahendra Samarawickrama
Quantum physics and gravity are two different concepts which need to be unified in a widely acceptable way. While electromagnetism, weak nuclear force, and strong nuclear force were accurately unified under the framework of quantum field theory, gravity remains elusive and couldn’t be unified with quantum mechanics. However, gravity is accurately understood by the theory of relativity, which is...
arXiv Preprint Archive
January 10, 2023
Mahendra Samarawickrama
Consciousness is a sequential process of awareness which can focus on one piece of information at a time. This process of awareness experiences causation which underpins the notion of time while it interplays with matter and energy, forming reality. The study of Consciousness, time and reality is complex and evolving fast in many fields, including metaphysics and fundamental physics. Reality...