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...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
June 1, 2025
Mahendra Samarawickrama
This research analyses the fundamentals of numbers for interpreting consciousness and reality. Complementing Gödel’s incompleteness theorems, we adopted number theory to explore non-referential and self-referential constructs. By examining consciousness, causation, and fundamental mathematical models of reality, we analysed stages of cognition and the emergence of self-referencing as a...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
June 1, 2025
Paavo Pylkkänen, Gustaf Malmberg
Abstract The idea that consciousness is somehow needed to collapse the wave function was emphasized especially by Eugene Wigner in 1961 and has recently been discussed by e.g. David Chalmers and Kelvin McQueen. We revisit the reasons why the idea was proposed in the first place and briefly consider Chalmers and McQueen’s discussion.
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
June 1, 2025
A. Plotnitsky
This article reconsiders the Wigner’s fried experiment and questions posed by it from a new perspective, which removes paradoxes often associated with it, beginning with those, due to the role of consciousness in quantum physics, by Wigner himself. This perpective is new for two main reasons. The first is that it is based on an interpretation of quantum phenomena and quantum mechanics (QM) that...
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...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
May 1, 2023
D. Rapoport
We discuss the torsion geometries as the universal dynamical setting for the five-fold symmetry and its relation to nonorientable surfaces of selfreference embodying a supradual logophysics, rooted in the Möbius strip and Klein Bottle. We frame the discussion in terms of image-schemas in cognitive semantics and their disruption stemming from supraduality and nonorientability. We present the...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
October 1, 2021
N N Abd Razak, K A Sidek, K Y D Alaa et al.
Abstract: Depression and stress are increasingly prevalent in today’s society, owing to people’s hectic, competitive, and demanding lifestyles. These illnesses had become very common, particularly among young and middle-aged people, and suicidal ideation had been identified as one of the leading causes of death by the World Health Organization (WHO). Nature sound (sound of downpours or beach)...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
2021
A. R. Nurul Nabilah, S. Azami, A. K. Dafhalla et al.
Anxiety and depression have become such a widespread illness. It has been affecting people’s health which can lead to suicidal tendencies. Studies related to depression and stress with the nervous system had been conducted and showed that slow music could be one of the methods to reduce stress. Electroencephalogram (EEG) signal is found to have potentials to detect brainwave signal as in real...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
September 1, 2019
Suzy Lidström, Roland E Allen
Abstract: In the spirit of previous ideas in the neuroscience community, but with a more physics-oriented perspective, we propose that consciousness can be described as the collective excitation of a brainwide web of neurones. This picture is inspired by the fact that, in all major areas of physics, a collective excitation has just as much physical reality as a particle or other localized...
Journal of Physics, Conference Series
June 1, 2019
A. Hankey
Roger Penrose has long supported the view that wave function collapse, or more accurately wave packet reduction, is one of the defining aspects of consciousness In collaboration with Stuart Hameroff, he has suggested that it can be achieved by quantum gravity, giving rise to their well-known Orch OR theory of wave function collapse Their theory has a fundamental disadvantage, however Quantum...