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The nature of the psyche and consciousness, quantum computers and information models in psychoinformatics (socionics)

Artificial Intelligence November 30, 2023 DOI: 10.15407/jai2023.03.018 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics Review Peer reviewed
Key findings Argues that the psyche and consciousness are probably quantum in nature and that adequate modeling of mental processes, including consciousness and intelligence, is possible only on multiprocessor quantum computers with a special architecture. Proposes that socionics (psychoinformatics), a theory of information metabolism, supplies this architecture through holistic models of mental functions used in practice for more than 30 years.

Abstract

Modeling the psyche, consciousness and artificial intelligence have encountered conceptual difficulties in understanding real mental processes. Numerous modern studies and experiments presented in the review indicate the probable quantum nature of the psyche and consciousness. The analysis shows that a number of quantum processes are associated with known classical processes and structures, from a single cell to the brain. Therefore, adequate modeling of mental processes, including consciousness and intelligence, is possible only on multiprocessor quantum computers with a special architecture corresponding to the real structure of the psyche. This possible architecture is proposed by the theory of information metabolism - socionics (psychoinformatics), in which detailed holistic information models of the psyche have been developed, which have been used in practice for more than 30 years and have proven their effectiveness. These models represent a system of mental functions of information metabolism, which can be simulated by special quantum processors interacting with each other according to certain laws