eVTS (Elliptical Vector-tensor-scalar) Geometry and Consciousness
Rodney Bartlett
SSRN Electronic Journal 2023 preprint DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4525050 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that consciousness is an immaterial phenomenon that cannot be explained by particles and neurons alone and will be unveiled through mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Proposes a "vector-tensor-scalar geometry" relating the graviton and Higgs boson, and suggests consciousness may be an excitation of a universal field that could expand throughout space-time and be infinite, aligning with Penrose and Hameroff's quantum view of consciousness. |
Abstract
Larry Abbott, a physicist-turned-neuroscientist, says “I think we could understand what every neuron in the brain is doing and we still won’t have an understanding of something like consciousness”. This article suggests that consciousness, being an immaterial thing, will not by explained with particles and neurons and neurotransmitters. It will be unveiled through mathematics and reference to Artificial Intelligence. We are taught that the graviton (the carrier of gravitation) is unrelated to the Higgs boson. According to the vector-tensor-scalar geometry presented here, the particles are indeed related: as are the gravitational field and the allegedly unrelated Higgs field. This idea of the consciousness in our brains being an excitation of the universal field agrees with mathematical physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff that consciousness involves quantum behaviour. If every particle in the brain emerges from interaction of photons and gravitons, is it possible that this could liberate the human brain from being a Higgs-PARTICLE-like point in space-time constantly? Could consciousness also be capable of a Higgs-FIELD-like existence in which that consciousness expands throughout space-time to the same extent as the gravitational and electromagnetic fields whose excitations are gravitons and photons? In other words: the consciousness might be infinite.