Self, Time, and Reality in Quantum Stream of Consciousness

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to propose a model that can be compatible with philosophy of mind, psychology, neuroscience, and physics (with its regard to time and consciousness). It is mostly a structural-dynamical approach to consciousness by analogy with a causal approach in Relativity. Consciousness is studied in dynamics over time as a stream St that alternates instant mental acts and temporal quanta. Being a cause-like chain, St generates a trichotomy of personality P: self-alienability (SA), self-inadequacy (SI), and self-completeness (SC) between the past-present-future. Descartes' cogito is none other than a mental act of SA. The cogito can be obtained by consciousness with collapsing the brain's superposition over time through SA and SI mechanisms. The formalism is like a quantum-mechanical commutation in Heisenberg's description. latter can also provide us with the mechanisms of the altered states and neuro-mental disorder such as hallucination, hypnosis, schizophrenia and so. While St is open from above, its lower boundary reposes on its first mental act as the unconscious Jungian Self. The model endows the thermodynamic and causal arrow of time with anthropic one. The final conclusion suggests a reformulation of Wheeler's anthropic principle in a neuro-phenomenological manner.

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“…), but such inaccessible existence is nothing for consciousness. By rephrasing Wheeler's PAP in a more delicate way, Yurchenko (2016) concludes: consciousness brings the universe into being such as it is necessary for consciousness itself in order to be. 'I' becomes a center of existentiality in which the world is absolutely immersed.…”

“…Further, the model presented in this part follows the approach elaborated in (Yurchenko 2016) and holds also that: (i) consciousness is a physical (multifunctional) process obeying causality; (ii) consciousness is a discrete stream of the mental states alternated over time passage; (iii) every mental state is an act of grasping the I-World state holding a wholeness of the internal and external reality.…”