If you are aware of an interesting new academic paper (that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal or has appeared on the arXiv), a conference talk (at an official professional scientific meeting), an external blog post (by a professional scientist) or a news item (in the mainstream news media), which you think might make an interesting topic for an FQXi blog post, then please contact us at forums@fqxi.org with a link to the original source and a sentence about why you think that the work is worthy of discussion. Please note that we receive many such suggestions and while we endeavour to respond to them, we may not be able to reply to all suggestions.
Please also note that we do not accept unsolicited posts and we cannot review, or open new threads for, unsolicited articles or papers. Requests to review or post such materials will not be answered. If you have your own novel physics theory or model, which you would like to post for further discussion among then FQXi community, then please add them directly to the "Alternative Models of Reality" thread, or to the "Alternative Models of Cosmology" thread. Thank you.
Please also note that we do not accept unsolicited posts and we cannot review, or open new threads for, unsolicited articles or papers. Requests to review or post such materials will not be answered. If you have your own novel physics theory or model, which you would like to post for further discussion among then FQXi community, then please add them directly to the "Alternative Models of Reality" thread, or to the "Alternative Models of Cosmology" thread. Thank you.
Forum Home
Introduction
Terms of Use
RSS feed | RSS help
Introduction
Terms of Use
Posts by the blogger are highlighted in orange; posts by FQXi Members are highlighted in blue.
By using the FQXi Forum, you acknowledge reading and agree to abide by the Terms of Use RSS feed | RSS help
RECENT POSTS IN THIS TOPIC
Lorraine Ford: on 10/1/20 at 21:48pm UTC, wrote Tim Palmer, “Causal heft” is a term used by philosopher David...
Lorraine Ford: on 9/29/20 at 22:36pm UTC, wrote Tim Palmer, 1. The micro-world somehow knows about (what we human beings...
Steve Dufourny: on 9/29/20 at 7:58am UTC, wrote Hi Mr Baugh , welcome on this wonderful platform, I agree with you about...
Jake Baugh: on 9/28/20 at 14:23pm UTC, wrote A very good explanation on creativity indeed. I agree with the procedure...
Tim Palmer: on 7/3/20 at 11:38am UTC, wrote Abstract: This talk is in two parts. In the first part, I suggest that...
RECENT FORUM POSTS
John Cox: "Georgina, beg pard, are you suggesting that the unpaired Ag electron is..." in Answering Mermin’s...
Stefan Weckbach: "The interaction of the gyroscope with the magnetic field in your reference..." in Answering Mermin’s...
Steve Dufourny: "Hello Jim, this time seems a parameter inside this physicality correlated..." in The Nature of Time
Jim Snowdon: "Hi Steve, On the nature of time, we can assume that time exists..." in The Nature of Time
Steve Dufourny: "Hi Prasad, it is a philosophical approach interesting. Like I see you..." in Alternative Models of...
Steve Dufourny: "Hi all, I am occupied here in finland in creating several projects like a..." in Global Collaboration
jim hughes: "We can probably say a lot more about the content of consciousness. But we..." in Understanding...
PRASAD DIVATE: "Hi all, I would like to add one more point here in different context: In..." in Understanding...
RECENT ARTICLES
click titles to read articles
Time to Think
Philosopher Jenann Ismael invokes the thermodynamic arrow of time to explain how human intelligence emerged through culture.
Lockdown Lab Life
Grounded physicists are exploring the use of online and virtual-reality conferencing, and AI-controlled experiments, to maintain social distancing. Post-pandemic, these positive innovations could make science more accessible and environmentally-friendly.
Is Causality Fundamental?
Untangling how the human perception of cause-and-effect might arise from quantum physics, may help us understand the limits and the potential of AI.
Building Agency in the Biology Lab
Physicists are using optogenetics techniques to make a rudimentary agent, from cellular components, which can convert measurements into actions using light.
Think Quantum to Build Better AI
Investigating how quantum memory storage could aid machine learning and how quantum interactions with the environment may have played a role in evolution.
Lorraine Ford: on 10/1/20 at 21:48pm UTC, wrote Tim Palmer, “Causal heft” is a term used by philosopher David...
Lorraine Ford: on 9/29/20 at 22:36pm UTC, wrote Tim Palmer, 1. The micro-world somehow knows about (what we human beings...
Steve Dufourny: on 9/29/20 at 7:58am UTC, wrote Hi Mr Baugh , welcome on this wonderful platform, I agree with you about...
Jake Baugh: on 9/28/20 at 14:23pm UTC, wrote A very good explanation on creativity indeed. I agree with the procedure...
Tim Palmer: on 7/3/20 at 11:38am UTC, wrote Abstract: This talk is in two parts. In the first part, I suggest that...
RECENT FORUM POSTS
John Cox: "Georgina, beg pard, are you suggesting that the unpaired Ag electron is..." in Answering Mermin’s...
Stefan Weckbach: "The interaction of the gyroscope with the magnetic field in your reference..." in Answering Mermin’s...
Steve Dufourny: "Hello Jim, this time seems a parameter inside this physicality correlated..." in The Nature of Time
Jim Snowdon: "Hi Steve, On the nature of time, we can assume that time exists..." in The Nature of Time
Steve Dufourny: "Hi Prasad, it is a philosophical approach interesting. Like I see you..." in Alternative Models of...
Steve Dufourny: "Hi all, I am occupied here in finland in creating several projects like a..." in Global Collaboration
jim hughes: "We can probably say a lot more about the content of consciousness. But we..." in Understanding...
PRASAD DIVATE: "Hi all, I would like to add one more point here in different context: In..." in Understanding...
RECENT ARTICLES
click titles to read articles
Time to Think
Philosopher Jenann Ismael invokes the thermodynamic arrow of time to explain how human intelligence emerged through culture.
Lockdown Lab Life
Grounded physicists are exploring the use of online and virtual-reality conferencing, and AI-controlled experiments, to maintain social distancing. Post-pandemic, these positive innovations could make science more accessible and environmentally-friendly.
Is Causality Fundamental?
Untangling how the human perception of cause-and-effect might arise from quantum physics, may help us understand the limits and the potential of AI.
Building Agency in the Biology Lab
Physicists are using optogenetics techniques to make a rudimentary agent, from cellular components, which can convert measurements into actions using light.
Think Quantum to Build Better AI
Investigating how quantum memory storage could aid machine learning and how quantum interactions with the environment may have played a role in evolution.
FQXi BLOGS
December 2, 2020
Abstract: This talk is in two parts. In the first part, I suggest that creativity arises from a close synergy between two modes of neuronal operation (corresponding to Kahnemann’s Systems 1 and 2) where in the first, the limited amount of available energy to the brain is spread across large numbers of active neuronal networks, making them susceptible to noise; and in the second, available energy is focussed on smaller subset of active networks, making them operate more deterministically. In the second part, I define consciousness in terms of an ability to perceive an object as independent of its surroundings.
This implies an ability to perceive counterfactual worlds where objects are perturbed relative to their surroundings. I argue that such perception may require quantum theoretic processes to be operating in the brain, since the very formulation of quantum theory (whether in convention or unconventional interpretations) involves the primacy of states of alternate worlds - alive and dead cats and so on. I argue that the brain’s reliance on such quantum processes may have arisen because they are more energy efficient than corresponding classical processes, and give some examples to justify this. Overall, I argue that human creativity and consciousness may have arisen from the brain’s evolution to become an organ of exceptional energy efficiency.
Keywords: #Models of consciousness
report post as inappropriate
This forum thread is open to the public.
This implies an ability to perceive counterfactual worlds where objects are perturbed relative to their surroundings. I argue that such perception may require quantum theoretic processes to be operating in the brain, since the very formulation of quantum theory (whether in convention or unconventional interpretations) involves the primacy of states of alternate worlds - alive and dead cats and so on. I argue that the brain’s reliance on such quantum processes may have arisen because they are more energy efficient than corresponding classical processes, and give some examples to justify this. Overall, I argue that human creativity and consciousness may have arisen from the brain’s evolution to become an organ of exceptional energy efficiency.
Keywords: #Models of consciousness
This forum thread is open to the public.
A very good explanation on creativity indeed. I agree with the procedure behind arising of the creativity, however does it differ by personality type? Like for example, a game maker of for say coin master is much more creative than someone who made an average game or an art? So should we consider the one who succeeded with a benchmark more creative?
report post as inappropriate
Hi Mr Baugh , welcome on this wonderful platform, I agree with you about this creativity like in the arts, it seems so important, like said Einstein, the imagination seems very important ,the knowledges of foundamentals is essential but the creativity also to extrapolate new partitiosn harmoniscal, it is like in the music, we learn the basis and after we can create our own partitions in respecting the laws of harmonies, the maths and physics are a little bit the same, regards
report post as inappropriate
Tim Palmer,
1. The micro-world somehow knows about (what we human beings symbolically represent as) laws of nature, variables, and associated numbers for the variables: THAT is the only possible content of proto-consciousness; THAT is the only possible basis for building the content of higher consciousness.
Our consciousness of the blonde woman wearing an aqua-coloured top crossing the road at a zebra crossing, with red, white and yellow cars, and green trees and grass in the background is not made-up stuff or random nonsense. The content of our consciousness, e.g. the woman in the aqua-coloured top, is necessarily built out of information coming from particle interactions in the eyes and information coming from other sense organs.
The basis for higher-level factual information is lower-level factual information; i.e. the basis for higher-level consciousness OF information is lower-level proto-consciousness OF information. There are no miracles: consciousness OF information can’t miraculously emerge from no consciousness of information.
2. For physicists, “creativity” is identical to the normal operation of the laws of nature, with a bit of randomness thrown in. HONEST physicists should NOT misuse the word “creativity”: they should use the words “mindless randomness”: they should call a spade a spade, and not try to make out it is more than a spade.
The genuine meaning of the word “creativity” is “bring (something) into existence”: if a person creates something, they literally bring it into existence. The physics of someone bringing something into existence is clearly different to the physics of mindless randomness.
report post as inappropriate
1. The micro-world somehow knows about (what we human beings symbolically represent as) laws of nature, variables, and associated numbers for the variables: THAT is the only possible content of proto-consciousness; THAT is the only possible basis for building the content of higher consciousness.
Our consciousness of the blonde woman wearing an aqua-coloured top crossing the road at a zebra crossing, with red, white and yellow cars, and green trees and grass in the background is not made-up stuff or random nonsense. The content of our consciousness, e.g. the woman in the aqua-coloured top, is necessarily built out of information coming from particle interactions in the eyes and information coming from other sense organs.
The basis for higher-level factual information is lower-level factual information; i.e. the basis for higher-level consciousness OF information is lower-level proto-consciousness OF information. There are no miracles: consciousness OF information can’t miraculously emerge from no consciousness of information.
2. For physicists, “creativity” is identical to the normal operation of the laws of nature, with a bit of randomness thrown in. HONEST physicists should NOT misuse the word “creativity”: they should use the words “mindless randomness”: they should call a spade a spade, and not try to make out it is more than a spade.
The genuine meaning of the word “creativity” is “bring (something) into existence”: if a person creates something, they literally bring it into existence. The physics of someone bringing something into existence is clearly different to the physics of mindless randomness.
Tim Palmer,
“Causal heft” is a term used by philosopher David Chalmers. According to physics, only two elements of the universe have causal heft: laws of nature and mindless randomness; matter does not have causal heft. I.e. according to physics, people and other living things can’t have genuine causal heft i.e. they can’t have genuine free will or creativity, they can only have the superficial appearance of free will and creativity.
In this era of lies, spin and the massaging of facts, shouldn’t physicists be honest about their beliefs? Physicists should honestly say that they believe that free will and creativity don’t exist, and that what actually exists is the superficial appearance of free will and creativity. If free will and creativity did in fact genuinely exist, then physics would be wrong about the nature of matter.
report post as inappropriate
“Causal heft” is a term used by philosopher David Chalmers. According to physics, only two elements of the universe have causal heft: laws of nature and mindless randomness; matter does not have causal heft. I.e. according to physics, people and other living things can’t have genuine causal heft i.e. they can’t have genuine free will or creativity, they can only have the superficial appearance of free will and creativity.
In this era of lies, spin and the massaging of facts, shouldn’t physicists be honest about their beliefs? Physicists should honestly say that they believe that free will and creativity don’t exist, and that what actually exists is the superficial appearance of free will and creativity. If free will and creativity did in fact genuinely exist, then physics would be wrong about the nature of matter.
Login or create account to post reply or comment.