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A two-input model of human information processing with the corresponding biological interfaces is proposed in this presentation. It is argued that dual aspects of nature generally are reflected in the way we relate to it, and may appear on the different levels humans make representation of the environment. Evidence from neurosciences for two quite distinct forms of visual perception and the ‘bicameral mind’ concept are presented as existing examples of the argued principle. The local-nonlocal division of the physical world cuts to the deepest level of information processing resulting in two basically different but complementary foundations of knowledge. A dual-process approach in the way humans relate to the world emerges from this analysis, with the ‘perceptual-cognitive’ process (based on local effects) receiving awareness in the ordinary states of consciousness, while the ‘direct-intuitive’ (based on nonlocal connections) process transpiring mainly in the integrative forms of altered states of consciousness. The outlined dichotomy of knowledge can explain the differences between scientific and spiritual teachings, and provides ground of interpretation for psi research. Descartes' Cogito emphasizes the importance of the intuitive knowledge (learning by observation from the inside). "Observation from the inside" attributes consciousness to every entities encountered (paid attention to) during the experience. The combination of the two sources of knowledge is necessary for understanding phenomenal consciousness (the hard problem).TRANSCRIPT
MESOLITHIC PERIOD began 10,000 bce
Non-locality and Intuition as the Second Foundation of Knowledge Ede Frecska and Luis Luna, TSoC, Helsinki 2015Published in: Neuroquantology 2012, 10:537-461Testing BoundariesThis author challenges the following concepts, which belong to the foundation of current Western scientific thinking:
Neurons are the only building blocks of information processing in the brainConsciousness emerges from neuroaxonal activityWhat we are is skin-encapsulated, consciousness is compartmentalized by the skullAll information comes through the sensory organs, and we can know nothing that does not pass through the sensesThere is one, unilayered reality = perceptual reality21. An assumption that every human experience results from the activity of one network, the neuroaxonal
F. Crick: Youre nothing but a pack of neurons!
This is RRR (rudely radical reductionism)!
2. Classical physics ideas are sufficient to explain how it is we are aware (as pointed out by D. Radin)The Fallacy of Neuroscience3We are nested, interacting networks
F. Karinthy (Hungarian humorist): In my dream I was two (three) cats playing with each other.
2. The holographic principle prevails.
M. Pitkanen (Finnish physicist): The Universe emulates itself on every level.
3. At the bottom (or top?) of our existence there is a non-biological web embedding us nonlocally in the UniverseThe Counter-proposal4It is one of the two central concepts of quantum mechanics.
Nonlocality is the direct influence of one object on another, distant object, it means spooky action at distance (Einstein). Elementary particles dont lose their connections after separation (entanglement).
However, the second central concept of quantum mechanics the Uncertainty Principle limits its effect (not letting it to be too spooky).
One works on the parapsychologists side, the other works against it.The Principle of Nonlocality56S. Hameroff 2003Down into the Labyrinth7S. Hameroff 2003With 10,000,000 times more elements than neurons, it is a candidate of nonlocal information processing based on quantum computationThe Microtubular NetworkThe Microfilamental NetworkWith the cytosol it constitutes the ground floor of bioorganization10S. Hameroff 200311R. Penrose 200312R. Penrose 200313mirror symmetries (i.e., string duality)electricitymagnetismstrongweak (S-duality)particles wavesfermionsbozonsmass energylocal effects nonlocal connectionsDuality & Complementarity in the Physical UniverseThe Second Foundation of KnowledgeBased on the Principle of Nonlocality, and with the help of a subcellular quantum antenna array our body is in contact with the whole Uni(multi)verse
It contains the whole Kosmos like a hologram and supports the truth of:The Kingdom of Heaven is within youLook into yourself, you are BuddhaAs above (without), so below (within)quantumcorrelationsnonlocalconnectionsNested Networks with Two Inputs
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neuro- -axonalsubcellular (endomembrane) systemspin network (fabric of space-time)SENSORY INPUTLOCAL
EFFECTS16Perceptual-Cognitive (rational)Hylotropic mode
learning by observation from the outside (objective)neuroaxonal network is the medium (in the brain)electrochemical (based on local effects)performs modeling, splits to subject-objectlinguistic (not necessarily verbal), transferableprecise, it has little problems with replicabilitypeaks in Western scientific thinkingDuality & Complementarity in KnowledgeDirect-Intuitive (visionary)Holotropic mode
learning by observation from the inside (subjective)subcellular matrix is the medium (in the body)quantumphysical (based on non-local connections)direct experience, no subject-object splitineffable, non-transferable (but can be directly shared)nebulous, it has big problems with replicabilitythe source of contemplative traditions
Duality & Complementarity in Visual Perception
An Example of Observation from the Insideafter L. LunaLearning by transformation (the shamanic way)The Grandmaster of Nonlocality
Realm of percepctionRealm of imaginationThe Power of Prayer and Ritual21
The Scribe and the Visionary
Iconic figures of different civilizations with different tools of knowledgeTiwanaku Paraphernalia
VilcaSnuff tray
after L. LunaThe Role of Visions in Shaping CultureHealing For tens of thousands of years healing was performed in trance > visionary altered state of consciousness (ASC)Art Paleolithic cave and mobile art was an aftereffect of a previous trance stateReligion The Judeo-Christian tradition originates from Sumerian myths. Sumerian myths show the fingerprint of ASCsVisions were first, scriptures next!Civilization Our civilization got started in Sumer. Sumerians stated that EVERYTHING they knew was learnt from Anunnakis (possibly visionary entities)Logic The necessity of logical argumentation was Parmenides idea, who got it in an Upper World journey and wrote it down in hexameters. He was a iatromantis (see below)Mathematics Pythagoras, the Father of Mathematics has also followed the tradition of iatromantis (shamanism)Visions (insights) create culture.
Language transfers it.Duality & Complementarity in Culture
The Complete Paradigmspiritualphysico-bio-socio-psycho-26Modes of Information Processing forartificial intelligence (AI):perceptual-cognitive
humans (animals):perceptual-cognitivedirect-intuitive
plants:direct-intuitiveThe Law of Pruning: Reductio ad AbsurdumIntrauterin life: programmed neuron death(neuro-darwinian selection model of Edelman);First two years: reduction of axon-arborization(critical periods of perception, communication, socialization);In adolescence: synaptic pruning(Piagets stage of formal operation, abstract thinking);Nondual consciousness, Jungian individuation may be related to pruning of the microtubular system (see Hameroffs model),Biological death reduction (but not elimination) of the pattern of space-time left after the functioning brain (based on Penroses Orch OR model).*During critical periods of personal growth, and before important developmental steps, there is a strictly programmed, finely patterned, very marked reduction in progressively smaller elements of the information processing system of the brain.* The mind will find the final truth after leaving the body. (Socrates)28