Draft:Unifying Matter, Energy and Consciousness

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Consciousness can be modeled to explain its interface and correlation with the brain and its interactions with matter and energy. According to the model proposed by Mahendra Samarawickrama, consciousness is a fundamental law of nature. In his research, he replaced time with consciousness, suggesting that consciousness could be considered a fundamental dimension of reality.

Despite the brain’s extensive parallel-processing capability, consciousness is postulated as a high-speed sequential process leading to awareness. This sequential process is the fastest process in reality to sample changes and brings awareness of causality. Time is the perception of causality or change. Therefore, similar to time, consciousness is subject to relativity. When an observer moves, both time and consciousness dilate, providing no advantage to the moving observer over a resting observer in gaining awareness.

The proposed model complements the fundamental physics. This electromagnetic model of consciousness adheres to quantum principles and wave-particle duality, interacting with matter and energy. According to the model, the consciousness cycle loses energy by producing a particle called a consciousness particle. The rest-mass of the consciousness particle increases with higher consciousness frequency or decreased speed of the consciousness particle. This interplay between consciousness, matter, and energy makes consciousness and reality interrelated, following determinism, realism, and physicalism, which are fundamental principles of modern physics. This model also highlights the limitations of the five senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell) and the role of consciousness in understanding reality.

History

Understanding why the universe is structured in a certain way has been a challenging question. Various explanations have been proposed based on different assumptions and knowledge. Historically, many believed the universe was created by a powerful supernatural force, attributing the creation of the sun, planets, stars, and natural phenomena like thunder and wind to a creator. Some of these beliefs evolved into the foundations of religions, and many still hold them.

Philosophers and mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Plato, and Roger Penrose considered the universe in numerous forms. Werner Heisenberg debated whether the laws of nature ultimately reduce to elementary particles and forces or to pure math, geometrical forms, and numbers. Eugene Wigner remarked on the surprising effectiveness of mathematics in formulating the laws of physics, calling it a wonderful gift that is neither understood nor deserved.

Further study of the universe reveals its fine-tuning for life. Physicists like John Barrow and Frank Tipler argued that many natural constants are perfectly balanced to support intelligent life, suggesting biology as a fundamental law of the universe and life.

Physicists have also proposed that the universe's design might be governed by a conscious mind. Max Planck suggested that a conscious, intelligent mind could be the matrix of all matter. James Jeans stated that the universe resembles a giant thought more than a great machine. John Wheeler proposed that underlying semantic information might be the basis for our understanding of space, time, matter, and other constructs.

Matter, energy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, and other constructs have been extensively studied and unified as fundamental laws of nature. In contrast, Samarawickrama's model recognizes consciousness as a fundamental law of nature. Like space-time, consciousness could have its intrinsic degrees of freedom defining the laws of nature.

In the modern era, philosophers believe that science and empirical investigation can uncover the universe's laws. With the assumptions of determinism, realism, and physicalism, there is no realm of the supernatural, spiritual, or divine, nor any cosmic teleology or inherent transcendent purpose in the universe or life. Consciousness is seen as an interplay of extraordinarily complex systems. This model adheres to these assumptions to complement modern physics.

Modeling the Interplay of Consciousness, Matter, and Energy

Humans observe the environment through the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. A significant portion of brain resources is dedicated to managing these senses, which are modelled by deep neural networks performing parallel processing at low frequency. In contrast, consciousness is proposed as a sequential information-processing process correlated with the brain. This heuristic suggests that consciousness, despite the brain’s parallel processing, focuses on a single piece of information at a time, operating at a very high frequency to sample and be aware of brain information. McFadden posits that consciousness is the brain’s energy field, leading to the assumption that consciousness is correlated with the brain's electromagnetic energy behaving according to wave-particle duality. This electromagnetic energy in the brain can be used to model consciousness, matter, energy, and reality. The proposed model of interfacing the brain and consciousness is illustrated in Figure 1.

The main idea of bringing consciousness as a fundamental relates to replacing time, which is the perception of causation, with consciousness. In relativity, time is precisely modelled. Based on Einstein’s relativity equations, the observed duration of an incident lengthens with the velocity of the observer, a phenomenon known as time dilation: $\Delta t={\frac {\Delta t_{0}}{\sqrt {1-{\frac {v^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}}$

Similarly, the dilated period of consciousness $T_{v}$ based on the rest period $T_{0}$ can be expressed as: $T_{v}={\frac {T_{0}}{\sqrt {1-{\frac {v^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}}$

This is termed consciousness dilation in relativity. The frequency of consciousness $f_{\mu }$ is given by: $f_{\mu }={\frac {1}{T_{0}}}={\frac {1}{T_{v}{\sqrt {1-{\frac {v^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}}}$

The frequency of consciousness relates to the observer’s state of awareness. A higher frequency indicates higher awareness, and vice versa. The cycle of consciousness, the shortest time to be aware of reality, varies with observer velocity.

The model assumes that consciousness adheres to wave-particle duality as described in de Broglie's hypothesis. The interplay of quantum energy of consciousness and the consciousness particle’s rest and kinetic energies follows the conservation of energy and momentum. The energy of consciousness as a wave is expressed as: $E_{\mu }=hf_{\mu }$

while as a particle, it is expressed as: $E_{\mu }={\sqrt {p_{\mu }^{2}c^{2}+m_{\mu }^{2}c^{4}}}$

with the momentum vector $p_{\mu }$: $p_{\mu }={\frac {m_{\mu }v}{\sqrt {1-{\frac {v^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}}\implies p^{2}=p_{\mu }\cdot p_{\mu }$

where $m_{\mu }$ is the rest mass of consciousness, $h$ is the Planck constant, $c$ is the speed of light, $v$ is the speed of the consciousness particle, and $f_{\mu }$ is the frequency of consciousness wave. Equating the wave and particle energies and substituting the momentum vector gives: $hf_{\mu }={\sqrt {\left({\frac {m_{\mu }}{\sqrt {1-{\frac {v^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}}\right)^{2}v^{2}c^{2}+m_{\mu }^{2}c^{4}}}={\frac {m_{\mu }}{\sqrt {1-{\frac {v^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}}c^{2}$

which means, $hf_{\mu }={\frac {m_{\mu }}{\sqrt {1-{\frac {v^{2}}{c^{2}}}}}}c^{2}$

This is a special equation that unifies matter, energy, and consciousness. Typically, equating the quantum energy of a particle to that of a wave is not feasible. However, with consciousness, this equation becomes possible.

Figure 2 presents the speed of consciousness particles, consciousness frequency, and rest mass of consciousness particles based on the above-unified state equation. The speed of consciousness particles ranges between zero and the speed of light. The frequency of consciousness is bounded between zero and the visible light spectrum, as neither higher-frequency electromagnetic waves nor visible light in brain activity has been observed so far. The rest-mass of consciousness particles varies with speed and frequency. Lower frequencies produce lighter rest mass, while higher frequencies produce heavier rest mass unless the consciousness particle speed is very high.

Attribution

• Samarawickrama, Mahendra (September 2023). "Unifying matter, energy and consciousness". AIP Conference Proceedings. 11th International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences. 2872 (1): 110001. Bibcode:2023AIPC.2872k0001S. doi:10.1063/5.0162815.  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.

See also

• The Theory of Everything
• Unifying Consciousness, Causation, Reality and Physics