Journal of Nonlocality

Quantum semiotics

Stephen Jarosek — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

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Integrated Intelligence as Practice: Ideas, Insight and Inspiration

Marcus T Anthony — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

Inspiration and insight in the sciences, education, business and arts are typically assumed to be founded upon neuro-centric cognitive processes. Personal experience and sensory data are often believed to be all that an individual may draw upon in the creative process. Yet the idea of non-local mind invites us to consider the possibility that inspiration and insight may utilize information and experience beyond that of the individual, and beyond the present moment, drawing upon past, present and future information fields. This paper highlights reports and deliberate invocations of non-local mind, including several current applications in the field of Critical Futures Studies. Some of the common tools and applications are briefly described. Finally, this paper identifies some of the typical problems that may arise from deliberate activation of the extended mind. The argument is situated within Anthony’s theory of integrated intelligence.

Monozygotic twins and macro-entanglement

Guy Lyon Playfair — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

For at least two centuries, there has been speculation that there is something “special” about how twins communicate, notably monozygotic (MZ) or “identical” ones, but also though less frequently if they are dizygotic (DZ) – fraternal or non-identical. (All twins mentioned here are either MZ or assumed to be, except where otherwise stated). “Are twins telepathic?” is a regularly asked question to which attempts to give a convincing answer have only recently begun to be made. One may also formulate this question in other ways, using the language of 21st century science, e.g. “Do twins demonstrate what we might call, if only by way of an analogy, macro-entanglement?” There is now instrumentally recorded evidence suggesting that some do, but not all of them, and only under certain very specific conditions. Theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose has even suggested that consciousness is an effect of quantum entanglement, “which might have implications for the twin bond and the nature of shared consciousness between twins”. The possibility of such implications needs further study.

Euryphysics: a (somewhat) new conceptual model of mind, reality and psi

Ben Goertzel — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

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Nonlocal consciousness in the universe: panpsychism, psi & mind over matter in a hyperdimensional physics

Chris H Hardy — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

Five types of processes display a ‘beyond spacetime’ property—or nonlocality as evidenced in the quantum entanglement—, including psi, proven to operate beyond-brain and beyond-spacetime. Together, these five anomalies are not only at odds with Relativity but also with the indeterminacy of Quantum Mechanics. However, in the same way as the four forces can only be unified via a hyperdimension, a hyperdimension that includes a cosmic consciousness (together with hyperspace and hypertime) may give a cogent foundation for all five nonlocal anomalies.

The Infinite-Spiral-Staircase Theory (ISST) posits such triune hyperdimension (HD) as all-encompassing in the universe, pre-existing to and pervading the spacetime region because it dwells at a sub-Planckian scale—both at the origin and at any spacetime coordinates in all systems. ISST accommodates the double-nature of consciousness, mostly nonlocal and operating through the hyperdimension, and partly embodied. The HD of a system is its dynamical meaningful organizational layer, its semantic field (syg-field), more or less evolved, from a proto-consciousness to a mind. The framework of ISST is panpsychist—with the hyperdimensional sygons (syg energy) pervading any atom, cell, biosystem and mind—, and is thus based on a deep, multilevel and distributed, mind-matter coupling. The sygons, pure semantic (syg) energy, create instant nonlocal connections between resonant semantic fields, thus explaining telepathy and psi at large. All semantic interconnections imply an inter-influence between syg-fields, the control variable of influence being the intensity of syg energy. Once the syg-field of a system has been reorganized, the change takes place within the matter- or bio-system.

The Near-death experience: implications for neuroscience and non-local consciousness

James Lake — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

Near-death experiences (NDE) raise important questions about the nature of human consciousness, the relationship between brain function and consciousness, the perceptual information that is available to consciousness in moments before death, the role of physical and biological mechanisms associated with altered states of consciousness, and relationships between consciousness, space-time and phenomenal reality. Challenges posed by efforts to define the NDE, claims of anomalous experiences associated with NDEs, the problem of “timing” of NDEs with respect to brain function, recent findings from neuroscience are reviewed, along with emerging evidence for quantum models of consciousness that may help elucidate the nature of NDEs.

I propose that the diversity, complexity and quality of imagery retrospectively interpreted as NDEs reflect a multiplicity of potential neural pathways and the degree to which a heritable NDE predisposition is present in each unique individual. Certain NDE features are probably explainable by neuroscience and take place in 4-dimensional space-time while other NDE features such as confirmed cases of veridical perception and other so-called “anomalous” experiences may be consistent with postulated non-local characteristics of consciousness mediated by quantum-like processes or other non-classical processes (Kafatos et al., 2015) or may reflect relationships between consciousness and the environment that take place in higher order space-times. I propose an integral model that reconciles conventional neural explanations and postulated non-classical models of consciousness. The article concludes with suggestions for animal and human studies aimed at further elucidating neurophysiological mechanisms and postulated quantum-like or other non-classical mechanisms in NDEs and other kinds of transpersonal or so-called “anomalous” experiences. Well-funded cooperative research initiatives in functional brain imaging are leading to rapid advances that will make it possible in the near future to empirically test the integral model put forward in this chapter yielding more complete understandings of consciousness including NDEs and other kinds of transpersonal or anomalous experiences.

The evolution of a predisposition for the near-death experience: implications for non-local consciousness

James Lake — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

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The Shape of Selfhood: An Impolitic Panel Discussion on Consciousness and Scale

Lian Sidorov, Ben Goertzel, Patrizio Tressoldi — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

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Comments about Integrated Information Theory of Tononi and Koch

Matti Pitkanen — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

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Weighting the Parameters, a Response to Bancel's “Searching for Global Consciousness: A Seventeen Year Exploration”

Roger Nelson — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

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Determining That the GCP is a Goal-Oriented Effect: a Short History

Peter Bancel — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

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The Locked-in Syndrome of Panpsychism: Integrated Information Theory, Orch-OR, TGD and the Search for the Right Experimental Model

Lian Sidorov — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0700

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Field Effects, Experimenter Effects, and Bohm’s Implicate Order

George R Williams — Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0700

In this paper I explore what Bohm’s implicate order might suggest with respect to understanding different facets of psi. In particular, I focus on the recent debate on interpreting the findings for the Global Coherence Project, where alternative explanations include a psi field effect and some version of goal oriented psi. This debate has recently received more attention with Bancel’s argument that XOR masking within the GCP network likely removes correlation between random number generator devices. After examining two specific studies, I focus on whether a psi field effect or a psi experimenter effect best explains the GCP findings. I advocate that an integrated approach that incorporates both field effects and experimenter effects as the best explanation. In addition, I argue that Bohm’s implicate order provides an attractive conceptual framework for such an integrative approach.