Many theoretical physicists have long cared about the brain. Because no matter from which point of view, the meanings contained in the human brain have many incredible things that go far beyond the biological realm of the human body. It was first realized by theoretical physicists when the "uncertainty" principle of quantum mechanics was widely accepted. Scientists in that period discovered that although the "consciousness" based on the physiological basis of the human brain cannot affect the surrounding natural matter objectively, it can affect itself at the quantum level. Many quantum processes themselves are often determined by objective "consciousness" cognition to determine their results. If consciousness thinks it is a certain way, it will appear a certain way. Obviously, this is very different from the traditional materialist scientific worldview!
Not only that, the human brain, or the brains of most mammals, has another basis that scientists believe is related to the problem of high latitudes is the "sense of time". Although the principle of "entropy" reveals that the essence of time is an irreversible change in the degree of chaos in the universe, from the perspective of the law of three-dimensional matter itself, it is extremely abnormal for the brain to be aware of the axial concept of "time". matter. From a strictly three-dimensional point of view, all it can have is this specific three-dimensional universe that exists at the moment, and the concepts of "past" and "future" should not exist. If the subject of "consciousness" can construct the historical past and future trend of the universe in which it is located on a horizontal "timeline", this matter itself has gone beyond the "three-dimensional" category.
All these phenomena have led some theoretical physics pioneers to believe that the "consciousness" that exists with the help of the brain must have a substantial connection with the "high-dimensional" universe itself. According to the description of M-theory, an important branch of string theory on the dimension of the universe, there is no direct physical connection between two adjacent universes in high and low dimensions. Instead, they interact with each other through the relationship of different microscopic substances composed of strings. Just like the universe itself in adjacent dimensions, this influence is progressive and interconnected.
String theory researcher, Professor Joseph of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy once made an analogy: in science fiction, opening a "portal" and then entering a two-dimensional or four-dimensional universe is a "direct material connection". , you walk into another universe, which is essentially an exchange of matter, which is considered impossible by string theory
And the real situation is that there is some existence in the four-dimensional universe, maybe it is an intelligent creature, maybe it is a kind of creature (of course, it is impossible for humans to know what it is at present), any of its actions will cause a kind of " "two-dimensional" results, while behavior in our three-dimensional universe will only result in "one-dimensional" results (such as a certain event happening somewhere, this concept is one-dimensional), and then this two-dimensional result It also has a structure at the quantum level. Through the influence of the string level, this structure will cause a one-dimensional impact in the three-dimensional world, and this one-dimensional impact is something that we humans can "understand" and understand.
From this point of view, the "consciousness" carried by the brain can have many characteristics that look very "four-dimensional". It is not difficult to understand that they are really some kind of existence in the four-dimensional world, and the "time axis" of the three-dimensional universe is carried out. The matter of interpreting it to "upward" is also something that only the root of the four-dimensional universe can produce.
Are we humans not human beings, but some kind of creature in the four-dimensional universe? of course not!
A paper by the famous German theoretical physicist Gregory Matloff published this year in the Proceedings of the American Astronomical Society answers this question very comprehensively. Although the starting point is not the discussion of "the relationship between consciousness and the high-latitude universe", it is to find that when the structure of the galaxies in the universe reaches the complexity of the human brain, the phenomenon of "self-awareness" occurs. Gregory Matloff has found multiple lines of evidence in the motion of a star system known as Paranego that violates the laws of natural physics, supporting that the nature of these phenomena is "autonomous behavior" rather than "natural phenomena". And as early as 2006, a German physicist, Bernard Haisch, discovered a certain effect of "transmission of consciousness" in the study of vacuum quantum fields. This effect is caused by the complexity of energy flow in the quantum vacuum state. to produce
Both studies have fully demonstrated that "consciousness" is not as simple as "relying on the brains of intelligent races". From a more general and fundamental point of view, "consciousness" should be any "entropy-stable system" in the universe (from the point of view of human beings, it means life, of course, it is also completely possible to be a neutron state or a quark state A life form that is completely beyond human cognition, but will not violate the essence of "entropy stability"), an existence that will inevitably arise when it reaches a sufficient level of complexity. What exactly is this "complexity"? can answer accurately. But according to Bernard Haisch's research, there should be some thresholds at the level of the vacuum quantum field.
Obviously, this "complexity", which is currently mysterious to humans, is also the key to opening the connection between our three-dimensional universe and the neighboring four-dimensional universe. This connection enables the "consciousness" opened by this "complexity" to have the properties of the four-dimensional universe, or it just uses some of the characteristics of the four-dimensional universe itself, or both of these relationships exist with each other.
From this perspective, the human brain, and perhaps the brains of some other mammals, together with the material structure of our universe in a huge range, the "consciousness" they possess is all related to the four-dimensional universe. highly relevant.
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