Space-time can be quantized by explaining its ultimate composition (and that of everything in it, including the brain) as electronic BITS or BInary digiTS which are extended to topology's Mobius strips and figure-8 Klein bottles to better understand space, mass and gravitation. Then Wick rotation is added to better understand time, dark matter and dark energy. The above is explored in more detail in my article in the OSP Journal of Physics and Astronomy, who accepted it for publication a few months ago. A reviewer brought my attention to quaternions and spinors. So I added a section called "QUATERNIONS, SPINORS AND WICK ROTATION RELATED TO TWO-DIMENSIONAL VECTOR-TENSOR-SCALAR (VTS) GEOMETRY". A copy of the article is attached. It can also be found on the website titled "Preprints".
If the brain and the universe are ultimately composed of binary digits, we'll someday be able to do the same things with the brain and universe that we now do with computers.
We'll be able to record and share any information in any part of the brain. We'll be able to transfer (download) the brain's contents into another body or an android - infinite times if necessary - and thus say hello to immortality.
When quantum mechanics and General Relativity are united into quantum gravity or the Theory of Everything, we'll have access to everything in space and time. Then we can upload the products of the brain's frontal cortex anywhere to influence anything. We can either add to it (mimicking a computer's copy/paste function), remove (delete) part of it, or change the way it proceeds (reprogram it).
I don't think it'll be possible to change history or to reprogram something to behave differently from the way future history has recorded. This is because I believe time can be visualized as a Cosmic DVD where our brains and consciousnesses take the place of the DVD player's laser. This is plausible if we accept the Block Universe theory which developed from Special Relativity's non-simultaneity of events for different observers. In the Block Universe, all time coexists (the entire past, the present, and every point in the future all exist at once). Everything in the Cosmic DVD's time exists at once but we're only aware of an extremely limited number of events at any instant (these make up our present).
If Special Relativity is science fiction, there's another way to approach the contents of my question. It's my Vector-Tensor-Scalar Geometry, which is in this reply's updated attachment. This geometry is backed up by some mathematics from the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Quaternions were first described by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843. Hamilton defined a quaternion as the quotient of two vectors. (Hardy: 1881) In this case: the quotient of two vectors is 1/2, the division of the electromagnetic vector (photonic quantum spin of 1) by the gravitational vector (gravitonic quantum spin of 2). In other words, the term "diagonal" (like 1/2, the result of these 2 vectors interacting) in VTS Geometry can be replaced with the term "quaternion". And the counterclockwise rotation of the (horizontal) x- and (vertical) y-axes in Wick Rotation can be viewed as either rotation into diagonal form or as a quaternion function.
Spinors - elements of a complex vector space that were introduced in geometry by Élie Cartan in 1913 (Cartan 1913) - can be viewed as the "square roots" of vectors. This indicates that spinors are a guide to the mathematical interactions between gravitation and electromagnetism outlined by the gravitational and electromagnetic vectors of Vector-tensor-scalar geometry.
VTS Geometry says all time exists at once in reality. All mass is composed of gravitational and electromagnetic waves, according to vector-tensor-scalar geometry. Both types of waves possess retarded and advanced components which cancel each other, entangling all masses. Wick rotation (time) is built into the Mobius strips and figure-8 Klein bottles composing electromagnetism's photons and gravitation's gravitons. Therefore, all time (the entire past and present and future) is united into one thing just as all space and all mass are united into one thing. VTS geometry says space and mass are united and physics already accepts that space and time are united. If space, mass, time, electromagnetism, and gravitation are all aspects of the same thing; that suggests the theory of quantum gravity truly exists.
There's one thing wrong with all this. VTS Geometry was inspired by a paper Einstein wrote - so, like SR, it might be SF in your eyes, Tony.
Is the soul transferred during download or do we lose that when we download our conciousness into a synthetic body? This may not be able to be answered yet, but your professional opinions are appreciated. Thank you.
Dear Rodney Bartlett, you say that history cannot be changed, but with that integration of tools, with that confluence of knowledge, I believe that it will be possible, now: why haven't the men who live in the future changed us? Well at least we haven't felt it:
1. It is a state of civilization so advanced that they themselves have regulated with their laws that it is not wise to change our history.
2. They will have changed it and we will know when a certain moment of our material existence has arrived. It does not seem prudent to doubt anything, less in the light of science.
What is possible today seems impossible because we are talking about a fairly advanced state of human existence, or rather superhuman, of which today we can only speculate on scientific grounds, the brain will not be the exception.
Dear Susan, I think the idea that each person has a soul came into existence from two other beliefs: (1) life continues after death, and (2) consciousness is linked only to the brain.
I have no doubt that life goes on. But if everything in the universe (including the brain) is made of binary digits (and therefore has artificial intelligence like a future computer or robot), what we call our consciousness would be linked not just to the brain but to all space and time.
As long as the universe exists (and my opinion is that it's eternal), our consciousness will exist even though the brain and body are dead and "know not any thing". Then there is absolutely no need for the soul to exist.
I believe in a soul, but that is a personal spiritual issue. I believe our memories could exist in a synthetic body. I am uncertain when our physical body dies our soul could exist anywhere than an utopian like environment.
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