Our answer is YES. This continues an homonimous older project at RG, and adds quantum computing.
The project's conclusion was that consciousness is not defined by any single organ in the human or animal brain, but is ubiquitous. It can be measured by trust, as that which is essential to a channel but cannot be communicated through that channel [1].
This definition is seen in cybersecurity, in two-factor authentication. It is also seen in fish and invertebrates, who can learn to do simple additions and subtractions.
Mathematics seems to offer in numbers, a way for quantum consciousness, available to quantum processing. Not because the brain would have a special organ for consciousness or even quantum consciousness.
But that the properties of numbers, that humans, lower animals, insects, and plants, can use -- include +4 quantum properties.
Thus, we suggest that all nature can do quantum computing. Atoms and molecules included. By the +4 quantum properties of numbers. In particular, it is important for neuroscience, in consciousness and quantum consciousness.
How to optimize this? Importantly, one needs to avoid binary thinking. The role of uncertainty seems necessary to arrive at a firmer conclusion through a very large number of states. This is presented in [2].
This affirms the question, and YES answer.
What is your qualified opinion?
REFERENCES
[1] Chapter Trust Points
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/368838533/
This may look "off the left field" and strange to try to mix in numbers with any material sense, which seems non-existent.
However, we are not like Don Quixote with windmills.
Quantum computing opens to us a new understanding on numbers. This is not a YouTube video ol older stuff.
To those that think that any number is non-material and it is an abstract concept, we offer that number is a semiotic concept.
This was introduced by Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege, a German philosopher, logician, and mathematician.
Frege did not have the tools of quantum computing yet, and no one quite understood numbers clearly until quantum computing was demonstrated to be possible in 2022.
Discontinuous functions could not be differentiated -- but now that is calculated exactly, they are just digital. The Schrödinger equation does not describe a continuous or imaginary function (cf. Schrödinger's own declaration to this effect, in 1926), but such functions are everywhere discontinuous -- they are just digital.
This allows us to see that mathematics is by nature exact -- for quantum reasons (+4).
This physical fact confirms Frege and Peter Shor's algorithm in mathematics. Albeit not qubits, p-adic numbers, or other arbitrary inventions. But confirms the new set Q*, that is coherent with the +4 quantum principles of the sets B, Z, N, Q.
A prime number is the same on Earth as in the star Betelgeuse. Prime numbers are not arbitrary, and are objective. We can use them for communication even with non-humans -- see the film Contact.
Plants show prime numbers in nature, communicating with insects and humans. See figure. Trans-human communication.
Ed Gerck: I agree with the concept that consciousness isn’t originated from a single organ. I believe it may be linked with the quantum properties of atoms which all of us are composed of. However the application Of Quantum Physics and Computational Neuroscience to explain Consciousness are yet to be clear. kindly check this article
1- https://www.nature.com/articles/440611a
MTH: Yes. Thank you for the article.
Yes, the relation between quantum mechanics and higher brain functions, including consciousness, is often discussed, but is far from being understood. We are proposing "quantum numbers", to solve the issue in a quantitative way.
Qualitatively, we need to add the spirit. That can explain also the "placebo effect" -- the pharmacy in the mind, to cure illnesses we and pharmaceuticals cannot cure.
Thank you. I read your proposal regarding the the role of quantum numbers in explaining the consciousness, and I think it is also a quite interesting consideration, I don’t have much to say regarding the spirt and placebo effect. The literature is fall of factors especially the
psychological one trying to explain the Placebo effect.
Also as regards to consciousness I recommend for you to consider the Penrose-Hameroff model suggested that quantum superposition and quantum computation occur in microtubules
Yes.
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KS and MTH: If quantum computing is explained by the +4 quantum properties of "quantum numbers", as we propose, then no further structures need to be considered.
In that case, quantum superposition, entanglement, teleportation, and quantum computation are explained by the same (+4) quantum properties. Humans, machines, and even atoms can do it.
The PFI, or the principle of mathematical induction is then: If the integer 0 belongs to the class F and F is hereditary, every nonnegative integer belongs to F.
Alternatively, if the integer 1 belongs to the class F and F is hereditary, then every positive integer belongs to F.
The natural numbers are hereditary. There is no "oscillation in addition", no limit to an undefined number.
A continued fraction can be calculated by an unlimited number of encodings and additions, in the set B={0,1} (Q is reached by isomorphism, not numerically) -- without any division or multiplication. One can now divide exactly by 3 or 7, in base 10. There is no advantage in counting like the assyrians, any more. Every number is divisible exactly, even the prime numbers like 3 or 7.
The number pi is a rational number, at every digit (following Hurwitz Theorem exactly), but that never ends -- because prime numbers are without end themselves.
Thus, a continued fraction, limited or not, is always a rational number-- no "oscillations in addition" occurs. The number pi is a rational number, for example.
New text was added to the prime flower posting above, clarifying questions that I received by both public and private messages.
Trans-human communication includes not just extraterrestrials (that naturally exist, or it would be a terrible waste of space and time).
Plants also show prime numbers in nature, communicating with insects and humans. See figure in that comment.
Consciousness is connected by our mind which remains the part of energy for every human being. With this consciousness can get involved within the inner urge for divinity & as such it is natural that consciousness can be described by natural science .
This is my personal opinion
One more thing may help. Do you think that a number is non-material, thus an abstract concept that mathematics is free to invent?
Instead, number is a semiotic concept.
Mathematical semiotics was introduced by Friedrich Frege, a logician and mathematician.
Frege did not consider
quantum computing (QC), and no one quite understood numbers in physical terms until Peter Schor in 1994 (cf. DOI /2227-7390/11/1/68 ).
Discontinuous functions could not be differentiated -- but that can now be calculated exactly. Numbers are digital now, and FFT is common.
The Schrödinger equation never described a continuous or imaginary function (cf. Schrödinger's own declaration to this effect, in 1926), but such functions can now be seen. Numbers are digital now, and the laser exists.
These 2 views mean that mathematics is by nature exact -- for +4 quantum reasons.
These +4 quantum reasons support Frege's semiotic view of numbers and Peter Shor's algorithm in mathematics.
QC becomes physical.
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