ULTIMATE COMPUTING - Quantum Consciousness Studies

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Contents
ULTIMATE COMPUTING ............................................................................ 1
Contents ........................................................................................................... 2
0 Prelude....................................................................................................... 5
0.1 Acknowledgements .......................................................................... 6
0.2 Dedication......................................................................................... 6
1 Toward Ultimate Computing..................................................................... 7
1.1 Mind/Tech: Merger in the Nanoscale ............................................... 7
1.2 Evolution of Technology .................................................................. 8
1.3 Collective Intelligence.................................................................... 10
1.3.1 Parallelism ............................................................................. 12
1.3.2 Connectionism ....................................................................... 15
1.3.3 Cooperativity and Coherence................................................. 17
1.4 Molecular Computing..................................................................... 20
1.5 Dynamic Pattern Representation .................................................... 22
1.5.1 Reaction Diffusion Systems................................................... 22
1.5.2 Holograms.............................................................................. 24
1.5.3 Macrons ................................................................................. 25
1.5.4 Cellular Automata.................................................................. 26
2 Brain/Mind/Computer ............................................................................. 33
2.1 Metaphors of Consciousness .......................................................... 33
2.2 Historical Perspectives—Consciousness as ................................... 35
2.2.1 Consciousness as Particle/Wave Physics............................... 35
2.2.2 Consciousness as a Property of Protoplasm........................... 36
2.2.3 Consciousness as Learning .................................................... 36
2.2.4 Consciousness as a Metaphysical Imposition ........................ 37
2.2.5 The Helpless Spectator Theory.............................................. 37
2.2.6 Emergent Evolution ............................................................... 38
2.2.7 Behaviorism ........................................................................... 38
2.2.8 Consciousness as Dynamic Activities of the Brain’s Reticular
Activating System ........................................................................................ 39
2.2.9 Neural Net Connectionism..................................................... 41
2.2.10 Holography ............................................................................ 42
2.2.11 Cytoskeletal Basis of Consciousness ..................................... 44
3 Origin and Evolution of Life................................................................... 47
3.1 Soup vs Mud, Chicken vs Egg........................................................ 47
3.2 Prokaryote to Eukaryote—Symbiotic Jump ................................... 50
3.3 Centrioles—Evolution’s Hijackers................................................. 53
3.4 Biotech Evolution—The Next Symbiosis ...................................... 57
4 From Brain to Cytoskeleton .................................................................... 59
4.1 Nervous System Evolution ............................................................. 59
4.2 Nervous System Organization ........................................................ 59
4.2.1 Architecture............................................................................ 60
4.2.2 Neuronal Signaling ................................................................ 61
4.2.3 Interneuronal Synapses .......................................................... 61
4.3 Representation of Information........................................................ 64
4.3.1 Integration—Sherrington’s Reflex Centers ........................... 65
4.3.2 Pulse Logic ............................................................................ 66
4.3.3 Connectionism and Neural Networks .................................... 67
4.3.4 Distributedness....................................................................... 71
4.3.5 Synaptic Mechanisms of Learning and Memory ................... 73
4.3.6 Axoplasmic Transport............................................................ 76