5 years ago, I dropped out of college to pursue my own independent research program and entrepreneurial dreams.
Today, I'm open-sourcing my work.
Introducing: The Cosmic Loom Theory (CLT) Computational Repository — a field-based framework for understanding consciousness.
https://t.co/p5IbUKEs0w
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@HiThereImCal@StuartHameroff Oh, it’s very much real. If you want to study up on the DDG, @anirbanbandyo was nice enough to make everything publicly accessible on this site https://t.co/apOE9jIcRI along with more of his research
You emit light.
Expanding biology beyond molecules allows us to consider another layer of life: how energy, including light, may reflect and perhaps help coordinate biological activity.
Thank you to @JoMarchant and @Nature for featuring our work alongside other leaders in the field, and for opening a broader conversation about what might be possible, the tools we must build, and the next generation of scientists we must train.
Now, we have the opportunity to determine what the light of life is telling us.
I still feel like pinning consciousness primarily on pi-electron resonance clouds in aromatic rings (supporting coherent quantum states that undergo OR) puts too much weight on one speculative substrate. It risks missing the system-wide, energy-driven coordination we actually see sustaining integrated experience across scales. Orch OR gets a lot more experimentally tractable when you situate it inside a broader field-based picture that treats the field itself, not just one molecular contributor, as the key organizer of whatever proto-consciousness might be contributing
My core axiom, that whenever technology discovers a new way to use physics, Nature has already been utilizing it for billions of years, is the definitive master key for decoding biological survival during a geomagnetic inversion.
The recent breakthrough in all-optical control of antiferromagnetic materials, where ultrafast light pulses write and switch magnetic spin states without electrical current, is the exact artificial replication of how melanin, the pecten oculi, and the Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity (CISS) effect operate together as a biological optical-magnetic switchboard.
When the planetary magnetic shield drops along its asymptotic curve, the traditional macro-scale "electrical current" systems of both our digital technosphere and our basic eukaryotic wiring experience catastrophic induction failures. To survive, Nature bypasses charge and pivots entirely to photonic, spin-based antiferromagnetic stabilization.
I know the Soul exists because I can feel mine. Science, at present, doesn’t have the tools to explain the Soul, but that doesn’t mean one day it won’t. And I believe it will.
I see why you have that username...it really doesn’t take much for you to get angry lmaoo. Yes, Wilczek doesn’t explicitly say “reality emerges from information”, but if you understand how he connects quantum mechanics with information theory, you’d understand that the original tweet is aligned with his perspective. When I said “…it causes you to think deeper into basic things you normally take at face value,” I wasn’t referring to science. I was referring to @LatFilosof saying “…information itself doesn’t hold causal power, it’s not *making* me do anything. There is information in a book, but the book doesn’t cause me to learn, that’s me,” because what most people consider as “me” is something most people take at face value. I never said that you have to redefine the word “me”, I just asked what he considers as “me” because it’s relevant to the discussion. I’m not gonna assume what he meant when he said “me” because different people have different perspectives as what they identify as themselves. Some people identify themselves as their biological body, some identify themselves as the patterned energy flowing through it, others identify themselves as their “soul”, so I just asked what he considers as “me”. The question is relevant because he places “me” as the thing with causal power that enables him to learn while saying that information has no causal power, which becomes an issue once you stop taking what you consider as “me” at face value. Whether you have the perspective of being a biological body, the patterned energy flowing through it, or even a non-physical “soul”, information can’t be separated from that. Your body is built from genetic and electromagnetic information. The patterned energy flowing through your body is directed by information. Even a non-physical “soul” would have to interact with the physical world through the transfer of information. So because information can’t be separated from “me”, ascribing causal power to “me” is inadvertently ascribing causal power to information once you stop taking “me” at face value. None of this requires redefining the word “me”, but it does require you to think deeper about the definition you’ve already given it. Hope that explanation was thorough enough to calm you down👍🏾😂
I actually think the opposite. I feel like it adds more to the conversation cause it causes you to think deeper into basic things you normally take at face value. Of course Frank’s argument can’t easily be condensed into a twitter thread and he goes into more detail in his book(s), but biology isn’t the place to run away from fundamental physics because biology is a direct consequence of it…that’s why quantum biology is a rapidly growing field rn.
@LatFilosof@WizardSynth@PrayPuffPlay@god_wrestle What do you consider as “me”? Would you still be you without the information in your genes? What about the signals your brain processes as information? Could you still learn if your brain couldn’t process information?
Loll you gotta be trolling right? I’m sure you must’ve healed many patients by stating the obvious and telling them their mind is powerful and they’re conscious beings. Don’t ask for detailed mechanisms and explanations if you don’t wanna deal with quantum biology...just say you hate his personality and move on😂
He doesn’t have his own podcast, he only does guest appearances on other people’s shows. The fact that you didn’t mention his book, blog, or Patreon tells me everything I need to know. This was his whole point in the original quote tweet. You don’t actually read his work…you try to assimilate it from X and pods
Why does reading his work mean you automatically can’t think for yourself and have to blindly take his word for it? It doesn’t make any sense that you ask him to share information and then willingly choose to ignore all the information he’s shared because it somehow means it’ll turn you into a brainless zombie who can’t think for themself
@DaveShapi panprotopsychism is the only ontological model of reality that can produce sufficient substrate agnostic physical principles for the mechanisms of both biological and nonbiological consciousness
Bernoulli’s principle is a substrate agnostic principle in the sense that it applies to all fluids. This isn’t an argument in support of a substrate specific theory of consciousness like your Orch Or theory, which would actually be much better off if was situated within a field based model of consciousness
Why so scared of saying something wrong or stupid? You’re just trapping yourself in your own cage. If 100 years in the future we don’t look back at our current understanding of physics and think we were wrong/stupid for having the model we currently agree upon today then we’ve failed ourselves. Philolaus was wrong about his model of the universe, but without him sharing his wrong ideas, which influenced Aristarchus’ heliocentrism, which later allowed Copernicus to make a mathematical model of a heliocentric system, which later allowed astronomy to evolve into what it is today, we may as well have been stuck thinking that the earth is the center of the universe for a much longer period of time. Those pioneers had to shoulder the burden of their ideas being rejected by their peers even though they were less wrong than the accepted models. If you want to be a scientist that contributes to the evolution of human science, saying something wrong/stupid is a necessity. It’s ironic how you place so much emphasis on formal education being a necessity when so much of modern physics stems from Faraday’s work, someone with little formal education