The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

21. The New Physics: The Ubiquitous Asymmetry Physics and the Mind The Classical World: Utopia The Removal of Consciousness Entropy: The Curse of Irreversibility Recurrence Disorder, Ignorance An Accelerated World Relativity: The Primacy of Light Life On A World Line General Relativity: The Ilusion of Gravity The Principle of Equivalence Revisited Curving Spacetime Relativity and Common Sense Twins Relativistic Cosmology Quantum Theory: The Wave The Planck Constant Enter Uncertainty Zero-Point Energy Mass The World And The Mind The Power of Constants Quantum Reality: Fuzzy or Incomplete? The Indivisible Universe Ensemble Interpretation Ontological Interpretation The Pilot-Wave Implicate Order Beyond Locality Transactional Interpretation The Measurement Problem The Discontinuity Of Time The Measurement as Interaction The Brain as a Measurement Device What Creates Reality Consciousness Creates Reality Meta-reality Inventing Reality The Multiverse: The Quest for Certainty The Immanent Manyverse Einselection: Darwinian Collapse Spontaneous collapse Qubits The No-Cloning Theorem Information Loss Quantum Bayesianism Interpretations of Classical Physics The Interpretation of the Human Brain The Physics of Elementary Particles: Close Encounters with Matter The Language of Elementary Particles Of Symmetry and Asymmetry: Parity Of Symmetry and Asymmetry: Gauge Theory Unification: In Search of Symmetry The Quantum is not Relative Superstring Theory: Higher Dimensions Superstrings Trivia: The Fourth Spatial Dimension Branes M-theory Quantum Gravity Superconductivity and Entanglement The Trail of Asymmetry A Fuzzy World Time: When? Time: What? Time: Where? Time: Why? Black Holes and Wormholes: Gateways to Other Universes and Time Travel The History of the Universe Dark Matter and Dark Energy Dark Energy as Disappearing Energy Dark Energy as Mass Gravity The Creation Of Information The End of Entropy The Resurrection of Information Gravity and Entropy Inflation: Before Time Natural Selection for Universes Time Symmetry Loop Quantum Gravity Euclidean Quantum Gravity The Holographic Principle Gravity as the Vacuum Entropic Gravity: Spacetime as Entanglement Conformal Cyclic Cosmology The Origin of Mass Structural Realism Symmetry and Chaos The Mathematical Universe Quantum Mechanics as Pure Math Searching for the Universal Patterns The End of the Universe We Actually don't Know what's out There Ripples in Spacetime Equations approximate Algorithms Brains, Lives, Universes The Nature of the Laws of Nature The Nature of Spacetime The Nature of Time The Prodigy of Stability A Self-organizing Universe The Universe as the Messenger Not in Our Name The Science of Impossibility: The End of Utopia

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books) Ashtekar, Abhay: CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS OF QUANTUM GRAVITY (Birkhauser, 1991) Barbour, Julian: THE END OF TIME (Oxford Univ Press, 2000) Bohm, David: THE UNDIVIDED UNIVERSE (Routledge, 1993) Bohm, David: WHOLENESS AND THE IMPLICATE ORDER (Routledge, 1980) Bondi, Hermann: "Negative Mass in General Relativity” (1957) Bohr, Niels: ATOMIC THEORY AND THE DESCRIPTION OF NATURE (Cambridge University Press, 1934) Bunge, Mario: QUANTUM THEORY AND REALITY (Springer, 1967) Carroll, Sean: From Eternity to Here  (Dutton, 2010) Close, Frank: NOTHING (Oxford Univ Press, 2009) Davies, Paul: ABOUT TIME (Touchstone, 1995) Deutsch, David: THE FABRIC OF REALITY (Penguin, 1997) Deutsch, David: THE BEGINNING OF INFINITY (Viking, 2011) Ferris, Timothy: THE WHOLE SHEBANG (Simon And Schuster, 1997) Flood, Raymond & Lockwood, Michael: NATURE OF TIME (Basil Blackwell, 1986) Gell-Mann, Murray: THE QUARK AND THE JAGUAR (W.H.Freeman, 1994) Greene, Brian: THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE (WW Norton, 1999) Guth, Alan: THE INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE (Helix, 1997) Hawking, Stephen: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME (Bantam, 1988) Heisenber, Werner: THE REPRESENTATION OF NATURE IN CONTEMPORARY PHYSICS (Deadalus, 1958) Heisenberg, Werner: PHYSICS AND PHILOSOPHY (1958) Hoyle, Fred, Burbidge Geoffrey, and Narlikar Jayant: A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO COSMOLOGY (Cambridge Univ Press, 2000) Kaku, Michio: HYPERSPACE (Oxford University Press, 1994) Kastner, Ruth: "The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" (Cambridge Univ Press, 2013) Kuhlmann, Meinard: THE ULTIMATE CONSTITUENTS OF THE MATERIAL WORLD (Ontos Verlag, 2010) Linde, Andrei: PARTICLE PHYSICS AND INFLATIONARY COSMOLOGY (Harwood, 1990) Linde, Andrei: INFLATION AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY (Academic Press, 1990) Mack, Katie: The End of Everything (Scribner, 2022) Penrose, Roger: THE EMPEROR'S NEW MIND (Oxford Univ Press, 1989) Penrose, Roger: CYCLES OF TIME (2010). Price, Huw: TIME'S ARROW AND ARCHIMEDES' POINT (Oxford University Press, 1996) Prigogine, Ilya: FROM BEING TO BECOMING (W. H. Freeman, 1980) Puthoff, Harold: GRAVITY AS A ZERO POINT FLUCTUATION FORCE (1989)   Randall, Lisa: WARPED PASSAGES - UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE'S HIDDEN DIMENSIONS (2006) Rees, Martin: BEFORE THE BEGINNING (Simon And Schuster, 1996) Rosenblum, Bruce & Kuttner, Fred: QUANTUM ENIGMA (Oxford Univ Press, 2006) Sachdev, Subir: QUANTUM PHASE TRANSITIONS (Cambridge University Press, 2001) Sakharov, Andrei: VACUUM QUANTUM FLUCTUATIONS IN CURVED SPACE AND THE THEORY OF GRAVITATION (1968) Scott, Alwyn: STAIRWAY TO THE MIND (Copernicus, 1995) Smolin, Lee: THREE ROADS TO QUANTUM GRAVITY (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000) Susskind, Leonard: THE COSMIC LANDSCAPE (Little & Brown, 2005) Thorne, Kip:  Black Holes and Time Warps (Norton, 1994) Von Neumann, John: DIE MATHEMATISCHE GRUNDLAGEN DER QUANTENMECHANIK/ MATHEMATICAL FOUNDATIONS OF QUANTUM MECHANICS (Princeton University Press, 1932) Webb, John: THE CONSTANTS OF NATURE (Pantheon, 2002) Weinberg, Steven: DREAMS OF A FINAL THEORY (Pantheon, 1993) Wheeler, John: At Home in the Universe (American Institute of Physics, 1994) Wigner, Eugene: SYMMETRIES AND REFLECTIONS (Indiana Univ Press, 1967) Wilczek, Frank: THE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (Basic Books, 2008)