On Sat, Dec 07 2013, brian carroll wrote:
Jim Bell wrote:
"Spooky action" entanglement has been measured to operate at a velocity of at least 10,000 'c', where 'c' is the speed of light in a vacuum. (signals transmitted on optical fibers about 20 kilometers apart.) Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any way to employ this to transmit information.
it also makes me wonder, given the insane speed vs. infinitesimal distance if *information* could operate as a kind of cognitive pressure on the mind, (as with predictive Random Event Generator (REG) vs RNG where patterns organize/emerge out of quantum-noisefield) thus corollary perhaps to the analogy of water pressure for electrical circuits and flow based on pneuma- tic dynamics in a potentially bounded or closed system). that may enter into questions of 'where information actually exists', perhaps stored outside the brain in noosphere as patterns or forms (invisible constellation/structure) that is referenced or linked to rather than contained within a brain, and thus boundary of brain vs. mind. same: digital computer vs.quantum processor, perhaps. thus issue of channeling or tuning into versus as origin of truth. what if a fundamentally different data model, thus security model, etc.
this conceptualization has the individual person modeled as an antenna, tuning into various structures based on what resonates, aligns correctly, what circuits or feedback loops or environments exist. versus machine of clockwork, rote memorization, and processor speed of read/write.
This is exactly the model of the mind that I believed in when I was in college. These days I believe that consciousness consists of information but that information, far from being static, is actually the connections among potential events. It's like a complex machine: pull lever A here and gear B over there moves. The complex set of (abstract, not concrete) connections that makes up the "model" of our reactions to various sets of stimuli *is* our consciousness, versus there being some component in there that produces the illusion of consciousness. I'm sure that sounds sort of crazy; condensing such a large set of varyingly intuitive leaps into a single paragraph is probably not such a great idea. Happy to provide more background on the list or privately for anyone who's interested. -- Sean Richard Lynch <seanl@literati.org> http://www.literati.org/~seanl/