I have some questions for a particle physicist and would appreciate a link to some quality science forums that would be useful. I also wish to hear thoughts on the bellow idea I have been formulating the past few days.
Along with physics I enjoy learning about consciousness studies and the other day while reading about carrier force particles including the Higgs boson and Higgs field I layed in bed and wondered if there was any research in the area of consciousness being a similarly hard to detect field, such as the Higgs, permeating the universe or multiverse.
The Higgs field is what gives particles mass depending on the amount of interaction with the field. The more Higgs bosons that interact with a particle the greater it’s mass. Particles such as photons and gluons, carriers of the electromagnetic force, interact so little with the Higgs field they are considered mass-less. Particles such as protons and electrons have greater mass resulting from greater interaction with the Higgs field.
If there exists this hard to detect field, the Higgs field, that are as fundamental as the 4 forces for our universe existing as we know it, do you feel it’s going too far to say that the same could be for consciousness? Could consciousness not at all reside in the mind or body as many postulate but act rather as or be a field? A field that particles interact with, consciousness is carried to and attached to the particle by a boson or other type of quark thus creating the subjective experience when those particles are part of a biological unit with intelligence.
Perhaps the new-agers were accidently right for the wrong reasons when stating that even rocks have consciousness. Particles are particles so if a rock contained some that would react with the consciousness field a rock would indeed have some level of consciousness. It would just be a form and understanding of consciousness that we aren’t use to talking about.
A rock would not have a subjective experience. If we followed that logic the more mass or particles an object contained the more conscious it would be. Intelligence and brain function would have to have quite a big role in getting from this supposed basic level of consciousness to a subjective experience if any of this was possible.
Just as gravity is so weak a force it cannot be studied in places like CERN because at the subatomic level its simply so weak its almost nonexistent. At the present level of technology the graviton seems to be sentenced to a life of theoretical-ness. Sorry lil buddy. Well in our current place in technology maybe this type of work is not yet possible.
Some M theorists postulate the reason for the absurdly vast difference in the strength of gravity compared to the other forces is because it may be stretched across the multiverses, in a sense diluting it down. If the theoretical evidence in gravitational research in the coming years shows this to be probable, and we only just hypothesized and found the Higgs field in the past 40 years, would it be crazy to entertain the fact that consciousness may also be a field that stretches across the uni or multiverse.?
Many people, some in science feel consciousness may act like a radio signal and we are just the receivers. In a not so play on words this is exactly how matter gets its mass. The Higgs field is the radio signal and particles the receiver. They receive mass.
What if evolution through adaptation evolved organism’s brains to use and create the subjective experience from consciousness just as any other part of the positive contributing attributes we have evolved such as the immune system, and procreation?
Consciousness would not only increase any organism’s chances of survival, but also its likelihood of making it into a higher intelligence animal such as dolphins, and humans rather than corals or tubeworms.
In this case I can’t think of a better or more useful part of a organisms ability to adapt and survive against competition than awareness. Even the most basic level of a subjective experience in an organism would allow the basics of intentional decisions to become possible. These two things alone would give quite a bump up in the natural world.
Along with physics I enjoy learning about consciousness studies and the other day while reading about carrier force particles including the Higgs boson and Higgs field I layed in bed and wondered if there was any research in the area of consciousness being a similarly hard to detect field, such as the Higgs, permeating the universe or multiverse.
The Higgs field is what gives particles mass depending on the amount of interaction with the field. The more Higgs bosons that interact with a particle the greater it’s mass. Particles such as photons and gluons, carriers of the electromagnetic force, interact so little with the Higgs field they are considered mass-less. Particles such as protons and electrons have greater mass resulting from greater interaction with the Higgs field.
If there exists this hard to detect field, the Higgs field, that are as fundamental as the 4 forces for our universe existing as we know it, do you feel it’s going too far to say that the same could be for consciousness? Could consciousness not at all reside in the mind or body as many postulate but act rather as or be a field? A field that particles interact with, consciousness is carried to and attached to the particle by a boson or other type of quark thus creating the subjective experience when those particles are part of a biological unit with intelligence.
Perhaps the new-agers were accidently right for the wrong reasons when stating that even rocks have consciousness. Particles are particles so if a rock contained some that would react with the consciousness field a rock would indeed have some level of consciousness. It would just be a form and understanding of consciousness that we aren’t use to talking about.
A rock would not have a subjective experience. If we followed that logic the more mass or particles an object contained the more conscious it would be. Intelligence and brain function would have to have quite a big role in getting from this supposed basic level of consciousness to a subjective experience if any of this was possible.
Just as gravity is so weak a force it cannot be studied in places like CERN because at the subatomic level its simply so weak its almost nonexistent. At the present level of technology the graviton seems to be sentenced to a life of theoretical-ness. Sorry lil buddy. Well in our current place in technology maybe this type of work is not yet possible.
Some M theorists postulate the reason for the absurdly vast difference in the strength of gravity compared to the other forces is because it may be stretched across the multiverses, in a sense diluting it down. If the theoretical evidence in gravitational research in the coming years shows this to be probable, and we only just hypothesized and found the Higgs field in the past 40 years, would it be crazy to entertain the fact that consciousness may also be a field that stretches across the uni or multiverse.?
Many people, some in science feel consciousness may act like a radio signal and we are just the receivers. In a not so play on words this is exactly how matter gets its mass. The Higgs field is the radio signal and particles the receiver. They receive mass.
What if evolution through adaptation evolved organism’s brains to use and create the subjective experience from consciousness just as any other part of the positive contributing attributes we have evolved such as the immune system, and procreation?
Consciousness would not only increase any organism’s chances of survival, but also its likelihood of making it into a higher intelligence animal such as dolphins, and humans rather than corals or tubeworms.
In this case I can’t think of a better or more useful part of a organisms ability to adapt and survive against competition than awareness. Even the most basic level of a subjective experience in an organism would allow the basics of intentional decisions to become possible. These two things alone would give quite a bump up in the natural world.
thanks mate for the link Dr. Hameroff and Penrose seem to be leading the research in this new science. Ive heard him speak once and have read a few of his papers on consciousness. His current focus is whether or not microtublues are either the reciever or residence of consciousness I believe. 
