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Sunday, February 28, 2010

Science, Human being & Consciousness


Oriental philosophy is heavily influenced by consciousness, soul and the supreme force. But in the field of the scientific explanation of human consciousness, there exists hardly any strong opinion combining these two apparently incoherent objects.


Perception is a very critical concept, we define reality on the basis of perception. It has been already established that the observer plays a great role both in Quantum Mechanics and our consciousness. Are these two is related, in fact it is probable that our brain processes information send by sensory organs by using Quantum Computing, but the role of quantum mechanics in defining our conscious is not clear till now.

Consciousness is a very complex phenomenon, we still don't know much about its origin. There is a hypothesis where it is argued that our brain stores information in our memory as a Hologram which is a 3D image which can store information about phase difference in the form of optical interference. But in that case who would decode the interference patterns to generate information about 3D surroundings, hence there must be an observer to judge the content of that memory!


Many eminent scientists are working on this topic, although the opinions are diverse but most of them promise to reveal a greater role of Consciousness in describing our universe, which is the basic aim of science too. What is the real architecture of the universe? What we see in the sky above is a depiction of the visible universe, so is it the real structure of the universe?

We are living sentient organism, we have our own perception about our surroundings, and act accordingly. We can perceive our surroundings, but the real challenge is to define Perception coherently. So what is perception? Is there any way to define perception as a result of execution of any physical or chemical process that starts as soon as it gets information as input from our sensory organs, like eyes, ears, skin, nose and tongue.



©sarpyl subhankar