Recent scientific work questions the common consensus of what is fundamental in nature. The interface theory of perception, e.g., indicates that our perceptions could not have evolved to reflect the true nature of the world. Experimentalists reveal that proton structure appears as an artifact of perceptual resolution: At slow shutter speeds protons appear as triples of valence quarks, bound by gluons; at high speeds they appear as just gluon seas. Dramatic changes also appear with spatial resolution. Again, theoreticians demonstrate that spacetime is not fundamental, finding deeper structures, such as amplituhedrons, to explain scattering amplitudes. These deeper structures are static, with no dynamical explanation so far. Under the hypothesis that it is consciousness that is fundamental, we outline a program aiming to explain such results. A precise definition of conscious agent networks leads to a Markovian perceptual dynamics. We propose that apprehending this dynamics by a forgetful process, involving coarse graining, tracing and sampling finite dynamical windows, can lead to a “physical projection,” whereby perceptions recover the aforementioned results. The aim of this program is to ground science in the dynamics of conscious agents. This reports recent work with Donald Hoffman, Swapan Chattopadhyay, Robert Prentner and others.
Негізгі бет Ғылым және технология Chetan Prakash - A conscious agent model and the physical world
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