On Quantum Physics and Consciousness
Consciousness everywhere through the lens of the Symbols Framework.
This article:
C. Stefan “On Quantum Physics and Consciousness”, 20.Ian.2025.
Based on:
C. Stefan “Life, the Observer, and Consciousness”, v0.1b, Oct. 2024.1
Abstract
In the face of the many suppositions about the un-intuitiveness of the quantum theory, through my framework - although maybe not the only one in existence assuming the things which it does with simplicity and a complete naturalization of items of concern - one can finally take a pertinent explanatory view home, one able to connect many aspects central to our representational powers, to life, phenomenon, consciousness and the materialist views. This is hypothesized and is working without appealing to other un-intuitive explanations. A very much simplification that would be a candidate to be an all encompassing theory at a locality, within our frame, and also being able to be exposed as explanation in the mainstream science.2
Introduction
The discussion on the short articles “On…” is meant to add in a scholarly and concise way the positions to various essential topics, through the lens of the Symbols Framework as further put into words and developed by C. Stefan (ex-as.prof.-math.-info.-AI “ULBS”, papers in AI from 2000.) through the 2023-20243. Coming from a thought movement for around 25 years in the making through: what is meaning, language? Philosophy, psychology, Wittgenstein, sounds, science (math., computer programming) biology/geology hobby, and a general non-dogmatic, non-frontal thinking (proving the very way we actually form thought, unconsciously mainly.)4
Consciousness
Through the framework, this notion has many facets, so one can’t pinpoint it in a precise way other than with the help through “generativity plateaus” and a requirement of interactions between sub-systems that are also needed to be arranged in a way. Not in a very particular way, yet they have to reflect a spectrum along which such concept scaffolds, can be seen as such and then even quantify it. (Cardinal of the Symboliad named in thesis.)
Quantum
Max Planck, the father of quantum physics had the intuition that at the intersection of matter and a force there one may find the reality:
“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clearheaded science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about the atoms this much: There is no matter as such! All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter. I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”5
And then we have also a hand-full of other physicists which employed roughly the same view. Whereas the interpretations of their results, surely has to be taken also in a historical context, by now I understand it not that everything (also the unknown) is as such, but in my view, I interpret it, as to be seen, as the very view of our reality: the “real” real (non-dualism). At the same time as a new interpretation of Wittgenstein’s the limits of the world: an explanation through the framework able to re-conciliate that view too. (Wittgenstein vs. Chomsky re-conciliation in thesis too.)6
With this paper I would extend a view and argue that the very properties that seems un-intuitive are a reflection of the very thought processes. And this is turn gets us back to the physicists affirmations, unifying a view.
Symbols
Symbols through the Symbols Framework are like “qualia” units which carry a gradual generativity within, forming, rounding themselves in between the other ones. Their path is through the basin (life matter) and continue up as spark and then towards forming a more complete, circular, coil like “patch.” They are thus of energy (electricity-magnetism-vibration-oscillatory) means, by their very nature, non dual, and even quantum “resistant.”7
Body and brain
The biological body (brain not necessary) is able to encode such items, as every group of cells are in principle, due their nature (life matter) and being alike (compatible between them,) are able to at least perform a perceptual areal extension, a triangulation. The brain on the other side, it justifies its existence as coordinating means, a decode and imprint (encode), and a coordination of attention (head, hear, sight, further triangulation vs. areal perception). A vertical as an arc, is maintained.
The nature of knowledge
Symbols as enacted, form the Symboliad of the life form. Base being that ever flowing energy pattern. When some scientist refer to a resting state, just do nothing, there is not really what they mean: one can’t stop that flow. Along that flow is enacted all that plateau of emotions, thoughts. (C. Stefan “article on that flow“ 8).
As the vertical arc stands, there is a part of it that acts as a decoder-encoder (imprint). In that way, life just can flow, it is a flow, the very definition of it implies the evading of halting problems.
The imprint is an interesting case also because by that mechanism the body makes units, the reverse one, is, by attention broadly, inscribe, enact new Symbols. This is enacting a correlating structural pattern that upgrades at some point as a causal nexus. That in turn gets deposited in the homeostatic arc, that is the Symboliad enacted as the orthogonal space of the existence, meaning-making of the life form.
The nature of that space is in the form of Symbols. Due to nature of Symbols, in their round form and as “externsiveness” - sustained by the other Symbols, as they are complete, their meaning within the pattern is offering both the implication and what it is not implicating. This is the Symbol’s Omniload capacity. Never in isolation but always a web, network load it entails.
By the nature of the units also, they can virtually contain any information. There is no differentiation (through Symbols Framework thus it comes to a dissolving of the Chalmer’s “hard problem” too)9 in what kind of adjacency it has, there is no direct connection with the substrate (energy) and what it entails. It has to do with the arc: broadly speaking, the body-(many,micro-macro)expressions as part of the environment encoded in Symbols. Just by the properties as described in thesis this unit and the veil, it is sustaining a view, a phenomenal view. That in turn creates the “real” real of the life form, that it is thus upgraded to “form of life.” This is because at that point it is itself as instance not in isolation: colony areal, common spaces, trends/cultural scripts, adds to its definition within the space.
Quantum Physics and Consciousness
Due to this form (sphere like with connections) and implications of the Symbol, one can’t treat it as a dual form. It is a unit that is comprised of that two sides: the physical form and the information it represents for the instance. While it is round, it means it stands as a powerful one, one can say it is “real” and no more different than science or “belief” (quite same level of meaning description.) Symbols are creating always the “real” real of life form, not expressing a direct reality.
When operating with the quantum, we reached a domain where there the Symbols are not complete. Nor can they be, due to the un-confirmation possibility of any slight sense of intuition anchored in a real environment. Because physics as what it does it wants to reach to the real, as physical substrate, they also are about the domain of the nature the Symbols which are anchored in it, due to their dual nature.
So, the whole therms to which quantum physics has arrived: wave collapse, measurement problems, consciousness in everything, etc. are nothing more than the description of the other side of the thoughts through the Symbols. Thus they describe actually the very process through which we operate. The phenomena of thought towards reality.
A description of such cognitive-physical nature of a quantum item
There is also a new proposed view through physics, in which a step-back would actually invalidate a lot of un-intuitive features found in quantum physics. But the very description of the “new” items seen seems to very much describe the way of the Symbols: atomic units, forming through the other ones, their forming process is correlating (described in thesis as a few Razors are employed), not of direct causal view, etc.
”J. Barandes suggests you start with a more general notion: indivisible stochastic processes. "Indivisible" means atomic (in the sense that you can't break it down further), and "stochastic" is the mathematician's word for random. "Processes" means something that starts off initially in some way and gets transformed into something else. Extremely general.”10
General quantum physics potion:
Collapse of the wave function - responsible for the consciousness, reality.
Stance through the Symbols Framework:
Observer instance gradually to conscious perception construction is upholding the veil and enact the correlation and causal nexus (dynamic load, vast, see Symbols Omniload.) The exercise is seen very simple through the sleep-rapid wake process. The re-decoding of the encoding requires energy to sustain, and then this is also the process (along further “externsion” and attention) that sends us to sleep. A further description of the un-intuitiveness found in quantum physics along with the phenomenal view, one can explore on ai.essentiamundi.com explainability side, and the video.11
Conclusion
The view is that at that boundary of materialist description we came full circle by finding the non-materialist view: having thus both be united in the form of Symbols as in the framework.
Through the Symbols Framework I am thus able to explain full circle what would be the workings regarding the nature of life, mind and the connection with the matter, consciousness and quantum mechanics. There is a movement in the levels of description, employ of non-dualism views to items, to the phenomenal view through the observer instances: observer definition make sense in the form defined in thesis, “externsion,” and further Symbols/Symboliad properties, nature of language, causal nexus, further as in the thesis and derived articles “On…”.
This article:
C. Stefan “On Quantum Physics and Consciousness”, 20.Ian.2025.
Based on:
C. Stefan “Life, the Observer, and Consciousness”, v0.1b, Oct. 2024.
(https://doi.org/10.31237/osf.io/y4ctm)
And:
C. Stefan “The Basin of the Symbol: from a Structural allowance to an open Cohesiveness of the shared "externsive" elevation“, July. 2024
(https://www.essentiamundi.com/ai_v0.2.9/BasinSymbols.html)
C. Stefan “Life, the Observer, and Consciousness”
https://doi.org/10.31237/osf.io/y4ctm
By the very nature of the framework and especially of the units Symbols as they imply, one should then be able to explain it to very young too.
See: ai.essentiamundi.com and legacy part too.
See: abbildung.ro for:
A reason for the projects start as in 2004-2005, world view and prior to that a “Denkbewegung” / Pre-university, University years. Biology hobby article(s): 2021 Life happenings by the coast here. 2024 Environment, cells, Gaia… here.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Max_Planck
See chapter on language acquisition issue and reconciliation in thesis: https://doi.org/10.31237/osf.io/y4ctm
“Resistance” from other forces: https://www.quantamagazine.org/heat-destroys-all-order-except-for-in-this-one-special-case-20250116/
“The Basin of the Symbol: from a Structural allowance to an open Cohesiveness of the shared "externsive" elevation“, July. 2024 here.
“Access consciousness, a hierarchy of some sort is under question.“ C. Stefan, https://ai.essentiamundi.com/SymbolsFrameworkExplainability.html
A thread on the J.B.’s “step back” view by C.J. (ToE Podcast) https://x.com/TOEwithCurt/status/1880645051132580298