Consciousness is independent of matter.

Le blob also known by its scientific name Physarum polycephalum or "many-headed slime”

Looking for consciousness in a brain is like looking for ‘no’ needle in a haystack. I am convinced that consciousness is independent of matter and energy but yes, intelligence is a function of matter and energy. Let us see the existence of a singular cell that can perform many functions without a brain. In my school days, we learn about a single cell organism known as an Amoeba and were always fascinated by its existence.

All single-celled organisms contain everything they need to survive within one cell. These cells are able to get energy from complex molecules, to move, and to sense their environment. The ability to perform these and other functions is part of their organization. However, we are discussing the single-cell organisms in light of Intelligence and consciousness

  

Credit 📷 Audrey Dussutour @Docteur_Drey

A single cell can have intelligent actions without a brain and this is practically proven in a "le blob" also known by its scientific name Physarum polycephalum or "many-headed slime”. They belong to a separate lineage that evolved from ordinary soil amoebas. The blob doesn't have a brain but can solve problems, and has no mouth but can eat food. It has no stomach, eyes, brain or nervous system, but it can detect and digest food. The organism moves without legs, wings or fins at a speed of up to 1.6 inches per hour. It is also self-healing — able to regenerate itself in just two minutes after being cut in half and has 720 sex organs having no problems of reproducing. The organisms respond to starvation by rushing together by the thousands into a single blob. The blob stretches out into a slug-shaped mass about one millimeter long (one twenty-fifth of an inch), which then crawls like a worm toward the light. But as with most other species, survival is boosted by genetic diversity, which in the blob's case happens by two genetically-diverse organisms meeting and fusing into a new, single blob. Researchers said the creature is essentially immortal, fearing only light and drought. They stick to the foot of an animal and travel to a hospitable place. It shows that the Blob has the intelligence to reason, for survival without a complex brain function.

The Blob is not an animal, a plant or a mushroom, but scientists are still not sure exactly how to classify it. It can remember things, adapt their behaviors and find its way out of a maze, which is all animal-like behaviors.

The Paris zoo's latest attraction said the organism first appeared a billion years ago. "It's been here for millions of years, and we still don't really know what it is." Preceding humans on Earth by some 500 million years, the creature resembles a kind of slippery sponge.

"It surprises us because it has no brain, but is able to learn ... and if you merge two blobs, the one that has learned will transmit its knowledge to the other," "The blob is really one of the most extraordinary things that live on Earth today," the president of Paris zoo, Bruno David, said as he introduced the creature to journalists in the French capital.

Something weird and wonderful is at a Paris zoo      https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/slime-mold-in-paris

Matter and intelligence

I conclude that all self-replicating life forms are organic or dependent on the matter with a media to stimulate intelligence and energy to sustain its existence (the relationship of intelligence, consciousness, energy, and matter has been described in this blog, the posting of Saturday, 10 August 201 Consciousness) Consciousness is what consciousness is and intelligence is what it Intelligence is. Both seem to be represented by many thinkers and researchers evolving from the brain with no sciences that can prove that they belong to the activities of the brain function.

In my previous posting Consciousness and Intelligence I have described memory banks that all matter will have. The survival of all living matter depends on intelligence and the storage of this intelligence for all living entities is the Brain, Body memory (BM) and cell memory. The main role of DNA in the cell is the long-term storage of information or cell memory. Intelligence is defined as general cognitive problem-solving skills. A mental ability involved in reasoning, perceiving relationships and analogies, calculating, learning quickly, etc.

• ·         What happens if an entity does not have a brain but behaves intelligently for its existence?
• ·         Is intelligence a mental activity if not then what is intelligence in self-replicating life forms, from a single cell to the most complex life similar to the Humans?
• ·         Is the brain a coordinator of a multi-cell self-replicating life forms and not a generator of intelligence or consciousness?
• ·         Scientists concluded that the average human body contains approximately 37.2 trillion cells! Does each cell have a memory of its own?

These are some of the queries that scientist needs to investigate with the concept of the brain to be the generator of all logical functions for its existence and that it is independent of the creator’s instructions.

In conclusion with finite evidence of Le blob also known by its scientific name Physarum polycephalum or "many-headed slime” a single-cell organism, that matter, and intelligence for all living entities are pre-defined and are not a random creation. I go back to my evaluation that intelligence is just a stimulated logic controlled by a stimulus and designed by ‘it’ or consciousness. The matter has many ways to store it in a memory bank suiting the complexity of its creation.

In the absence of matter and/or energy the stimulus is not operational and the entity will be considered in a dormant state as inorganic elements which again will be defined by the science of its own. More knowledge of quantum physics with defined Atoms which are made up of much smaller particles called subatomic particles. Subatomic particles refer to all of these - protons, neutrons; quarks, leptons, and bosons - but the elementary particles are quarks, leptons and bosons with it will describe a theory of creation for inorganic entities.

A stimulus which activates stimulated logic has all design variables giving an impression that the stimulated logic is the function of consciousness; the origin of creation yet consciousness is a false impression in a living an entity which gives an apparent impression that consciousness is in control forgetting the fact that intelligence is the one only in control of the memory in the memory banks in the matter.

Original from   Existence Downloaded, Activated, Operated, Terminated.

By Jayram Daya ISBN 978-1-920526-35-1 Quickfox Publishing South Africa

For further reading “Can Answers to Evolution Be Found in Slime?” https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/04/science/04slime.html

 MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. While naturalists have known of slime molds for centuries, only now are scientists really starting to understand them. Credit Steven L. Stephenson

FINDING ITS WAY In an experiment, a slime mold in the outside chamber made it to an oat flake in the central chamber of a maze. Credit Andy Adamatzky

Would you call this Intelligence or Consciousness?

An interesting article below that differentiates consciousness as an easy and hard problem.

Facing up to the hard question of consciousness

Daniel C. Dennett                   https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6074080/

ABSTRACT

The so-called hard problem of consciousness is a chimera, a distraction from the hard question of consciousness, which is once some content reaches consciousness, ‘then what happens?’. This question is seldom properly asked, for reasons good and bad, but when asked it opens up avenues of research that promise to dissolve the hard problem and secure a scientifically sound theory of how the human brain produces the (sometimes illusory) convictions that mislead us.

This article is part of the theme issue ‘Perceptual consciousness and cognitive access'.

Keywords: consciousness, Chalmers, block, virtual machines, degrees of freedom, access

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1. THE HARD QUESTION IS NOT THE HARD PROBLEM

David Chalmers (‘Facing up to the hard problem of consciousness’ [1]) focused the attention of people researching consciousness by drawing a distinction between the ‘easy’ problems of consciousness, and what he memorably dubbed the hard problem.

The easy problems of consciousness include those of explaining the following phenomena:

• — the ability to discriminate, categorize and react to environmental stimuli;
• — the integration of information by a cognitive system;
• — the reportability of mental states;
• — the ability of a system to access its own internal states;
• — the focus of attention;
• — the deliberate control of behaviour;
• — the difference between wakefulness and sleep [1, p. 201].

The hard problem ‘is the problem of experience’ [1, p. 202], accounting for ‘what it is like’ [2] or qualia. To many researchers, this seemed like a sensible divide-and-conquer research strategy: first, we tackle all the easy problems, and then we turn our attention to the hard problem. To others, the identification of the hard problem called for something like a scientific revolution, replacing the standard methods and assumptions of cognitive science (which are continuous with the standard methods and assumptions of biology, chemistry and physics) with a more radical perspective. The hard problem, they surmised, will only be addressed by a return to some form of dualism, or panpsychism, or some yet to be articulated overthrow of what might be considered normal science..........

My suggestion is that we are in the right direction describing consciousness.

• We should describe the easy problem as feedback of activated and random access intelligence which allows the matter to act independently without external support.
• The hard problem should be described as an external stimulus that gives life with a pre-set stimulated logic or intelligence. This allows the memories to support the concept of conscious and consciousness but in reality, the stimulus generator or consciousness is in control of the entities' memory banks giving it apparent reasoning, as most researchers are experiencing 

Hence ‘Le Blob’ is also conscious and has consciousness without a Brain.

My first book

Consciousness and Intelligence

It has been my long outstanding argument to distinguish the difference between Consciousness and Intelligence. Consciousness gives orderliness to intelligence with matter and energy but consciousness is not intelligence yet consciousness is a function of Intelligence. Illusory knowledge relates to what is outside, correct knowledge to what is inside. Try to know what is inside with a realization that intelligence requires stimulus and matter. You cannot be aware without an external stimulus with which to observe and respond. This would require the presence of matter with energy in one form or another.

To describe this I have taken the analogy of the computer a system that we are familiar with.

In a computer we have;

·        A programmer- is an individual that writes/creates computer software or applications by giving the computer-specific programming instructions. A programmer also may specialize in one or more computing fields, like database, security or software/firmware/mobile/Web development.

·        A program- is executable software that runs on a computer; these programs are often called applications, which can be used synonymously with software programs.

·        Memory-Rom- read-only memory, computer memory on which data has been pre-recorded. Once data has been written onto a ROM chip, it cannot be removed and can only be read

·        Memory-Ram- random access memory, a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly; that is, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes. RAM is found in servers, PCs, tablets, smartphones and other devices, such as printers.

·        Memory storage- the hard drive is a form of permanent storage, rather than temporary memory such as random-access memory (RAM). ... Every computer has at least one internal hard drive to store software and data.

·        Hardware is a function of matter and energy.  Computer hardware is the collection of physical parts of a computer system. This includes the computer case, monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It also includes all the parts inside the computer case, such as the hard disk drive, motherboard, video card, and many others. Computer hardware is what you can physically touch.

In the computer system, there is a programmer who programs a required system and by making use of ROM and RAM, it creates a stimulus which can logically execute the programmer’s program. A Physical body is essential to house this system and a cleverly designed hardware with matter and energy satisfies the end result.

Note;

·     The computer is often referred to as a computer system because it is made up of integrated components (input, output, storage and CPU) which work together to perform steps called for in the program being executed.

·         Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a computer or machine that has been created to "think" like a human. The idea behind it is that human reasoning can be understood and defined based on input (your experiences) and output (your actions). When a human makes a decision, they consider certain important variables.

In the cosmic creations, we have consciousness, matter, and energy described in a closed contour of space and time with an infinite domain. Intelligence is stimulated logic in matter that has many characteristics from being dormant to activate and of random access intelligence for a premeditated creation. 

Consciousness - is a creator that creates a universal set of instructions that tells its creation what to do or how to perform a task. It includes all different instructions, such as applications and the operating system or such applications by giving the many cosmic interties specific encoding instructions. Consciousness specializes in one or more fields, like creation, preservation, destruction and the controls which satisfy the existence of all entities with a set of instructions that are forwarded with a stimulus.

 Soul originator or super soul - instructs executable set of instructions that stimulates all created entities.  These sets of instruction are often called living souls, which can be used synonymously with consciousness in all of the created entities of the cosmos. It’s the caretaker of all created entities of the cosmos. The stimulus it forwards also has a feedback system to monitor the creations of consciousness.

Activated intelligence on which information has been pre-logged. Once information has been programmed in the activated intelligence, it cannot be removed and can only be delivered. It is indeed in this way that intelligence becomes divided and ceases to be all-comprehending. Consciousness decides which creation it would like to create and hence the instructions given once-off by a stimulus generated by consciousness and monitored by the Super soul.

Random access intelligence a type of entity intelligence that can be accessed randomly; that is, any multiple of memories can be accessed without touching the preceding ones. Random access intelligence can only be found in the so-called intelligent life where both activated and random access intelligence is allowed in the occurrence of consciousness.

Memory and activated intelligence storage -the brain is one of the largest and most complex organs in the human body. It is made up of more than 100 billion nerves that communicate in trillions of connections called synapses. The brain is made up of many specialized areas that work together. Human Brain has more developed cognitive functions due to highly developed forebrain (comprising the two cerebral hemispheres) and a thicker layer of cortex in comparison to other animals' brain; Random access intelligence is activated in the Humans but stays dormant in the animals.

Note

·         In reality, human beings have two brains inside one skull - one on the left and one on the right hemisphere. When it comes to seeing the world around us, each of our two brains works independently and each has its own working memory.

·         Memories may be passed down through generations in DNA.Genetic memory (psychology) - in psychology, genetic memory is a memory present at birth that exists in the absence of sensory experience, and is incorporated into the genome over long spans of time

·         Body memory (BM) is a hypothesis that the body itself is capable of storing memories, as opposed to only the brain. While experiments have demonstrated the possibility of cellular memory there are currently no known means by which tissues other than the brain would be capable of storing memories.

·         Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions for the development and function of living things. All known cellular life and some viruses contain DNA. The main role of DNA in the cell is the long-term storage of information. The four roles DNA plays are replication, encoding information, mutation/recombination and gene expression.

·         I am of the opinion that for all organic life on earth has a DNA with all intelligent structures designed once and common to all organic life forms. The supper soul stimulates the different components to get the required life form as required or eliminates when it’s not of importance to the system.
      It is convincing that activated intelligence in all living organisms was to support the Gene Theory which also has a memory bank to interact with the surrounding. The article “Evolution can reconfigure gene networks to deal with environmental change” by the University of Birmingham at https://phys.org/news/2019-11-evolution-reconfigure-gene-networks-environmental.html says it all. This supports my theory of Activated and Random access intelligence.

The existing body with a soul is a function of matter and energy, free or depended on interference caused by transmigratory existence. – This is the collection of physical parts of physically existing systems. This includes all the senses of organic life on earth. It also includes all the parts inside the body such as the brain, heart, kidney, liver, stomach and many others. Body of the entity is what you can physically touch and see. All inorganic matter can also be similarly described like stars, planets, energy, and matter with quantum sciences. All entities created by consciousness have a soul so does the cosmos. The soul is a function of consciousness where cosmic physics takes over the designed variables.

Hence when we talk of organic consciousness it’s the activated intelligence in a living entity and only random access intelligence can describe with a stimulus which helps to define the living condition of that entity. A most perfect example is Human life on earth that claims to have consciousness. To describe this phenomenon I will insist that it is the activated and the random access intelligence that gives us a false claim of having understood the existence of consciousness in the human mind. It is indeed in this way that intelligence becomes divided and ceases to be all-comprehending.

It can be seen, that the Cosmos and Consciousness are non-different because all that is knowable as existing in Cosmos is known to exist only by Consciousness. Because we exist, that which is knowable is known; the knowable being intelligence which assigns consciousness as being    ‘conscious of’ can only be known in the awareness. The known therefore depends upon the fact that awareness is aware of that of which the mind is conscious. This is the logic of awareness which is not accessible to all organic life forms.

Hence all organic life forms are originated from one only double-strand DNA structure (Double-stranded DNA consists of two polynucleotide chains whose nitrogenous bases are connected by hydrogen bonds.) A stimulus from the super soul will give birth to the required life forms such as plant life, insect life, winged life, mammals and humans. The super soul controls these life forms with its stimulus always connected in the whole process of creation, preservation, and destruction.

Yes! The soul is immortal and infinite no matter the super soul or the living soul. The living soul is a function of the Super soul

·        The soul is defined as one entity or is the spirit and essence of an entity. An example of your soul is the part of you that makes you who you are and that will live on after your death. An example of a soul is the part of you that will go to heaven and be immortal, according to the teachings of certain religions.

·        Living Atman (soul) means the breathing one. More precisely, it is the inner Self, or the eternal Self, which, according to Hinduism, is present in all beings, from the highest to the lowest. The Upanishads describe Atman as the eternal, blissful effulgent, transcendental, indestructible, divine, pure, infinite, intelligence. In Hinduism, the Super soul is termed as Paramatma, and the living soul Jivatma. A simple example, Atman could be compared to a drop from the spray of the ocean; Paramatma would be the whole ocean. Jivatma or Atman is the individual who originates from the Paramatma. In this, living Atman craves to re-join its natural position as part of the whole. This is the aim of the created entities and later religions became the descendants of this reality of our creation, existence, and destruction.

In my closing argument let me consider another simple analogy for this argument. Assume this universe to be a huge service-oriented design. Everything comes under a infinite domain. There is a master programmer or consciousness and the program Super Soul (Paramatma) that controls the entire domain.

There are subroutines installed on nodes for specific functionalities. These are the Jeevatmas(souls). They have a function to perform. They do not own anything nor has any other special powers/privileges. If uninstalled from the node (deleted), they cannot do anything on their own. All entities are just a program that cannot execute without hardware. The stimuli are refined energy only created for the super soul. Energy is like the power needed to run the domain and anything that the domain captures can be considered as the Super soul with a stimulus.

Consciousness is the master programmer. Whenever there is instability in the system, Consciousness installs itself into a powerful node and does damage control (like acting as an Anti-virus).

There are bad programs that cannot be promoted to production. They are given an opportunity in the test environment to be a part of the domain. If nothing can be done, consciousness uninstalls them and protects the rest of the system.

However, if the Super soul is apart from the individual entity, then it's not complete. That which isn't complete isn't perfect. What isn't perfect can't be consciousness thus, the word Atman is used for representing both together.

The consciousness which is the creator, nourisher and the destroyer of this Universe, Atman (soul) on the other hand is a small part of this consciousness and is present inside every living being and distinguishes the living from inanimate objects. Only the activated intelligence differentiates this. On the other hand, an inanimate object is designed with physics of quantum cosmic science of which we have very little knowledge. I am convinced that all cosmic entities also have a soul that allows its existence. Our intellect is not stimulated to understand these creations. 

Hence my conclusion that intelligence is not consciousness.

Original from   Existence Downloaded, Activated, Operated, Terminated.

By Jayram Daya ISBN 978-1-920526-35-1 Quickfox Publishing South Africa

Consciousness

Why have I chosen consciousness as the main theme of my argument?

It must first be established who created organic life on earth? Secondly, it must be accepted that time only exists with birth and end with death otherwise time is an illusion and so is space. Space cannot be defined and is also an illusion with science and historical myths always giving information that changes with each observation and so Matter, Energy and Consciousness is the only entity that will describe the living cosmos.

Matter and energy are convertibles where each can change positions as required by the surrounding or designed parameters. That is when energy can be described as matter and vice versa. Turning light into matter may soon be possible. Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 has proved, mass can get converted into energy and vice versa.

That leaves me with consciousness as the only independent variable. I personally, think that consciousness is misinterpreted with activated and stimulated Intelligence.

Consciousness is consciousness. There is no higher or lower state. All other words while describing consciousness are expanded names to describe an artificial position or an imaginary state that consciousness seems to hold. (I.e. Cosmic consciousness, human consciousness, super-Consciousness or Universal Consciousness and so on……etc.)

I would call human consciousness as activated intelligence. It can only be described when any entity has life in it. So a human is conscious only when the intelligence is activated with random access intelligence also stimulated in the fine matter or ether. Here the word conscious is to describe living or dead or it is the stimulator of intelligence. In the absence of the stimulator there is no intelligence hence no human consciousness or broadly to say organic consciousness.

Yes! Intelligence is also intelligence. All living entities have intelligence in its fine matter or ether when created as a self-replicating life on earth. This intelligence has designed principles rules and laws that govern its existence for a designed life cycle. It remains dormant for that time but the intelligence of human beings is activated to reason. Hence we call it the higher life forms. Intelligence can only exist on a platform of matter and energy. There is no intelligence in the absence of matter and energy. So what happens to that intelligence?

This brings me to understand life on earth. Life on planet earth is biological excellence, terraforming a lonely planet to a designed parameter of a creator that produced self-replicating creations. The human life is created in its image hence it represents the creator's objective to obtain a desired purpose with the activated intelligence. Time and space become an illusion for an observer monitoring energy in the absence of matter. Then light (particles, and or waves having photons of no mass) is the only entity that would exist as a measure of life with death but in the absence of energy and matter while intelligence having no platform to exist will get diffused into the consciousness.

The only parameter which ends with death is energy. The energy of the living has been refined when given birth and finds another good host to transfer the refined energy for advanced use in the creation cycle.

These are the indications that alien life with more than two strands of DNA is on planet earth with direct knowledge of the cosmos and with all information. In the Vedic times, these aliens were called Gods

 The condition is to have more than 2 strands of DNA!

·       8 strand DNA would be in harmony with the Fibonacci the sequence “The Fibonacci Sequence is Nature’s Code “and it was possible that there was life on earth with 8 strands DNA who are our creators and communicates with consciousness.

·       DNA has a memory media that carry information in matter linked with a motherboard (consciousness) independent of matter and energy.

Hence my conclusion that intelligence is one entity which is the designed attributes of our creator for a self-replicating entity and consciousness is the sole contributor to this designed attributes with or without matter and energy in a closed domain called time and space.

All self-replicating entities are a function of consciousness but consciousness is not dependent on any of them or is a part of them. The stars, dark matter and the organic life on earth are self-replicating with consciousness as its creator.

I conclude that all self-replicating life forms are organic or dependent on the matter with the media to stimulate intelligence and energy to sustain its existence. It is suggested in the Vedic scriptures that Maharishis in their spiritual trance believed to have 8 strands DNA compared to 2 strands DNA of a normal Human, which broadened their sense spectrums. However, our brain can register much information but cannot convert to intelligent reasoning.

Original from   Existence Downloaded, Activated, Operated, Terminated.

By Jayram Daya ISBN 978-1-920526-35-1 Quickfox Publishing South Africa