A common theme on the everything list is the idea of an Observer
moment, which is a snapshot of an observer's mind in a point of time,
or the smallest amount of time a single conscious moment can be
experienced in. However I think this overlooks the notion that
information can be embedded across dimensions of both time and space.
There are cases when information exists in space only, such as on a
phonograph or CD, but there are also cases when information exists
temporally, when the record is played the information is copied from a
3 dimensional space to the dimension of time. Also consider data
transmitted over the Internet, its information pattern exists in its
entirety within a 4-dimensional block view of the universe. Einstein
showed how the distinction between the dimension of time and the
dimensions of space are human imposed.
So if information patterns/structures can span distances of time and
space, perhaps the concept of an Observer "Moment" isn't the way it
should be thought of. Perhaps we should think of it as an "Observer's
Information Space". The fact that the human brain is sees individual
pictures flashed at 10-15 frames per second as motion, and the fact
that we hear individual vibrations as sound if above 10-15 Hz may be
ancillary evidence that the human brain's information space
encompasses the past 0.1 seconds of sensory input in generating a
model of the environment.
If we consider a computational view for consciousness, the "state" of
the computation which might be represented as a single Planck Time in
this universe likely doesn't contain all the information necessary to
create an observer moment, rather it is processing of information over
dimensions of space and time that build a minimal information pattern
necessary for a conscious experience. This reasoning implies that
OM's can be different lengths of times for different observers, and no
OM can be instantaneous. Simpler brained organisms such as flies
might have an OM that spans much less time than a human brian's OM.
Jason
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Received on Wed Mar 26 2008 - 17:16:21 PDT