Reality's last stand

Rongwei Yang

The ``Hard Problem" of consciousness refers to a long-standing enigma about how qualia emerge from physical processes in the brain. Building on insights from the development of non-Euclidean geometry, this paper seeks to present a structured and logically coherent theory of qualia to address this problem. The proposed theory starts with a definition on what it means for an entity to be non-physical. A postulate about awareness is posed and utilized to rigorously prove that qualia are non-physical and thoughts are qualia. Then the paper introduces a key concept: relative reality, meaning that perceptions of reality are relative to the observer and time. The concept is analyzed through a mathematical model grounded in Hilbert space theory. The model also sheds new light on cognitive science and physics. In particular, the Schrödinger equation can be derived easily through this model. Moreover, this model shows that eigenstates also exist for classical energy-conserving systems. Analyses on the G. P. Thomson experiment and the classical harmonic oscillator are made to illustrate this finding. The insight gained sheds new light on the Bohr-Einstein debate concerning the interpretation of quantum mechanics. At last, the paper proposes a postulate about qualia force and demonstrates that it constitutes a fundamental part of absolute reality, much like the four fundamental forces in nature.

Ronnie Zoe Hawkins

Linfan Mao

The universality of contradiction implies that the reality of a thing is only hold on observation with level dependent on the observer standing out or in and lead respectively to solvable equation or non-solvable equations on that thing for human beings.

Bernard d’Espagnat

Bernard d’Espagnat

Avirup Chakraborty, Shrabana Chakrabarti

In this paper, we derive an expression for the dark-state polariton field, formed by the superposition of atomic and photonic states, for the case of a travelling probe laser pulse under the application of a standing wave control laser pulse for a lambda-level scheme EIT System in a solid crystal. We show how an enhancement in the nonlinearity of the EIT process by eliminating pulse broadening due to diffusion can be achieved in the case of a travelling probe pulse under the effect of standing wave control laser pulses. At last, we propose an experiment that can help realise the storage of a probe pulse in the hyperfine levels 3 H 4 ↔ 1 D 2 of Pr 3+ : Y 2 SiO 5, cryogenically cooled at 4.5 K. We, at last, predict from the temporal variation of the energy density of the stored probe pulse that a longer storage time of the travelling probe pulse is possible for a perfect standing wave control laser field than a non-standing control wave, due to its more prominent nonlinear effect.