Quantum holography: a novel information processing paradigm defining the science of consciousness and the morphology and dynamics of the brain/mind as testable hypotheses P.J. Marcer (Aikido Enterprises, Keynsham, BS18 2DH, UK), W. Schempp

The viewpoint is the physical not the mathematical foundations of computation. Quantum holography constitutes a novel paradigm of non-classical information processing machines of which functional magnetic resonance tomograph imaging is already a most impressive realization. Such imaging is the hottest topic in cognitive neuroscience for what experimentally it is revealing non-invasively about the activity of the living brain. Holography is used as a generic term. Such information processing may be self-organized, concerns analogue computation performed quantum mechanically and proceeds by selection and learning not algorithms, using phase conjugate adaptive resonance. Not simulatable digitally since quantum holography concerns non-local quantum interference, it employs phase and not amplitude or `bit' gates and geometric and not logic encoding and decoding so that arbitrarily complex experiential knowledge arriving at such machines' sensory apparatus in the form of object image bearing `illumination' may be transduced, stored and transmitted as signals without loss of information which now concerns patterns of energy and not representations of bits. That is, a `movie' of all forms of sensory experience concerning a set of objects in motion in 3 dimensions may be transduced, stored and processed without the need of human intervention to produce a mathematical specification or to turn such a specification into a program. In this paradigm where therefore the ontology, epistemology; syntax and semantics of information all coincide, knowledge, perception, cognition, memory, learning, intelligence, language and creativity etc. are no longer simply dictionary definitions, but well defined physical processes applicable to particular quantum holographic information processing morphologies. These morphologies are In good accord with the empirically falsiflable hypothesis that the actual brain/mind is such a machine, as is the neuron, etc. Quantum mechanics, science's most accurate, tried and tested theory, is therefore adequate to define the science of consciousness because the transactional interpretation is explicitly non-local and thereby consistent with recent tests of Bell's inequality, yet is relativistically invariant, fully causal and allows a long sought after visualization of macroscopic quantum phenomena denied not by the abstract quantum mechanical formalism but by the Copenhagen interpretation. Such a visualization in the format of a 3 dimensional movie elicited by phase conjugate adaptive resonance constitutes the stream of consciousness in the brain/mind defined through the emission/absorption model of quantum holography. This takes place against a background of unconscious activity for example the taxonomization and storage of sensory experience and mental activity in the form of a fully distributed frequency organized paged holographic associative memory, and the very considerable benefits of this form of memory and the associated image and signal processing are explained. The model confirms the nature of our personal experience as having a conscious mental self or ghost in the machine in accordance with the traditional dualist metaphysics of a physical brain and a separate mind which interact.
It provides the mind with a mathematical specification, and a known quantum physical basis.