Overview

This book describes a model of existence, including consciousness, based on the totality of records created by the actions, thoughts and speech of the individuals who comprise the human race. It relates the inanimate to the animate and the conscious, reality to belief and imagination and the objective to the subjective. It explains the relation between order, disorder and the random state. It accounts for the world of objects, the conscious world and the world of ideas, the nature of intelligence both human and artificial and the entire range of human philosophy, characteristics and activities, providing answers to questions that individuals continually pose. The model replaces the contradictory opinions of individuals or groups of these, however large, with a coherent description matched to the knowledge and belief of the human race as a whole. Accordingly, the existing dichotomy between reality in absolute scientific terms and imagination in absolute religious terms is replaced by a coherent and unified description of the unbounded processes necessary and sufficient to explain existence and the nature of consciousness within it. It is shown that this description is in effect the sum of the beliefs held by individuals regardless of their diversity.

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Author:   Bryant Johnson
Publisher:   Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Grosvenor House Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9781839758737

ISBN 10:   1839758732
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   28 April 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface. ix 1.0 Introduction. 1 2.0 The basic principles of ordering and disordering processes. 12 2.1 General. 12 2.2 Degrees of existence; bounded v unbounded. 12 2.3 Order v disorder; difference v similarity; unfolding v enfolding. 14 2.4 Continuous v non-continuous; causal v non-causal; local v non-local; particle v wave; symmetry and antisymmetry. 17 2.5 Spatiotemporal v non-spatiotemporal; reality v belief and imagination; explicit v implicit; objective v subjective; measurable v immeasurable. Frog’s eye view of dimension v bird’s eye view using the Argand diagram. The Implicate Order. 20 2.6 The Central limit theorem and the normal (Gaussian) distribution; difference and similarity sequences; symmetry and asymmetry. 23 2.7 Wave motion, wave harmonics, holograms, fractals and the human brain. 24 2.8 Hierarchical and holarchical (or holoarchical) structures. 30 3.0 The Standard Reference Model; the objective and subjective perspectives. 32 3.1 The Reference Model and the objective philosophies. 32 3.2 The Reference Model and the subjective philosophies. 36 4.0 The Standard Reference Model 41 4.1 General. 41 4.2 Randomness, chaos and the path to order. 41 4.3 The ordering envelope and the Standard Cosmological Model. 49 4.4 The Unified Ordering Centre and the preferred reference frame. 54 4.5 Symmetry v asymmetry; the mean level of implicit order and classical physics. 65 4.6 Inanimacy, animacy and the emergence of consciousness associated with non-Cartesian properties of the Ordering Centre. 80 4.7 The formation of the Whole Ordering Centre and opposing decoherence processes The Holomovement. 86 4.8 The relation between the Ordering Centre, the human level of consciousness within it and the arrow of time. 94 5.0 Primary Conclusions. 115 6.0 The Reference subject matter. 128 6.1 Human Philosophy. 128 6.2 Life. 129 6.3 Mathematics. 129 6.4 Science and Measurement. 131 6.5 Human Belief and Religion. 132 6.6 Human Characteristics and Activities. 133 7.0 The Reference discussion of subject matter and conclusions reached. 135 7.1 Human Philosophy. 135 7.2 Life. 161 7.3 Mathematics. 198 7.4 Science and Measurement. 233 7.5 Human Belief and Religion. 335 7.6 Human Characteristics and Activities. 370 References. 411 List of Figures. 417 Index. 420

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The author has spent several years of his retirement in an effort to establish a model of consciousness which has culminated in the publication of this book. To do so, he has replaced the contradictory opinions of individuals or groups of these, however large, with a coherent description matched to the knowledge and belief of the human race as a whole. He is married and lives in Sussex. He has one daughter.

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