Consciousness

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.

• Preface. ix1.0 Introduction. 12.0 The basic principles of ordering and disordering processes. 122.1 General. 122.2 Degrees of existence; bounded v unbounded. 122.3 Order v disorder; difference v similarity; unfolding v enfolding. 142.4 Continuous v non-continuous; causal v non-causal; local v non-local; particle v wave; symmetry and antisymmetry. 172.5 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. 202.6 The Central limit theorem and the normal (Gaussian) distribution; difference and similarity sequences; symmetry and asymmetry. 232.7 Wave motion, wave harmonics, holograms, fractals and the human brain. 242.8 Hierarchical and holarchical (or holoarchical) structures. 303.0 The Standard Reference Model; the objective and subjective perspectives. 323.1 The Reference Model and the objective philosophies. 323.2 The Reference Model and the subjective philosophies. 364.0 The Standard Reference Model 414.1 General. 414.2 Randomness, chaos and the path to order. 414.3 The ordering envelope and the Standard Cosmological Model. 494.4 The Unified Ordering Centre and the preferred reference frame. 544.5 Symmetry v asymmetry; the mean level of implicit order and classical physics. 654.6 Inanimacy, animacy and the emergence of consciousness associated with non-Cartesian properties of the Ordering Centre. 804.7 The formation of the Whole Ordering Centre and opposing decoherence processes The Holomovement. 864.8 The relation between the Ordering Centre, the human level of consciousness within it and the arrow of time. 945.0 Primary Conclusions. 1156.0 The Reference subject matter. 1286.1 Human Philosophy. 1286.2 Life. 1296.3 Mathematics. 1296.4 Science and Measurement. 1316.5 Human Belief and Religion. 1326.6 Human Characteristics and Activities. 1337.0 The Reference discussion of subject matter and conclusions reached. 1357.1 Human Philosophy. 1357.2 Life. 1617.3 Mathematics. 1987.4 Science and Measurement. 2337.5 Human Belief and Religion. 3357.6 Human Characteristics and Activities. 370References. 411List of Figures. 417Index. 420