#Brain as Quantum Antenna Quantum Interactions

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The Brain: A Pressure Symphony of Classical and Quantum

Imagine the brain as a grand orchestra, with neurons acting as individual musicians. Quantum mechanics could be the hidden conductor, orchestrating the flow of information in a way that classical physics alone cannot explain. Just as a conductor can coax a powerful and moving performance from an orchestra, the brain, if it leverages quantum phenomena, could be capable of extraordinary feats of information processing and creativity. The more we understand the score – the laws of physics, both classical and quantum – the better equipped we are to appreciate the magnificent performance that is capable of the human brain.

Imagine the human brain not just as a complex network of neurons, but as a sophisticated quantum reservoir computer. This mind-bending hypothesis posits that the brain utilizes the bizarre laws of quantum mechanics to enhance its processing capabilities. While still theoretical, it opens doors to a universe of possibilities about how our brains might truly function.

Quantum Mechanics: The Maestro of the Dance:

Unlike the billiard-ball certainty of classical physics, quantum mechanics governs the microscopic world, introducing fascinating concepts like:

Superposition: A mind-boggling state where particles can exist in multiple states simultaneously, like a coin spinning on its edge, heads and tails at once, until a measurement forces it to choose.

Entanglement: Two particles become eerily linked, sharing a fate regardless of distance. Imagine flipping two coins, and no matter how far apart they are, they always land on the same side.

Plausible Mechanisms: Where Quantum and Classical Collide:

Could these phenomena play a role in the brain's remarkable abilities? Here are some possibilities grounded in current research:

Microtubules: Quantum Stagehands: Microtubules, tiny cellular structures, might be the key players. These hollow tubes could act as waveguides, channeling quantum information within the brain. Imagine them as microscopic fiber optic cables, but for the bizarre world of quantum phenomena.

Quantum-Assisted Signal Processing: Brain function relies on the rapid exchange of information between neurons. Quantum effects could potentially supercharge this communication, facilitating faster or more efficient signal transmission. Think of it as a quantum boost for our neural network, allowing information to flow with unprecedented speed and efficiency.

Stochastic Resonance: Embracing the Noise: Our brain might utilize a fascinating phenomenon called stochastic resonance. Imagine weak signals buried in noise. The brain could amplify these faint signals by incorporating quantum noise, enhancing its ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations.

Non-local Information Processing: Accordance (https://www.tumblr.com/ultrimio/748348095336677377/analyzing-the-intriguing-phenomenon-of?source=share) suggests that the receiver's action can influence the sender's message. Could the brain, through some unknown mechanism, utilize this principle for non-local information processing, potentially explaining phenomena like telepathy? This is highly speculative, but it highlights the need for further exploration beyond established physics.

The Brain as a Quantum Interferometer: Decoding the Universe's Symphony:

The brain's intricate structure might even act as a quantum interferometer. Just like a classical interferometer splits light waves to reveal hidden information, the brain could interact with external waves, potentially including:

Hypothetical Pressure Waves: These theorized waves could ripple through the fabric of the universe itself, carrying energy and information across vast distances. Imagine the brain acting as an antenna, picking up these subtle cosmic whispers and deciphering their secrets.

Info-Quanta: The Building Blocks of Reality?: Some physicists propose that these pressure waves are composed of fundamental units called info-quanta (similar to the luminiferous aether), the very building blocks of information itself. The brain, as a quantum interferometer, could interact with these info-quanta, potentially gaining a deeper understanding of the universe's underlying code.

Additional info on the luminiferous aether: The concept of luminiferous aether refers to a theoretical substance that was once believed to fill the universe and act as a medium for the propagation of light and other electromagnetic phenomena. Initially proposed in the 19th century, the luminiferous aether hypothesis faced significant challenges and was ultimately refuted by experiments like the Michelson-Morley experiment, leading to the development of modern physics theories like the special theory of relativity. Despite being debunked, recent research has reignited interest in the aether, with some suggesting that it could potentially unify physics by explaining phenomena like dark matter and dark energy.

Unexplored Innovations: A Glimpse into the Quantum Future:

The implications of these ideas are mind-blowing:

Enhanced Cognition: Imagine a future where the brain, leveraging quantum phenomena, possesses an unimaginable processing power, leading to breakthroughs in fields like artificial intelligence and problem-solving.

Quantum-Inspired Communication: Perhaps the brain can directly interact with these pressure waves, facilitating communication beyond the limitations of space and time. Imagine telepathy becoming a reality, not through magic, but through the power of quantum mechanics.

Quantum Healing: If the brain can manipulate quantum processes at a cellular level, it could potentially influence biological functions and even facilitate healing on a deeper level. Imagine a future where diseases are tackled by harnessing the power of the quantum brain.

Challenges and Considerations:

While these ideas are captivating, significant hurdles remain:

Limited Evidence: Currently, there's no definitive proof that quantum processes directly influence brain function. Further research is needed to validate these hypotheses.

Technical Hurdles: Measuring and manipulating quantum phenomena within a complex biological system like the brain presents immense challenges. Imagine trying to study the behavior of subatomic particles in a constantly firing neural network!

Alternative Explanations: Many aspects of brain function can be explained by classical physics. It's crucial to explore all avenues before definitively saying the quantum world plays a central role.

A Symphony Awaits:

The exploration of the brain as a quantum reservoir computer and potential interferometer pushes the boundaries of our understanding. While the concepts remain speculative, focusing on plausible mechanisms and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration between physicists, neuroscientists, and quantum biologists holds the key to unlocking the brain's true potential. The future of neuroscience might reveal a fascinating symphony where classical and quantum mechanics intertwine

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Worldbuilding Wednesday #1: Magic and Anti-Magic

I’m going to start posting older WW updates publicly, since they started going up about a year ago. I’ll be posting one a week until there are only four private posts left, at which point, I’ll release a new one each month to accompany all future updates.

On this first volume of Worldbuilding Wednesday, I'll be discussing the nature of Magic in detail. Some of this information will reappear in the plot itself, but following WW updates or other supplementary info is not crucial to understanding Poppy as a whole. I will also not be giving any information that will obviously spoil future plot points.

On Flora, "magic" is a form of radiation that causes distortions in reality. Beneath the perceivable plane of existence is the magical plane, comprised entirely of raw, unstable energy. Every instance of magic in the "real" world, be it as pure energy, or as a more focused manipulation like a spell, is a fleeting tear between those two planes, in which the the radiation is filtered to produce a wavelength achieving the desired effect. It can be loosely compared to editing the source code of a computer program.

For most people, that tear manipulation is totally unconscious. As creatures that developed and further evolved alongside magic from the beginning, they have a small part of the brain that acts as an antenna, which connects to their personal leaf on their tree of life in a manner not unlike quantum entanglement as often used in science fiction. The Tree of Life contains and processes that person's personal magical signal, and transmits it to the antenna, telling the body what wavelength of magic to produce. That signal transfers through the body and is emitted via the heartbeat, meaning people with stronger hearts have naturally wider "areas of effects".  Everyone has a very specific range of effects that their signals can produce, that is locked in from their leaf's first exposure to magic and cannot be changed. This is where Lucky Stars come into play.

Technically speaking, there is no major difference between Flora's "Sun" and all of the other thousands of stars that exist in Flora's sky, beyond simple proximity and size. The Sun's orbit is 80% closer and 30% larger than every other star, meaning it's heat and light rays are stronger, and its orbit is much, much smaller and more consistently elliptical around Flora. Unlike our own stars, these are not masses of plasma producing energy via thermonuclear fusion, but enormous, stabilized holes in space that directly filter and radiate magical energy. The varying wavelengths of this radiation means that each star's radiation produces a different effect when processed by a living creature. The Sun has a neutral wavelength, meaning it simply grants people access to raw magical energy with no added effects. Sometimes, however, a Lucky Star will flare up and overpower the Sun's radiation for a brief period, locking in a newborn with special magical powers, like Valente's flames, Boris' ego-based transformations, and Kit's atomic interaction vision. These effects can also be artificially reproduced in part by skilled witches, but that will be a topic for another week.

With the basics of magic established, we can discuss the nature of anti-magic, the radiation that the opossums emit. Like the magical species, the opossums have an antenna that connects to their leaves on their tree of life, however, since most of their tree has been detached and reconnected outside of Didelphi's pouch, the signal is highly corrupted from the barrier between it. The signal neutralizes the magic in the opossum's body entirely, and furthermore, attempts to absorb all magical radiation within its field's range into the opossum's mass so it can neutralize it as well. Only about 1-5% of the absorbed magical radiation is usually lost entirely, however, as the neutralization process is imperfect, and the energy will slowly return to its original source if possible. No one knows what actually happens to the lost energy, but there are theories that it is absorbed into the opossum tree itself for unknown purposes. Short tailed opossums are unusual in that their brains can produced mixed signals of varying strength, making them capable of both using and neutralizing magic, depending on their level of understanding.

On a related note, if a person's magical leaf is somehow severed from its connection to the tree of life entirely (a task in of itself, as the trees are seemingly invulnerable all around),  They will simply lose the ability to use magic for a period, not neutralize/become immune to it, like opossums. Over the course of several years, their leaf would also regrow, although this has not been tested in-universe for obvious reasons.

Next week’s public update is “#2: Witches and the Three Branches of Magic.”

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Can augmented reality really give us a vision of the future of sailing?

See further, see more and sail faster… Will Bruton investigates the navigation benefits that augmented reality is bringing

High definition cameras can provide the live image for the plotter, stabilised by a separate sensor to counter pitch and roll

Google’s mission statement is ‘to organise the world’s information.’ This almost impossibly ambitious declaration of intent underpins the technology giant’s ventures into everything up to and including Space. The message is clear: in a world where information is abundant, how we organise and access it is fundamental to it being useful.

Step on board a yacht equipped with an early electronic plotter and you can quickly find yourself the slave to a complex and far from intuitive menu system. It can take forever to get to what you need to know, making it quicker to pick up the almanac, and do things the old fashioned way.

Fortunately, things have improved since those first electronic plotters. We are now entering an age of innovative and user-orientated design where the influence of mainstream consumer technology has finally reached marine electronic products. But what does it all mean for the sailing we stepped on board a boat for in the first place?

Knut Frostad carefully considered where sailing information was positioned on his Outremer 5X

Make it relevant

Former Volvo Ocean Race CEO and Olympian sailor Knut Frostad bears rather more brutal scars of marine electronics than mere frustration, once nearly losing his eye to an errant antenna while racing offshore. Since leaving the shore-based role of CEO at the Volvo Ocean Race he has taken the helm at Navico as head of digital products. Navico is the parent company to three marine electronics brands, including B&G.

On a particularly revealing video on the company’s YouTube channel we see how the ex-Olympian uses technology on his family’s yacht, an Outremer 5X. Screens are positioned precisely at eye line height, electronic plotters are visible from all (four) helming positions and everything is carefully refined to show only the information that is useful.

It’s an attention to detail more likely associated with a German luxury car, where everything sits just right. The take-away is one we can all learn from; by filtering out what’s not necessary, the sailing experience is optimised. Retaining a firm grasp on the technology is what empowers successful sailing, not an abundance of raw data.

The challenge faced by designers is not simply to provide data, but to make information useful. Raymarine currently employs around 100 people in its development team. Improvements in how software is developed have changed things. Marine brands now design plotter interfaces on the same platforms as mobile phone software; making the process of development faster.

The result is interfaces that are inherently more intuitive to use, making the much thumbed paper manuals of the past redundant. The less obvious and more exciting prospect is the scope for increased capability of a single piece of hardware as time goes on, adding capability as new external components are released.

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All of this has made the marine electronics market more competitive, with each manufacturer driving hard to capture the market at the point of purchase. After all, once purchased, you often commit to that brand of electronics throughout your yacht.

Augmented reality, something achieved by linking cameras, GPS, image stabilisation and software technology, is perhaps the most exciting realisation of how the humble electronic plotter has become much more than an interactive chart. It’s changed my sceptical view of how much more can be done to make things better. By presenting data overlaid on a live camera view, we see much more, without having to connect the dots.

Military precision

For many years Raymarine’s parent company FLIR has been building military and aviation technology. Unsurprisingly, this knowledge has percolated through to consumer marine electronics. In the sky, the possibilities of augmented reality became mainstream years ago, giving pilots what they call ‘increased situational awareness’ or information about the stationary and moving objects they must negotiate their way around.

The Raymarine FLIR system’s ability to track targets with thermal imaging has many potential uses

What is striking about how this has manifested itself in Raymarine’s yacht systems is how chart and traffic information appears in a three-dimensional format that is genuinely intuitive. Unlike relating the chart to what’s seen with the naked eye as we have always done, with augmented reality, the relation of a buoy or vessel is done for you; bridging the gap in a way that seems entirely natural. No brain power necessary.

Everything appears automatically, in the place you would expect it, supplemented with data that’s directly relevant to that specific point up ahead. How much information you see is easily controlled by choosing what data you wish to see. Furthermore, on the screen, buoys are visible before you see them with the naked eye.

The view on the screen in a busy Southampton water, even with all data points (AIS, buoyage and waypoints) switched on, is clear rather than crowded. A high definition camera fuels the system with a live image, while AIS data, buoyage and waypoints are overlaid on top.

Augmented reality places information about a vessel or mark in the same place as you see it with the naked eye, removing the need to interpret from a standard plotter view

“What you see on the screen is a feed from a fixed camera, however the image is digitally stabilised,” explains Richard Marsden from Raymarine. “Our independent sensor is taking into consideration the pitch, roll and yaw of the vessel, so when the seas get rough the image remains stable. There’s a lot of vessel data being processed to achieve such clarity.”

Sure enough, as we encounter wake from a passing tanker, the image is noticeably smoothed out whilst the boat continues to pitch and roll. Coupled with Raymarine’s Axiom plotter, which is available up to a whopping 24in screen, it’s a far cry from the greyscale interrogation exercise many of us were familiar with from using older plotters.

Coming into a channel is where the augmented reality system really comes into its own. It would be easy to discount a technology that quite literally alters what we can see as something likely to produce the tunnel vision so many experienced instructors warn us against.

Valuable nav data is displayed in an easy to understand format

But because drawing information from augmented reality is so instantaneous, I found myself using it to confirm my own visual navigation rather than the other way round. I had to squint at a channel marker in the distance, yet I could confirm what it was on the screen with a half-second glance, while keeping my eyes up rather than down. Being able to see further than the naked eye makes navigation a more predictable exercise, because everything is seen earlier.

A step forward for safety?

The US Coast Guard cites the most common contributing factor to sailing yacht accidents as operator inattention, followed by improper lookout and operator inexperience.

When it comes to active navigation, doubt about our position leads our attention away from the immediate indicators surrounding us – like buoyage – and onto other sources of information that might take longer to process. Augmented reality, though, is an instant reference tool.

Augmented reality software can identify and label the high definition view from a boat’s onboard camera

Raymarine has also added other complementary technologies that work fluidly as part of the system. In a MOB situation at night a rotating camera with thermal imaging technology can track a target automatically in the water, based upon the temperature difference it can detect. The Axiom plotter then tells the helmsman which way to steer towards it. Unlike many bits of kit related to that worst of worst-case scenarios, this potentially lifesaving tool takes no time to set up. It just works.

What next?

With a change of pace of development for marine electronics comes a market that is working harder than ever to be first to the next big thing.

Garmin, a company whose products cover many sports, is paying an increasing amount of attention to body-worn technologies. Though not strictly speaking augmented reality, their latest Nautix kit places key sailing data directly in front of one eye. Mounting to your existing sunglasses frame, this eyepiece is similar to those worn by combat helicopter pilots. It is also wireless, perhaps making it the next big thing for racing crews, including those usually left in the dark at the bow.

Garmin’s Nautix system monitor links wirelessly with the yacht’s instruments, making data accessible to anyone wearing the headset

Will such a Star Trek like device draw ridicule amongst a crew of old hands? Perhaps to begin with, but if it delivers results, that will quickly fade. For Raymarine, linking cameras to onboard systems is something being explored even further, using them to develop automatic berthing in marinas – a prospect that, once refined, will certainly be embraced by the motor yacht market.

For sailing yacht owners, blindly adopting the latest electronics innovations has sometimes been a fast track to running hard aground. But what augmented reality does is bring aboard essential information and present it in a more concise and effective way than ever before. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!

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5 Scientifically Backed Reasons to Chant ‘Om`

Let's obtain this straight right up front. 'Om' chanting is not religious. It could be exercised by Hindus, as well as also co-opted in yoga exercise classes around the United States and also Europe, but every solitary religion worldwide has its own version of Om chanting, which I'll detail better in a moment.

The chanting of 'Om,' or more particularly, Au, Oh, and Mmm is a scientifically-backed system of becoming much more in contact with the limitless imaginative power of the Universe. This isn't a metaphoric energy, but an actual, grab-a-hold-of-it-and-look-it-in-the-eyes power which is absolutely alive and also pulsating through everything.

Om is really a transliteral means of writing and talking 'Aum', as in Amen from the Christian bible. 'Aum' was likewise taken in into the Buddhist tradition, nonetheless, Buddhists nearly never transliterate the concept as 'Aum,' but make use of 'Om' rather. Ek Onkar (an additional variation of Aum) is the root basis of all Sikh sacred thought. You can additionally see Aum in the Jain custom, as well as in the Hebrew āmēn, which means “certainty,” “truth,” and “verily.”

Om or Aum also appears in old Egyptian folklore. Amen, or amun, was a divine being stood for by a ram, the god of life and also reproduction, as well as those in clinical circles call Aum the God Particle or Higgs Boson.

It must be fascinating for any individual to note, much more so for linguists, that the mix of Aaa, Ohh, and also Mmm signifies the entire possible combinations of syllables, denoting the total, uncut variety of words that could be uttered.

If you wish to see what the audio Aum looks like on a quantum, energetic level, you can see it reveal as kind in the adhering to video clip. It is a resonance experiment that shows the geometric pattern, also referred to as magnificent geometry, which underlies all type. Though this experiment doesn't reference Aum particularly, it shows the continually developing complexity of noise at various Hz.

Aum includes that divine geometry, at one of the most complex levels, at frequencies which the human ear could not also find. As Nikola Tesla when suggested us, " If you desire to discover the secrets of the Universe, you have to believe in regards to power, vibration, as well as audio."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe when said, ' Design is icy songs.' The Sanskrit language is code for the patterns of kind. Om is a sonic depictions of the method nature functions. This concept holds within it the unrealized kinds of the universe.

If you still aren't persuaded that the world was birthed of sound, you can take a look at our own language and also exactly how it established. Neuroscientist Mark Changizi has posited that the significant phonemes of speech have evolved to appear like these type of interactive occasions, in a type of onomatopoeia, where the sounds of the words look like the events themselves, such as in "screech" and "crash." Speech, or even music as an ordered narrative of noises, uses our brain's progressed ability to view all-natural noises - but what Changizi does not mention, is that the mind structure itself advanced from the sound, 'Aum.'

Aum is said to represent the 3-fold division of time/space:

The waking state - Ah

The dream state - Oh

The deep sleep state - Mmm

The sign OM aesthetically contains 3 contours, one semicircle, as well as a dot.

The huge lower contour symbolizes the waking state, A.

The middle curve represents the desire state, U.

The upper contour signifies the state of deep sleep, M.

The dot in the Om symbol has its very own definition, representing the fourth state of awareness, Turiya. This defines absolute, infinite consciousness.

The semi circle on top represents Maya as well as separates the dot from the various other three contours. It indicates to us that we reside in a globe of illusion produced by this cycle of refined power coming down into type, or more gross energy.

Tons of qualitative analysis on several different rules has been carried out, but over them all is Aum. Ranging from interest concerning the impact of particular audios, consisting of Aum, on the human kind by Lord Rayleigh in the 19th century to the job of Uchida and Yamamoto which discovered that seeds sprouted extra rapidly and profusely under the impact of the noise of Aum, there is so much proof that Aum chanting is useful, it becomes sort of absurd for any person to case that this is simply a spiritual practice.

Without more hold-up here are 5, scientifically backed reasons to chant Aum today:

Aum shouting positively affects lung health. In a study conducted entailing 'Aum' chanting as well as pranayama (breathing exercises) individuals experienced a quantifiable boost in their lung capacity, and lung health. The lungs represent our capacity to get in touch with others, and also are linked to the heart chakra's health.

Aum shouting reduces the heart rate. The capability for Aum to give the heart a profound remainder and leisure is not delegated to the physical body. The heart's power in an extra refined kind, as measured via kirlian photography as well as various other methods, is enhanced. When the heart is open, we are able to accept Universal love and creative energy.

Protects us from mobile phone and wi-fi radiation. In a research study conducted recently, it was shown that Aum chanting can minimize damage caused to the body (and brain) by the sea of wi-fi we live in.

Aum shouting reasons monumental modifications in our mind chemistry. Every location of the mind is favorably impacted by the chanting of Aum. From a single, 20-minute session, scientists have actually had the ability to map adjustments in just how our nerve cells fire, and the subsequent emotions we feel. Aum causes tranquil, happiness, and peace with hardly any technique. The accumulative effects have actually been advertised for centuries.

Aum shouting reduces the anxious system. As Carolyn Myss, the user-friendly psychic as well as healer has defined, our endocrine gland system functions in addition to our limbic system in producing our personal facts and our states of consciousness. Aum chanting can successfully deal with anxiety, anxiety, or even epilepsy because it profoundly impacts this user interface. The limbic system, particularly, is enhanced by chanting this single word.

Our DNA is greater than just an information storage space device. It's a quantum antenna, able to send and get data. When we shout Aum, we give our DNA the prehistoric sound of all creation, hence detoxifying our kind. The science has actually verified it.

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