The Cosmology of Conscious Mental States
We explore the diversity of mental states, and
examine to what extent these are both a product of specific known brain
processes and yet may access a complementary aspect of existence to the
cosmology of the physical universe and its natural biosystems, potentially giving
mental states an existential cosmological status. The case is made that the
cosmology of mental states reflect a deeper physical principle connecting
quantum entanglement with the brain wave processing evolved in higher organisms
to solve the computational intractability of open environmental dilemmas, which
go beyond Bayesian statistics and causal prediction, into multiple nested
Schrödinger cat paradoxes, hinting at a meta-evolutionary paradigm of conscious
cosmological integration.
