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The Visual Consciousness Space

Authors:
Iegor Reznikoff

Keywords: consciousness; vision; physics; reality; continuity; logic

Abstract:
We show here that what we call ‘visual space of consciousness’, the space of what we see, is a specific space different from the purely physical one and that its properties imply that it cannot be reduced to or deduced from physical laws. Some biological points are also briefly considered. The arguments are of logical, mathematical and physical character; although elementary they require a careful reading [1]. There is no need to define consciousness; we only observe some of its properties, namely geometric and topological properties of visual consciousness, and show that these properties cannot be based on physics only. Now, if a part of consciousness cannot be grounded on physics only, it is the same for consciousness as a whole and we speak of the irreducibility of consciousness to physical data. We do not consider philosophical questions or issues; in a simple physical and mathematical frame we give a logical proof of this irreducibility. Elements for a formal mathematical, logical proof are mentioned at the end of the paper. The idea of non reducibility of consciousness to physical properties creates a theoretical foundation of a new approach to study possibilities of contact-less brain-computer interface.

Pages: 14 to 19

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2021

Publication date: April 18, 2021

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4197

ISBN: 978-1-61208-847-1

Location: Porto, Portugal

Dates: from April 18, 2021 to April 22, 2021