Outline The hypothesis about two modes of time, global mode (time of being) and local mode (time of becoming), is an attempt at proposing a new kind of retarded causality (hence the implications for Lorentz invariant nonlocality), which includes the relativistic causality as a limiting case, by setting the parameter describing the global mode of time to tend asymptotically toward zero. This hypothetical kind of causality, called biocausality, is supposed to describe the nature of time arrow manifested in the difference between a potential future and an irreversible past. The term proposed is universal time arrow. Its mental reflection (qualia) is known as psychological time arrow: we remember the past, but can only anticipate the future. If we deny all assumptions about some mystical ghost operating in the human brain while residing somehow "outside" the physical world, we have to consider the possibility that what happens in the human brain can and must be explained with physics. Since neither classical nor quantum physics can explain the brain (cf. brain catastrophes), it is suggested that the new physics can be revealed by demonstrating an effect of the human brain, which requires two modes of time, global and local. Next, we will use these two modes
of time for assembling a new kind of retarded causality, called
biocausality,
and will suggest conceptual solutions to the
measurement problem in standard quantum mechanics and the problem of
Lorentz
invariant nonlocality, as well as possible artifacts from measurements
performed with inanimate devices: the apex in Minkowski's cone can not
hold more than one event, while the
human
brain can sustain a finite duration 'now' during its lifetime. Hence
it is conjectured that a fully deterministic behavior of quantum systems
is possible to exist in an intact quantum world, but it can not be revealed
with any inanimate apparatus. Possible implications
for enhancing human performance, by "extending" the human brain toward
its quantum counterpart, will be outlined at the end of the presentation.
The hypothesis here is that the potential states of the brain, residing
in the global mode of time,
can be made to overlap with those of any quantum system, and hence the
human
self can gain control over the latter by altering its state with her/his
brain (physics of human intention, PHI). Perhaps this effect can be explained
as reversible brain-controlled cold plasma (BCCP).
Note: It looks
very likely that the time allowed for the talk and its discussion -- just
25 min -- would be insufficient for presenting the theory of two modes
of time in full details, in which case a shorter version will be prepared,
by dropping the implications of finite duration 'now' in biocausality for
(i) the measurement problem in General Relativity, (ii) non-perturbative
measurements performed exclusively with the human brain, and (iii) reversible BCCP.
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