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Justin Riddle Podcast

Justin Riddle Podcast

Justin Riddle explores the nature of consciousness from the perspective of recent breakthroughs in neuroscience, biology, computer science, and physics. Quantum computers and quantum biology are revolutionizing technology and science. What can these new advances teach us about ourselves?

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00:24:19

#22 - Quantum Zeno Effect: using your quantum mind to...

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2022/03/21

In episode 22 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle discusses the quantum Zeno effect, the idea that with rapid measurement a system can be locked into its current state indefinitely. In the previous episode, we talked about how movement is the transition of a system from a fixed physical state into a superposition of many different states, and then upon measurement again will end up in a new state. However, it takes time for the wavefunction to evolve into a broad enough superposition

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00:28:17

Justin Riddle #21 - Quantization

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2022/03/03

In episode 21 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle discusses the idea of quantization in quantum mechanics. Early models of the universe viewed reality as comprising a continuous domain of space and continuous domain of time. However, observations in physics revealed that these simple models were inaccurate. All things in the universe are quantized into chunks of matter or light or energy. This discovery gave birth to the field of “quantum” physics which refers to a “quanta” or “unit”

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00:34:46

Justin Riddle #20 - Language as Ontology

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2022/02/07

In episode 20 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle discusses language as fundamental to a description of reality. It’s tempting to view linguistics as a luxury science only for humans with some free time on their hands. But language is fundamentally mysterious. Just as mathematics cannot be reduced down to simple principles, language has similarly avoided an easy description. Could it be because language is core to how our minds think at a fundamental level and is not just a tool used

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00:29:01

Justin Riddle #19 - Quantum Linguistics

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2022/02/03

In episode 19 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle discusses how our use of language for communication should be updated to account for life in an ever-changing quantum reality. We have been conditioned to think that we live in a physical world governed by physical laws; however, attempts to strictly define our reality using simple logical principles has failed (see Godel’s incompleteness theorem). This physicalist type of logic has also invaded how we use language to communicate with

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00:31:40

Justin Riddle #18 - Fractal Computation

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2022/01/10

In episode 18 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle discusses the potential for a third form of computation beyond digital and quantum computation: fractal computation. In the metaphysical model presented in this series, the body is a digital computer, the mind is a quantum computer, and (now) the spirit is a fractal computer. First off, the concept of a fractal is introduced using examples of recursion, or self-reference, in computer science. Next, evidence for fractal resonance

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01:05:19

Justin Riddle #17 - Nested Hierarchical Consciousness

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/12/28

In episode 17 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle explores the theory that your mind is composed of conscious beings in a nested hierarchy. Is your mind a single narrative flow or is it a conversation between competing viewpoints? Do you create your thoughts or do they spring into your mind fully formed? How much control do you have over your body and perception? In the Nested Observer Windows (NOW) Model, information integration units are created at multiple spatial temporal scales

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00:36:26

Justin Riddle #16 - Slow-Wave Electromagnetic Mind

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/12/20

In episode 16 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle describes how slow-wave electromagnetic fluctuations in the brain are the closest correlate to human cognition. Does this mean that these neural oscillations at the scale of entire brain regions and networks of brain regions are somehow able to support our consciousness? Historically, these oscillations were viewed as “steam off the train engine” and people thought that only the activation of individual neurons was worth analyzing. By

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00:47:50

Justin Riddle #15 - Quantum Time Travel

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/11/20

In episode 15 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle speculates on the notion of time travel within quantum mechanics. In quantum computation, the circuits that you design to process your information must be time reversible. This leads to a curious situation where space and time are reversible within the confines of a quantum computation. While we have already discussed times where entanglement and superposition can defy classical ideas about space, it turns out that you can design

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00:45:04

Justin Riddle #14 - Orchestrated Objective Reduction

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/10/26

In episode 14 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle spells out the orchestrated objective reduction theory of consciousness by Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose. Biology requires a central processing unit to integrated information across the cell. While quantum computation offers unique solutions to biology’s problems, the warm wet noisy environment of the brain does not lend itself easily to stable quantum superpositions. Penrose & Hameroff propose that nonpolar pockets with limited

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00:38:02

Justin Riddle #13 - Microtubules are Biological...

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/10/07

In episode 13 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle discusses how microtubules are the most likely candidate to be a universal quantum computer that acts as a single executive unit in cells. First off, computer scientists are trying to model human behavior using neural networks that treat individual neurons as the base unit. But unicellular organisms are able to do many of the things that we consider to be human behavior! How does a single-cell lifeform perform this complex behavior? As

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00:32:03

Justin Riddle #12 - A Theory of Everything

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/09/13

In episode 12 of the quantum consciousness series, Justin Riddle explores what it means to create a theory of everything. Theories in physics explain natural phenomena; and yet, the two most predominant theories, general relativity and quantum mechanics, are fundamentally incompatible at the moment. How do we gravitize quantum mechanics or quantize gravity in order to bridge this apparent divide? Next, we discuss how humans are able to prove mathematical statements using simple visualization

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00:32:44

Justin Riddle #11 - Bayesian Inference & Quantum...

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/09/02

In episode 11 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle pitches a novel model of quantum computers as undergoing Bayesian learning to generate a model of how the world works and to guide future behavior. To get started, we talk about the act of observation in the double-slit experiment. When you look at which slit the photon traveled through then the wave function was destroyed and the photon behaved like a particle. The act of observing the wave function collapsed it! But what is

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00:28:07

Justin Riddle #10 - Foundation of Math in Crisis

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/07/26

In episode 10 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle explains that mathematics does not have a firm foundation in first order logic. While it seems intuitive that mathematics should be able to be described by simple principles, there is no simple way to explain how humans can comprehend mathematics. What happens when we try to use first order logic to explain how first order logic works? Well, we run into paradox: situations that are impossible to resolve and do not make any sense. For

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00:35:41

Justin Riddle #9 - Metaphysics Part 3 - The...

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/07/07

In episode 9 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle discusses metaphysical models that rely on three aspects. The topics for today include: how the mind creates a mapping between syntax and semantics, Plato’s allegory of the cave and its relationship to the Matrix film trilogy, and a discussion of ways that the entanglement web and David Bohm’s pilot-wave might serve as a scientific basis for mathematics and universal concepts.To summarize this episode, David Chalmers pitches the model

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00:21:19

Justin Riddle #8 - Metaphysics Part 2 - Mind-Body...

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/06/21

In episode 8 of the Quantum Consciousness series, Justin Riddle asks the question: will we see a revival of mind-body dualism in the coming age of quantum computers interacting with digital computers? To explore this topic, Rene Descartes process of methodological doubt is explained. First, we must doubt the physical world a merely a dream. Second, we must doubt our sense of logic and rationality as manipulated by an Evil Deceiver that is able to override the Platonic world. Then, we are left with

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00:49:23

Justin Riddle #7 - Metaphysics Part 1 – Physicalism

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/06/20

In episode 7 of Quantum Consciousness, Justin Riddle introduces the fundamental mysteries surrounding metaphysics. What is reality? Do you exist? Are concepts real independently of humans or are they creatively constructed? The topics for discussion are behavioralism, functionalism, and the emergence of "physicality" from a universe of wave-functions.

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00:51:18

Justin Riddle #6 - Quantum Computer

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/06/20

In episode 6 of Quantum Consciousness, Justin Riddle explores the nature of quantum computers and compares their function to digital computers. How does quantum computation vastly outperform digital computation? Why is digital computation still required? Can quantum computers run exponentially large search algorithms in polynomial time? Will we have to merge our conscious minds with our technology to keep up with it?

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00:43:32

Justin Riddle #5 - Digital Computer

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/06/17

In episode 5 of Quantum Consciousness, Justin Riddle answers the question, what is a digital computer? An understanding of how digital computers work is essential to discussing consciousness. Fundamental to the digital computer is the creation of solid states within a universe teeming with quantum fluctuations. Topics for today: Alan Turing's model of a computer, David Marr's three levels of analysis of information processing, the creation and maintenance of solid-states, how digital computation

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00:27:46

Justin Riddle #4 - Quantum Theories

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/06/16

In episode 4 of Quantum Consciousness, Justin Riddle discusses prevalent interpretations or "theories" of quantum mechanics. First is the many worlds hypothesis that claims we live in a multiverse. The problem is there is no point of making choices when all possible realities occur. There is no collapse of the wave function and superpositions are different universes. Alternatively, when systems interacts with each other they might collapse the wave function by virtue of their interaction. But

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00:37:27

Justin Riddle #3 - Three Quantum Principles

Justin Riddle Podcast ·

2021/06/15

In the third episode of Quantum Consciousness, Justin Riddle discusses three principles of quantum mechanics and how they relate to the three-world model. First, the measurement principle describes how a wave-function is reduced into a discrete physical state. Second, the superposition principles reveals that a system enters into a probability distribution of multiple states between measurements. Finally, the entanglement principle suggests that when quantum systems that share a mixed superposition

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