The other day I read The causal potency of consciousness in the physical world on the arXiv, by Danko Georgiev.
I know little about this author, other than that he has several other preprints on the arXiv on this and related subjects. His affiliation is listed as the Institute for Advanced Study in Varna, but on the Web site of that organization, he appears as the only author, so that appears to be a shell for him. Some of the papers listed there do have other authors in addition to Georgiev.
Georgiev also is the author of the textbook Quantum Information and Consciousness, published by CRC Press and available from Routledge.
And Georgiev is the chief editor of the online, open access journal Quanta (not to be confused with the online magazine Quanta!). Some of the authors published in the open access journal Quanta appear in other peer-reviewed journals of academic science (e.g. Stan Gudder).
Whatever. Georgiev is not a professor, nor is he an institutional researcher, and he appears to be near the fringe.
But he is not on the fringe, or beyond it.
Georgiev’s paper presents ideas that I myself had a year or so ago, when I was regularly answering questions on Quora and used that as an excuse to do some amateur philosophizing. And these thoughts of mine go way back to my twenties, when I was trying to relate Chaitin’s ideas about Kolmogorov complexity to self-consciousness.
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