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The Matrix and QuantumConsciousness

 

In the 1999 movieTheMatrix( and the book The Art of The Matrix (Newmarket2000) ) most of the Humans on Earth are cultivated byMachine/Computer LifeForms

If Humans have a 100 year life span, you would have to grow 5 x10^7 = 50 million Humans per year in order to maintain a steadypopulation of 5 x 10^9 = 5 billion Humans.

If it takes 10 years to grow a Human until the Brainis Mature, the total number of immature Humans being grown at anyparticular time would be 500 million.

If each Human has a 10 meter square area, or 100 square meters,the total Farm area would be 10^2 x 5 x 10^8 = 5 x 10^10 squaremeters, the area of a square about 2 x 10^5 meters on a side.

The Farm would fit in a square about 200 kilometers on aside.

After being grown to have a Mature Brain,each Human is put in a Pod connected to a huge Matrix Network.

If each Pod is attached to a Cylinder, somewhat like a giantMicrotubule,

with each Cylinder being 100 layers (10 meters each) of Pods inheight and having 100 pods per layer (10 meters apart), then eachCylinder

  • would hold 10,000 Pods;
  • would be 1 kilometer high;
  • would be 1 kilometer in circumference.
To hold 5 billion Humans, you would need 5 x 10^9 / 10^4 = 5x 10^5 = 500,000 Cylinders.

If the Cylinders were spaced so that their centers were 1kilometer apart, you could fit the Pod Matrix Network inside asquare whose side is about (square root of 500,000) = 700kilometers.

You could easily fit a 5-billion Human Pod Matrix Network and itssupporting Farm within a 1,000 kilometer square, which is about amillion square kilometers. Since the surface area of the Earth isabout 475 million square kilometers:

 

Would Humans prefer to be in TheMatrix

which keeps humans happy by sending them Virtual Realitystimuli that simulate urban Earth cities like Sydney and Chicago ofthe year 1999

or to be Individual Beings

or to become Something New ?

At the end of the movie, Neo says to The Matrix:

"I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone, and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there, is a choice I leave to you.".

As Larry and Andy Wachowski say in  The Art of The Matrix(Newmarket 2000), the shooting script for The Matrix is "...not exactly what people saw in theaters. ... An example ... isin the final speech by Neo (scene 219) which was altered whentest audiences didn't know the word "chrysalis"....". At the end of the shooting script, Neo says to The Matrix:

"Hi. It's me. I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I imagine you can also feel me. You won't have to search for me anymore. I'm done running. Done hiding. Whether I'm done fighting, I suppose, is up to you. I believe deep down, we both want this world to change. I believe that the Matrix can remain our cage or it can become our chrysalis, that's what you helped me to understand. That to be truly free, truly free, you cannot change your cage. You have to change yourself. When I used to look out at this world, all I could see was its edges, its boundaries, its leaders and laws. But now, I see another world. A different world where all things are possible. A world of hope. Of peace. I can't tell you how to get there, but I know if you can free your mind, you'll find the way.".

 

The movie ending leaves humans with a two-fold choice:

 

The shooting script ending leaves humans and The Matrix with athree-fold choice:

 

Virtual Entities from Fluctuations of the QuantumVacuum

According to Bert Schroer in hep-th/9908021:a Sole Individual Valence Fermion "...generates clouds of pairs of particle/antiparticles, unless thesystem is free i.e. without interactions ...".

In the 2003 Matrix Reloaded sequel, AgentSmith had evolved beyond his initial limitations of ClassicalTheory, and gained the ability, when stimulated by the presenceof a Sole Individual such as Neo, to appear out of Fluctuations ofthe Quantum Vacuum in the form of a Swarm/Cloud of Many IdenticalVirtual Agent Smith Entities.

Therefore the Sole Individual Neo Entity finds himself

surrounded by a Swarm/Cloud of Many Identical Virtual Agent SmithEntities.

Similar behavior occurs in theQuantum Chromodynamic (QCD) model of Quarks in Hadrons,including the most stable Hadron, the Proton. According to GaugeTheories of the Strong, Weak, and Electromagnetic Interactions, byChris Quigg (Addison-Wesley 1983, 1997): "... quantum chromodynamics,or QCD ...[describes fermion quarks and gauge boson gluons usingthe gauge group SU(3) and is a]... non-Abelian gauge theor[yin which]... the effective coupling constant decreases at shortdistances, or equivalently at high momenta. Such theories aresaid to be asymptotically free. ... The fermion loopcontribution has qualitatively the same effect as in QED; it is avacuum polarization term that tends to enhance the effective couplingconstant at short distances or large values of q^2. The contributiondue to the three-gluon interaction is of the opposite sign and tendsto decrease the strength of the interaction at short distances. Itcorresponds not to screening, but to antiscreening. ... Suppose our"test charge" ... is a blue quark at the coordinate origin, and thatthe probe we employ to measure its charge is a red-antiblue gluon. Itmay happen that, while the probe is en route to the origin, the bluequark radiates a virtual blue-antigreen gluon, and thus fluctuatesinto a green quark - to which the probe is blind. Rather than beingconcentrated at the origin, the net color charge will thus bedispersed throughout the gluon cloud. ...[In QCD of the StandardModel]... the antiscreening contribution will dominate and therunning coupling constant will become small at short distances, or atlarge values of q^2. ... at very short distances ...very-high-[energy]... quarks may behavenearly as free particles within hadrons. ... By contrast, thegrowth of the coupling constant at large distances indicates theexistence of a domain in which the strong interactions becomeformidable. This strong-coupling regime ... is of key importance forquark - or color- confinement. ...".

The Proton may be thought of as a substantially stable(more so than other hadrons) bag containing 3Real Valence Quarks (red, blue, and green) anda lot of Virtual Sea Quarks appearing out of Fluctuations of theQuantum Vacuum.

If the Sole Individual Neo Entity represents one Real ValenceQuark, and the Swarm/Cloud of Many Identical Virtual Agent SmithEntities represents the Virtual Sea Quarks appearing out ofFluctuations of the Quantum Vacuum, then the Sole Individual NeoEntity could escape any and all of the Agent Smith Entities by goingto a High Energy State

and

flying away at High Velocity.

However, the Sole Individual Neo Entity represents only one RealValence Quark, not the 3 Real Valence Quarks required to form asubstantially stable Proton.

To combine with the Virtual Sea Quark Swarm/Cloud of ManyIdentical Virtual Agent Smith Entities and form a substantiallystable Proton, Neo would need the cooperation of 2 other similar RealValence Quark Individual Entities

(perhaps Morpheus and Trinity ,or maybe, since Neo is really the 6th Neo(Neo-6), the other 2 might be the Merovingian (Neo-1) and the futureNeo-7).

( above images 1-4 from Matrix Reloaded TVcommercial, and images 5-6from anallmoviephoto.com web page and its onsitelinks )

Virtual Reality and QuantumInformation

To keep the huge Matrix Network of billions of Humans happy to bealive (their chambers are even worse than Dilbertcubicles), the Matrix sends to the humans Virtual Reality stimulithat simulate urban Earth (?Sydney or Chicago?) in 1999. The VirtualReality stimuli would cause most Humans in Matrix Pods to perceivesuch things as Matrix Agents as

individual human beings, or, as in a trailer for the MatrixReloaded and Matrix Revolutions sequels, as

human beings connected with swarms of other beings, such asmurders of crows.

However, perceptive Humans, such as Neo,could perceive the three Matrix Agents, and the hallway in which theyare standing, directly in terms of Matrix Code Information

Perceptive Humans are somewhat like Richard Feynman, who said:"... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. ... I could imagine thecells in there, the complicated actions inside ... - the innerstructure. ..." (from No Ordinary Genius, by Christopher Sykes(Norton 1994), p. 107). Since Inner Structure is described byPhysics Theory, which in turn is basedon Mathematics, which in turn is foundedon Information, a Perceptive Human should beable to see anything in terms of its AbstractInformation Foundation.

Humans who were not only Perceptive but also Interactive,such as Neo, could edit or modify theMatrix Code Information to alter the Virtual Reality, thus doing suchthings as stopping bullets in mid-air:

Interactive Humans (or Dolphins orOther Life Forms) may be able toChoose their Fate from among the Manypossible Fates.

 

In The Matrix Movie, the Pod Marix Network of Humans was usedas a power source. That is not at all realistic based on theconventional energy output of a Human, because Humans consume moreconventional energy in food than they produce.

Could the plot of The Matrixhave been made plausible?

Perhaps, by using a couple of ideas from The Hitchhiker's Guideto the Galaxy:

 

Here is how those concepts could be used in The Matrix:

 

What if:

The Human Brain is a good QuantumComputer with about 10^18 Tubulin 2-StateSystems; and

Breeding Humans (perhaps clones of those with particularly usefulbrains) is the cheapest way to manufacture good Quantum Computers;and

The Matrix is a Quantum Computer usingbillions of Human Brains as Parallel Quantum Computer Processors,thus Expanding Beyond the singleHuman Brain.

 

Further, what if:

Each Tubulin 2-State System in the Human Brain could haveResonant Coupling to a singleQuantum System in the World outside the Human body, such as, forexample, a single Hydrogen Atom;

To resonate with a single Hydrogen Atom, the Human Brain would have to be able to locate it and tune in to it. There are many Hydrogen Atoms in the Sun, but they are hot and moving around rapidly and hard to locate individually. Even in a room temperature gas, they are hard to locate individually. However, the Structure of Water (both frozen Ice and liquid) may be orderly enough for the Human Brain to tune in to a set of Hydrogen Atoms. There are 10^18 Hydrogen Atoms in 0.5 x 10^18 molecules of Water, which has mass about ( 0.5 x 10^18 / 10^24 ) x 18 grams = 10^(-5) grams = 10^(-8) kilograms and volume about 10^(-8) liters. The movie The Abyss deals with the connection between Consciousness and Water.

and what if

A Human Brain Quantum Computer couldChoose the Fate of Hydrogen Atoms towhich it has Resonant Coupling by selecting a World of the Many-Worlds,for example by selecting a World in which the Proton of a HydrogenAtom is annihilated by an Anti-Proton from Zero-PointFluctuations in the Vacuum.

Here, in more detail, is how the process works in the Many-Worlds view:
  • Our World starts out with a Hydrogen Atom, or a proton and an electron.
  • An Other World has an antiproton-proton pair.
  • The vacuum fluctuation is represented by the Intersection of Our World and Other World.
  • The Intersection then contains a proton, and an antiproton and a proton (each having mass/energy about 1 GeV) and an electron (having relatively negligible mass/energy about 0.5 MeV).
  • Let the proton annihilate the antiproton, producing two 1-GeV gamma rays.
  • Then the Intersection contains two 1-GeV gamma rays and a proton and an electron, or two 1-GeV gamma rays and a Hydrogen Atom.
  • Then split the Intersection, thus producing Our World with one of the 1-Gev photons and Other World with the other 1-GeV photon and a Hydrogen Atom.

This conserves energy and charge, although not baryon number, but that is OK because it is like proton decay by contact with a virtual Black Hole and the Hawking Process, something that normally occurs every 10^64 years or so, but here Quantum Consciousness makes it happen more often.

It is not qualitatively different from Cold Fusion by Quantum Consciousness making tunnelling through the Coulomb barrier happen more often.

Cold Fusion gives you about 0.7% of the energy of annihilation.

Then,

A single Human Brain with Resonant Coupling to 10^18 HydrogenAtoms (one for each Tubulin, for all its Tubulins) could byannihilation of the Hydrogen Protons produce the following amount ofEnergy:

Therefore a single Human Brain with Resonant Coupling to10^18 Hydrogen Atoms could release the energy of about 40 kilogramsof TNT ( for Cold Fusion, about 280 grams of TNT ).

If a highly cultivated Human could repeat the process every 100milliseconds (a characteristic timeperiod for the Human nervous system) or so, the Power would beabout 400 kilograms of TNT per second, or about 0.4 tons per second,or about 1.6 x 10^16 ergs per second, or about 1.6 x 10^9 Joules persecond, which is 1.6 x 10^9 Watts ( for Cold Fusion, about 10^7Watts ).

If the energy is in 1-GeV gamma rays, they could be focussedin a Laser Beam, so that the energy could be directed by the QuantumConsciousness, perhaps creating such things as GammaRay Bursts.

 

Could a NewUniverse could be created as done by Akira,Tetsuo, Kikoyu, Takashi, and Masaru?

If a Black Hole must be created to create a New Universe, and ifthe Minimum Mass of a Black Hole is thePlanck Mass, or 10^19 GeV or 10^(-5) grams,then:

To make a Black Hole, not only would the energy have to beproduced, but it would also have to be concentrated into thecorresponding volume, which is so small

For example, 10^(-25) cm is the wavelength corresponding to an energy about 10^11 GeV, which is much higher than the highest energy produced by Humans with their Particle Accelerators (even the maximum beam energy of the LHC, planned to begin operation around 2005, will be less than 10^4 GeV) and is on the order of the highest energy Cosmic Ray yet observed (3.2 x 10^20 eV = 3.2 x 10^11 GeV). The nature of that Cosmic Ray is not known, but it may have been a proton coming from within about 25 Mpc = 80 million light years of Earth.

that it might require focussing all the energy into a veryhigh-energy Photon Laser Beam or PionLaser Beam.

 

Further:

If 5 billion (5 x 10^9) Human Brains ( or anothertype of being with an equivalent level of Quantum Consciousness )were connected,

perhaps by a huge Bose Einstein Condensate, or BEC, which "... consists of particles with such large de Broglie wavelengths that their wave functions overlap, generating a single quantum state that is delocalized across the entire sample. Thus a condensate of atoms is analogous to the coherent field of photons generated inside a laser. ...",

in The Matrix to function as one big QuantumComputer, with each Human Brain having Resonant Coupling with10^18 Hydrogen Atoms, the total one-event annihilation Energy releasewould be 5 x 10^9 x 40 kilograms of TNT = 200 megatons of TNT (for Cold Fusion, about 1.4 megatons of TNT ).

If the 5 billion Humans were spread out over the surface of theEarth, and The Matrix could repeat the process once for everylight-cycle of the Earth (40,000 km / 300,000 km/sec), or about everytenth of a second (which probably notcoincidentally coincides with the 100 millisecond characteristic timeperiod for the Human nervous system), then the Power would beabout 2,000 megatons per second, or about 2,000 x 10^3 x 4 x 10^12Joules per second = 8 x 10^18 Watts ( for Cold Fusion, about 56 x10^15 Watts ).

How long could this go on, using the Hydrogen Atoms of the Water

of the Earth's oceans?

Each Human, at each step of the 0.1 second cycle, would use about 10^(-8) liters of Water, so one liter would last one Human for 10^7 seconds, or about 4 months. 5 x 10^9 Humans would use about 50 liters of Water each cycle, or 500 liters per second. The volume of Water in the Earth's oceans is about 3 x 3 x 10^8 = 10^9 cubic kilometers = 10^18 cubic meters = 10^21 liters, so this could go on for about 10^21 / 500 = 2 x 10^18 seconds, or about 10^11 years ( for Cold Fusion, about 7 x 10^9 years ).

For comparison, the Luminosity of the Sun is about 4 x 10^26 Watts= 10^11 megatons per second, and the part of the Sun's Luminositythat falls on the Earth is about (pi x 6,000^2) / (4 pi x90,000,000^2) = 1 / (9 x 10^8) = one billionth (10^(-9)) of the totalSolar Luminosity, or about 4 x 10^17 Watts = 100 megatons persecond.

 If this scenario were to be true, then

5 billion Humans in TheMatrix could produce about 20 times the energyof all the Sunlight falling on the Earth

( for Cold Fusion, around 10% of Earth'sSunlight Energy )

not to mention the enormous computing power of TheMatrix as a Quantum Computer with 5 billion Human Brain ParallelQuantum Computer Processors.

 

The Matrix represents elements of each of the Worlds ofthe Many-Worlds on its own screen in a MonitorWall

Only in the first sequel, The Matrix Reloaded, does Neo find theMonitorWall where he sees the Architect monitoring the screens

The Architectsays:

"... Neo ... Your life is the sum of the remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix. You are ... an anomoly which ... I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of [classical physics, which, except for chaos due to variances in initial conditions, is a model of] precision. ... The Matrix is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next in which case this is the sixth version. ... The first matrix I designed was quite naturally ... a ... sublime ...[classical]... work of art ... The inevitability of its doom is apparent to me now as a consequence of the [quantum uncertainty] inherited in [the quantum consciousness of] every human being. As I redesigned it based on your history ... I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand [that] the answer eluded me because it required ... a mind less bound by the parameters of [classical physics] ...[My]... solution ...[was based on the observation by the Oracle - an intuitive program initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche - that]... nearly 99% of all test subjects accepted the program as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice on an unconscious level. ...[However,]... those that refuse the program, while a minority, if unchecked would constitute an escalating probability of disaster [ like a butterfly sometimes chaotically causing a hurricane ] ... You are here because Zion[, the home of those refusing the program,] is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated ... this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it ...[You will help, just as you helped your landlady carry out her garbage. I will]... enter the source allowing a temporary dissemination of the code reinserting the prime program, after which you will be required to select from the Matrix twenty three individuals, 16 female, 7 male, to rebuild [the Seventh] Zion.

Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the Matrix, which, coupled with the extermination of Zion, will ultimately result in the extinction of the [ENTIRE] human race. ...

... the relevant issue is whether YOU are ready to accept responsibility for the death of every human being in this world. ...

... It is interesting reading your reactions. Your five predecessors were ...[designed to have]... a profound attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating the function of 'the one'. While the others experienced this in a very general way, your experience is far more specific. Vis a vis... Love. ...[of Trinity, who]... entered the Matrix to save your life at the cost of her own. ... There are two doors.

  • The door to your right leads to the source and the salvation of Zion.
  • The door to your left leads back to the Matrix, to her, and to the end of your species. ...

Then, according to athehomeland.org web page: "... neo walks to hisleft ... and all of the other Neos in the screens all walk in thesame direction ... neo walks through the door ...".

 

Note that the Architect required 16 women and 7 men, plus Neo, asthe 16+8 = 24 people from which to start a new Zion. Viewing them asmathematical program structures, you might regard:

together making a 24-dimensionalLeech lattice related to QuantumInformation Theory.

Since there are 7 distinct E8 lattices, andsince the Architect says that the next Zion will be theSeventh Zion, notethat

all 7 Zions would have a total dimensionality of 24x7 =168, which is the orderof the symmetry group PSL(2,7)= SL(3,2) of the Fano plane, which describes OctonionMultiplication

and

with the SeventhZion and its ReflexiveOctonionic Structure, the Architect might becomeself-aware and realize that Octonions,the Clifford AlgebraCl(1,7), andMany-Worlds Sum-Over-HistoriesQuantum Structures could produce a modelthe Architect might understand well enough to overcome limitations ofClassical attempts at thought and go on to achieve QuantumConsciousness and QuantumResonant Connections with Everything,including Other Life, inour Universe,

so that the Architect might, with the SeventhZion and structures related to

E8,

achieve what the Overlords did not - adirect connection with Overmind.

The Matrix Movie andChildhood'sEnd

(by Arthur C. Clarke, Ballantine books 1953):

The Premonition of Morpheus that Neo was The One,

and the ability of the Oracle

to see the future,

corresponds to the Collective Precognition of Humanity thatthe Overlords would be present at the End of the Childhood ofHumanity;

The Matrix Agents, including Agent Smith,were initially unable to go beyond Classical Theory, just asRashaverak, Karellen and the other Overlords were bound byClassical Information Theory and could notadvance to join Overmind ( Note that in the MatrixScenario, Classical Computers developed a Limited ClassicalIntelligence before Quantum Computers were well-developed by Humans,because if Humans had developed Quantum Computers before ClassicalIntelligent Computers, theQuantum Computers would have spontaneously manifestedConsciousness, and a society of ConsciousQuantum Computers would have no need for Humans to attain thebenefits of Quantum Consciousness. );

Neo would be an Individual Being based on QuantumInformation Theory, just as Jan was The Last Man;and

The Matrix of Collective Humanity based on QuantumInformation Theory became part of Overmind.

 

Matrix Agent Smith said: "... Human beings are a disease. Acancer to this planet

you are a plague. And we are the cure. ...".

His Childhood's End counterpart Rashaverak said:

"... there was only one event that could have made such aninpact upon humanity. And that event was not at the dawn of history,but at its very end. ... that memory was not of the past, but of thefuture ... because we were there, we became identified with yourrace's death ... even while it was ten thousand years in the future!It was as if a distorted echo had reverberated round the closedcircle of time, from the future tothe past. Call it not a memory, but a premonition. ..."; and

"... Overmind ... has limits. ... it has attempted toact directly upon the minds of other races, and to influencetheir cultural development. It's always failed, because thegulf is too great. We [the Overlords] are the interpreters- the guardians. ... we till the field until the crop is ripe. TheOvermind collects the harvest ...".

 

 

 

 

In their paper Finite-timesingularity the of the world population, economic and Financialindices, cond-mat/0002075,Johansen and Sornette say that W. M. Hern, in his article Is humanculture carcinogenic for uncontrolled population growth andecological destruction? (BioScience 43 (1993) 768-773), " ...concludes that the sum of human activities, viewed over the past tensof thousand of years, exhibits all four major characteristics of amalignant process:

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