Explicit Observers

Abstract

A new approach to the brain and the world is presented. A chaotic Hamiltonian universe is set up, in 1 D, such that an explicit internal observer — an excitable system — becomes amenable to complete understanding. The Gibbs symmetry and the Wigner symmetry, when taken into explicit regard, imply that to this observer, his world appears quite different from what one would expect at first sight — such as when one is doing a molecular dynamics simulation of the same system, for example. Specifically, both stochastic mechanics and the quantum nonlorcality turn out to be formal implications of the present “deterministic local hidden variables” approach to quantum mechanics — despite the fact that it never was an approach to quantum mechanics in the first place. Bell’s well-known impossibility theorem is circumvented because all quantum effects arising are nonexistent objectively. They are valid only within the “interface” that develops internally between the observer and his world. For the first time, the Kantian notion that the world is objectively different from the way we perceive it can be demonstrated — not for our own world, but for a lower-level model world as it appears to an artificial observer living inside.