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Harris Walker This is a work in progress, and currently without answers. This presentation has to do with why there are 3 primary colors, and why there are 5 senses, and sound pitch is a continuum. It all seems obvious, but there is an underlying mystery. If one accepts that consciousness arises from quantum mechanical phenomena involved in neural activity-and there is some reason to believe that this is so-then there still remains the question as to how there can exist such differing phenomena as color, sound, smell, touch, and taste. What is it, beyond the simple facts that there are chemical differences in the several kinds of receptors in the eye, that underlies the fact that there are 3 primary colors? The talk will review theories of consciousness, emphasizing the work in the speaker's The Physics of Consciousness, discuss how these theories of consciousness should be put to the test, and then venture into the vast unknown to consider what may lie behind the peculiarities of consciousness phenomenology. A case in point will be a discussion of the reasons for the structure of our overall visual experience and possibilities as to what determines "visual expanse." Biography Dr. Walker, a physicist, is the Director and CEO of the Walker Cancer Research Institute, inc. He is the originator of the QM theory of consciousness, Observer theory of Psi Phenomena, the author of the Perseus Books publication: The Physics of Consciousness, and an all-round nice guy. Dr. Walker is also something of an artist, having exhibited some of the first computer art. He lives in Maryland and can be reached at wcri@erols.com. |