Postcorrection and mathematical model of life in Extended Everett's Concept
Michael B. Mensky

TL;DR
This paper introduces a mathematical model based on Extended Everett's Concept to explain consciousness, proposing postcorrection as a mechanism for life evolution, free will, and scientific insight, emphasizing a goal-oriented view of life and consciousness.
Contribution
It presents a novel mathematical operation called postcorrection within EEC, linking consciousness to multiverse realities and providing new insights into life, free will, and artificial intelligence.
Findings
Postcorrection models consciousness and life evolution.
The theory explains free will and scientific insight as goal-directed processes.
Artificial intelligence cannot perform postcorrection, limiting artificial life creation.
Abstract
Extended Everett's Concept (EEC) recently developed by the author to explain the phenomenon of consciousness is considered. A mathematical model is proposed for the principal feature of consciousness assumed in EEC, namely its ability (in the state of sleep, trance or meditation, when the explicit consciousness is disabled) to obtain information from all alternative classical realities (Everett's worlds) and select the favorable realities. To represent this ability, a mathematical operation called postcorrection is introduced, which corrects the present state to guarantee certain characteristics of the future state. Evolution of living matter is thus determined by goals (first of all by the goal of survival) as well as by causes. The resulting theory, in a way symmetrical in time direction, follows from a sort of antropic principle. Possible criteria for postcorrection and corresponding…
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Taxonomy
TopicsQuantum Mechanics and Applications · Philosophy and History of Science · Origins and Evolution of Life
