Postcorrection and mathematical model of life in Extended Everett's Concept

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 phenomena in the sphere of life are classified. Both individual and collective criteria of survival are considered as well as the criteria providing certain quality of life and those which are irrelevant to the life quality. The phenomena of free will and direct sighting of truth (e.g. scientific insight) are explained in these terms. The problem of artificial intellect and the role of brain look differently in the framework of this theory. Automats may perform intellectual operations, but not postcorrection, therefore artificial intellect but not an artificial life can be created. The brain serves as an interface between the body and consciousness, but the most profound level of consciousness is not a function of brain.