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Consciousness,
Instincts, and Life
Antti
Talvitie
aptalvitie@gmail.com
Abstract
This
paper discusses my enduring curiosity as a Freudian psychoanalyst and engineer on
the origins of life and consciousness. In a 2016 paper I offered the hypotheses
that the Life-Death force separated in the Big Bang as the fifth fundamental force
about 13.8 billion years ago, slightly after gravity. It therefore qualifies as a
force. As a corollary, I proposed that the
mysterious ‘dark energy’ may be evolutionary and connected with ‘dark matter’
in the Milky Way region of the universe.
Nine
billion years later, about four and half billion years ago, Earth formed – in
the same epoch as the Sun – and became hospitable to life forms and began
biological evolution. The hypothesis in the paper is that the fifth force – the
Life-Death Force – became decohered from the primordial coherent state of the
unified force at the Big Bang and subsequently re-cohered, in some presently
unknown process, when life emerged. (‘Decoherence’ and ‘re-coherence’ may
extend these concepts beyond their established use). Life became the necessary and
later the sufficient condition for consciousness.
Inspired
by the quantum world, I hypothesize that transmission
of energetic excitations, both conscious and unconscious, may occur
instantaneously, analogous to entanglement, from psychic energy, the instincts,
distributed in
superposition over the whole nervous system. Mental states, thinking, random and chosen exigencies of life, and explanations
about them, update and store the transmitted information. Nachträglichkeit from
the timeless unconscious may revise and reorganize these experiences, memories and
past events in the unconscious with (un)temporality and strange causality,
simultaneously even accepting contradictions. At the end of the paper quantum
processes as the operating system of classical events are related to everyday
behavior.
