2006-01-24

Chris McKinstrey and Quantum Spin

This is truly awful.

Some seemingly brilliant but obviously very conflicted guy decides to commit suicide and posts the fact on his blog and on Joel Spolsky’s website. The net result? He becomes semi-famous (for an internet split second) and I find myself reading through his blog with a mixture of horror and fascination and come across some links that seem interesting and relevant enough to post...


From the post:

….It is time to move on and see what is next if anything.

Enough is enough.

Oh and BTW, the mind is a maximum hypersurface and thought a trajectory on it and the amygdala and hippocampus are Hopf maps of it. No one knew this before me, and it seems no one care. So be it. My time will come in a hundred or a thousand years when the idea again returns....

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From:
http://www.mindpixel.com/chris/2006/01/geeks-and-lsd.htm#links
Monday, January 16, 2006
Geeks and LSD
So, I am not the only geek who uses LSD to solve problems but I bet I am one of few using LSD to solve the problem of creating a global theory of LSD action...
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From:
http://www.mindpixel.com/chris/2005/12/wow-mindpixel-hyper-coincidence.htm
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Wow - A Mindpixel Hyper-coincidence...

'Spin is the seat of consciousness and the linchpin between mind and the brain, that is, spin is the mind-pixel' - Huping Hu, Ph.D., J.D.,Spin-Mediated Consciousness Theory: Possible Roles of Oxygen Unpaired Electronic Spins and Neural Membrane Nuclear Spin Ensemble in Memory and Consciousness

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As for “spin mediated consciousness”, as per Huping Hu PHD (who is, thankfully, still with us, and I hope remains that way regardless of how recognized his ideas are) that is here:
http://www.quantumbrain.org/overview.html

Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but does possibly fit with some of the stuff in Penrose's Emporer’s New Mind (which I thought was a very well reasoned and convincing book) and/or this ‘spooky action at a distance’ stuff that got Einstein so worked up.

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My guess is that we are going to be witness to some sort of revolution in Quantum theory that is in some respects startling in its religious implications some time in the next ten or twenty years (hopefully sooner rather than later). This may even be a situation where The Church will be forced to react to a physical theory that upsets a lot of received wisdom about where we fit vis-à-vis our relationship to existence and God and all that stuff. At any rate it would sure be interesting if that did happen! So all we need is for the young genius to get it all out on paper. Unfortunately, if it ever does happen, I’m afraid it definitely won’t be Chris McKinstry that leads us into this brave new world.

Miles

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