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William Brown Presents at the Science of Consciousness Conference, Barcelona 2025, Following Sir Roger Penrose
July 7, 2025 - Plenary-3 - ‘Consciousness and Reality':
Sir Roger Penrose (R) Classical and Quantum Realities are Not Quite the Same; How About Conscious Reality?
Start time 47:57- William Brown, Instantaneous Memory Accession via Quantum Geometrodynamic Networks
Start time 1:23:53- James Tagg, Are quantum computers already conscious?
Nassim Haramein and William Brown at the TSCC Workshop ‘Is Consciousness Fundamental?’
Nassim Haramein, Consciousness and quantum vacuum fluctuations
William Brown, The volitional agency criterion
Suzanne Gildert, Testing for Agency using Quantum Robotics
Nestor Mercado, Spacetime crystals
Thomas Brophy, Generalized Penrose OR, Esoteric Ontologies, and Why Quantum Error Correction is the Enemy of Consciousness
Stuart Hameroff, Penrose OR and spacetime geometry
AI Podcast to Explore the Volitional Agent Criterion
The following is an AI-generated podcast to explore an innovative research paper “Provisional Definition of the Living State: Delineation of an Empirical Criterion that Defines a System as Alive” by William David Brown of the International Space Federation that challenges our fundamental understanding of what it means to be alive. The discussion centers on Brown's revolutionary "Volitional-Agent Criterion" for defining life, which suggests that the ability to make choices - or volition - might be the key characteristic that defines life itself.
The hosts break down how this radical perspective moves beyond traditional biological definitions of life, which tend to view organisms as mere machines programmed by their genes. Instead, Brown's research proposes that awareness and agency are fundamental properties that might exist even in the simplest forms of life. This includes the possibility that single-celled organisms possess some basic form of consciousness and ability to interact meaningfully with their environment.
This podcast episode offers a transformative perspective on life, consciousness, and our place in the universe. It challenges listeners to expand their understanding of what it means to be alive and conscious, suggesting that these qualities might be far more universal than we've previously imagined. For anyone interested in the nature of consciousness, artificial intelligence, or the fundamental questions of existence, this discussion provides fascinating insights and thought-provoking new ways of thinking about life itself.
Featured in Technica Curiosa it is examined how Brown’s ‘Entanglement Nexus of Awareness’ postulate reveals some key insights into the nature, source, and role of consciousness in the universe. Based on his recent study detailing the unified spacememory network, it examines how information dynamics of the fundamental-most substratum of nature emerges as a component of quantum spacetime architecture. This is taken in consideration with the ER = EPR holographic equivalence conjecture that suggests an intrinsic correspondence of micro-wormholes with quantum entanglement, such that spacetime is built-up from entanglement and providing a physical and ontological explanation for nonlocality observed in quantum behavior. Together, these concepts describe an architecture of spacetime that is built from information and quantum entanglement through a micro-wormhole network. It is shown how the unified spacememory network is pivotal to engendering fundamental characteristics of awareness that are actively utilized in the macromolecular information systems of the biological organism.
The Entanglement Nexus of Awareness featured in Technica Curiosa
William’s feature in the recent issue of Face The Current Magazine. The magazine is available online via Face the Current; and the William’s feature can be accessed directly at Illuminating Insights: Exploring Life’s Mysteries with Biophysicist, William Brown.
If you’re familiar with Nassim Haramein’s Resonance Science Foundation, you might also be familiar with William Brown. William is a biophysicist and research scientist at the Resonance Science Foundation where he performs theoretical development and experimental research to better understand the physics of complex, self-organizing systems, particularly the biological system.
Today he drops in on THC to explain what’s different about a quantum biology approach to health & wellness, the diverse role of viruses in the larger world, panspermia, & the clues he sees in our genetic code that speak to some potential alien tinkering.
We get into some interesting discussions on this one:
William’s Book
Unified Physics and the Information Nexus of Awareness
The Hidden Power of DNA
What does it mean to be human? Is it something in our molecules or our unique expression of consciousness? The answer to these questions lies hidden within our DNA. William Brown explains how the unused DNA in our bodies can be unlocked to reveal the greatest secrets of being human and our connection with the universe in this interview with Regina Meredith.
William Brown is a biophysicist and research scientist at the Resonance Project Foundation and Hawai’i Institute for Unified Physics. He investigates the biophysics of living organisms to understand how biological system interface with a universal information matrix at the molecular level. This has led to a revolutionary way of viewing the biological system with remarkable implications for therapeutics and regenerative applications..