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    Starting from the big U(niverse) representation by physicist John A. Wheller that illustrates how active ”observer participancy” unfolds reality, a helical UnussunU structure (from Latin Unus, i.e., One) is introduced aiming at giving an enhanced 3D printable figurative representation of physical reality and our experience of life (spirituality). Constituents of the cosmos and of our existence are fuse in UnussunU in terms of scientific observations and a metaphorical view of subjective experien…Read more
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    A partire dalla rappresentazione della ”grande U” (U da Universo) del fisico John A. Wheeler, che illustra come la ”partecipazione attiva dell’osservatore” sviluppi la realtà, viene introdotta una struttura a spirale UnussunU (dal latino Unus, cioè Uno), con l’intento di fornire una rappresentazione figurativa tridimensionale della realtà fisica e della nostra esperienza di vita (spiritualità). Gli elementi costitutivi del cosmo e della nostra esistenza si fondono in UnussunU in termini di osser…Read more
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    A Birth-Death Toy Model for a Measure of Consciousness
    Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness (2024) 1-13. forthcoming.
    The ancient Ouroboros symbolism (one who eats oneself) is here integrated into a simple birth-death clustering process that needed nothing but itself for a transition from indistinguishable phases to a sort of higher level ”conscious” phases. Birth and death coefficients are formulated in terms of odd and even exponentials used to represent a suitable form for conscious states via the internal transfer of information. This toy model may ideally quantify conscious states having inner causes via a…Read more
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    A set of notes on consciousness and creativity by Federico Faggin are here collected. Federico Faggin, Italian-American physicist and 2009 U.S. National Medal of Technology and Innovation, is best known for designing and creating the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Faggin's curiosity about consciousness started in the late eighties when he asked himself if it was possible to develop a conscious computer. Faggin reveals here the main aspects and beliefs of his model about c…Read more