Auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) are a common symptom of schizophrenia. Studies have focused on a classification of AVHs, based on different criteria. Subtypes of AVHs have been defined, distinguishing according to whether they are internal/external, single/multiple, unimodal/multimodal, benevolent/malevolent, permanent/intermittent, etc. The purpose of this study is to propose a classification of AVHs based on their content. We first identify the subtype that is directly associated with the polythematic delusions inherent in schizophrenia. Second, we distinguish subtypes related to other comorbid psychiatric disorders associated with schizophrenia in the patient: generalized anxiety disorder, depression, body dysmorphic disorder, etc. Finally, we suggest that such a differentiation could allow a correlative adaptation of the corresponding cognitive-behaviour therapy.

The hard problem of consciousness must be approached through the ontological lens of twentieth-century physics, which tells us that reality is information theoretic Wheeler (American Scientist, 74, 366–375, 1986; Wheeler (1990) and quantized at the level of Planck scale spacetime Snyder (Physical Review D, 67, 38–41, 1947). Through careful deduction, it becomes clear that information cannot exist without consciousness—the awareness of things. And to be aware is to hold the meaning of relationships of objects within consciousness—perceiving abstract objects, while enjoying degrees of freedom within the structuring of those relationships. This defines consciousness as language—(1) a set of objects and (2) an ordering scheme with (3) degrees of freedom used for (4) expressing meaning. And since even information at the Planck scale cannot exist without consciousness, we propose an entity called a “primitive unit of consciousness,” which acts as a mathematical operator in a quantized spacetime language. Quasicrystal mathematics based on E8 geometry Sadoc and Mosseri (Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, 26, 1789, 1993) seems to be a candidate for the language of reality, possessing several qualities corresponding to recent physical discoveries and various physically realistic unification models.

This article presents an experiment which studies the relationship between observer and observed phenomena in nature and how the concept of energy and force can be expanded through this relationship within the framework of brain to brain communication.

This essay describes what an anthropologist has learned from his ethnographic research with physicists who are engaged in quantum physics interpretation, including Henry Stapp. I argue that meta-physical considerations about “mind” among physicists often obscure the possibility of empirical research on concrete and individual minds and the role they play in quantum interpretation. Therefore, the philosophical rigor of quantum interpretation could benefit if individual interpreters could find an interest in discovering a manner of analyzing their own style of interpretation such that their own style would be communicable with others as a topic of conversation, rather than simply repeated dogmatically and argumentatively. Such considerations would require greater empirical attention to human thought itself, such that “mind” becomes less abstract and mystified, and thus more knowable and self-conscious.

It is argued that if consciousness is a fundamental ingredient of reality then no any psychophysical law such as Chalmers' principle of organizational invariance is needed to keep coherence between experience and function (conscious action). Indeed Chalmers' proposal suggests epiphenomenal consciousness and is regress to a nineteenth century absurd philosophy. The quantum mechanics is the most successful current physical theory and can naturally accommodate consciousness without violation of physical laws.

It is wonderful that Henry is still creative and active at the age of 90. I first communicated with Henry in 1963 when I was with Fred W. Cummings at Ford Philco Aeronutronics in Newport Beach, CA (I left Cornell where I was working with Leonard Susskind and Johnny Glogower on the problem of time and phase operators in quantum mechanics. I returned to Cornell about 6 months later.). That is also when I first met Richard Feynman at Cal Tech and also when I first communicated by snail mail with Brian Josephson if I recall correctly. David Kaiser recalls my interaction with Henry about quantum entanglement in his book “How the Hippies Saved Physics.” Kaiser also wrote how Nick Herbert and I were key catalysts in the creation of the “billion-dollar” quantum information/cryptography/computer industry. Henry played a key role in Nick’s and my quixotic quest to use orthodox quantum mechanical entanglement as a direct stand-alone keyless locally decodable command-control-communication-channel C4 (On Apr 22, 2018, at 4:52 PM, Robert Addinall wrote: “Actually command-control-communications channel should be C3. For C4, it should be command-control-communications-computing. Although it starts with the letter C, the word “channel” is not usually included in the acronym (C2 for command and control, and C4ISR for command-control-communications-computing-intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance). It’s nice that you are writing some of this up in honor of Henry’s birthday.”). This “failure” led to the modern-day no-go theorems that form the basis of practical quantum cryptographic networks like the Chinese satellite web.

This article reconsiders the three concepts stated in its title—reality, phenomena, and atomicity—in terms of the concept of “reality without realism,” which follows and in part radicalizes Bohr’s view of quantum reality. It also addresses the work of A. N. Whitehead and H. Stapp from this perspective.

In this study, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) was incubated to primary hypothalamic cell culture of rat as an important inflammatory cytokine and the effect of TNF-α to neurotransmitter receptors of the hypothalamus in vitro by real-time fluorescence quantitative PCR with PCR array for researching the effect of TNF-α to neuroendocrine system was analyzed. The result showed that the expression level of Avpr1a, Gabrr1, Grin1, Htr4, and Tspo 5 genes was obviously up and the other Adrb2, Cckbr, Chrm5, Chrna6, Gabra5, Gabra6, Grm8, Htr2c, Htr3a, Sstr1, and Tacr1 11 genes were down. Especially, Grin1 and Tacr1 were affected obviously, increased 3.12 and decreased 2.76, respectively. So, TNF-α can modulate the expression of many receptors of neurotransmitters of the hypothalamus by the special cell signal transduction pathways and alter the responsibility and exciting of these neurons to neurotransmitters corresponding. Furthermore, these changes can affect many hormone secretion of the hypothalamus and affect neuroendocrine function of rat.

Henry Stapp has made many significant contributions in quantum physics and its use in trying to understand the mind-matter relationship. I have been influenced by his use of the notion of process to bring more clarity to understand quantum phenomena. In this paper, I want to summarise the latest ideas on the time development of quantum processes that relate the transformation theory of Dirac, Feynman and Schwinger to the notion of weak values which has triggered experimental investigations of the nature of a deeper underlying stochastic structure of quantum processes.

Regular physics is unsatisfactory in that it fails to take into consideration phenomena relating to mind and meaning, whereas on the other side of the cultural divide such constructs have been studied in detail. This paper discusses a possible synthesis of the two perspectives. Crucial is the way systems realising mental function can develop step by step on the basis of the scaffolding mechanisms of Hoffmeyer, in a way that can be clarified by consideration of the phenomenon of language. Taking into account such constructs, aspects of which are apparent even with simple systems such as acoustically excited water, as with cymatics, potentially opens up a window into a world of mentality excluded from conventional physics as a result of the primary focus of the latter on the matter-like aspect of reality.