Quantum consciousness

An analysis based on irreversibility

Authors

  • Marcelo Moreira Santos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2024i2930p154-168

Keywords:

consciousness, quantum, irreversibility, semiotics, complexity

Abstract

In recent years, with the advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, there has been a renewed interest in the subject of consciousness. Our aim in this article is to reflect on this subject from a quantum perspective. Based on the reflections by Ilya Prigogine, Edgar Morin and Jorge de Albuquerque Vieira, together with the philosophy and semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the aim is to observe consciousness as the fruit of erraticism, non-equilibrium, the asymmetry of time and, there-fore, irreversibility. In the end, we conclude that it is from the ruptures caused by life’s experiences that consciousness remakes itself in a semiotic continuum whose purpose is inherent to its self-pheno-geno-organization, that is, finding its new stability in nonequilibrium. Above all, in its expressiveness, consciousness never ceases to be a form of art.

Author Biography

Marcelo Moreira Santos

PhD in Communication and Semiotics. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3746-4805. – E-mail: mcloms@gmail.com.

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Published

2025-03-19

How to Cite

Santos, M. M. (2025). Quantum consciousness: An analysis based on irreversibility. TECCOGS: Revista Digital De Tecnologias Cognitivas, (29-30), 154–168. https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2024i2930p154-168