Is it possible that consciousness or "mind" is a missing force in energy/space/mass equations?

Question

From what I understand, we do not totally understand consciousness. The body has physical mass, mind?where? Could a new formula taking into consideration, (could a someone that understand physics equations..) consciousness, for example what if Einstein´s equations, where things like mass was replaced with consciousness, where consciousness is not fully understood. could this not answer some questions, like light speed, string theory, black energy, time travel.

Imagine that maybe consciousness is a consistant force, variations are just individually preceived. Again I believe one would have to suspend some laws/beliefs to properly address question. Consciousness could be x, but taking into consideration a universal idea of it. As some people have gone off the deep end with "intelligent design ideas" other ideas of order in the universe. I am not trying to work God into the equaition, I am thinking maybe physicists have a fobia that prohibts them from considering forces unknown. Has consciousness ever been considered a "force". Could there be a global consciousness that prevades brain and interacts with other universal forces.

Answer 1

The basic truth is that there is much much more that we do not understand than that which we do.

Consciousness is something we have yet to explain, we can hardly even fathom it in terms of the physical world. This like many of the common questions we see on Y!A like 'What is beyond the end of the universe?', 'What existed before the big bang?' etc.. etc.. We just don't know, it may be that as human we simply lack to capacity to understand things like time and consciousness and infinite dimensions of parallel quantum universes..

But I am a strong believer that consciousness does play some role in the universe. There are some who believe that you can choose which quantum universe to exist in. There was a widely reported report (and like most things like this I'm sure its pretty hard to prove.. but) several monks just mediated in NYC wishing well-being on the city for several days, during that period the crime rate dropped a statistically significant amount. So? Did they help shape the reality we live in?

I don't know, but I'm open to the idea that it is possible... With so much that we don't understand, only an idiot would insist something is impossible in this world.

Answer 2

I was about to mark this question with a thumbs down, but then I thought "Maybe this asker truly feels that our minds somehow create the physical world around us."

OK, then, here's my spin on it...nope, there is no such thing as mind over matter. It's the stuff that makes good scifi (like in the Matrix) but has no basis in fact. Stage acts, like Geller and his bending of spoons through his mind, have been created to give the illusion of mind over matter, but, in the end, they are just clever tricks...slight of hand.

In the scientific approach, we do not just substitute one variable for another without cause. So slipping something called "consciousness" into Einstein's equations has no rationality. Einstein started with experimental results, like the measured speed of light and the lack of evidence of aether, to derive his famous equations. He did not just throw in a variable to make everything come out OK. (He did throw in a constant, the cosmological constant, however.)

PS: If you're referring to dark energy when you say "black energy," its mass equivalent, dark mass, has just recently been observed in two colliding galaxies. Go on the web, you'll find several articles about the Stanford discovery.

Answer 3

Einsteins theories involve quantifiable elements. Mind and consciousness are subjective, changeable and erratic. Each one of us would come up with a different answer based upon our own individual levels of consciousness. Time is the only element that is really up for discussion. Perception of time for example.

Answer 4

No, its not possible.

What a silly notion of injecting religion in to science.

When we do learn about consciousness it will be rooted like anything else in the physical. There is nothing else.

Answer 5

Too deep for me