Answers to the questions of Vasileios Basios and Marko Manninen in Hypothesis Refinery session of Galileo Commission

Galilei Commission (see this) is a Scientific and Medical network with the goal to help the transition from the materialism and reductionism dominated view of science to a postmaterialistic world view expanding the science so that also consciousness, life and spirituality are accepted as aspects of the reality.

There are of course very many proposals for what a post-materialistic view might be and TGD (Topological GeometroDynamics) and TGD inspired view of consciousness and quantum biology is one of these views. In this view theory of conscious experience can be seen as a generalization of quantum measurement theory based on new quantum ontology forced by TGD.

I participated in a Hypothesis Refinery meeting Galilei Commission held 27.1. 2026 and talked about TGD inspired theory of consciousness (see this). There were very interesting questions by Vasileios Basios and Marko Manninen that I received already before meeting. Unfortunately, the time allowed me to answer only some of these questions during the meeting. Therefore I decided to write an article containing the somewhat shortened questions and my responses. As always, this process stimulated fresh observations.

For instance, I formulated more precisely the crucial arguments behind the holography = holomorphy hypothesis implying also the universality implying that the solution ansatz makes sense for any general coordinate invariant action constructible in terms of the induced geometry.

I discussed in detail the classical non-determinism crucial for cognition already present for 2-D minimal surfaces (soap films) (see this). Since classical non-determinism is so crucial, I added an appendix about what it means geometrically in the 2-D case and how it might generalize to the 4-D situation.

I also clarified the testable implications of the h_eff hypothesis in biology derivable from the explicit expressions for gravitational and electric Planck constants.

See the article Answers to the questions of Vasileios Basios and Marko Manninen in Hypothesis Refinery session of Galileo Commission.

For a summary of earlier postings see Latest progress in TGD.

For the lists of articles (most of them published in journals founded by Huping Hu) and books about TGD see this.