complex number analogy

Complex-number real-number part indicates physical measurement. Imaginary-number part, and interactions between real and imaginary numbers, account for factors affecting solutions or processes. Complex-number multiplication is commutative: (a + b*i) * (c + d*i) = (c + d*i) * (a + b*i). Other complex-number operations can be non-commutative, so complex-number operations can represent all physical interactions. Complex-number functions and series can represent physical states or processes, because they can model translations, rotations, reflections, inversions, and waves, including interference, superposition, resonance, and entanglement. Complex-number operations make complex numbers, not new number types, and so can model physical situations, because physical interactions make only existing physical properties, not new ones.

Perhaps, brain is like real numbers, and mind is like imaginary numbers {complex number analogy}. Like real and imaginary numbers, brain and mind are separate and independent but can interact.

Related Topics in Table of Contents

Consciousness>Consciousness>Speculations>Sensation>Mathematics

Whole Section in One File

1-Consciousness-Speculations-Sensation-Mathematics

Drawings

Drawings

Contents and Indexes of Topics, Names, and Works

Outline of Knowledge Database Home Page

Contents

Glossary

Topic Index

Name Index

Works Index

Searching

Search Form

Database Information, Disclaimer, Privacy Statement, and Rights

Description of Outline of Knowledge Database

Notation

Disclaimer

Copyright Not Claimed

Privacy Statement

References and Bibliography

Consciousness Bibliography

Technical Information

Date Modified: 2022.0224