My Letter to Dr. Scott Aaronson

Hello Dr. Aaronson,

Previously I reached out to you regarding an approach towards solving the shortest vector problem in postquantum cryptography by leveraging quantum gravity physics, and since publishing my paper I've received mostly positive reception from postdocs in the field. 

https://ipipublishing.org/index.php/ipil/article/view/171

Based on a review of the literature it looks as though similar approaches have been developed specifically in spinglasses, but apparently researchers ran into difficulties with measurement due to exponential energy gaps. Literature suggested use of folded spectrum methods to resolve this.

In our previous correspondence you criticized my approach due to difficulty in formalizing the approach, since quantum gravity by nature involves indefinite causal structures that defy conventional frameworks of computation, and research on the topic of quantum gravity is largely unproven and controversial. In my discussions with Dr. Hameroff likewise I noted that you have criticized Orch-Or theory. 

What it seems to me is that spinfoam networks are mathematically analogous to neural networks in their role - in essence, the neural networks in brain tissue under Orch-Or can be interpreted as spinfoam networks - and lending further credence to this idea that unexplored ("noncomputable") physics is implicated in consciousness is that Google cites papers such as "Nuclear spin attenuates the anesthetic potency of xenon isotopes in mice: Implications for the mechanisms of anesthesia and consciousness" in recent grant programmes.

Indeed, recent evidence defies initial criticisms of Orch-Or including the presence of superradiance within brain tissue. 

So in essence you have these combinatorial structures - the neural networks - which can fit neatly into frameworks of computation - which obey the typical formalisms of one way logic gates - but underneath that, you have a physics which enables a dialectical logic and mediates backpropagation and the weight transport needed that is currently unexplained by classical physics. In this view, the binding problem is resolved by means of gravitational collapse of superpositions.

In this view, the hard problem of consciousness itself can be framed as an "NP-hard" problem. Indeed, it has been claimed that neural networks in the brain represents and processes abstractions of higher dimensional objects in the same way that the shortest vector problem resolves high dimensional lattice cryptography. (See papers like "Cliques of Neurons Bound into Cavities Provide a Missing Link between Structure and Function" from the Blue Brain Project).

I've published a paper on the possibility of approaching the shortest vector problem as a problem of approaching entropic limits in entanglement entropy in Majorana entangled systems. More recently I've been working on a preprint tying the UV fixed point in asymptotically safe gravity to the Monster CFT - as related to limits predicted by entropic gravity. 

I am wondering if you have any feedback on this topic?

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/the-riemann-hypothesis-and-the-monster-are-at-the-heart-of-the-vacuum-catastrophe

In researching this topic I think I understand why it is you might feel critical about this - essentially the way that the neoliberal world order (which perhaps in your work history your research has been employed to maintain) is assembled is by maintaining formal syntactical structures which are compromised by dialectical methods enabled by this postquantum physics. In this sense, the arbitrarily defined "extra dimensions" studied at the intersection of computational complexity theory and physics are actually reflections of socioeconomic power structures described by the chomsky hierarchy, rather than useful falsifiable scientific descriptions of reality. 

https://www.trevornestor.com/post/what-happens-during-the-collapse-of-societies-at-catastrophe-points-in-socioeconophysics-theory

Trevor Nestor

Researcher, Theoretical Physics & Complexity

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