Chapter 2 - Information is Physical Physics is Logical

Abstract

This chapter briefly discusses the duality principle; it is the existence of two equivalent formulations of a single theory, with a symmetry exchanging antecedents and consequents. The duality laws hold many secrets, one of them being the fundamental mechanism of consciousness. Even though the conversion postulate and the discovery of the finitely halting series and logarithms have provided a proper theoretical framework for the study of the unknown dualities, one still has to learn a lot more about duality before the secrets of the thinking brain are fully unraveled. Among many, often conflicting, theories a view is emerging that the answer to the puzzling phenomenon of the thinking brain lies in duality. It must be emphasized that duality is an integral concept, which naturally combines the dualistic and monistic approaches and which should not be confused with dualism. Duality is an old idea, and one finds it very surprising that many philosophers and researchers in brain science continue to give preference to one approach over the other, monistic over dualistic or vice versa, while the principle of duality allows both, seemingly antagonistic, models to coexist in harmony.