02. Background

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From the physical point of view a living brain can be described by the means of size, weight, temperature, pressure, etc. But in that same space occupied by the brain other attributes are present too – images, feelings, thoughts and everything we call animateness and what we are used to take out of the limits of the physical world. However for themselves they are equally real. Complex mutual values emerging within the space of the neural network exist at the present moment and participate in the energy exchange between the parts of the neural network. Can we claim in this event that these values really exist at the physical level as well?
It is pointless to negate them, but they exist differently than the manifestations of the objective physical world. These are system attributes resulting from the emergence and existing solely for the system itself. Using the principles of artificially created “real existence” it is possible to model a wide spectrum of systems fulfilling the functions of consciousness or subjective systems with their own internal laws and relations similar to artificial worlds.

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It should be realized that in fact neither colour, nor taste, nor other characteristics of things with which our organs of senses endue them, exist in the world around us. These are subjective perception from physical and chemical stimulations impacting the receptors or immediately parts of the brain. These stimulations are transmitted inside the brain in electric way, which is thoroughly studied. Even if in the natural world some or other taste, colour or odour existed we can not perceive it directly. It only causes an electric signal at the receptors of the sense organs, and this characteristic of the outside world turns into electric current. What we see is not the authentic property of the world around us, but the electric signal of our brain which our memory attributes to the properties of the real world. It is of no significance what exists in reality. It is important how our brain processes and reproduces it.
Feelings, thinking, memory have physical nature behind them, and there is no mysticism here. As soon as we understand the principles and the logic of how electricity becomes some or another sensation and in relation to what this sensation is manifested it will become possible to artificially reproduce any sensation with any pre-set parameters, including those differing from the usual.

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In order to reproduce the analogue of creation of living organisms the biological basis must not be necessarily copied. It is sufficient to duplicate the algorithm, the functions themselves at the physical level in an instrumental way. Along with the ability to feel the organism has a quite large package of evolutionary load. A living being must eat, reproduce itself, adapt, regenerate, sustain its life. The majority of these processes run automatically. Consciousness as a result of the higher nervous activity appeared only in the end of the evolutionary process, except that not for all living beings and not anywhere near as the most important factor. Perhaps, based on the necessity to use the biochemical structure the nature made the brain much more complicated than it is required for a simple reproduction of consciousness and sensations.

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In a word, as for the objective of reproduction of sensations, the idea is to take the simplest natural perception – the perception of one charge by another charge, and using this ability of the electric field complicate it up to the level of human consciousness by breaking this consciousness down to functions and trying to reconstruct artificially its algorithms.