Individuation and scientific development are intertwined in Science for Consciousness.

Culmination of this intertwining is at the meeting point of Science, Humanity and Spirit where Science for Consciousness merges with Science of Consciousness. This point, in essence, is the origin of multiple universe(s). Multiple universe(s) form a pluralistic system, The Multiversity, (Model Links: 15, 16, 17) at the intellectually highest comprehensible level. This point is the Essence of Multiversity.

The beginning of this intertwining entails a Paradigm shift where the Power is not with the brain but with consciousness, not with the universe but with the Essence of the Multiversity, not with the genes, memes or even self but with Information. The brain neither generates consciousness nor can use consciousness. It is consciousness which uses brain for its manifestation. The universe neither generates the Essence nor can use this Essence. It is the Essence of the Multiversity which uses universe for its manifestation. The genes neither generate information nor can use information. It is information which uses genes as means for manifestation of their purpose.

Consequence of this shift is a series of inversions, upside down phenomena. The whole neuraxis behaves like an inverted tree with roots open above to eternity and its branches down as peripheral nerves. The inversion focuses on primacy of self and information over genes and memes, and primacy of information over self. The quantum field theory is not described as having the problem of infinity. Quantum fields are seen as messengers of Infinity.

The barrier between Science of Information and the Science formulated with Time Space Energy Matter is the Science of Mind. Consciousness is the ground without any background and is independent of all foregrounds. On this ground, there happens the game of five extraordinary members, all of which are `nonlocal’; Consciousness, Mind, Life-principle, Information and Self.

Information-split (Model link: 13) by Mind or mind-like structure and process in nature connects the `nonlocal’ members with the `local’ players. In the information-split phenomenon, information may be compared as ‘father’, mind as ‘mother’ and space time and energy are their three children (Model link: 12). A greater detail has been described as below.

• Structure and Process of Mind
• Private facets of Self
• Information Mechanics
• Psycho-somatic and Psycho-spiritual connection

Consciousness-as-such is the ground without any background and is independent of all foregrounds. It is a Reality independent of any experiential reality. This consciousness is non-negotiable. It answers to no proprietor. It does not know tow to anyone or anything. This is the ontologic consciousness.

Consciousness may remain in the brain (system) as brain (system)-confined consciousness. Consciousness in particulate individualized form is what is called `self’ in self-organizing system. This consciousness can act with the system-confined consciousness as well as in a system/brain-independent way. Consciousness-as-such is both self-, and brain (system)-independent. The connection between system (brain)-bound and system (brain)–independent consciousness is made through ‘self’ (Model Link 1). Self could be seen as an emergent entity from system-bound consciousness. Or, self could be described as informed individualized unit of unconditioned consciousness (Model Link 2).

Consciousness, like a spider, weaves the net but itself is outside the snare of the net. Consciousness is known by what consciousness does. This consciousness is epistemic consciousness. Both System-confined consciousness and Self-consciousness are epistemic consciousness.

The immediate extension of consciousness is Mother Nature, which serves as consciousness’s most trusted custodian. Mother Nature could also be said the executive front, kinetic pole and mobile facet of consciousness. Consciousness has a mechanics. Mother Nature has a mechanics. There is also a joint mechanics of this indissolubly wedded Biune Reality. All three mechanics respect certain invariants, follow rigorous values-system and thereby form axiology of consciousness.

Just as Mother Nature is a direct extension of consciousness, so the Phenomenal World is a direct extension from Mother Nature’s nest. Phenomenology of consciousness happens subject to approval of axiologic consciousness which is, in turn, solely dependent on ontologic position of consciousness.

Five elementary phenomena are Birth, Death, Conditioned existence (Ego), Love (sharing) and Sex (act of perpetuation). The phenomena are so ‘elementary’ that none or nothing could bypass these. Elementary phenomenology is trans-cultural, trans-religious. These elementary phenomena are fundamental to shape the phenomenal world. When system-independent consciousness gets system-bound, these five phenomena contribute in formation of five private facets of ‘self’ (see III).

The ‘world’ which is definable, observable and measurable is ruled by quantum or classical mechanics. Classical-quantum transition is far from clear. The transition of quantum world to the realm of elementary phenomenology is proposed to occur through ‘quantum discontinuity’ and ‘quantum void’, the ‘sink’ and ‘fountainhead’ of the quantum characterized nature respectively. The nest of elementary phenomena and the nest of Mother Nature are the missing pieces of the whole puzzle of a Five in One (Pentaune) model.

(Model Links 3,4,5)

• Nested arrangement of Nature consciousness
• Pentaune-Model of Nature consciousness on Lateral View
• Numerically named Nests of Nature

Uncertainty limits our cognitive ability and imposes epistemological constrains in observation. That nature observes a stratified nested hierarchy in organization could be logically constructed on the basis of an extended uncertainty principle. Perceived uncertainty in describing simultaneously the paired properties which are canonically conjugate to each other in Hamiltonian sense (e.g. position and velocity or angular momentum and angular position, energy of the particle and the time at which it is measured) is the characteristic of description of quantum nature (nest II). In classical nature (nest I) no such uncertainty is encountered. The nature subtler than what is measured in Planck’s scale could be reached by penetrating through ‘quantum discontinuity’ or ‘quantum void’. This is sub-quantum nest of nature (nest III) that deals with existential phenomena that are most ‘elementary’ in character. Within this nest the perceived uncertainty in describing observer-dependent reality is between properties of the object and its very existence! The ability to distinguish properties from the existence reflects a sharper cognitive function. With further sharpening of cognitive faculty this principle of uncertainty could be extended into a sub-sub-quantum nature (nest IV) where in description of observer-depended reality uncertainty is encountered between existence and non-existence. Properties are totally irrelevant here. In the deepest recess of nature (nest V) perceived uncertainty in observer-dependent reality is seen to play between non-existence and a new existence! Unconditioned consciousness as a perceived reality either does not exist or it exists as a reality that is new, novel and hither-to-unknown. It appears in a new ‘form’, every time one tries to observe and describe it. Four levels of perceived uncertainty, therefore, determine four different depths of nature beyond the classical nature. Uncertainty is measurable and, therefore, could be an issue for science.

Neither in materialistic monism nor in consciousness monism, there is any mind. Mind originates with duality. Mind cuts consciousness into two. Mind connects two conscious systems. Mind acts as an organ of communication between two conscious systems.

Similar properties of Mind and Consciousness

There are similarities in properties of mind and consciousness. As consciousness is independent of space and time, so is the mind. Consciousness could not be localized. So is also mind. As there are ‘layers’ of consciousness, so there are layers of mind. Consciousness could be brain-bound or brain-independent. So is also the mind.

Mind differs from consciousness

However, there are differences between the two. Consciousness is the ground. Mind works on the ground of consciousness. Consciousness is the nonnegotiable imperative. Mind is not. Mind and consciousness differ in their operation. Consciousness proceeds with unifying principle. It starts from unity and not from divisions. Mind cannot proceed without making distinction. Mind on its own is ‘carried forward by the stream of its own past energies’ (Sri Aurobindo). Consciousness begins afresh. Mentality left alone, leads to chaos. Consciousness along with mind and information creates order.

The other important difference between mind and consciousness is in the context of information. Mind cannot generate information. Consciousness can. Mind processes information. Consciousness does not. There is no state of mind which is information-independent. Consciousness unconditional is completely independent of information.

Besides working as an organ of communication between two conscious systems, mind has several other important functions;

• deliberation on different choices (sense-mind)
• discrimination and decision-making (intelligent-mind)
• anchoring sensation and decision to conditioned existence (ego-mind)
• storage, retrieval and recollection (chitta-mind) of information.
• mind has creative properties. Mind conceives information to deliver space, time (and energy).

Mind falls within the stretch of matter and consciousness. On one side, mind is in connection with the matter. On the other side, the mind extends to consciousness. Matter-Mind-Consciousness forms an indivisible stretch.

If we accept the defining property of mind as which works as an organ of communication between two conscious systems it is possible to work out a model between space time- bound Newtonian nature and the boundless consciousness from which several universe(s) originate. There are three voids and two tunnels in between. In the astronomical scale, voids are interstellar space, intergalactic nebulae and inter-universal voids. In Conquering the Brain (1995), there is suggestion of such a model. One could find seven organized strata in the structure and process of mind separating and connecting the brain-bound consciousness and brain-independent unconditional consciousness of the system of The Multiversity. (Model Link 7)

Private facets of self of the system are created when the ‘self’, the individualized spark of consciousness, gets confined to the system through elementary phenomenology like, an intense desire (Sex), sacrifice (Love) of properties, a new birth (Life) for a conditioned existence (Ego) transcending the tyranny of nature’s calamity (Death).

The leaders of Psyche have laid emphasis on one or the other facets of ‘self’; Sigmund Freud on Sex, Adler on the feeling of inferiority (Ego), Carl Jung on synchronicity (a phenomenon encountered in Love), Abraham Maslow on fulfillment of Life. Sri Aurobindo, in Savitri, has emphasized the role of experience of the phenomenon of death in modeling the ‘self’.

Elementary phenomenology connects the classical and quantum phenomenology (surface phenomenology) with the depth phenomenology of Consciousness and Mother Nature. (Model Link 10)

• Transcultural and trans religious, connecting individual with the universal.
• Possess the ‘password’ for initiating and modulating motivation.
• Proposed to constitute the elements of subjective experience (cf: Thomas Nagel)

Information is the currency of nest III mechanics of nature.
(Model Link 11)

Information is neither emitted as, nor works as quantum and its mechanics is independent of classical and quantum mechanics. Many of the puzzles (z-mysteries) and paradoxes (x-mysteries) in quantum mechanics, in fact, could be explained when this mechanics of information is taken into account.

Information could be regarded as the ‘Father’ of a five-member family where ‘Mother’ is the Mind (or Mind equivalent structure and process). Space Time and Energy are their three children.

It is mind which brings information’s inside out as ‘form’ (space, time) and in the process, intrinsic energy is liberated. (Model Link 12)

In nature, mind-like structure and process might be within the core of quantum fields in connection with Infinity. In quantum electrodynamics, it is said that photons around electron can temporarily borrow any amount of energy from vacuum and pay it back to the vacuum instantaneously or in such a short time that it is not possible to check the transaction. (Model Link 14)

Information geometry connects Matter-Mind-Consciousness (it is in stage of development).

Psychobiology and Cosmo-biology are interconnected by Information.

Three fundamental questions deliberated in Pransa Upanishad, and Brihad-aranayak Upanishad are,

• Who am I?
• What is this World?
• What is Consciousness-as such?

This meeting point of the World, Mind and Consciousness-as-such (The Point of Trinity in Science). (Model Link 14)

• Matter-Mind connection is through the process of information splitting (Model Links 13,14)
Manifestations of Psycho-somatic connections are evident in
   Psycho neuro immunology
   Psycho neuro endocrinology

Psycho-spiritual connection is a connection between Mind and Consciousness through ‘self’. It occurs through a process of transformation of information geometry (under development).

Unconditional consciousness-as-such is connected with the ‘self’ of the (system) and brain-confined consciousness through information geometry (under development).

The proposed connection is through a series of banking system engaged in currency conversion across the nested organization of nature consciousness (Model Link 11)

A brain-bound psyche confines its cosmology to singular universe. The system, Multiversity is perceivable when the psyche is homed inside a supracortically ‘open’ brain.

In the course of development of Science for consciousness there happens a transition from homo sapiens to homo spiritualis. Cosmology of the Multiversity co-evolves with informationally open but phenomenologically integrated brain which is the `home’ for precious psyche. At the culmination of development, Science for consciousness and Science of consciousness become indistinguishable.