Information, the Human Mind, and the Three Worlds View
Naturalism and classical physics fall short of explaining consciousness. The starting point for studying this problem is the Three Worlds View of Popper/Penrose/Weizsaecker, World 1: physical world; World 2: mental world; World 3: Plato's world of mathematics and information. World 3 is identical with the eigen-world of light and the world of God. Different quantum approaches to consciousness are based upon similarities of quantum and mental effects. The spoken word of God (Greek: rhema – in contrast to logos: word, idea, plan) is interpreted as a flow of information which is equivalent to energy. The word of his power by which God upholds all things (Hebrews 1,3) led me to the hypothesis that the dark energy suggested by astronomers to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe may be the energy equivalence of this word. The feasibility of an experimental test of the hypothetical equivalence of information flux and negative/dark energy is demonstrated.