Has anyone worked out the equations governing the interaction of massless and mass entities? What for instance is changed about a chair when the light hits it? Has its mass increased? How does mass influence an essentially massless spacetime to form gravity? Is there some third property in common between massless and mass phenomena that allows them to interact? Is consciousness an example of masslessness interacting with mass? Isn't the pure transmission of information an example of a massless event?
I'll answer these for you... yes the mass does increase. It's a relativistic energy which contributes to the overall stress energy tensor. Consciousness is not an example of ''masslessness'' interacting with mass, but consciousness does appear to be very similar to emergent models such as finding consciousness as a state of matter itself. This has been popularized and I favor it highly. I even proved the conjecture using set theory before it became wildfire by Tegmark in his theory which shows consciousness as nothing but a low energy sub-system, something I predicted with accuracy using axioms based on set theory ht tp:/ /arxiv.org/abs/1401.1219 Conscious experience is like a hologram, but there is missing information because the amount of 'bits' required to sustain consciousness is not enough to fully account for, meaning that the sum of the sub-systems do not make a whole, meaning we have incomplete or missing information not accounted for: most likely we will find that quantum effects have to be taken seriously to account for missing information.
In fact, I'll quickly show that proof I discovered. It's a causally-related system, so sub-systems evolve in a linear timeline. Let us denote consciousness (and everything related to) as a set \(\mathcal{B}\). Let the universe then be the set \(\mathcal{A}\). Thus if \(\mathcal{B}\) is a subset of \(\mathcal{A}\) then I can write \(\mathcal{B} \subseteq \mathcal{A}\) It is taken for fact that \(\mathcal{B}\) exists as a subset of \(\mathcal{A}\) that it cannot be an exact copy. No subsystem can model precisely the larger system it is made of. This is conjectured because I believe that \(\mathcal{B}\) can never contain all the information contained in \(\mathcal{A}\). A final conjecture would be, that the mind exists but the universe doesn't depend on the mind whilst the mind does depend on the universe. This should clear up, once and for all the dichotomy of whether the universe is mind-dependent or not. Taking into consideration that the mind is a late low-energy phenom appearing in the cool matter-dominated region of the universe, the mind emerges from the universe not the other way around.
Energy moves at the speed of light, while mass cannot move at the speed of light. There is a permanent separation between energy and mass that is defined by special relativity. The main bridge that connects these two separated bookends is space-time. Mass will has an impact on space-time via GR, with any mass induced change in space-time, having an impact on energy via changes in wavelength and frequency. The speed of the energy/light does not change but remains anchored. Mass is invariant with respect to space-time. Changes in space-time reference do not add or take away mass. Energy is different in that wavelength and frequency will change with reference. What this suggests is energy into mass causes the energy to detach from space-time to become invariant as mass. This added mass, although invariant to reference, will nevertheless impact space-time via GR. While mass to energy goes from an invariant state of mass, back onto the bridge of space-time, to become variant via frequency and wavelength. One exception is mass that gains energy, as kinetic energy. This kinetic energy remains on the bridge of space-time as special relativity effects apart from the mass. Another exception is if energy goes into mass based entropy. There is a conversion of energy into entropy, but without an increase in mass. An analogy is the energy flips a coin of mass from heads to tails. The mass does not change, only the entropy. Unlike kinetic energy, this energy conversion into mass based entropy becomes invariant since tails will not change with space-time reference. Consciousness uses this last conversion, due to the way neurons and cells use ATP energy to lower entropy. For example, in neurons cations are separated and concentrated on opposite sides of the membrane. If left to their own device the cations would prefer increase entropy and mix. The cationic entropy is induced to be lower than it would be under normal natural conditions, thereby creating a potential to absorb energy into a type of entropic invariance. Since cells also lower structural entropy by creating order with templates (attempts to form invariance as close as possible), the absorption of energy into the invariance of entropy has to occur in a way that maintains the induced lower than normal global entropy. Consciousness will emerge at the bridge close to the invariance of mass.
Special relativity is a classical theory so the ''separation'' is not based on something more special than the equally classical general \(E = Mc^2\) which says both energy and mass are convertible. But they are by equivalence the same. There is more than enough evidence now to suggest the electron is in a state of zitter motion, something which the Dirac matrices solve easily with extreme accuracy. There are at least three experimental tests recently in the last 20 years which has confirmed the equivalence. For an electron, it is really just a slowed down photon giving any observer outside not only the appearance of a pointlike charge, but one that looks heavy. In the extreme mathematical terminology, an Electron is a Ground State Heavy Boson with Fermion Statistics.
