Mikhail Borisovich Mensky, "Everett's Extended Concept".
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Are you referring to this?
Reality in quantum mechanics, Extended Everett Concept, and consciousness
https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608309
PAPER (PDF): https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0608309
ABSTRACT: Conceptual problems in quantum mechanics result from the specific quantum concept of reality and require, for their solution, including the observer's consciousness into quantum theory of measurements. Most naturally this is achieved in the framework of Everett's "many-worlds interpretation" of quantum mechanics.
According to this interpretation, various classical alternatives are perceived by consciousness separately from each other. In the Extended Everett Concept (EEC) proposed by the present author, the separation of the alternatives is identified with the phenomenon of consciousness.
This explains classical character of the alternatives and unusual manifestations of consciousness arising "at the edge of consciousness" (i.e. in sleep or trance) when its access to "other alternative classical realities" (other Everett's worlds) becomes feasible. Because of reversibility of quantum evolution in EEC, all time moments in the quantum world are equivalent while the impression of flow of time appears only in consciousness.
If it is assumed that consciousness may influence onto probabilities of alternatives (which is consistent in case of infinitely many Everett's worlds), EEC explains free will, "probabilistic miracles" (observing low-probability events) and decreasing entropy in the sphere of life.
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Reality in quantum mechanics, Extended Everett Concept, and consciousness
https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0608309
PAPER (PDF): https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0608309
ABSTRACT: Conceptual problems in quantum mechanics result from the specific quantum concept of reality and require, for their solution, including the observer's consciousness into quantum theory of measurements. Most naturally this is achieved in the framework of Everett's "many-worlds interpretation" of quantum mechanics.
According to this interpretation, various classical alternatives are perceived by consciousness separately from each other. In the Extended Everett Concept (EEC) proposed by the present author, the separation of the alternatives is identified with the phenomenon of consciousness.
This explains classical character of the alternatives and unusual manifestations of consciousness arising "at the edge of consciousness" (i.e. in sleep or trance) when its access to "other alternative classical realities" (other Everett's worlds) becomes feasible. Because of reversibility of quantum evolution in EEC, all time moments in the quantum world are equivalent while the impression of flow of time appears only in consciousness.
If it is assumed that consciousness may influence onto probabilities of alternatives (which is consistent in case of infinitely many Everett's worlds), EEC explains free will, "probabilistic miracles" (observing low-probability events) and decreasing entropy in the sphere of life.
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I'm not going to be reading that paper any time soon, so I'm bouncing this purely off the synopsis in the abstract.
The appearance of time "having a flow" is dependent upon a cognitive system, to the extent that...
You have to have memory retention of a prior event in order to compare the current one to it and judge that there is a difference between the two (to validate that change has indeed occurred). Otherwise, without such memory-based consciousness, each duration or interval of time would seem like the only one that ever exists. The mindless cosmos would thereby lack awareness of its history or of its development through time, though it does preserve environmental "records" of the past in each interval that it cannot intellectually access without the human or animal minds that evolved in it.
Even if the Everett interpretation was the case, I seriously doubt that dreams, trances, drug hallucinations, etc are crossovers with parallel world influences.
If "many-worlds" was the case, I assume the reason I would be confined to experiencing a particular "universe" is similar to the reason why I'm only aware of a specific moment of time (right now), that is isolated from the rest. Because that's what my brain state (or a short chunk-sequence of states) is specifically about -- processing the immediate sensory information contained in my skull rather than that of a different moment back in 2005 or one in 2027. (To avoid confusion, I'm setting aside occasions when we are remembering what happened on a calendar date of the past, rather than being focused on affairs of the current external environment. And obviously those recollections lack the "vivid realness" of this Now.)
Similarly, the "only world" of a "many-worlds" scenario that my current brain-state is capable of having awareness about would be the one that it exists in. Not the countless number of others that its neural apparatus would accordingly lack cognition of or information about.
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The appearance of time "having a flow" is dependent upon a cognitive system, to the extent that...
You have to have memory retention of a prior event in order to compare the current one to it and judge that there is a difference between the two (to validate that change has indeed occurred). Otherwise, without such memory-based consciousness, each duration or interval of time would seem like the only one that ever exists. The mindless cosmos would thereby lack awareness of its history or of its development through time, though it does preserve environmental "records" of the past in each interval that it cannot intellectually access without the human or animal minds that evolved in it.
Even if the Everett interpretation was the case, I seriously doubt that dreams, trances, drug hallucinations, etc are crossovers with parallel world influences.
If "many-worlds" was the case, I assume the reason I would be confined to experiencing a particular "universe" is similar to the reason why I'm only aware of a specific moment of time (right now), that is isolated from the rest. Because that's what my brain state (or a short chunk-sequence of states) is specifically about -- processing the immediate sensory information contained in my skull rather than that of a different moment back in 2005 or one in 2027. (To avoid confusion, I'm setting aside occasions when we are remembering what happened on a calendar date of the past, rather than being focused on affairs of the current external environment. And obviously those recollections lack the "vivid realness" of this Now.)
Similarly, the "only world" of a "many-worlds" scenario that my current brain-state is capable of having awareness about would be the one that it exists in. Not the countless number of others that its neural apparatus would accordingly lack cognition of or information about.
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