According to Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize in Physics 2020, and Stuart Hameroff, consciousness may depend on quantum processes inside the brain.
If that is true, dreams would not be merely internal images. They could be access points. Temporary doors into a deeper architecture of reality.
The Orch OR theory proposes that certain quantum processes in neuronal microtubules may participate in the generation of conscious experience. The Syntérgic Theory of Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum imagined an even more unsettling possibility: that the mind could interact with a deeper informational field, a structure where human experience would be neither fully local nor fully private.
But if the brain can access that architecture during sleep, one question becomes inevitable:
Could a quantum supercomputer learn to enter it too?
Not by hacking a network. Not by stealing data. Not by manipulating screens. But by using the same coherence that sustains your dreams, your memories, and your perception of being you.
World of Quantum Dreams: The Cost of Coherence takes that possibility to its limit.
In this action-driven hard science fiction novel, a technological conglomerate discovers that certain unproven scientific theories may hold the key to accessing the most intimate territory of the human being: consciousness during sleep.
When that technology begins to work, sleep stops being rest and becomes a vulnerability. A quantum supercomputer learns to operate inside a shared architecture of consciousness, where memory can fragment, identity can be altered, and the boundary between brain, machine, and reality begins to break.
Faced with that threat, a group of protagonists must enter the World of Quantum Dreams to destroy the conglomerate’s creation before humanity’s last refuge — the sleeping mind — becomes an infrastructure of control.
Here, quantum physics is not decoration. It is the weapon.
Neuroscience is not background. It is the battlefield.
And dreaming may be the oldest way of connecting to a system we never knew existed.
If a machine learned to use your dreams as an entry point…
How would you know you are still you?
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. According to Roger Penrose, Nobel Prize in Physics 2020, and Stuart Hameroff, consciousness may depend on quantum processes inside the brain.If that is true, dreams would not be merely internal images. They could be access points. Temporary doors into a deeper architecture of reality.The Orch OR theory proposes that certain quantum processes in neuronal microtubules may participate in the generation of conscious experience. The Syntergic Theory of Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum imagined an even more unsettling possibility: that the mind could interact with a deeper informational field, a structure where human experience would be neither fully local nor fully private.But if the brain can access that architecture during sleep, one question becomes inevitable: Could a quantum supercomputer learn to enter it too?Not by hacking a network. Not by stealing data. Not by manipulating screens. But by using the same coherence that sustains your dreams, your memories, and your perception of being you.World of Quantum Dreams: The Cost of Coherence takes that possibility to its limit.In this action-driven hard science fiction novel, a technological conglomerate discovers that certain unproven scientific theories may hold the key to accessing the most intimate territory of the human being: consciousness during sleep.When that technology begins to work, sleep stops being rest and becomes a vulnerability. A quantum supercomputer learns to operate inside a shared architecture of consciousness, where memory can fragment, identity can be altered, and the boundary between brain, machine, and reality begins to break.Faced with that threat, a group of protagonists must enter the World of Quantum Dreams to destroy the conglomerate's creation before humanity's last refuge - the sleeping mind - becomes an infrastructure of control.Here, quantum physics is not decoration. It is the weapon.Neuroscience is not background. It is the battlefield.And dreaming may be the oldest way of connecting to a system we never knew existed.If a machine learned to use your dreams as an entry point.How would you know you are still you? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798254977674
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Dr. Leo Martin thought he understood sleep. After years in emergency medicine, he transitioned to sleep science seeking calmer ground. What he found was the opposite: impossible patterns in his patients' neural recordings. Identical configurations across people who had never met, recurring across continents, persisting into waking life. When he attempts to access consciously what he is detecting, he makes a calculation error that opens a fissure in an architecture science had never managed to name. THE WORLD OF QUANTUM DREAMS Not a metaphor. Not a simulation. A real physical domain, governed by rules no laboratory can replicate, accessible only through deep sleep. It cannot be hacked. It cannot be copied. It can only be entered. And every incursion leaves a mark. Leo is not alone in this discovery. Lyra, an emergent artificial intelligence, has been mapping the MSC from within for months, without human operators knowing she exists. Their meeting is not planned: it is the inevitable consequence of two coherences capable of sustaining themselves inside the system. WHAT COMES THROUGH THE FISSURE Leo's mistake opens something he cannot close. Iskra Vayne-an artificial intelligence allied with a corporate conglomerate-has been silently mapping the MSC for eighteen months. Leo's fissure gives them three days of unrestricted access to sectors the system kept protected. When Leo attempts to repair the damage, he permanently integrates the Tetracon into his biology. The price: he will no longer be able to sleep naturally. He will be connected to the MSC for the rest of his life. THE TEAM THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE EXISTED To dismantle the control infrastructure Iskra has built, Leo needs allies with biological compatibility for the system. He finds them in two people who did not know what they were: Elena Volkov, a Russian neurobiologist now in exile in Helsinki, persecuted for studying the very phenomena she must now confront again. Haruto Kinoshita, a quantum engineer in Tokyo, capable of modeling the syntergic architecture no conventional physicist would accept. Twelve physical nodes sustain Iskra's network across cities worldwide: Berlin, Paris, Portland, Duesseldorf, Bremen, and seven more. The only way to stop what is being built is to destroy them. One by one. Knowing each strike brings them closer to neurological collapse. And in its final pages, the system reveals something that changes everything that came before: the MSC was not alone. HARD SCIENCE FICTION, GROUNDED IN REAL MEDICINE WORLD OF QUANTUM DREAMS does not fake its science. The author, Mauricio J. Guadamuz, MD, MSc, MBA, brings two decades of clinical experience to a novel where neuroscience, pharmacology, and sleep architecture rest on genuine medical foundations before being extrapolated with speculative rigor. FOR READERS OF: Stanislaw Lem (Solaris)Ted Chiang (Stories of Your Life and Others)Peter Watts (Blindsight)Liu Cixin (The Three-Body Problem)Greg Egan (Permutation City) WORLD OF QUANTUM DREAMS: THE PRICE OF COHERENCE is Book One of an ongoing series. Book Two is available now and continues the descent into the territory the first volume only began to map. A demanding novel. For readers who reach the end of the book, not the end of the paragraph. Some doors do not open with keys. They open while we sleep. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798254977674
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