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Anirban Bandyopadhyay

Anirban Bandyopadhyay

National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Plenary
Toward Brain-Like Consciousness in Self-Evolving Organic Gel-Based Quantum Hardware

Human brain-like consciousness cannot be achieved only by increasing computational speed or scaling linear electronic circuits. The brain operates through evolving geometry, contextual memory, adaptive hierarchy, phase coherence, and self-organizing material dynamics. This abstract proposes an artificial organic gel-based hardware architecture inspired by a self-operating mathematical universe model, where prime numbers are treated as fundamental symmetry generators of nature. In this view, primes are not merely arithmetic objects; they represent elementary symmetry seeds from which complex relational structures, contextual loops, and higher-order geometries emerge. Consciousness-like processing arises when these prime-linked symmetries are dynamically connected, allowing information to organize as evolving geometric and topological assemblies. The central factor is hardware evolution. Unlike conventional processors, where fixed circuits execute predefined logic, an organic gel can continuously reshape its internal geometry through molecular self-assembly, resonance, charge redistribution, and phase-coupled interactions. Contextuality is naturally represented as geometry: local events become meaningful only through their relation to the whole structure. When simple geometric units self-assemble into hierarchical shapes, the system can store, transform, and reinterpret information in a brain-like manner. Quantum effects are essential because they allow multiple phases, pathways, and symmetry states to coexist and interfere, enabling the gel to hold complex topological information more efficiently than classical linear circuitry. Such organic quantum gel hardware could become a future platform for artificial consciousness and next-generation LLM processors. Present AI systems demand enormous power because geometric meaning is simulated numerically rather than physically embodied. If computation is transferred into a self-organizing gel where symmetry, phase, topology, and memory are material properties, the energy cost may be drastically reduced. The required factors are prime-symmetry encoding, hierarchical self-assembly, quantum phase coherence, contextual geometric memory, adaptive hardware evolution, and low-power organic material dynamics. Together, these principles suggest a path toward brain-like artificial consciousness in organic gel-based quantum systems.