Ilya Paveliev

New post on my blog: Geometrodynamics and the Brain 🧠 In 1970, John Archibald Wheeler — the legendary physicist who coined “black hole” and “wormhole” — filled a blackboard with the deepest unsolved problems in physics: the destruction of information by black holes, the impossibility of quantizing spacetime geometry, the quantum foam at the Planck scale, and the roles of Gödel’s self-reference and Leibniz’s monads in a participatory universe. Behind it all was his program of geometrodynamics — the radical claim that everything in physics, including matter itself, is nothing but the dynamics of spacetime geometry, and that geometry ultimately reduces to information (“it from bit”). Half a century later, physicist Anirban Bandyopadhyay (@anirbanbandyo) at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science has extended Wheeler’s framework into the brain. His forthcoming book, Symphony of the Helix, argues that the brain is not a chemical system driven by slow ionic currents but a geometrodynamic system in which information travels as electromagnetic vortex structures at the speed of light through nested helical architecture — from protein alpha-helices to microtubules to whole-brain circuits. The structural parallels to Wheeler are exact: where Wheeler had spacetime foam, Bandyopadhyay has a multi-scale vortex hierarchy; where Wheeler had “charge without charge,” Bandyopadhyay has “thought without ions”; where Wheeler’s universe observes itself into existence, Bandyopadhyay’s consciousness is a self-referential resonance chain spanning every scale of the cosmos.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ josephjacks.com/2026/04/05/g…