Major advances in the study of the physics of consciousness—and information dynamics in general—are occurring through the discovery and insight into the holographic and fractal principles that underlie the fundamental properties of nature.

In a fractal organization, the degree of complexity of a system is scale-free or invariant under any translation of magnitude. This means that one can "zoom in" or "zoom out" forever and the same degree of complexity will be observed: patterns of patterns repeat themselves ad infinitum.

This has implications for the science of consciousness, since it is often assumed that consciousness emerges in a system once it reaches a significant threshold of complexity and integration. However,...