Subquantum Perspectives in the Penrose-Hameroff Model
TSC Conference Hong Kong, China 2009
Boyd, RN. PHD, USA - Klein, A. MDD Israel
ABSTRACT.
The Penrose-Hameroff model for Consciousness is hereby constructively addressed from a wide interdisciplinary perspective, derived from a novel Subquantum-based understanding of sentient reality.
Relying upon the most advanced theoretic conjectures supplied by the addressed concept, as well as upon recent proposals related to the hyper dimensional essence of Brain and non-physical signalization pathways, our debate extends across the complementary domains of low-level (biomolecular and cytoskeletal), medium level (Neural networks) and high level (Consciousness) integration instances of the Self-controlled biosystem into its energetic environment.
We suggest that conscious experience is accessed rather then generated by low order phenomena, presented here as correlates rather then aspects of consciousness.
The Quantum Objective Reduction is described in terms of deterministic sequences running under Information field orchestration, where Informational configurations are translated into Brain Quantum states according to vector guidelines provided by the interplay between Subquantum resonant configurations.
Brain is thus presented in its
integral efficiency as a highly complex entropy-stabilizing apparatus,
progressively patterning its ontological development according to anticipated
Information processing tasks. This patterning is implemented by morphogenetic
determinants enfolded in holographic control matrices, external to the
apparatus. We provide ample arguments related to the Brain's efficiency as an
ideal anchorage tool for connecting the biological systems into proactive
conformally organized Information fields, which constitute the self-conscious structure, operating in its
own holographic space. We epistemologically differentiate between the
holographic distribution principle, which exists in the Information field, at
various levels of implication, and a concrete hologram, which requires a medium
for expressing itself, which media is the SubQuantum plenum, in this case.
Holographic interactions are made possible by Brain's being embedded in
Quantum-controlled Euclidian projections of the projective hyperspace which
accommodates organized Information fields. They are implemented by the intrinsically
hyperdimensional essence we ascribe to information transporting
SubQuantum entities and their combinatorial patterns.
Finally, we suggest that
anesthetics may act obeying the Meyer-Overton correlation requirements while
disrupting afferentation into subjective awareness fields by efficiently
suppressing the neural Quantum resonance ability of Brain. Experimental and experiential observations
under these conditions have shown, indeed, that cognitive phenomena continue
running unaffected in the individual organized holographic information field,
and remain associated with projective information space .
Transposing Lashley's interference engram into Quantum regime, mnemonic traces from such dissociating sequences between Brain and its cognitive field may be recalled by subsequent Quantum superposition effects triggered by Subquantum attractors, as supported by a vast experimental and experiential evidence, hitherto circumvented by mainstream explanatory trends.
We emphasize that the Subquantum concept is able to successfully replace dualist-interactionist ones by a physically consistent and experimentally proven monistic asymmetric determinism obeying Bohmian implication requirements.
It is reasonably hoped, that our hereby suggested contribution has a strongly supporting potential for the Penrose-Hameroff model's advanced insights, while extending them toward possible further horizons supplied by the Subquantum contributions to the sentient reality we defend.
I
A FEW INTRODUCTORY CONSIDERATIONS.
Our presentation at this Conference is intended to constructively address the
Penrose-Hameroff "Orch-OR" model for Consciousness by a compatible
and conceptually extended contribution derived from our progressively
increasing understandings related to the Subquantum essence of sentient
reality. Our basic conceptual guidelines have been presented at the
"Quantum Mind" Conference in Salzburg 2007, as well as in the
"T.S.C." conferences hold in Budapest (2007) and Tucson, Az (2008).
At these events, we summarized our approach as follows:
"Recent experimental results have proved intractable to explanation by
resorting to existing physics paradigms. This fact, along with certain
fallacies inherent in mainstream physical-cognitive theories of mind, have
encouraged the authors of this paper to transcend the currently operative
limits of investigation, thus to explore the abyssal depth of the still
uncharted, but highly rewarding, SubQuantum regimes. The subquantum is herein
assumed to co-existentially accommodate proto-units for matter, energy and
Information, which are thereby brought onto an equal ontological footing, in
the subquantum domains.
Devolving its argumentation and orientation from the Nobel Prize winning
Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, which opened the perspective toward a further
divisibility of the Quantum domain, hitherto considered as an irreducably
fundamental description of nature, the hereby proposed inter-theoretic model
claims to satisfy advanced scientific and philosophic requests as reformulated
for a conceptually new working hypotheses. Subquantum potentials evolving in
the Prime Radiation Matrix result in organizing functions able to interfere
with classical local determinacy chains, operating at the Quantum levels of
randomity inherent in space-time-like matter configurations, leading to highly
complex representational patterns, linked to their phenomenal correlates in
macroscopically detectable systems. Our model is strongly rooted in an
overwhelming experimental evidence derived from multidisciplinary contexts of
scholarly pursued exploration tracks as amply documented in this presentation.
Our basic understanding identifies the Quantum Potential (Quantum Field Theory)
as a superluminal Sub Quantum Information-carrying aether able to interact with
matter and physical forces at well defined Space-time positions injecting their
Information content into our world of observables by modulating the event
potential. This interaction is possible as soon as matter is defined by an n-degree
entanglement state of SQ complexity. Absolute void refers to lack of matter
which equals to a space-time sequence contending Information in its nascent,
non-aggregative form (the Sub quantum plenum) as observed from our Space-Time
perspective. It contains implicated layers of increasingly subtle pre-quantum
domains, which each one at its manifestation range may be organized in complete
worlds of the kind our own is, each one of them ranging till its own
"absolute void" as transition state to the next implication level of
reality.
Introducing a quite innovative approach to the most controversial nature of
Brain/Mind interaction, the pre-quantum tenets rely upon experimentally
testable assessments. Our proposal has a strong outreach into unprecedented
explanatory options for anomalous output data distribution in non-conventional
exploration fields, whose statistically significant results become logically
integrated into epistemologically sustainable blueprints.Constructively
debating reasoning tracks suggested by eminent scholars with most impressive
credentials in widely quoted references across our presentation, we
emphatically challenge the current paradigmatic tenets that are obviously
inspiring endless sterile controversies disseminated in widely accessible and
mass-media supported literature. We hope to succeed in our attempt to
persuasively reverse misleading ontological tendencies relying upon their
disqualified metaphysical backgrounds by asserting an upside-down
epistemological approach for the primary determinism that Information
structures have upon their physical counterparts.
Our views are perfectly consistent both with conventional empirical treatment
of space-time defying representational variables, and their causal primacy upon
Quantum implementation systems of their content, in the integral range of their
polyvalent manifestation. Detailed descriptions of mind/matter entanglement
patterns are supplied, as running in the holistic superimplicative sentient
reality domains, under the overarching regulation of Cosmic Harmony,
underpinning a continuous creation cosmogenetic process.
As our analysis addresses a pre-temporal range, the thus defined endless time
vector allows ab-initio existing inherent resonance links in any SQ subtlety
domain to turn into fluxes and organization effects leading to sequential
entelechial self-contended worlds. These primeval harmonic SQ resonances are
the very pattern of our overarching cosmic harmony just mentioned, the source
of all conceivable manifestation and interconnectedness."
We are grateful to the organizers of the current event for the opportunity
given to us to present some significant correlation aspects we have found
between the Orch-OR model and our model, hoping that thus we might contribute
to a further, more detailed understanding of the most controversial and still
quite elusive nature of Consciousness.
As a whole, our present comments represent an attempt to constructively extend
some details in the referred theory, which obviously is the best documented
available one in the field. Our contribution derives from our assumption that
the Orch-OR model might be compatible with recent experimental data of a wide
interdisciplinary origination, which seem to support some novel paradigmatic
hints hereby suggested. In spite of some epistemologically stretching hues in
our approach, we assume that the academic community will appreciate its
interdisciplinary value. These expressions may trigger a constructive feedback
toward an increasingly accurate understanding of some unbiased fundamentals,
which we hope will be more deeply explored in future investigations regarding
Consciousness Studies.
II
HYERARCHICAL SUBQUANTUM INTEGRATION/CONTROL SYSTEMS WITH EXTENDING POTENTIAL IN
THE PENROSE-HAMEROFF "Orch.OR"
MODEL
1. PRELIMINARIES.
We are aware of the fact that our hereby proposed concept may suggest some
justified analogies to E. Fredkin's vision of a Universe representing a lattice
of interacting logic units rather then mass/energy configurations.
Nevertheless, we do our best to transcend any previously proposed theoretic
developments, while following the involvement of various cognitive units into
the neurohystological range, the topic of our present Brain-related concerns,
as evoked by the Penrose-Hameroff propositions.
As amply documented in the model we refer to, subunits of cytoskeleton
microtubules are recognized as highly Quantum sensitive structures.
We hereby suggest that their Quantum sufficiency is coordinated by Subquantum
Information storage and carrier systems operating in superluminal velocity
range. From this, their computation efficiencies far exceed computer-driven AI
technologies, as applied in cellular automata concepts.
Further on, we consider that Pribram's collective emergence of qualitatively
distinct properties, along upward evolutionary vectors in phylogenetic chains,
is conceptually consistent to the cumulative complexity indices we ascribe to
evolving Information-driven SQ substructures, which cause Quantum superposition
states. The quantum states so produced, are specific for given hierarchical
levels of organization, involving specifically related energetic
configurations.
Let us assess from the very beginning, that perception modalities of sensory
information in brain-coupled consciousness, are related, in our perspective, to
interference patterns produced by neural firing frequencies, provided they are
properly configured for their successful transcriptions into Subquantum maps,
which are available for subsequent decoding ("reading") by
symmetrically conformed Information fields, which fields are operating at the
next implication levels of complexity.
Hopfield introduced an Informational function, coupled to energy states in the
Brain. This opened a new analytical perspective. However, Hopfield did not
recognize at the time, that the structure-patterning effects such Information
fields generate, exist both in morphogenetic modelings of neural structures, as
well as in permanent reconfigurations of the functional efficiencies of neural
network correlates of cognitive functions. That such correlates widely exceed
static Information patterning and selections is suggested, e.g., in Changeux's
spin glass mechanism.
Holographic distribution patterns of space-time configuration Units are
properties internal to the SQ entities. The the combinatorial states of the SQ
entities are defining many different complexity values. This understanding
provides a superior theoretical model for configuration transpositions, when
compared to some earlier suggestions, such as the Conrad - Lieberman virtual
cytoplasm representations.
Coherent nanoscale excitations in biosystems are elucidating collective subunit
behavior patterns, which are originated in enfolded SQ Information patterns
which control bioactivity chains. In this regard, DeCallatay's downward
implication hierarchy and his approach to cytoskeletal structures, as fractal
sub-dimensions of neural networks, in a Bohmian context, strongly supports our
views.
By connecting EM, Time and Gravitation in a synoptic homogenous concept, the SQ
approach supports both time-dependent and time-independent mechanisms such as
those proposed by Froehlich and Davydov regarding molecular computational
efficiencies.
Brain-scale macroscopic Quantum superposition effects are presented as evolving
on the background of microtubulin conformational states, not as a cumulative
consequence of such states, but as a higher organizing principle, one which
allows for meaning-related two-way configuration-pattern transcriptions. These
are essential replication effects, required for conscious representations, and
are running in null time. This is a consequence of the superluminal velocity
Information transfers which are commonly achieved by SQ fluxes, such as those recently
experimentally demonstrated by Hu.
2. LOW-LEVEL BIOMOLECULAR,
CYTOSKELETAL, GENETIC, AND CELL-LEVEL COORDINATIONS.
At the biomolecular level, entropy stabilizing systems involve hydrogen bonds
of multi-enzyme complexes. These are related to water-supplied resonant
bivacuum interactions as described in the Kaivarainen model. This interaction
seems to be an important atomic-level contribution to cytoskeletal information
processing ability.
Let's assume that Barrow-Lindsay correlated fluctuations in macromolecular
surface effects, are SQ related to fluctuations of London forces, according to
the polarization and separation indices which are specifically implied. This SQ
relatedness operates in the infra-electronic and molecular scales, providing a transcription
of a preselected SQ matrix, into conformations of biomolecular event chains.
Further, let us assume that biochemical
oscillating patterns of tyrosination/glutamation, regulating biomolecular
configurations, supply the chemical encoding required for replication of
Quantum-related events. In this situation, femtosecond and nanosecond
oscillations are present in the metastable functional conformational states
which are observed at the biomolecular level, leading to transient
superpositions, expressed as Quantum equivalents.
Such a transcription of Informational contents at biomolecular level, may imply
that there exists a conformal Quantum tuning effect, which is occurring between
cellular infrared dipolar radiations and ambient EM phenomena, acting to carry
regulatory signals which are originating from higher implication levels. This
concept seems to be supported by Free Energy Landscape experimental reports,
where related experiments were performed using multidimensional Infrared and
terahertz spectroscopy, with results which seem to correlate with the above
suggestion. (Y. Suzuki and Y.Tanimura).
The ultimate coupling of conscious experience to the physical Brain, has been
suggested to imply that there exist dynamically evolving entanglement modules,
in the Quantum range between TGD-defined vacuum extremals, and Bose-Einstein
condensates (M. Pitkanen). This circumstance might influence cytoskeletal
resonance mechanisms, involving Josephson currents which are oscillating in the
InfraRed frequency ranges, resulting in their coupling to photonic
Bose-Einstein condensates, thus leading to functional phase-locking effects in
microtubules.
Nonlinear quantized solitonic alpha helix propagations, as described by
Davydov, in their retroactive coupling to quantized phonons in Information
transferences across nanoscale structures, are embedded in the regulating
Quantum map, which acts as a local teleological attractor, by way of
electro-solitonic energy transfers. Quantum tunneling effects, together with nanosecond
time-scale charge redistributions, related to the Froehlich excitations
evolving in hydrophobic protein enclaves, equally participate in this process.
The alpha helicoidal structure of peptidic alignments and sequencing can be
described as a soliton-mediated holographic transcription of vortex structures
forming at different scales of magnitude, at least down to the 10e-58m
Kolmogorov range, as we have repeatedly stated. Beta-pleated configuration
sheets are formed in polypeptide chains according to Information that is
contended in the subatomic realms of the relevant hydrogen bonds involved. In a
similar way, tertiary and quaternary protein assemblies have been documented as
forming under SQ-originated Van der Waals forces. Charge configuration related
dipole oscillations, evolving at this scale, are further contributing to the
configuration and stabilization of tertiary allosteric states.
As we shall see at a more advanced stage of our analytic considerations on the
various bioregulation instances, the biomolecular one included, a secondary
downward holographic replication with retrograde causal orientation, is
implemented by Quantum mediation, aligning elementary neuronal structures for
the optimal implementation of cognitive tasks. These tasks have been
preselected in time at the high implication levels which are specific to
Consciousness and self-awareness related representational modalities.
In our view, cytoskeletal Quantum coherence which satisfies biological
integration requirements and functional hierarchic integrations, leads into
higher complexity Quantum fields. This situation implies that a direct
causational link might be operating across biomolecular, neural network and
conscious experience domains.
Cytoskeleton involvement in cognition has to be limited to its specific range
of validity. This does not diminish its holonomic importance in the whole. It
merely defines its application range in the overall scaling map of
interconnected configuration mechanisms, extending across the literally
infinite array of implicate domains, which are involved in sentient reality.
Fractal expressions of such a multiple-embedded control system may be
holographically described as the various conformational transition events which
are operating at different size and time scales. Those determinants which are
operating within the pico and femtosecond ranges, define atomic, molecular, and
cytoskeletal regulation domains.
The cytoskeletal hologram results from convergent SQ patterns, belonging to
sensory input signals, and referenced information sources, respectively.
Such Information-guided Quantum superpositions provide a phase-stabilizing
calibration system, which, in the available tuned filtering and resonant
conditions in the cytoplasm, allow for the selective wave dynamics observed in
the cell, as well as in their collective and coordinated "macron"
effects. At a corresponding analytic resolution, Quantum macrons implement
Information control upon their energetic correlates, at each level of the
various informationally implied potential structures which are contributing to
the vast holographic assemblage we describe as the sentient biosystem, at all
levels of integration.
Functionally effective spatial organizations of cytoplasm activities, as
evolving under centriolic microtubule polymerization guidances, wouldn't be
conceivable without implying an intelligent primary centriolic activity, in the
first place. This cytoplasmic organelle obeys enfolded retrocausation cues, as
supplied by overarching centrosomal Quantum states. Such implicate
retrocausation blueprints are made possible, as we shall argue, by infinite
velocity SQ information transmissions, which has a blurring effect on the
chronometric time-embedding of the process.
SQ capacitors aligned along insulated molecular strains, between the hollow
core of the microtubule, and the peritubular clear zone, smoothly respond to
the Quantum entanglement effects they are embedded in. It has been obviously
overlooked until now, that the spatial arrangements of hollow parallel
intra-microtubulin systems may result in strong Grebennikov cavitation effects,
which are acting as a tuning mechanism, linked into higher order task-related
SQ attractors.
We strongly emphasize that cytoskeletal contributions are not limited
exclusively to neurons. These contributions are in the background of the
lower-level morphogenetic and morphoplastic information controls, which are
operating in biological systems, at an overall biomolecular level. These
processes must be related to various representational effects, only in their
proper application ranges, as seen from the holonomic Bohmian perspective of
hierarchical integration constraints.
In our SubQuantum model of reality, cellular gravity, originating in gyroscopic
centriolic fluctuations, is intimately coupled to related EM, time and
Informational components. This fundamental connectedness of physical forces to
Information dynamics, also finds a significant manifestation in the
pericentriolar environment embedding the centriolic apparatus, whose stable
axial orientation is thus preserved. ATP-generated centriolic rotative
oscillations in the 10^7 per second frequency range, match collective
energy-absorption bands, orchestrating an efficient detecting and processing
apparatus for the linear signals involved.
MTOC-regulated microtubular space-time deployment patterns of multitubular
arrays, result in propagations of deterministic changes, able to confer row
information about environmental events, without any claim for specific decoding
of this Information content. Actual decoding occurs in distant implication
domains, well above the intracellular one. Of course, there is a holographic
parallelism between neural interconnectedness and MAP attachment patterns to
MT. The best MAP1, 2 and Tau ratios in these structures, are selected out by
the background organizing fields, via Konga information codes, operating in the
microtubular domain.
Further, the Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction-diffusion system is scarcely
"self-organized". It runs under SQ control. This view is supported by
its originating in the phase-singularity toroidal vortex, which is a scalar
expression of similar SQ organizing torsion patterns we can follow down through
the Compton radius vortex, to operative regimes far below the Planck limit.
Winfree-Strogatz organizing effects ascribed to microtubulinic and centriolic
dynamic inductors may run under MAP regulation mechanisms, where biochemical
short-term MAP memory gets stabilized by SQ controlled Quantum states, affecting
their molecular structure.
The downward flow and activation of Information control instances evolves in
sensitive Quantum states, which operate via microtubular gradion distribution
patterns. These are the building blocks for the Brain engrams whose outputs are
amplified by allosteric cooperation chains up to detectable values for
appropriate effector response of the biosystem at its macro dynamic level.
In a similar context, we have to emphasize that prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell
mobility can't find a really satisfactory explanation in current theoretical
proposals..The probing activity of chemo tactic Information signals ascribed to
lamellipodia and filopodia requires a still elusive Information processing
ability of the signals thus acquired, in order to achieve a cytoplasm-flux
decision, oriented in the right direction. It's an almost impossible task to
explain cellular chemotactism and motility in embryogenetic pathways without
involving a "contact" function ascribed to filopodia, which is related
to pre-set target matrix configurations, provided by higher level morphogenetic
field matrices.
As previously mentioned, the overall orchestration of the different
nanostructures in cells, and their functional correlations, require the
hierarchical active interference of organized Information fields to be able to
implement an integrated multi-task control. This is a very important
contribution to the understanding of the optimal differentiation and high
precision path-finding that neuro-embryonar processes are involved in, for
establishing the maximal efficiency of interconnection potentials that the
morphogenetically resulting Brain can offer.
Where is the control instance of the genetic cell activity itself? A certain
kind of "micro-progenetic" regulation of the genetic apparatus itself
is required, and this is supplied by stabilized SQ correlation maps available
in the Quantum environment, where the genetic processes are embedded. This
confirms the Albrecht-Buehler contention regarding hierarchical information
processing strata, delivering the required guidances for the cytoplasmic level
of intelligence.
Studies put in evidence the questionable role that the physical presence of
centrosomes might have in the mitotic process, which process has been shown to
proceed in progressing, even after laser irradiations of the centrosomes. This
experimental evidence strongly suggests that the formation of the mitotic
bipolar spindle follows an Information pattern, and is acting without respect
to any centriolic control. As acentrosomal cells lack the radial arrays of
astral microtubules and are defective in spindle positioning, the orthogonal
arrangement of centrioles seems to have a spatial centralizing task, for the
site of the cytokinesis, rather then its initiating one. The mitotic starter,
and further guidance, is not biochemically encoded in the cytoskeletal system.
It clearly runs under relevant SQ Information control.
Fundamental chemical processes, such as the lysine acetylation on H3 histone,
leading to chromatine fragmentation into nucleonic units, influence the
transcription phase of the gene expression by histone-encoded epigenetic
control. The functional gene product preserves the signature of the histone
code, which participates in DNA-templated programs.
A single methyl group discriminating between dymethylated or trimethylated H3
histone components, coupled to the chromodomain, may result in critical
structural changes by histone code alterations. This highlights the paramount
importance of SQ coordinations at the atomic level, governing elementary
chemical events, with decisive consequences for the gene expression and the
resulting functional gene products.
SQ mediated Information transfer might operate at or below this atomic
resolution, resulting in critical departures from original genomic expressions.
This has been amply documented in recent impressive experimental,
ontogenetically late instant mutations, reported by Gariaev and his team at the
Moscow University.
Here we resume our repeated warning, that genetic and epigenetic code
activities must be carefully described in the specific
biomolecular/morphogenetic range they apply, avoiding extrapolations into the
higher-order implication levels of Information complexity which are certainly involved
in Consciousness dynamics. At the same time, we have to keep in mind that
determinant coherence effects, ruling biomolecular events, may be analytically
addressed as holonomic analogues for Informational processes governing
high-level coupling and the integration of Consciousness with multimodal neural
network activities in Brain.
We have to keep in mind that hydrophobic interactions involved in
polymerization processes are the entropy conservation patents of nature,
favoring negentropy, as supplied by the organizing SQ-related Information
fields which exist at the biomolecular level. Electron density increases in
centrosomal protein molecules orbiting the centriolic foci may be seen as the
Quantum inductors, which are regulating Information for the centriolic controls
exerted upon particular configuration vectors of cytoskeleton conformation.
This process is highly relevant in the centrosome/kinetochores orientation of
microtubules, as an Information-induced mechanism, initiating the prophase in
eukaryotic cells, possibly involving for this effect, chemo-gravitational
fields, related to the gyroscopic inertia of rotating and oscillating
centriols.
Microtubular dynamic instabilities, leading to functional cell polarizations
and mitosis-related specific structure formations, represent a statistical
effect of intra-electronic SQ fluxes evolving in the Compton Radius space under
the derivative control of enfolded infograms, mediated by higher level
retrocausation effects. Unaccounted-for microtubulinic complexity gradients,
beyond the equilibrium state of their subunit configurations, arise from the
underlying SQ organizing modules. Coherent dynamic cytoskeleton excitations
result in holographic Quantum units, stabilizing standing waves at the
info-plasmic resolution level. The ultimate source of biological organization
is thereby conceptually removed to deep below the microtubulinic
lattice/cytomatrix connectivity relations, toward enfolded background
Informational domains.
Coherent nanosecond Froehlich dipole oscillations are coordinated by their
fundamental embedding in the Time aspect of the SQ field, which supplies a
higher-precision synchronization guide than the one that might be derived from
sensitively fluctuating physical forces of local topological relevancy.
Bose-Einstein condensates and Froehlich excitation coherent processes, evolving
in the GHz spectral range, producing resonant microwave effects on living cells
and other Quantum components, contribute an overall binding-effect, related to
cellular functions.
Holographic SQ Informational distributions, resulting in increasingly complex
patterning effects is, in our opinion, a more realistic candidate for replicate
transcriptions then the one offered by Heidemann's fractal tensegrity model, whose
application range is much more limited.
Distant functional cell alignments to resulting local Informational states, is
ensured to occur in null-time by the superluminal propagating velocity of the
Information carrier SQ infinitesimals, supplying a more fundamental mechanism
for Von Neumann-type cellular automata models, than the currently envisaged
ones.
For a better understanding of the following section in our exposure, let us
recall that ionic flux channels in neuronal signaling, involved in slow propagating
"gated" potentials, which evolve under informationally extended SQ
space-time patterning effects, have a guiding and stabilizing interaction with
transaxonal membrane depolarization waves, described as "action
potentials". These have far-reaching global consequences upon the neural
networks, and the whole-brain Quantum conformational states involved in
Consciousness.
Objective Reduction in the Subquantum Perspective:
Accumulating tubulinic state-superpositions, leading to objective Schrödinger wave-collapse
events, in a statistically random time sequence, are obviously unable to convey
the extremely refined correlation maps required to produce meaningful and
coherent blueprints. From this perspective, pre-reductions of Quantum
distributions must satisfy local integration requirements, but not higher level
ones, unless some higher-level coordinating system (similar to our SQ model)
implements an efficient patterning of the sequence. This sequence results in an
orchestrated OR, according to overarching teleological attractors embedded in
hierarchically higher-level Quantum configurations. These configurations are
holographically imprinted, in a most efficient way, upon the OR mechanism.
The hereby implied Informational control may be mediated by the gravitational
component of the SQ units, in the frame of the Quantum gravity threshold
proposed by Penrose. Space time geometries related to Quantum superposition
states at all of the integration levels, conducive to OR, are fundamental
constituents of our hyperdimensional SQ configurations, and subsequently, are
the natural carriers of Information stored in their combinatorial aspects
forming the given Quantum state.
The self-collapse event is neither random, nor self-chosen by the superposition
system itself. It occurs precisely according to the embedding Quantum
configuration's requirements, mediated by the Time-Gravity constituents of the
underlying SubQuantum apparatus. The OR is the Quantum event which links
different sets of deterministic Information controls, and provides their
orchestration towards preselected attractor gradients, by suppressing
nonconformal components, mostly originating at lower-level integration
structures. This occurs in key neural components, which integrate different
cognitive implication levels, by time density fluctuations, as described by
Kozyrev.
Post-reduction events reflect further Quantum guidelines, related to complex
histone codes internal to cytoskeleton nanostructures.
3. MEDIUM-LEVEL NEURAL
NETWORK COOPERATIVITY
Parallel networks of neuronal and intersynaptic substrates, as Brain correlates
of consciousness, work by implementing Quantum correlation aspects established
between their energetic blueprints, and the Information counterparts thereof.
These conformational equivalents are conveyed via delivery and transcription
media by the SQ configurations, which are supplied as references, to the
various hierarchical constituent levels of the conscious Self. Thus, the only
sustainable representation of Information in Brain has to be found in the
interferential range of coupled SQ superposition maps, belonging both to the
energetic and Informational components of the binary systems considered to be
involved in sentience. According to the Information flow vector, these components
assume preferred "active" or "reactive" tasks, which are
selected by a switching effect which originates in enfolded control instances,
operating in higher implication levels of reality. These instances may
implement the teleological retrocausation potentials which are implied in the
trans-temporal domains of our interest.
Firing frequency pulse codes are related to stimulus intensity alone. It is
beyond any reasonable doubt that, even combined with the neural-network level,
closed reverberating connectionism of polyvalent stimulations, which are
detecting and integrating potentials, firing frequencies alone, fall short from
any content-related Information processing requirements. This becomes more
evident in observations of non-specific network activations, or correlation
patterns, as involved with the multiple event-parameters they originate in.
Synaptic Long Term Potentialization and heterosynaptic plasticity, are
biochemical effects, directly related to transmission velocity and not at all
to informational content. These effects increase the Quantum efficiency of the
NN involved in generating Quantum replicas for Informational transcription,
working as a biological hardware maintenance process, which runs at the low
effector range in the signal processing domains. The same observation holds
true with regard to the dynein-kinesin orchestrations observed in axoplasmic
streams. The quantum configurations of the energy, biochemically derived from
tubulinic ATP hydrolysis by the contractile proteins, encodes the proper
sequencing coordinations for the contractile structures attached to the
microtubular apparatus. This is possible only by Quantum integration into
higher level programs. The ratio established between anterograd flux patterns
and retrograde axoplasmic flow, with trophic feedback effects on the neuronal
mechanism, are initiated under this localized Quantum control as an Information
pattern consolidation effect, which is supplied to the neural unit and its
assemblies, at SQ level of integration.
SubQuantum modules hierarchically organize and control, implicated levels of
Quantum activity, in coordinated brain areas. These coordination instances are
operating, at a maximum efficiency range, which undeniably is far beyond the
proposed strictly localized Gazzaniga inference engine or Minsky's multiple
connected frame model. The "graininess" of representational patterns
has to be found at the level of the Information-bearing infinitesimals, which
are cooperating to form the Quantum map which functionally involves neural
collectivities, where each cell participates into the representation, at its
own SQ efficiency index. Freeman's collective behaviors are then a result of
these collective Quantum activations. This activity has to be carefully distinguished
from EEG patterns, which represent the general integration of overall Brain
activities, into the planetary Schumann resonance-system.
Also, it is mandatory to differentiate the biological intelligence, which has
been related to patterns of cytoskeletal responses to weak oscillating electric
fields, from the task-related Quantum-coordination of trigger EM signals, and
the cytoskeletal reaction modes, which are responding to resonant EM signals.
As a matter of fact, weak EM fluctuations operating at the level of SQ
configurations, are amplified into Quantum maps at cytoskeleton range,
contributing to the level-specific engram formations. This process accounts
also for the nonlinear tensility of cytoskeleton structures. The formation,
depolimerysation, and Intracellular orientation of microtubulinic assemblies
according to functional attractors, evolve under related Information supply
internal to the bio-regulating Quantum field potential. Tubulin dimer topology
is in tilted and helicoidal hexagonal lattice structures, rather than
different, biologically non-efficient orientations. These orientations are
established under the organizing cytomorphogenetic SQ field potentials, as
well. These potentials are conveyed to the reacting system by the Van der Waals
London dipole coupling forces, which express an unfolding of the implicate SQ
configurations operating at the cytoskeletal level - and far more fundamental
integration domains, internal to the fine structure of participant electrons
themselves.
In a similar manner, independent tyrosination/glutamation chains of tubuline
subunits are variably related to DNA transcription effects, while sidearm
dynein propulsion systems for axoplasmic transports, conveniently evolve under
SQ coordinations, derived from hierarchically integrated organizing fields and
holographic superpositions of teleological attractors. These mechanisms are
coupled into the organismic level of the overall integration of the Self into
its environmental conditions. From this perspective, local Shannon's
"message formal structure" is meaning-laden in its specific
cytoplastic target range alone, where decoding organizational meanings conveyed
by formal patterns is performed at the level of the biomolecular subunits which
are involved in cytoplasm activity. The interacting spatial and temporal
components in this process are not the source of Information. They are results
of Information, used for coupling into the local energetic fields which are
related to large scale intracellular biomolecular connectedness. Collective
cytoskeletal activities are not generating Information patterns, but expressing
them, according to geodesic tensegrity nets, which carry the Information
required for their expressions.
The dielectric wave-guide model, as proposed for the micro tubular photonic
conduction by Hameroff, gains an increasing importance, especially in the
temporal and hipocampal areas of enhanced directed photonic penetrations. This
is consistent with our references to photons as undifferentiated Information
carrier agents that contribute to holographic image formations in various
interference instances. More elaborate considerations, related to Boolean
matrix vectors organizing in SQ arrays, suggest a selective coupling between
the ATP-related Infrared radiations which are observed internal to
biomolecules, and their programming induction fields.
This means that the axoplasmic traveling of previously conjectured
"representational screens" evolves under SQ control rather then an
elusive programming previously assumed to originate in the microtubule
formations themselves. Nevertheless, the Hameroff-Watt concept of holographic
information storage, activating coherent wave patterns in cytoplasm, is in our
opinion the most advanced concept ever proposed, seen its compelling similarity
to our SQ modeling of the main underlying principles.
The Boolean switching matrix proposed by Hameroff strongly reminds Eccles'
modular cortex activation patterns, amenable to configurationally
meaning-related Quantum transcription both along afferent and efferent
operational connectivity vectors. Recent experimental data (A. Maier) reveals
that at the bacterial single-cell level (Esc. Coli) there exists the presence
of an intelligent decision-making capability, which is obviously acting at the
genomic level.
Distribution patterns of environmental water molecules, carrying chemically
noxious ions, at the external membrane surface of the cell, may be disturbed by
a feedback genetic-signalization which results in turn-overs of hydrophilic
behavioral components, into hydrophobic ones, at that level. This
experimentally confirmed reactive biochemical choice behavior, strongly
contradicts the concept of biomolecular level initiations of upward
organizational arrays by an accumulating chain of merely causal sequencing.
This becomes still more evident seeing context-dependent perceptual modulations
which exist in single-neuron activities. Neurons in the visual cortex have been
electro physiologically proved to alter their spiking rates, according to
perceptual interpretations of the stimulus. This implies a retrograde causation
chain, which is consistent with the downward implication system we propose.
This gets further experimental support in cortical sensory-motor mirror
networks, supplying preferential functional subsystem activation patterns,
according to the emotional valence and arousal properties of nonverbal
vocalizations (J.E.Warren & All, 2006). Moreover, neural burst events
recorded in the thalamic lateral geniculate nucleus, which are related to
visual encoding in the Lesica-Stanley experiments, put in evidence
stimulus-related Information encoding efficiencies, in collective coherent
neural firing events. Relying on explicit investigation procedures, the authors
concluded that a possible cortical-feedback regulation mechanism is resulting
in thalamic neuronal depolarization and a consequent switching from burst, to
tonic firing patterns, after detection of the stimulus. The resulting linear
transmission of preselected stimulus features is reached by pre-activations
based on a higher-level interpretative processing, able to modulate overall
neural cell activities, according to meaning indices, which indices are
detected as being present in the signal content. More evidence for Informational
bypass-mechanisms, circumventing primary visual cortex structures, is supplied
by the nonconformal ratios which are existing between the alternate available
extra-striate efficiencies, and the superior resolution-level that the visual
stimulus achieves during its transcriptions into subjective awareness, as
well-documented in papers related to blind sight.
4. HIGH-LEVEL CONSCIOUS
INTEGRATION AND MEMORY
The selection of a preferred eigenvalue for the Quantum state, which state
precedes the wave-collapse transition event, is far from a "random
process" as proposed in standard Quantum Mechanical theory in its
Copenhagen interpretation. In the SQ model of reality, state reductions are not
related to ambient "observation" interferences, but follow a
deterministic crystallization trajectory of a preferred orientation, not
dissimilar to the physical laws governing fluid dynamics in the macroscopic
range. We claim that subsequent and fundamental orchestrations of global
Quantum-map configurational interplays, are excessively underestimated, when
placed in the functional range of cytoskeletal biochemistries, or even when
associated with coherent neural network activities.
As we have already stressed in the past, NN components bear a very low-level causal
significance as related to actual observable cognitive functions. Quantum
Mechanical states display a double reactivity, both to SQ originated cognitive
modulators, as well as to SQ sensory modulators of environmental origin, which
are implementing the alignments and superposition states of both these sets of
information, during each cognitive instance. Such Quantum Mechanical effects
express both underlying, antero and retro causal, SQ determinacy chains, able
to imprint into the integral system, the best embedding variant into an
"All-time" modulated functional efficiency.
Overlapping coherence bands, which are involving sensory, mental and emotional
contributions to selected Quantum potentials, may reach out to, and be
analytically followed in, transpersonal EEG synchronization effects.
In the past, we have highlighted some of the Quantum mechanical components
which are resulting in deterministic interactions between Heisenberg Choice
activations, and Dirac's "response ability", which is suppressing
nonconformal evolutionary lines of possible expansion options which are
originating in transient background uncertainty effects. This Dirac-response
selection of deterministically controlled, conformal Quantum configurations, is
implemented by the Quantum Zeno stabilizing effect upon the task-oriented Stapp
action template, which is further stabilized by Quantum fixations of the
implied basic vectors, in their Hilbert space.
The perfectly synchronized dual Quantum interactions we have described in our
previous publications, lead to suppressions of conflicting action potentials,
by interplays between superposing inhibitory signals and proactive proxy
attractors. Thus, resulting neural signal sequences are deterministically
aligned to preselected and appropriate action templates, in the Brain. Of
course, neural paleostructures of Brain are placed under a priority response
regime, which is aligned to Quantum determinacy cues, thus ensuring favored
implementations, which are survival value configurations. This alignment of
priorities results in - as we shall see - efficient and reversible
dissociations, which can be observed under conditions of anesthetic neural
interferences, between preserved paleointegrative vital functions, and
higher-order cognitive processing events. Reversible blocking
hippocampus-neocortical pathway conductions, involved in representational
projections toward the self-conscious SQ structure, may have some relevance in
this context, as implemented by metabotropic glutamate receptor effects on
hippocampus synaptic plasticity.
No conscious equivalent can be proved to directly result from the collapse of
conformationally-coupled Quantum superposition states. So OR-conjectured
transitions between, preconscious and conscious states, have no experimentally
provable anchorage in observable phenomenological reality. At the same time,
Quantum-map configuration-changes can't be described without these same
phenomenological substructures. In this meaning, OR events are actually located
in the preconscious range, though without direct subsequent repercussions on
Qualia (Subjective experience).
Self-perturbations in Space-time geometry, which have been suggested as Quantum
correlates of Consciousness in the OrchOR model, are conceptually consistent
with the innately-hyperdimensional essence of our SQ information-bearing units,
and can be seen as their logical consequence.
The elementary unit of consciousness, the conscious "now" is not the
instantaneous result of hierarchic binding effects of probability-wave
reductions. In a more comprehensive reference frame, extending beyond space and
time constraints, into the ontologically autonomic Information fields governing
SQ activity, causation chains oriented along chronological time vectors, cease
to be the ultimate deterministic pathways for meanings transfered across
hierarchic holonomic networks, as implied by global integration processes.
Information subunits aggregate, in both directions of the Time vector, into an
experiential "nowness", accessible to the Conscious Self. At the same
time, this process provides the global reference frames for mnestic structures,
which are stored in the atemporal Information fields, which are actually
required for setups of actual connectional meanings. Such events involve
Quantum nonlocal effects, originating in instances of space-time-free
hyperdimensional couplings, of the SQ Units to Information fields, implementing
in this way, a highly more efficient communication system than the one
predicted by standard Quantum entanglement schemes.
Therefore, the ultimate coordination instance for consciousness-related
phenomena has to be emphatically relocated into the Information-driven
integration and guidance system, which is provided at SQ level by the
hyperdimensional Informational essences it involves. In turn, this process of
integral personality-representing focal information-condensations, actualizes
the sequentially higher-order organizational principles which are innately
embedded in the all pervading cosmic harmony.
Memory Storage and Recall
Learning and memory are not functions of inter-neuron synaptic modeling
effects, as currently held. Mnestic patterns actually correspond to Information
field configurations, each stored in their own SQ domain. Evidently, their preset
resolutions, are in the first place, a function of recurrent synaptic
connectional patterning processes, which lead to an increased accuracy in the
replications of the original Quantum maps, as presented to the observer by
integrated sensory cues, during the learning process. Of course, biomechanical
details of mnemonic replication effects are favored in this range, by the
allosteric behaviors of presynaptic Ca channels and by the
"habituation" of chreodic vectors, operating at biochemical levels.
Functional distributions of mnemonic traces, throughout the Brain, leads to
their Quantum recalling, from any holographic storage module, by reference
superposition attractors which are supplied as the symmetry components produced
by an inquiring mind, in form of SQ patterns which generate field alignments to
the, holographically-encoded, relevant Quantum activity components.
This view is consistent with Lashley's interference engram, if transposed to
the Quantum level and beyond. Any structural or locational aspects, regarding
neurally encoded memory patterns, must be abandoned as only of an historic
value. The reactivation patterns in Quantum maps, related to specific memory
constellations must be seen as SQ-triggered alignments of extended Brain energy
substructures. Each time, the SQ attractor performs the selective regulations
of Quantum mechanical processes, which are correlated to the recalling event.
Information is not stored in the physical Brain. It is reactivated in Quantum
states by global resonant replications, which are controlled by SQ induction
filters. A very large number of neurons participate in this Quantum resonance.
Topological tracking of activated modules and networks, in specific instances,
may be the subject of future, more refined, fMRI investigations.
Changeux's "representations" are ultimately SQ configurations,
patterned in a "matching/not matching" mechanism, by real time
sensory Information inputs, in a wide correlation context, pattern-matched to
identical SQ-essence memory-storage pools.
5. ANESTHESIA IN A NEW
PERSPECTIVE
From all the previously introduced considerations, it clearly results that
consciousness is in NO WAY a collective effect of conformational dynamics
evolving at some lower hierarchic implication level. The SQ paradigm aligns
these categories along a reversed causation vector, which is allowed by the
fundamental time invariance applying to the Maxwell equations.
From this novel perspective, the anesthetic collective inhibition of dynamic
conformal changes in Brain substructures exclude brain responses to available
Quantum configurations, as supplied by the SQ processes which evolve in the
conscious Self, and Brain mediations of environmentally-generated afferent
signals, which are aimed, by the faculty of attention, towards the
aforementioned ultimate SubQuantum processing structure - the individual Self.
If there is no attention for the thing or event, that thing or event does not
exist for the observer.
Phase transitional sequencing in the implemented Brain/Consciousness decoupling
and re-coupling pathways, are eloquently related to multidimensional dynamics,
exactly as illustrated in the recently published Walling-Hicks phase-space EEG
transcriptions. Hyperdimensional integration gradients into SQ-mediated Information
fields are locally dependent upon the determinational quantum states of Brain,
which are in turn, hampered during anesthetic impairments of regulating London
force effects, at the level of nanoscale biomolecular background events. This
explains why lower subsets of organismic integrations, governing vital
functions, are preserved during anesthetic depth values, which are able to
disconnect biological ground processes, from their projective space
consciousness correlates. As an unavoidable, absolutely compelling consequence,
conscious processing of environmental events may freely evolve during this
disconnected state, leading to SQ memory patterns which are being dynamically
stored in the projective space-time, and subsequently re-supplied to the individual,
for post-anesthetic recollections. Such recollection instances are abundantly
described in the literature as "paranormal events" of the OBE and NDE
kind.
Just as at biological resolution level, chemical energy patterns, have
Information propagating efficiency, unimpaired conformal functionings of
collective neural assemblies are required for up-scaled integrations of Qualia
and provide meanings into the Self, during its coupled modus operandi to Brain.
Anesthetic impairments at low integration levels, propagate in cascade-like
dysfunctional arrays across the higher integration structures of Brain,
resulting in Brain's transient functional dissociation from the self conscious
entity. The duration of such instances may vary from consciously unperceived
micro-blackouts in the stream of consciousness, through short-term neural
hypoxic effects, controlled medication efficiency windows (anesthesia), to
long-term so-called "vegetative" preservations of vital functions.
Beyond this connectedness reversibility threshold, experimental and
experiential evidence strongly supports observations of unimpaired cognitive
functions, which are operating their own, separate, SQ integration domains,
which are able to interfere with anesthetic influences, by lowering entropy
states, in both biological and non-biological systems, which are capable of
modulable random energy-pattern supplies.
During anesthetic interferences, short-term memory fixation components, with
biomolecular background requirements, may be impaired. Complex peripheral
Information inputs may circumvent this integration level, resulting in
extra-sensorial transmissions and subsequent coherent patternings of SQ maps,
occurring at the highest level of the observing Self. Such imprinted
configuration patterns may act as induction fields for subsequent Quantum
replication effects in the Brain, during the post-narcotic phase, resulting in
long-term memory blueprints which may be recalled by accessing the proper
Quantum connectivity pathways, which are normally involved in
Consciousness/Brain coupling functions. Such memory contents preserve special
integrated aspects from their non-neural extrasensory recording pathways,
supplying the specific heterotopic recollection parameters which define OBE and
NDE reports. Such reports gain phenomenal reliability from the perspective of
our SQ integration concepts, which contradict consciousness-suppression effects
which have been misleadingly ascribed exclusively to physiological or
medication-induced, transient cortical dysfunction states.
6. RECENT SCIENTIFIC
DEVELOPMENTS SUPPORTING THE SUBQUANTUM MODEL OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
A. Hyperdimensional
essence of Brain
Conformational and combinatorial structures at
neural biomolecular level, obviously obey distribution orders far beyond their
own structural codes. Direct photonic excitations by favored temporal
penetration windows of the Right Temporal Lobe and its associated limbic system
components, may contribute to Brain's biological interface with an
interconnected Universe, as suggested by M. Morse (Univ. of Washington), such
processes enhancing religious and NDE-type experiences. He suggests ascribing
to the right temporal lobe, a biological vehicle value for morphic
resonance-mediated control in post-genetical ontogenetic phase correlations.
In a personal communication dated back to 1997, J. Whinnery pointed to
dreamlet-like experiences originating in hypoxic brain modules, as being
similar to NDE reports. These kinds of experiences imply neural connectivity to
non-local Quantum-Reality Information structures and corresponding
configurational maps.
Extending the Rubner-Kleiber scaling computation laws , K.Togbey & All
performed a fractal analysis of the relevant allometric exponents of the Brain,
reaching a 4/5 law. This implies that a 5th dimensional function is present in
resonant NN connectivities. This finding relates Brain's Information-coding
abilities to the Golden Mean ratio, by equating EEG metrics to number of
harmonics times 2φ. Wave packets, scaled in powers of the Golden Mean, exert a
patterning action upon the time-lags separating neural firing events, over
several orders of magnitude. Harmonic spectra below and above the brain's
fundamental 2 φ frequency matrix, are involved. Neural networks operate according
to powers of 2φ/2, efficiently using them for Fibonacci series related
Information coding, involving Hausdorff dimensions which are implementing the
fractal distribution patterns of SQ information structures.
Log-normal and power-Law distributions of variables are thus governing
heritance and aberrance processes in biosystems, where the power-law
distribution proves to accurately describe the Fokker-Plank equation, as
applied to the discrete variables related to SQ Informational Units and their
combinatorial matrices.
B. Non-physical
signalization.
Our SQ model has received an important support, by the novel view on Quantum
physics recently proposed by P.V.Kurakin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow),
which addresses hidden variables as evolving in a hidden space/time, without
violating Bell's theorem. This highly appealing model of non-physical
signalization systems, running in "hidden-time", beyond normal
physical time constraints, is strongly consistent with our infinite-velocity SQ
signalization concept. Indeed, hidden-time dynamics - the ones occurring in
Information fields - result in the best conceivable controls of the
deterministic parameters which are at work between elementary events, such as
photon emission and absorption, thus implementing informationally enfolded
guidances of energetic phenomena. Standard QM offers nothing more then a few
predicted probability amplitudes, for such elementary processes. Physical
"quantum time" normally refers to the number of energy quanta, absorbed
at a given point in Space, during a given time-span, as derived from
normalizing experiment-related variables. The photon emission/absorption events
themselves, are currently seen as running in a random, probabilistic framework.
The Kurakin Quantum model allows for a deterministic patterning of such events,
rather than a probabilistic randomness, by introducing non-physical modes of
Information signaling, which operate in the background, hidden-time, dimension.
This involves complex interactions between "queries" and
"confirmations", where queries and responses are operating
non-locally as parallel vectors, composed of direct, and backwards-oriented,
non-physical signals. These information signals, which are regulating Quantum
processes, evolve as hidden variables, in the physically inaccessible domains,
as defined in the Compton Radius Vortex, by a lower metric value then the
Compton wavelength itself. This signalization control involves coaxial
superpositions between contradicting time propagation vectors, thus involving
retrocausation effectors originating in preselected SQ matrix fields of higher
implicated orders. Such Information signals are displaying a physically
detectable fractal integration amplitude, only at the levels of fragments of
superposition, thus eliminating the need for any theoretically uncomfortable,
and physically hard to demonstrate, backwards-flow patterns, in physical time.
According to this advanced concept, Quantum choice happens in no physical
instant (zero time), as a result of Information-signal superpositions along
their vacuum trajectories. As described in the Kurakin model,.Information
propagation channels in the vacuum, are thus controlled by "virtual"
guiding structures. Such structures might be mutually compensating pairs of Information-charged
SQ units, organized in SQ condensates which are not signal-generating
formations. These distribution patterns in the vacuum originate at a higher
level of integration, aiming target-related conformal signal transmission
blueprints which are reching various targets, in zero time. This results in an
apparent retrocausation of the pure Informational essence, as implemented by
the hidden-time symmetry of Informational vectors, which allow primary query
signals to be propagated from detector to source - and not the other way around
- as amply explained in Kurakin's model. relying upon Cramer's transactional
interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.
From this novel perspective, Objective Reduction events of Quantum
superposition states are seen as instantly deriving from hidden-time
signalization patterns and not at some random and undefinable pace, as seems to
be implied by the previously conjectured "Quantum gravity control".
This retro causative chain operates along a downward implication vector of
Informational essences, modulating upward physical trends, as described in the
Penrose Hameroff model, and thus exerting a perfectly coordinated deterministic
control upon the overall orchestration of the physical processes involved in
neural activity. This easily explains both, the "logical" overall
outcome of consciousness-related Quantum processes, and the highly elusive
feature of the phenomenal continuity of Consciousness. This view overcomes the
various unavoidable statistical segmentation effects, which are commonly
resulting from applications of classical Quantum mechanical views.
Brain operates in physical time at the Quantum level, but it also operates as
an interdimensional resonator, one which is capable of coupling hidden-time SQ
signal processing events, into biomolecular energy-related Quantum states.
Time-patterning Quantum events prove to be but the statistical results of
deterministic SQ processes, evolving in the hidden time frameworks, which we
have associated to a projective space, whose limiting singularity is the
Quantum-embedding Euclidian space. Our extended team reached by now a quite
advanced stage of developing an infinite tetration and self-root related
mathematical formalism able to express these kinds of interdimensional transitional
geometries, involving non-integer hyperoperations, which expectedly will
highlight the many new connections hereby suggested, between Informational 2D
spinor spaces and the Euclidian space of Brain, putting in a new light, the
Brain correlates which are addressed by the OrchOR model of Consciousness.
Countless far-reaching explanatory consequences derive from these novel
concepts, extending from anesthesia-related topics, to free-will proactiveness,
to remote phenomenal patterns. These understandings are related to
statistically significant, experimental and experiential results, such as those
reported during "paranormal" Information-processing research
programs.
From the new perspectives opened by the SQ model we defend, we suggest to
replace the currently held concepts of purely biochemically-induced
consciousness-suppressing effects, as seen during narcosis, by a more accurate
understanding, one which implies that, during narcosis, a transient decoupling
effect is occurring between the individual self-conscious structure and the
Brain (as the interaction tool of the Self), with relation to an energy-defined
ambient reality. This decoupling occurs as a result of abnormal chemical
influences on the normal biomolecular backgrounds which are required for
setting up the various resonant Quantum maps involved in consciousness, in the
normal waking state. Moreover, such disconnection states allow for continued
and undisturbed cognitive functions running in projective space, despite any
induced failures of the normal biochemical systems, leading to mnemonic
configurations with the ability of triggering conformational Quantum maps in
Brain, after the suppression of the chemical disturbance of the physical
background during anesthesia. This effect is amply documented in a compellingly
extended database which piles up in currently running investigation programs,
with results which are confirming the endless chain of anecdotal post-surgical
subjective reports which have been abundantly recorded (and routinely dismissed,
as being events which are conceptually opposed to the standardized contents of
the prevalent Consciousness-related theories).
Unfortunately, addressing various anomalous cognitive phenomena, from the
perspective of the novel approach hereby proposed, would vastly exceed the
scope of our current presentation. We hope to have future opportunities to
extend upon these kinds of topics, which dearly need the canonical acceptance
of the academic community, at this stage. We have tried to significantly contribute
to this aim by bringing forward our currently achieved insights, as offered in
this presentation, which hopefully will yield a future of experimentally
supported developments, in these deserving fields.
By now, we can see that the fundamental rules of the game need to be changed,
in order to bring Consciousness research, and the understandings derived from
it, into an alignment with the reproducibly observable facts, which facts
unfortunately tend to defy the explanatory ranges of current paradigmatic
constraints . Such observables can't be dismissed any more, or ignored, or
misinterpreted, by biased preconceived approaches and tendencies. Prof.
Hameroff's expressions regarding a Brain-coupled Consciousness seem to be
perfectly consistent with H.Stapp's Quantum-mediated "top-level
control" paradigm, as well as being consistent with our SubQuantum
concepts, which describe the details of this control's concrete implementation.
Therefore, this novel view has to replace the obsolete one, which has proposed
a Brain-based epiphenomenal approach. During the last few decades, the
epiphenomenal approach has progressively degenerated, and thence stabilized
into a most regrettable set of accumulations from the past, a unfortunately
biased set of physically unverifiable, and conceptually egregious errors, in
Consciousness Studies.
III.
SUMMARY OF THE MAIN SUBQUANTUM CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ORCH-OR MODEL OF
CONSCIOUSNESS.
1. Conscious experience is "embedded in a fundamental space-time
geometry", being accessed but NOT SELECTED by the OR process.
2. Our SQ model addresses the "non-computable" components of the
Penrose sequences related to OR, which occur in Brain, not as
"aspects" of Consciousness, but as correlates of Consciousness.
3. OR occurs not by cumulative Quantum superpositions by way of a random
probabilistic Quantum mechanical effect, but due to purely deterministic
sequences, imposed on the system by requirements which are originating from the
Information fields.
4. Our SQ model provides the solution for the elusive determinism in specific
3-D configurations of amino acid chains in tubuline molecules (the
"protein folding problem"), describing it as evolving along a
teleological attractor-like vector.
5. Bose-Einstein type macroscopic Quantum coherent states, amplify the
resulting Quantum effects, by sharing the thus selected wave function, and at
the same time translating Informational configurations into the Brain's Quantum
states.
6. SQ mediated Information Orchestration enters the Quantum domain via
non-random van der Waals London dispersion forces, regulating Quantum
superpositions of conformational states and aligning them for successful
replications of SQ inductor maps.
7. Coherent Quantum superpositions in molecular hydrophobic enclaves are not a
"prerequisite for consciousness". Such superpositions are simply
supplying an orchestrating effect, which is resonant with Quantum maps in the
Brain, thus tuned to SQ configuration information equivalents, which exist
previously, in higher implication levels (Information determinacy).
8. Anesthetics may act in hydrophobic enclaves by obeying the Meyer-Overton
correlation requirements, suppressing the fine-tuning effects between Quantum
events occurring at this level, and their SQ-map counterparts, thus disrupting
any afferent inputs into the conscious fields of subjective experience. At the
same time, this process is suppressing Quantum neural resonance transcriptions
with complex cognitive processes, which processes are meanwhile proceeding in
their own projective space. In this way, anesthetics dissolve the physical
Brain's correlations with the non-material Consciousness (mind), thus
preventing noxious inputs from reaching the non-material Mind, by way of neural
transmissions. Mind observably and instrumentally continues, even when the
electrochemical mechanisms of the physical brain are turned off.
CONCLUSIONS.
1. We defend a novel approach which shows two
distinct states of human consciousness:
A.) The condition of being a
free, SubQuantum-related, cognitive complex, one which is evolving beyond
physical space and time constraints, following an increasingly negentropic
vector. Together with thermodynamical chains of increasing entropy in various
energetic ranges, this state contributes, over time, to a total
entropy-negentropy conservation law, as fundamental to our Universe.
B.) The brain-coupled
functional variant of the above mentioned structure, with describable
parametric correlates, as amply treated in the Orch-OR model.
2. At the level of its utmost morphogenetic complexity, brain is progressively
patterned during its ontogenetic phases, for an increasing Information
processing efficiency, with multitasking capabilities.
3. Our model is not reducible to previous dualistic or epiphenomenal concepts,
as its approach to Information signalization and control apparatus is deeply
rooted in modern, experience and experiment-supported, physical observations
and their accompanying mathematical constructions.
4 We amply argument the "why" Brain is the ideal anchorage tool of
organized Information fields, into ambient energetic Space-time dependent
processes.Brain supplies the active components of this integration, by
implementing symmetrical Information flows between the interconnected Quantum
structures which are involved in the coupling process.
5. Our novel approach is rooted in an
overwhelmingly deep pool of information, comprising an objective, experimental,
and multi-disciplinary, extended database. This database includes in its
explanatory range, both "normal" and "anomalous"
Information-related phenomena, in a non-contradictory and coherent
epistemological framework.
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