Hi Colin,
Well, it's good to see something new. Three years ago from Arizona to Caltech and back to Leicester in UK some pillars of the neuroscience community laughed at me regarding “concept cells” - at that time a very revolutionary idea for which they strongly advertised http://neuroelectrodynamics.blogspot.com/p/concept-cells.html Was it so revolutionary? No, not at all. They repackaged the old grandmother concept and they lied to everybody pretending they didn't get NED -neuroelectrodynamics. *After three years no one's laughing now.* Modha has failed to deliver the *cat* with 1 billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses and Gerstner’s and Izhikevich spiking neurons do not provide more than previous generations (sigmoidal neurons) either at . In addition, Markham's repeated attempts to create the human conscious brain by reverse-engineering are no better than Modha’s projects. I hope that scientists in Australia have more honesty, teach less lies, old myths about the real brain http://neuroelectrodynamics.blogspot.com/p/myths-about-brain.html and fund more realistic projects..... There are a lot of ways to succeed where so many pillars of the neuroscience community have failed. Any practical approaches of how consciousness can be engineered? Dorian On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales via AGI < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear Folk, > > I thought you might be interested in the following paper, which is > essentially my PhD outcome packaged into a journal paper (49 pages!), > contextualised with respect to consciousness, and now finally published in > a special journal issue on the ‘Hard problem of Consciousness’. > Online-ready only at this point. Came out yesterday. > > Hales, Colin G. 2014: 'The origins of the brain’s endogenous > electromagnetic field and its relationship to provision of consciousness'. > *Journal > of Integrative Neuroscience*, Vol 13 Issue 2, pp. 1-49. > > > http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219635214400056?queryID=%24{resultBean.queryID} > <http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219635214400056?queryID=%24%7bresultBean.queryID%7d> > > *ABSTRACT* > > As a potential source of consciousness, the brain's endogenous > electromagnetic (EM) field has much to commend it. Difficulties connecting > EM phenomena and consciousness have been exacerbated by the lack of a > specific conclusive biophysically realistic mechanism originating the EM > field, its form and dynamics. This work explores a potential mechanism: the > spatial and temporal coherent action of transmembrane ion channel currents > which simultaneously produce electric and magnetic fields that dominate all > other field sources. Ion channels, as tiny current filaments, express, at a > distance, the electric and magnetic fields akin to those of a short > (transmembrane) copper wire. Following assembly of appropriate formalisms > from EM field theory, the paper computationally explores the scalar > electric potential produced by the current filaments responsible for an > action potential (AP) in a realistic hippocampus CA1 pyramidal neuron. It > reveals that AP signaling can impress a highly structured, focused and > directed "sweeping-lighthouse beam" that "illuminates" neighbors at mm > scales. Ion channel currents thereby provide a possible explanation for > both EEG/MEG origins and recently confirmed functional EM coupling effects. > Finally, a physically plausible EM field decomposition is posited. It > reveals objective and subjective perspectives intrinsic to the > membrane-centric field dynamics. Perceptual "fields" can be seen to operate > as the collective action of virtual EM-boson composites (called qualeons) > visible only by "being" the fields, yet objectively appear as the familiar > EM field activity. This explains the problematic evidence presentation and > offers a physically plausible route to a solution to the "hard problem". > > For those impoverished and for those without institutional access I do > have the preprint. Just email me. > > cheers > > *Colin Hales, PhD* > > *Researcher * > > *NeuroEngineering Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Electronic > Engineering* > > *University of Melbourne, Australia* > > > > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/17795807-366cfa2a> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
