I see the basic idea. What sort of physical/computational substrate do you envision (which may be in the writings -- I think this is paywalled).
Mike A On 6/24/14, 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 > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/11943661-d9279dae > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: 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
