Quantum Mechanics of 'Conscious Energy'
Quantum Mechanics of 'Conscious Energy'
Quantum Mechanics of 'Conscious Energy'
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
3. BRAIN ENERGY
Consit
Additionally, there exist other energy states of both optical and
vibrational nature (Jelínek & Pokorný 2001; Pokorný et al. 1997;
Deriu et al. 2010) which tubulin and the whole microtubule can
support. These states can be excited by energy supply provided
by mitochondria (Cifra et al. 2010). Please read the table given
below:
channels and within synapses and elsewhere, since ions and their
electrons are small and subject to quantum theory. One
interesting hypothesis suggests quantum computing within the
microtubules of neurons, proposed to generate higher
consciousness (Hameroff 2003; 2007). Others see quantum
tunnelling of electrons between synapses as creating
consciousness (Walker 2000). The coherence of such quantum
states among brain proteins has been suggested to lead to
material changes in brain physiology through orchestrated
collapse of quantum coherent clusters of tubulin proteins,
triggered by quantum gravity expressed at the spin (Planck scale)
level. On the basis of a recent theory on the nature of gravity
(Verlinde 2011), postulating that gravity is not a force but rather
an entropic compensation for the movement of mass/information,
it was speculated that consciousness may arise from a gravity-
mediated reaction on the entropic displacement of information as
it occurs in high density in the human brain (Meijer 2012). But
no such particles and forces have been identified that could
produce consciousness. The effect that quantum coherence in the
brain would be too short lived to have a functional role in neural
processing (Tegmark 2000). Quantum-coherent oscillations are
difficult to demonstrate on living systems – heat effects, due to
resonance in thermal frequency modes, all too readily intrude,
jumbling the experimental picture (Loewenstein 1999: 314).
Brains operate much like a resonance chamber, oscillating pulses
and patterns of neural excitations ripple through our brains much
like never-ending waves in a dynamic pond of subtle electrical
matter. The brain is an electrochemical organ; and speculations
are that a fully functioning brain can generate as much as 10
watts of electrical power. More conservative investigators
calculated that if all 10 billion interconnected nerve cells
discharged at one time that a single electrode placed on the
human scalp would record 5 millionths to 50 millionths of a volt.
Electrical activity emanating from the brain is displayed in
brainwaves (2006). The higher the frequency of our brain waves,
the higher our consciousness. Our brain waves are governed by
the same rules of quantum mechanics and by the same equations
governing the electromagnetic spectrum, light, particles and
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8. CONCLUSIONS
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