Consciousness as a cosmic phenomenon
Authors:
B. Sániová; M. Drobný
Authors‘ workplace:
Klinika anestéziológie a intenzívnej medicíny, Jeseniova lekárska fakulta UK a Univerzitná nemocnica Martin, Slovenská republika
Published in:
Anest. intenziv. Med., 27, 2016, č. 1, s. 25-31
Category:
Intesive Care Medicine - Special Article
*Prehľad základných myšlienok, ktoré rezonovali na 21. výročnej medzinárodnej interdisciplinárnej konferencii 9.–13. júna 2015 v Helsinkách, ktorá sa konala pod názvom Toward a Science of Consciousness 2015 (TSC 2015).
Overview
More than 600 participants took part in the 21st Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) international interdisciplinary conference in Helsinki in 2015, which was focused on the basic issues associated with conscious experience. The aim of such conferences is to bring together neuroscientists, neurologists, anaesthesiologists, philosophers, contemplative and experiential metaphysics opinion leaders, to explore this difficult topic from all possible aspects, in depth and on the basis of sound knowledge.
The nature and mechanisms of human consciousness are emerging as one of the most important scientific and philosophical questions of the 21st century. Dualism is the most plausible concept explaining the emergence of consciousness after the Big Bang when antimatter changed to the current matter. In this cosmological time the quantum entanglement was installed, which today‘s dualism considers as the first developmental phase of consciousness. The wave function of electromagnetism plays an important role in the phase of human conscious awareness, but also in the lower stages. This function is generated primarily in the intracellular microtubule digital machines, but then it is passed through the microtubule plasma inter-phase, which converts the digital wave into an analogue waveform. The analogue electromagnetic waveform is then processed in electrical synapses (gap junctions), which generate the fundamental quantitative characteristics of human consciousness – lucidity and vigilance. The quantum theory of Penrose-Hameroff offers a plausible neuro-biological, classic-computing and quantum-computing interpretation of this function. Since the change and loss of consciousness are essential components of general anaesthesia, the greatest medical discovery of this millennium may be the nature of human consciousness and its changes during general anaesthesia as well as the mechanisms of information transmission between the mind and the soul – qualia.
Keywords:
neuroscience – human consciousness – quantum entanglement – microtubules – electrical synapses – general anaesthesia
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