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    This paper investigates the physical substrates of conscious processes and argues that consciousness may be a new form of energy. It discusses how consciousness establishes relations between external and internal stimuli to create reality. The paper aims to locate the origins of consciousness in the brain and explores the possibility that consciousness increases neural signals and brain waves. It also examines theories that view consciousness as the ability of a physical system to integrate information and that see the level of tension across neural networks as determining the state of consciousness. The paper suggests consciousness may be an active force that can control or cause changes in energy fields.

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    Journal of Conscientiology, IAC - International Academy of

    Consciousness, July-December 2017, Vol. 20, o. 63, UK, p. 27


    http://jofc.org/telas/home/arquivo.php?id=jofc_63_03_en

    Is Consciousness a ew Form of Energy?


    Syed Ismyl Mahmood Rizvi

    ABSTRACT: This paper is aiming to investigate the physical substrates of


    conscious process. It will argue: How does the conscious process establish
    relations between their external stimuli and internal stimuli in order to create
    reality? Within this framework, the paper will also attempt to locate the origins
    of consciousness in the brain.
    Keywords: consciousness, conscious energy, thought mechanism, neural signal,
    brain waves

    INTRODUCTION

    How far down may we go in search of the capacity of consciousness in the


    hierarchy of nervous systems – vertebrates, invertebrates, single-celled
    organisms? (Chakravarthy, 2014) Neurons are not essential for the basic life
    process (Damasio, 2010), as Protozoans like Paramecium can swim, find food
    and mates, learn, remember (Nakagaki et al., 2000; Adamatzky, 2012) and have
    conjunction, all without synaptic computation.
    When we become conscious then it increases signals in our brain. When the
    signals are increased (e.g. signals are the complex behavior of ion channels on
    the branches of the neurons) then they contribute to the shape of brain waves,
    and the physical stimuli that gave rise to the signals no longer available. For
    example, if we add neural energy by recalling a memory or by adding a new
    memory then the mass of the memory may increase at each recall or addition,
    and if the neural energy is taken away from the neuron, it decreases its mass.
    This clearly shows that consciousness (or consit) is interdependent on the brain
    waves in distinct distributed proportions. But the brain waves are not
    consciousness. From this separate probability distribution, we may find out the
    arbitrary conditional probabilities of one set of consciousness given another set
    of brain waves. Calculating these conditionals may help us to define the
    inference problem for the mechanism of consciousness.
    According to the integrated information theory of consciousness, any
    physical system will have subjective experience to the extent that it is capable of
    integrating information. In this view, experience, i.e. information integration, is
    a fundamental quantity that is, in principle, measurable, just as mass or energy
    is. Information and integration are, on the other hand, the very essence of
    subjective experience. Indeed, the theory claims that the level of consciousness
    of a physical system is related to the repertoire of different states (information)
    that can be discriminated by the system as a whole (integration). (Balduzzi &
    Tononi, 2008; Tononi, 2004). The level of tension across the neural networks
    determines the state of consciousness. The type and volume of traffic over those
    networks determines the experiences of consciousness (Ross, 2009). In human
    brain, cognition and consciousness are, at any one time, thought to involve tens
    of thousands of neurons. Hebb’s (1949) ‘cell assemblies’, Eccles’s (1992)
    ‘modules’, and Crick and Koch’s (1990) ‘coherent sets of neurons’ are each
    estimated to contain some 10,000 to 100,000 neurons which may be widely
    distributed throughout the brain (Scott, 1995).
    As long as we add more neurons, we will need more speed and energy to
    recall or recycle them, and this will repeat in an endless cycle. Neural
    electromagnetic waves do not, of course, travel at the speed of light, about 30
    cm/ns in free space. In the axon of a neuron, electromagnetic speeds are closer
    to 30 nm/ns, because of the low current densities from ionic current sources and
    the high capacitance per unit area of a membrane (Burger, 2009). As much
    distance a signal (e.g. neural electromagnetic waves) would travel in the brain
    its mass would increase and this would eventually slow its speed. As the
    wavelength of electromagnetic radiation decreases, the amount of energy it
    emits increases (McDowell, 2015). Memory is enhanced not only by the rate of
    spike firing but equally by their relative timing. The spiking of neurons in the
    hippocampus and the visual cortex with which it interacts are greatly influenced
    by synchronous oscillations of brain waves (Sejnowski & Delbruck, 2012).
    Synaptic transmission and axonal transfer of nerve impulses are too slow to
    organize coordinated activity in large areas of the central nervous system.
    Numerous observations confirm this view (Reinis et al., 2005). The duration of
    a synaptic transmission is at least 0.5 ms, thus the transmission across thousands
    of synapses takes about hundreds or even thousands of milliseconds. The
    transmission speed of action potentials varies between 0.5 m/s and 120 m/s
    along an axon. More than 50% of the nerves fibers in the corpus callosum are
    without myelin, thus their speed is reduced to 0.5 m/s. How can these low
    velocities (i.e. classical signals) explain the fast processing in the nervous
    system? (Musha, 2009) 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). If these states are discovered then they may help us to solve “how
    neuronal synchrony, e.g. gamma synchrony EEG (30 to 90 Hz), the best
    measurable correlate of consciousness does not derive from neuronal firings”
    (Penrose, 2011). Consciousness is an active force or mechanism that can,
    among other things, control or cause change in the human energy field, as well
    as, potentially, the universal field. Consciousness is a four or higher-
    dimensional force. Recent work in physics seems to indicate that higher
    dimensional forces may be at work (Lansky, 2011).

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