The Unifield Field of Consciousness

Francisco Di Biase
Professor, Post-Graduation Dept., UGB Universidade Geraldo Di Biase - Volta Redonda, Rio, Brazil
Department of Neurosurgery-Neurology, Clínica Di Biase and Santa Casa Hospital, Rio, Brazil
Full Professor, Grand PhD, World Information Distributed University, Belgium
Honorary Professor, Albert Schweitzer International University, Switzerland
[email protected]

Introduction

We are living a special moment in human history of emergence of a fantastic

integral quantum-holographic cosmovision [3], developing a “magic” world, as Arthur
Clark said, where we will not diferentiate technology from magic. Our civilization is
discovering and making reverse engineering from everything that evolved in this
Cosmos. We will be creators not only of stem-cells and nanobots but also of stars and
galaxies. This new integral cosmovision is more wide than the quantum-relativistic
paradigm that emerged in the beginning of the XX century. The foundation of this new
paradigmatic transformation connecting all levels of the universe is the phenomenon
of non-local information [1] interconnecting all self-organizing universal systems in
this cosmos. The Quantum Field Theory developed by Umesawa [1] with its concept
of non-local information connecting everything in the universe from quantum physics-
chemistry, quantum biology and quantum mind, through quantum consciousness and
quantum cosmology fine tuned [2] for the emergence of life show us that human
evolution and the emergence of mind and consciousness are the inevitable
consequence of a inteligente informational universe. This holoinformational intelligent
self-organizing field is continuously emerging from a plenum (not a vacuum) that
permeates all the cosmos, full of quantum information and energy popping out of
nothing every billion of trillionth of a second. This quantum field plenum is a kind
of cosmic DNA scattering “in-formation” (active information with meaning that
forms the reality)) through all the universe, creating galaxies and supernovas with
thermonuclear furnaces generating atoms of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen the basis of
all life forms. The fine tuned biosignature of this non-local informational field is so
fundamental for the cosmic evolution and the emergence of life that it must be seen as
a cosmic organizational principle with a “status” equal to matter, energy and space-time,
and as we shall see, also consciousness.

Information Self-Organization and Negentropy

Chalmers [4] states that information is an essential property of reality, as matter and
energy, and that “conscious experience must be considered a fundamental feature,
irreducible to anything more basic”. He argues that each informational state has two
different aspects, one as conscious experience, and the other as a physical process in the
brain, that is, one internal/intentional and the other external/physical. This view finds
support in the present developments of the so-called “Information Physics”, developed by
the physicist Wojciech Zurek [5] and others. This Information Physics developed in the
first years of the 90’s have demonstrated that beyond the Law of Conservation of
Energy there is a more fundamental Law of Conservation of Information. In the
process of developing a new Quantum Information Theory, Zureck propose that the
physical entropy would be a combination of two magnitudes that compensate each other:
the observer’s ignorance, measured by Shannon’s statistical entropy, and the disorder
degree of the observed system, measured by the algorithmic entropy which is the smallest
number of bits needed to register it in the memory. During the measurement, the
observer’s ignorance is reduced, as a result of the increase in bit numbers in its memory,
remaining, however, constant the sum of these two magnitudes, that is, the physical
entropy.
In this context the equivalence/identity between order, negentropy and information, is
the way that allows us to build upon and understand the whole irreducible and natural flow
of order transmission in the universe, organized in a meaningful and intelligent
informational mode. In the classical thermodynamic theory, the definition of order is
probabilistic and dependent on the entropy concept, which measures the degree of
disorder of a system, reducing to uncertainty the immense dimension of natural meanings.
For Atlan [6,7], and for us, Di Biase [8,9,10,11,12], “entropy shouldn’t be understood as a
disorder measure, but much more as a measure of complexity”. To make this, it is necessary
to consider that information implies a certain ambiguity, meaning the bit capacity of a
physical system as Shannon [13 ] put it, or the semantic content (meaning) conducted by
the bits during a communication. In the information theory, the organization, the order
expressed by the amount of information in the system (Shannon’s H function) is the
information measure that is missing to us, the uncertainty about the system. Relating this
uncertainty, this ambiguity to the variety and the non-homogeneity of the system, Atlan [7]
could solve certain logical paradoxes of self-organization and complexity, widening
Shannon’s theory and defining organization in a quantitatively formal mode. Atlan showed
that the system’s order corresponds to a commitment between the maximum
informational content (i.e. the maximum variety) and the maximum redundancy, and
showed also that the ambiguity can be described as a noise function, or even a time one, if
we consider the time effects as related to the random factors accumulated by the
environment’s action. Such ambiguity, peculiar to biological self-organizing systems, can be
manifested in a negative way (“destructive ambiguity”) with the classical meaning of
disorganizing effect, or in a positive way (“autonomy producer ambiguity”) that acts by
increasing the relative autonomy of a part of the system in relation to the others, reducing
the system’s natural redundancy and increasing its informational content.
Atlan developed this self-organizing theory of complexity for biological systems. Jantsch
[14] has show that cosmological evolution is also a self-organizing process, with the
microevolution of the individual systems (holons) co-evolving towards macrosystemic
collective structures better organized, with a big reduction in the amount of these collective
systems. This whole self-organizing process represents, actually, a universal expression of a
bigger acquisition of variety or informational content that is a consequence of a reduction of
redundancy in the totality of the system.
 Seager [15] states that consciousness, self-organization and information are connected
at the level of semantic significance, not at the level of bit capacity, and that “as the classical
theory of information is situated at the level of “bit capacity” it would seen unable to provide
the proper connection to consciousness”...and “we can begin to move towards a more
radical view of the fundamental nature of consciousness with a move towards a more
radical view of information”. Seager still reminds us that in the famous two-slit experiment,
and in the quantum eraser experiment, what is at stake is not the bit capacity, but the
semantically significant correlation of information laden distinct physical systems, in a non-
causal mode.

Linking quantum information to consciousness and physics

Wheeler [16] realized how important information is in such context. With his genius,
Wheeler describes an elegant information-participatory universe that is the most brilliant
and fundamental model of interaction brain-mind and Cosmos ever described in the science
of consciousness. With his famous “the it from bit” concept he unite quantum information
theory to consciousness and physics:
“...every it - every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself -
derives its function, its very existence, entirely - even if in some contexts, indirectly - from the
apparatus-elicited answers to yes-or-no questions, binary choices, bits”. “It from bit
symbolizes the idea that every item of the physical world has at bottom – at a very deep
bottom, in most instances – an immaterial source and explanation; that which we call reality
arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no question and the registering of
equipment-evoked responses; in short, that all things physical are information-theoretic in
origin and this is a participatory universe”.
In the same paper Wheeler [16] gives the example of a photon being detected by a
photodetector under watch, when we ask the yes-or-no question:
“Did the counter register a click during the specified second?”. If yes, we often say “a
photon did it”. We know perfectly well that the photon existed neither before the emission
nor after the detection. However, we also have to recognize that any talk of the photon
“existing” during the intermediate period is only a blown-up version of the raw fact, a count.
The yes or no that is recorded constitutes an unsplitable bit of information”.
There is a cosmological version of Wheeler’s experiment with photons emitted by a
distant double quasar that shows that photons interfere with each other not only
when observed in the laboratory but also when emitted in the cosmos at huge
intervals of time. A double quasar with its light-image deflected due to a gravitational
lens made by a galaxy situated about one fourth of the distance from Earth was
observed. The additional distance travelled by the photons deflected by this
intervening galaxy was fifty thousand light years longer than those that came by the
direct way. Although originating billions of years ago and arriving with an interval of
fifty thousand years, the photons interfere with each other just as if they had been
emitted seconds apart in the lab.
Wheeler developed this it from bit perspective studying the unification of quantum gravity
theories in black holes and telling that we must understand quantum information as being
more fundamental than energy, matter and space-time. This has relevance for
consciousness studies as we see consciousness primarily as an informational system. As
Doug Matzke [17] states “it requires the adoption of an energy/information duality for
anything within accessible states, such as quantum states and consciousness. The
seemingly paradoxical aspects of consciousness will become more understandable
adopting this energy/information duality just as early in this century the particle/wave
duality was insightful in understanding physics” … “By understanding quantum states
as an information system, the energy/information duality is exposed.
The corresponding nature of quantum spacetime supports non-local behaviors.
Quantum information laws form a consistency network that creates all fields, particles
and even spacetime itself. Even Einstein was wrong about the thinking of quantum
mechanics as mere energy mechanics. Correctly labeling phenomena as information vs.
energy will lead to clarity about paradoxical aspects of consciousness”.

The Cosmic Informational Code

What self-organizes significantly the cosmic evolution is the relationship between

the physical entropy and the universe’s non-local quantum-holographic informational
content, through a process in which the complexity using the pre-existing informational
content reaches each time higher organizational levels and variety. The concept of
quantum information as being more fundamental than energy, matter and space-time, is
the foundation of a transdisciplinary holoinformational unified field theory of
consciousness that connects “all that is above to all that is below”.

Complexity in the universe grows gradually, from gravity and nuclear powers in the
cosmosphere, with information stored in atomic-nuclear structures. Intensifies with the
emergence of the self-organizing macromolecular systems of the biosphere, with
information stored in the DNA molecules code. And reaches an almost infinite antientropic
state of complexity, variety and informational content with the emergence of the
noosphere and the mind code with information stored in neural networks, and the
consciousphere the consciousness-universe interconnection code with information stored
in quantum-holographic networks. This universal distributed non-local quantum
holographic information network connects our consciousness to the quantum-holographic
cosmos. It is a non-local quantum informational unfolding, that self-organizes matter, life
mind and consciousness in a meaningful way as we can see in the conceptual framework of
the quantum holographic theory of the universe of David Bohm.

Such informational codes, this order that is transmitted in a meaningful and

intelligent way through all levels of complexity of the universe, is the negentropic self-
organization nature of the information-consciousness, an irreducible physical dimension of
the cosmos as energy and matter.

Consciousness and Non-Locality

Adding to its equations a Quantum Potential that satisfies Schrödinger’s equation, that
depends on the form but not on the amplitude of the wave function, David Bohm [18,19,20]
developed a model in which the quantum potential, carries “active information” that
“guides” the particle along its way. The quantum potential has inedited characteristics
unknown up to then, because differently from the other nature’s forces, it is subtle in its
form, and does not decay with the distance. Such interpretation allows communication
between this “pilot wave” and the particle, to be processed in a higher speed than the light,
unveiling the quantum paradox of non-locality [20], i.e., of the instantaneous causality,
fundamental in our holoinformational view of consciousness. For Bohm, differently from
Bohr, the elementary particles do not have dual nature wave/particle but are particles all
the time, and not only when observed. Actually, the particle originates from a global
quantum field fluctuation, being its behavior determined by the quantum potential “that
carries information about the environment of the quantum particle and thus informs and
affects its motion. Since the information in the potential is very detailed, the resulting
trajectory is so extremely complex that it appears chaotic or indeterminist” [21]. Any
attempt of measuring particles properties, changes the quantum potential, destroing its
information. As John Bell [22] observed, “ the De Broglie-Bohm’s idea seems... so natural
and simple, to resolve the wave-particle, dilemma in such a clear and ordinary way, that it is
a great mystery... that it was so generally ignored”.
In the quantum-holographic theory, as Bohm [23] put it “the implicate order is a wave
function, and the superimplicate order or superior informational field, is a function of the
wave function, i.e. a superwave function that makes the implicate order non-linear
organizing it in complex and relatively stable structures. Besides that, the holographic model
as a way of organization of the implicate order was dependent upon the quantum
informational potential field, that did not have capacity for self-organization and
transmission of the information, essential for the understanding of the genesis and
development of matter, life and consciousness. The superimplicate order fills this need,
allowing the understanding of consciousness, energy and matter as expression varieties of a
same informational order. As a result consciousness would already have been present since
the beginning of creation in the various levels of nature’s unfolding and enfolding”.

Organisms and Brains are Macroscopic Quantum Systems

In the living world non-local coherence is just present as in the quantum and in
the cosmos scale. In living organisms the coordination of functions inside the
organisms is ensured by quantum coherence as we can see in the instantaneous
correlation between parts and molecules and also between the organism and the
external milieu. This instantaneous quantum information transfer are observed in
organic molecules in entangled quantum states, in quantum tunneling , in Bose-
Einstein condensates, and in superradiance states occurring in brain structures as
microtubules, synapses and the cerebrospinal fluid. According to Erwin Schrödinger
in his seminal book What is Life? [24] , in living organisms we must replace the
concept of mechanical order that make order from disorder, by the notion of dynamic
order, that produces order from order, from complex organization and information.
This difference between mechanical and dynamical order, according to Schrödinger
was first proposed by Max Planck that already made this distinction in a little paper
named The Dynamical and Statistical type of Law, as I show in Di Biase, Auto-
Organização em Sistemas Biológicos [8]. That type of non-local informational order
explains the living matter and is not based on mechanical molecular chance collisions
and interactions, but in a system-wide correlations involving even distant parts that
could not have time for mix in a mechanical process. This organic coherence is only
possible through the mobilization of non-local information and energy far from
thermodynamic equilibrium. Mae-Wan Ho[25] suggests the organism maintain itself in
a negentropic state through the superposition of a non-dissipative cyclic process with
entropy balance out of zero, and a dissipative irreversible process with entropy
production greater than zero. The cyclic non-dissipative loop coupling with the
irreversible energy loop frees the living organism from immediate thermodynamic
constraints. But how a self-organizing quantum mind can overlap quantum decoherence
and maintain a persistent coherent state for a long time, at room temperature. Ho [25] has
been demonstrating that “ Highly polarized multiple layers of liquid crystalline water
molecules form dynamically coherent units with the macromolecules, enabling them to
function as quantum molecular energy machines that transform and transfer energy with
close to 100 percent efficiency. This liquid crystalline continuum of intimately associated
polarized water and macromolecules extends throughout the extracellular matrix into the
interior of every single cell, enabling each cell, ultimately each molecule, to
intercommunicate with every other”.

Dejan Rakovic [26], points out that Quantum-Holographic and Classically-Reduced

Neural Networks can model psychosomatic functions: “The prevailing scientific paradigm
considers information processing within the central nervous system as occurring through
hierarchically organized and interconnected neural networks. However, it seems that this
hierarchy of biological neural networks is going down sub-cellular cytoskeleton level, being
according to some scientists a kind of interface between neural and quantum levels. At the
same time it appeared, within the Feynman propagator version of the Schrödinger equation,
that the quantum level is described by analogous mathematical formalism as Hopfield-like
quantum-holographic associative neural network. The mentioned analogy opens additional
fundamental question as to how the quantum parallel processing level gives rise to classical
parallel processing level, which is a general problem of the relationship between quantum
and classical levels within the quantum decoherence theory as well. The same question is
closely related to the fundamental nature of consciousness, whose in-deterministic
manifestations of free will and other holistic manifestations of consciousness like transitional
states of consciousness, altered states of consciousness, and consciousness pervading body –
necessarily imply that some manifestations of consciousness must have deeper quantum
origin, with significant psychosomatic implications”.

Quantum-holographic neuronal dynamics and classical neuronal computer network

interconnection.

It is very well stablished experimentally today that the molecules of chlorophyll

responsables for the photosynthesis process that transforms light photons in chemical
energy in plants, can do this with extraordinary efficiency, for about 750 femtoseconds,
compared with 1 to 1.5 femtoseconds frequency of chemical-bond vibrations. This is due to
the action of a protein called antenna protein that holds the chlorophyll molecule sustaining
the quantum coherence state and suppressing decoherence, by reinducing coherence in
decohering parts of the chlorophyll molecule [27]. This show us that the capability to
suppress decoherence at environment temperature is a common process in nature. So the
capability to suppress quantum decoherence must be seen as a natural process in the wet
brain, and we must work with the possibility that neurons and glia can sustain a quantum
coherent state for milliseconds in the organized cellular complex molecular system full of
proteins macromolecules, small molecules, ions and water. It is well known that in the
vicinity of these macromolecules there is ordered water, and that proteins with a cavity in
its 3 D structure can hold one or a few water molecules by means of hydrogen bonds.
Quantum chemical computation shows that these ordered water molecules within and
between two proteins separated by 12 to 16 ångstrons permits the occurrence of quantum
coherent electron transfer [28]. This quantum coherence can propagate through non-local
information transfer in the nervous system and in the body by quantum entanglement and
superradiance. As biological self-organized systems these molecular systems have a huge
structural and functional redundance that facilitates the non-local interconnection of all
parts.

In-formation in Self-Organizing Dissipative Structures

Ilya Prigogine [29,30] Nobel Prize winner, developed an extension of thermodynamics

that shows how the second law can also allow the emergence of novel structures, and
indicates the ways in which order can emerge from chaos. This type of self-organization
generates dissipative structures that are created and maintained through the energy’s
exchanges with the environment in non-equilibrium conditions. These dissipative structures
are dependent upon a new order, called by Prigogine “order from fluctuations”, which
corresponds to a “giant fluctuation” stabilized by the exchanges with the environment. In
these self-organizing processes the structure is maintained through an energy-information
dissipation that displaces itself, simultaneously generating (in-formating) the structure
through a continuous process. The more complex the dissipative structure, the more
information is needed to keep its interconnections, making it consequently more vulnerable
to the internal fluctuations, which means a higher instability potential and higher
reorganization possibilities. If fluctuations are small, the system accomodates them and
does not change its organizational structure. If the fluctuations reach a critical size, however,
they cause disequilibrium in the system, generating new intra-systemic interactions and
reorganization. “The old patterns interact between themselves in new ways, and establish
new connections. The parts reorganize themselves in a new whole. The system reaches a
higher order” [29]. The brain is a dissipative self-organizing conscious quantum computer.

Consciousness Self-Organization and In-formation

Pribram [31,39-42] has demonstrated an analogy between the fields of distributed

neural activity in the brain and the wave patterns in holograms. His neural network
equation is similar to Schrödinger’s wave equation of quantum physics with the adition
of Bohm’s quantum potential that guides by means of active information the particle
alongside its course. As any elementary particle is united to the whole cosmos by means of a
quantum active non-local information potential, capable of change the structure of the
universe, information then can be understood as nature’s fundamental process, as Stonier
[32,33] put it. This “active” (Bohm) non-local in-formation that organizes the particle’s world
reveal that the whole nature is informational, organized in a meaningful way. In the brain,
this informational process is non-local quantum holistic based in quantum-holographic
neural network fields, and at the same time local classical Newtonian and mechanistic,
based in classical neural networks. So, as Di Biase [11] has been demonstrating in the last
years it is a holoinformational field (nonlocal and local).
This view is crucial to understand the holoinformational nature of consciousness and
intelligence in the universe [12]. Matter, life and consciousness are meaningful activities,
intelligent quantum-informational processes, order transmitted through the cosmic
evolution, originated from a generating non-local informational field beyond our perception
limits.
A universe plenum of non-local quantum potential in-formation with meaning (active
information) is an intelligent universe functioning like a mind, as Sir James Jeans already had
observed. So, as consciousness has always been present in all nature’s levels of organization,
matter, life and consciousness cannot be considered as separated entities, capable of being
analyzed under a fragmentary Cartesian-Newtonian framework. Actually, consciousness
must be considered a fundamental property of the universe [12] like information, energy,
matter, and space-time and must be seen as an irreducible quantum non-local information
distributed in a holistic cosmic way, and simultaneously by local Newtonian mechanistic
relationships, generating self-organization, complexity, intelligence and evolution. Such view
of a holoinformational intelligent “continuum”, a fundamental generating order with a
quantum-holographic informational creative flow permeating the whole cosmos, permits to
understand the basic nature of the universe as an intelligent self-organizing unbroken
wholeness. A kind of cosmic consciousness unfolding in an infinite holoarchy. As a quantum-
holographic system this universal consciousness is distributed in every part of the
cosmosphere, and our quantum-holographic mind as part of this holographically distributed
system contains the active in-formation of the whole indivisible cosmos [Di Biase, 9,10].

Eccles Interactive Dualism and Pribram’s Monism

Sir John Eccles [35-38] described in the brain fine fibers structures he called dendrons
composed of pre-synaptic teledendrons, synapses and post-synaptic dendrites connections,
that he postulated could interact with the mind side of the interaction by way of units he
called psychons. He proposed that these psychons could operate on synapses through
quantum processes, and with Beck [34] developed a beautiful and logical quantum
interpretation of the synaptic function. Pribram [31,39,40,] demonstrated that Eccles'
dendrons make up receptive fields in cortical sensory units, that “as sensory receptive fields
they can be mapped in terms of wavelets, or wavelet-like patterns such as Gabor Elementary
Functions. Dennis Gabor (1946) called these units Quanta of Information. The reason for this
name is that Gabor used the same mathematics to describe his units as had Heisenberg in
describing the units of quantum microphysics. Here they define the unity structure of
processes occurring in the material brain. However, Gabor invented his function, not to
describe brain processes, but to find the maximum compressibility of a telephone message
that could be sent over the Atlantic Cable without destroying its intelligibility. The Gabor
function thus describes both a unit of brain processing and a unit of communication. Brain is
material, communication is mental. The same mathematical formulation describes both. The
elementary structure of processing in Eccles' material dendron is identical to the elementary
structure of processing of a mental (communication) psychon. There is a structural identity
to the dual interactive process.

Pribram[43,44,45] proposes a monistic basis for Eccles dualism, showing that “there is a
interactive mind/matter duality that is a “ground” from which both matter and mind are
“formed“ and the “dual” emerges. That ground functions as a potential reality similar to
Heisenberg potential world. “This flux provides the ontological roots from which our
experience regarding matter as well as mind (psychological processing) itself become
actualized in spacetime”. To illuminate this claim, Pribram relates the following story: “Once,
Eugene Wigner remarked that in quantum physics we no longer have observables
(invariants) but only observations. Tongue in cheek I asked whether that meant that
quantum physics is really psychology, expecting a gruff reply to my sassiness. Instead,
Wigner beamed a happy smile of understanding and replied, “yes, yes, that's exactly
correct”. If indeed one wants to take the reductive path, one ends up with psychology, not
particles. In fact, it is a psychological process, mathematics, that describes the relationships
that organize matter. In a non-trivial sense current physics is rooted in both matter and
mind. Communication depends on being embodied, instantiated in some sort of material
medium. This convergence of matter on mind, and of mind on matter, gives credence to their
common ontological root. My claim is that this root, though constrained by measures in
spacetime, needs a more fundamental order, a potential order that underlies and transcends
spacetime. The spectral basis of both matter and communication portrayed by the Fourier
relationship delineate this claim.

As the brain has the capacity of function in the holographic non-local mode as in the
space-temporal local mode, we think that we are dealing here with Bohr’s concept of
complementarity in the quantum functioning of the central nervous system.

The holonomic brain theory of Pribram [31] and the holographic quantum theory of
Bohm, added with Laszlo’s akashic field [2], shows that we are part of something much
more wider than our individual mind. Our mind is a subsystem of a universal hologram,
accessing and interpreting this holographic universe. We are fractal-like holographic
harmonic systems interacting continuously with this unbroken self-organizing wholeness.
We are this holoinformational field of consciousness, and not observers external to it. The
external observer’s perspective made us lose the sense and the feeling of unity or supreme
identity, generating the immense difficulties we have in understanding that we are one with
the whole and not part of it.

In this holoinformational model of consciousness the non-local quantum-informational

flow in a continuous holomovement of expansion and enfoldment between the brain and
the implicate order, is the universal consciousness self-organizing itself as human mind. This
non-local quantum-holographic Cosmic Consciousness manifest itself through our mind,
seeing itself through our eyes and our consciousness, interconnecting in a participatory
holistic and indivisible way the human brain to all levels of the self-organizing
multiverse[45].

Quantum Brain Dynamics

Experimental research developed by Pribram [31] and other consciousness researchers

like Hameroff [46] and Penrose [47] , Jibu and Yassue [48,49], and Ho [25] confirm the
existence of a Quantum Brain Dynamics in neural microtubules, in synapses and in the
molecular organization of the cerebrospinal fluid, and in the intracellular medium matrix.
This Quantum Brain Dynamics can generate Bose-Einstein condensates and the Fröhlich
effect. Bose-Einstein condensates consist of atomic particles, or in the case of the Fröhlich
effect of biological molecules, that can assume a high level of coherent alignment,
functioning as a highly ordered and unified informational state, as seen in lasers and
superconductivity. Also Sir John Eccles’s psychons [38] operate on synapses by way of
quantum coherence processes. These quantum dynamics show us that the interaction
process between what Eccles calls dendrons ( the brain side) and psychons ( the mind side)
are not limited to the synaptic cleft, as stated by him, but have a much wider embodiment
throughout the whole brain.

Pribram [31,44] demonstrates good evidence that Eccle’s dendrons make up receptive
fields in cortical sensory units. Dendrons are composed of pre-synaptic teledendrons,
synapses and post-synaptic dendrites, and they compose the fine fiber structure wherein
brain processing occurs. As Pribram states [44], “as sensory generated receptive fields they
can be mapped in terms of wavelets, or wavelet-like patterns such as Gabor Elementary
Functions. Dennis Gabor (1946) called these units Quanta of Information. The reason for this
name is that Gabor used the same mathematics to describe his units as had Heisenberg in
describing the units of quantum microphysics. Here they define the unit structure of
processes occurring in the material brain”.

I see the quantum holographic interactions between brain and cosmos as a natural
extension [10,11,12] of Eccles ideas of an interactionism between dendrons and psychons .

Jibu and Yasue [49] studies on quantum brain dynamics with Umesawa also shows that:
“brain dynamics consists of quantum brain dynamics (i.e. quantum mode) and classical brain
dynamics (i.e. classical mode), and that “quantum brain dynamics is the fundamental
process of the brain given by quantum field dynamics of the molecular vibrational fields of
water molecules and biomolecules” According to Jibu and Yasue [49], Umesawa introduced
in quantum brain dynamics the notion that “the quanta of the molecular vibrational field of
biomolecules are corticons, and the quanta of the molecular vibrational field of water
molecules are exchange bosons” . Quantum coherence can propagate through these
vibrational fields of biomolecules and water molecules by non-local information transfer,
quantum entanglement and superradiance.
The dissipative quantum model in the brain is the extension to the dissipative
dynamics of the many-body model proposed in 1967 by Ricciardi and Umezawa[50,51].
The extended patterns of neuronal excitations may be described by the spontaneous
breakdown of symmetry formalism of Quantum Field Theory.
Umezawa states that “In any material in condensed matter physics any particular
information is carried by certain ordered pattern maintained by certain long range
correlation mediated by massless quanta. It looked to me that this is the only way to
memorize some information; memory is a printed pattern of order supported by long
range correlations..."
 As these biomolecular systems are self-organized systems, they have a huge structural
and functional redundance, and this creates a quasi-cristaline medium that facilitates the
interconnection of the molecular quantum computer networks dynamics with the neuronal
classical computer network, i.e. a holoinformational field.

The Quantization of Mind

Amoroso [52,53,54], in his Noetic Field Theory, an extension of the De Broglie-Bohm

interpretation of quantum theory, has managed to solve the mind-body problem in a
comprehensive and empirically testable manner. While ‘qualia’ has remained a
philosophical construct in cognitive theory, Amoroso’s Noetic Field Theory: The
Quantization of Mind (NFT) has actually physicalized the basis of qualia breaking down
the 1st person-3rd person barrier. Being able to physically quantify qualia led him to
develop a formal model of Eccles’ psychon, in a similar fashion of the creation of the
unit of measure called ‘the Einstein’ signifying a mole or Avogadro’s number of
photons used in photosynthesis. Amoroso has created a unit of measure called ‘the
Psychon’ in honor of Nobelist Sir John C. Eccles that quantifies the energy of qualia or
measures the energy of awareness .

In this NFT a unified field theory of mind-body interaction, Amoroso says that “life is
based on the unified field of physics and is a physical real aspect of the unified field.
This removes the main stigma of Cartesian dualism that res cogitans violates the laws
of thermodynamics and the conservation of energy. In NFT the ordering principle of the
Unified Field is not a 5th fundamental force of physics; rather it is a ‘force of coherence’
applied ontologically (rather than phenomenologically which requires the exchange of
energy by quanta transfer) by what is called topological switching” .

Amoroso proposes the existence of three regimes to reality: Classical, Quantum and
Unified, and states that “it is in this new 3rd regime that access to the principles of the
mind resides. Just as Quantum Mechanics was invisible to the tools of Newtonian
Mechanics, so until now has the regime of the unified field been invisible to the tools of
quantum mechanics [53].

For him in this 3rd physical regime exists a ‘life principle’ that interacts with the
brain/body forming a self-organized living system. The developing of of the Noetic
Field Theory required a whole new Holographic Anthropic Multiverse Cosmology, title
of a Amoroso book co-authored with Elizabeth Rauscher [52] to introduce this
essential component absent from Big Bang cosmology:

“Essentially NFT’s description of the ‘mind gate’ requires violation of the quantum
uncertainty principle [54]. Uncertainty is saw as being the shield ‘hiding’ the 3rd
regime. Related to the uncertainty principle is the zero-point field (ZPF) where virtual
quantum particles wink in and out of existence momentarily for a duration of the
Planck time (as governed by the uncertainty principle). The 1st component of the gate
he developed is called an ‘exciplex’, short for excited complex - meaning it stays excited
and never returns to zero as the ZPF does in terms of the exclusion principle of the
Copenhagen Interpretation of quantum theory. Operation of the exciplex gate requires
Large-Scale Extra Dimensions that includes an oscillating form of Planck’s constant,
fluctuating from the continuous-state asymptotic virtual Planck scale (never reached)
of the usual theory to the Larmor radius of the hydrogen atom. This is part of the
process in which the exciplex gating mechanism violates the quantum uncertainty
principle [54] utilizing Large-Scale Extra Dimensions in a continuous-state process such
that the gate is only periodically open - cycling like a holophote or lighthouse beacon
into each point and atom in spacetime.

For Amoroso, the Unified Field, UF is not a 5th force per se, and is also not
phenomenological as "forces are mediated by the exchange of energy transferred by
quanta, i.e. the EM field is mediated by the photon”. “The UF does imply force, however
it is an ontological or energyless ‘force of coherence’”.

I see Amoroso’s Unified Field as in-formation with a status like energy, matter and
space-time, I described elsewhere in this paper. Amoroso says that this in-formation
“is transferred by a process called ‘topological switching’, and that “this is what occurs
when staring at a Necker cube and the vertices change position”.

In Amoroso’s theory there is a ‘super quantum potential’ of the unified field, that arises
from NFT use of Large-Scale Extra Dimensions extension of the de Broglie-Bohm
interpretation of quantum theory. Recall that in their theory quantum evolution is
continuous and guided. Thus in terms of NFT one would say that the quantum
potential/pilot wave are a subset of the action of the unified field.

“Observed (virtual) 3D reality arises from the infinite potentia of 12D space, as a
‘standing-wave-like’ (advanced-retarded future-past) mirror symmetric model. Realize
that the standing-wave of reality is hyperdimensional. NFT is related to a unique M-
Theoretic model of ‘Continuous-State' UF dynamics, and its putative exchange quanta
of the UF is called the noeon”.

Amoroso proposes as an essential part of this “continuous-state anthropic multiverse

cosmology” that “our observed reality is closed and finite in time as a ‘Poincare-
Dodecahedral Space’ at the cosmological scale and as a ‘virtual Euclidean cube’ at the
microscopic”.
 Nature, Information and Consciousness

In my conjecture the interconnectedness between brain and cosmos is an

instantaneous holistic nonlocal quantum connection and I proposed the concept of a
holoinformational flux, from which both mind and matter are in-formed, that resembles
Bohm’s holomovement. But in this new concept, the quantum holographic brain dynamic
patterns are conceived as an active part of the universal quantum-holographic informational
field, and capable of generating an informational interconnection that is simultaneously
nonlocal quantum-holistic (mind-cosmos holographic connection), and local Newtonian-
mechanistic (brain-mind neural networks connections), i.e., holoinformational.

Taking in consideration the basic mathematical property of holographic systems in

which the information of the whole system is distributed in each part of the system, plus
Bohm’s holographic quantum physics data, and the experimental data of the holonomic
theory of Pribram, we propose that this universal interconnectedness could permit us to
access all the information coded in the wave interference patterns existing in all the
universe since its origin.

Each part of the universe, each brain-mind-consciousness, interconnects with all the
quantum information stored in the holographic patterns distributed in the whole cosmos, in
an indivisible irreducible informational cosmic unity.

The beautifull budist methafor of Indra’s Net of the Avatamsaka Sutra, reflects in its
poetry this holoinformational nature of the universe:

Far away in the heavenly abode of the great god Indra, there is a wonderful net which
has been hung by some cunning artificer in such a manner that it stretches out indefinitely in
all directions. In accordance with the extravagant tastes of deities, the artificier has hung a
single glittering jewel at the net’s every node, and since the net itself is infinite in dimension,
the jewels are infinite in number. There hang the jewels, glittering like stars of the first
magnitude, a wonderfull sight to behold. If we now arbitrarily select one of these jewels for
inspection and look closely at it, we will discover that in its polished surface there are
reflected all the other jewels in the net, infinite in number. Not only that, but each of the
jewels reflected in this one jewel is also reflecting all the other jewel, so that the process of
reflection is infinite

According to Francis Cook this methafor “show a Cosmos with an infinite interrelation
between all parts, every one defining and maintaining all others. The Cosmos is a self-
referent self-maintaining and self-creator organism. It’s also non-teleological, because
don’t exist a beginning of time, nor a concept of creator, nor a questioning about the
purpose of all. The universe is conceived as a gift, without hierarchy: It has not a center, or
maybe if exists one, it is in every place”
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