NeuroQuantology
November 11, 2010
D. Comings
4 citations
Spirituality is defined as a sense of being connected with something greater than oneself. That something can be a supernatural entity, nature, a social group or a family. Different studies show that a wide range of factors that influence temporal lobe function can produce hallucinations, paranormal, spiritual, mystical, and religious experiences. These factors include the electrical...
NeuroQuantology
September 21, 2010
Igor V. Limar
1 citation
Preconditions of a possible substantiation of some concepts of consciousness from positions of the quantum theory are considered. Analysis attempt of some directions of physical science about use of their substantive provisions for explanation of conceptual problems of psychophysiology is made. Special attention is given to research of synchronicity phenomenon considered within the limits of...
NeuroQuantology
September 16, 2010
Mustafa Erol
9 citations
The “spooky action at a distance” and consequently quantum entanglement of physical systems/particles has been debated ever since the famous paper of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen-EPR Paradox (Einstein et al., 1935). In spite of being considered of highly controversial, there has been a considerable amount of work so far addressing the issue and many scientifically successful experiments were...
NeuroQuantology
September 16, 2010
David Scharf
1 citation
Kim’s argument for a minimal physicalism breaks down in two critical places. First, his functional reduction of cognitive/intentional properties fails to do justice to what we mean when we refer to belief, desire and the like, because it fails to account for their referential and normative content. And although Kim believes that he is saving what is distinctive about our cognitive/intentional...
NeuroQuantology
September 16, 2010
Alexander Ya Temkin
1 citation
In the present article two problems are considered: the possibility to change the future using the clairvoyance and the role of the clairvoyance (including its use to change the future) as a factor of the living species evolution. In addition, because the clairvoyance is a property of the quantum mind, the more general problem of the quantum mind as a factor and a subject of the evolution is...
NeuroQuantology
June 25, 2010
Michael A. Persinger, Kevin S. Saroka, Bryce P. Mulligan et al.
11 citations
Brief exposure to a counterclockwise global externally applied magnetic field generated from an array of 64 solenoids designed to affect the cerebral fields associated with the left and right hemispheric correlates of evoked a powerful out of body experience (OOBE) in a single naive subject. The energy available from the applied field within the cortical volume was within the same order of...
NeuroQuantology
June 25, 2010
Michael A. Persinger
11 citations
A historical summary is presented of the published and unpublished measurements of the physical changes associated with Sean Harribance while he accurately discerned recondite information about others. Reports of his subjective experiences as well as the quantitative electroencephalographic (QEEG), sLORETA, SPECT, and neuropsychological data support the occurrence of measurable and specific...
NeuroQuantology
May 26, 2010
Valerie L. Laws, Elaine K. Perry
9 citations
Quantum mechanics arose to explain 'wobbles' in predicted effects of Newtonian physics, such as the stability of electron orbitals. Similarly, scientifically verified phenomena in the field of neuroscience which contradict known theories of brain function, could give weight and credibility to neuroquantology, stimulating new research and discovery. The existence of consciousness outside the...
NeuroQuantology
April 14, 2010
Sirajul Husain
2 citations
A Universal Field of Quantum-Consciousness is postulated for interpreting non-locality, without violating the laws of classical physics, by virtue of the inherent attribute of unity of the phenomenon of quantum-consciousness. By substantiating unity of quantum-consciousness, in terms of its contribution in the neuroscientific evolution of unity of human-consciousness, plausibility of the...
NeuroQuantology
April 9, 2010
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
12 citations
Theory of everything must include consciousness. In this Part I of the series of three articles, we introduce the subjective experience (SE) and/or proto‐experience (PE) aspect of consciousness in classical physics, where PEs are precursors of SEs. In our dualaspect‐ dual‐mode PE‐SE framework, it was hypothesized that fundamental entities (strings or elementary particles: fermions and bosons)...
NeuroQuantology
April 9, 2010
Rajat Kumar Pradhan
3 citations
A phenomenological approach using the states of spin-like observables is developed to understand the nature of consciousness and the totality of experience. The three states of consciousness are taken to form the triplet of eigenstates of a spin-one entity and are derived as the triplet resulting from the composition of two spins by treating the subject and the object as interacting two-state,...
NeuroQuantology
March 17, 2010
Evgeny Ivanov
The original approach to the decision of a mind-body problem which basis on philosophically rethought of H. Everett’s multiworld interpretation of quantum mechanics and M. Mensky's idea about identity of consciousness with process of selection of quantum alternatives is offered. The explanation of visible psychophysical interaction and processes of a reduction of wave function in the quantum...
NeuroQuantology
March 4, 2010
Sultan Tarlacı
33 citations
Over the past decade, discussions of the roles that quantum mechanics might or might not play in the theory of consciousness/mind have become increasingly sharp. One side of this debate stand conventional neuroscientists who assert that brain science must look to the neuron for understanding, and on the other side are certain physicists, suggesting that the rules of quantum theory might...
NeuroQuantology
March 4, 2010
Mustafa Erol
8 citations
Scientists used to believe until recently that the consciousness/mind/thought is a purely metaphysical concept and hence has nothing to do with science. However recent scientific research both theoretically and also experimentally strongly imply that consciousness/mind/thought is in fact a physical concept and could be investigated by scientific means. This very exciting and revolutionary...
NeuroQuantology
March 1, 2010
Sultan Tarlacı
27 citations
For the past 20 years and more, arguments about the role of quantum mechanics in consciousness and mind theory have been mounting. On the one side are traditional neuroscientists who believe that the way to understanding the brain is through looking at the nerve cells. On the other side are various physicists who suggest that the laws of quantum mechanics may have an influence on the dynamics...
NeuroQuantology
November 24, 2009
Majid Rahnama, Vahid Salari, Jack A Tuszynski
2 citations
The main problem which this paper tries to address is whether collapse of the wave function describing the state of a quantum mechanical system occurs, or, rather can occur in the brain of the observer or not. One of the first (relatively) detailed “collapse models” following the original abstract suggestion by von Neumann that collapse occurs in the brain of the observer and is related to...
NeuroQuantology
September 1, 2009
Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
18 citations
It was previously hypothesized that (1) strings or elementary particles have two aspects (material and mental) and are carriers of subjective experiences (SEs)/proto-experiences (PEs) aspect of consciousness in their mental aspect in superimposed form (Vimal, 2008: J Integr Neurosci, 7(1), 49-73) and (2) a specific SE is selected by the matching and selection processes in a neural-net (Vimal,...
NeuroQuantology
September 1, 2009
Rachel P. Wurzman, James Giordano
6 citations
Generally, attempts to avoid Cartesian dualism relating brain and mind arguably lead to epiphenomenalism or strict materialism, in part because the problem is that these explanations have predominantly focused upon the efficient causal relationship between the physical and the phenomenal. Elucidating the efficient cause of consciousness is the essence of what Chalmers (1995) referred to as...
NeuroQuantology
February 3, 2009
Ravi Prakash, Michele Caponigro
5 citations
Subjectivity or the problem of ‘qualia’ tends to make the accessibility and comprehension of psychological events intangible especially for scientific exploration. The issue becomes even more complicated but interesting when one turns towards mystical experiences. Such experiences are different from other psychological phenomena in the sense that they don’t occur to every one, so are difficult...
NeuroQuantology
June 4, 2008
Elio Conte
33 citations
We give here a review of the experiments that we performed in the last few years to conclude that mentals states follow quantum mechanics. As theoretical basis we give explanation of the contextual dependence of probabilities in the theoretical basis that was introduced by A. Khrennikov. In this case the classical formula of total probability does not hold true in quantum systems unless an...
NeuroQuantology
June 4, 2008
C. U. M. Smith
2 citations
The introduction situates the ‘hard problem’ in its historical context and argues that the problem has two sides: the output side (the Kant-Eccles problem of the freedom of the Will) and the input side (the problem of qualia). The output side ultimately reduces to whether quantum mechanics can affect the operation of synapses. A discussion of the detailed molecular biology of synaptic...
NeuroQuantology
February 22, 2008
Michel Bitbol
42 citations
Abstract: Six arguments against the view that conscious experience derives from a material basis are reviewed. These arguments arise from epistemology, phenomenology, neuropsychology, and philosophy of quantum mechanics. It turns out that any attempt at proving that conscious experience is ontologically secondary to material objects both fails and brings out its methodological and existential...
NeuroQuantology
September 12, 2007
Tim Roberts
The problem of subjective experience remains a major topic of debate amongst researchers in both the philosophy of mind and the foundations of artificial intelligence. David Chalmers has referred to this as The Hard Problem of Consciousness, since subjective experience appears to resist most attempts at a functional description. Theories involving 60Hz oscillations in the cerebral cortex, Bose...
NeuroQuantology
September 11, 2007
Stuart Hameroff
48 citations
Orch OR (“Orchestrated Objective Reduction”) is a theory of consciousness put forth in the mid-1990s by British physicist Sir Roger Penrose and American anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff. Whereas most theories assume consciousness emerges from complex computation at the level of synapses among brain neurons, Orch OR involves a specific form of quantum computation which underlies these neuronal...
NeuroQuantology
September 10, 2007
Jon R. Courtney
1 citation
This article examines the status of some explanations of consciousness by comparing and evaluating viewpoints of psychology (e.g. cognition) and physics (e.g. quantum mechanics). It is suggested that the two approaches possess similarities on both a methodological and theoretical level and should benefit from mutual consideration. Attempts to extend and connect explanations of conscious...