My book, 'The Science of Consciousness,' was published in 2015. Since then, new methods that can investigate brain activities in vivo have verified many of the book's observations. For example, the brain is a self-organized physical system. In addition, a manuscript, 'Relationships between short and fast brain timescales,' proposes the particle-like and quantum character of consciousness for the first time in a scientific publication. The article has been published in Cognitive Neurodynamics, an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal with coauthors Arturo Tozzi from the University of North Texas and James Peters from the University of Manitoba. You find a summary of the manuscript below.
Quantum mechanics describes cognitive and social phenomena; memories and decisions exhibit a holographic organization. Electric activities form oscillations with different timescales in the brain, leading to different functional and psychological outcomes. Activities occurring at micro-levels can be projected to macro-levels, indicating that larger-scale brain activities have counterparts in the lower level ones. Based on their entropy, electrical activities form trajectories taking place on donut-like manifolds. Ideas and concepts might arise by combining different functional and anatomical structures of the brain. Duality, i.e., the equivalence of two seemingly different systems, characterizes spatiotemporal brain activities, independent of their inter-and intra-level relationships, strength, magnitude, and boundaries. Physiological manifestations of consciousness are the outgrowth of the self-regulating electric activities of the brain.
Watch my YouTube video, Can quantum mechanics explain consciousness? Exploring the particle mind for a visual demonstration of the concept.
Read the whole article in Cognitive Neurodynamics, Academia, or ResearchGate.
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