Would i be wrong to assume that our consciousness is based around the electromagnetic pulse(EMP)?

Question

I've been doing some research, and have found that physics and psychology seem to cross at the point of quantum theory and cognition/intuition. The zero point field is a good read in all of this. If we are all made of just atoms and energy, and if all we technically can't see is this energy in it's vast form, then am i wrong in thinking consciousness (if implicated in such a way) can be seen as an individual part of a vast sea of energy? If MRIs, X-Rays, brainwaves/the conscious being's intuition, are evidence of EM's usefullness and power, Then does this mean we are all connected on a similar level somehow??Maybe to this pool of energy???

Answer 1

Actually, you could be rigyht. The electromagnetic theory of consciousness is a theory that says the electromagnetic field generated by the brain (known for a long time, and measured by EEG's) is the actual carrier of conscious experience. This theory was initially proposed by scientists such as Johnjoe McFadden, Susan Pockett and E. Roy John (For the recent account see Andrew and Alexander Fingelkurts). It is a tentative hypothesis as are all current hypotheses about consciousness and is an example of protoscience rather than pseudoscience. The starting point for the theory is the fact that every time a neuron fires to generate an action potential it also generates a disturbance to the surrounding electromagnetic (EM) field (see electromagnetism). Information coded in neuron firing patterns is therefore reflected into the brain's EM field. Locating consciousness in the brain's EM field, rather than the neurons, has the advantage that it neatly accounts for how information located in millions of neurons scattered throughout the brain can be unified into a single conscious experience (sometimes called the binding problem): the information is unified in the EM field. In this way EM field consciousness can be considered to be 'joined-up information'. The theory accounts for several otherwise puzzling facts, such as the finding that attention and awareness tend to be correlated not with the firing of individual neurons, but with the synchronous firing of lots of neurons. When neurons fire together their EM fields combine to generate stronger EM field disturbances; so synchronous neuron firing will tend to have a bigger impact on the brain's EM field (and thereby consciousness) than the firing of individual neurons. The different EM field theories disagree as to the role of the proposed conscious EM field on brain function. In McFadden's cemi field theory, the brain's global EM field modifies the electric charges across neural membranes and thereby influences the probability that particular neurons will fire. In this way the EM field provides a feed-back loop that, it is proposed, drives our free will. However in the theories of Susan Pockett and E. Roy John, there is no causal link between the conscious EM field and our consciously willed actions. If true, the theory has major implications for efforts to design consciousness into Artificial intelligence machines; current microprocessor technology is designed to transmit information linearly along electrical channels, and more general electromagnetic effects are seen as a nuisance and damped out; if this theory is right, however, this is directly counterproductive to the process of creating an artificially-intelligent computer, which would instead have electromagnetic fields that synchronized its outputs.

Answer 2

i think that since we know that everything can omit an EMP, no matter how minute, electromagnetism is key to the balance of life and existence in general. our central nervous system utilizes electric charges to function so i think that this pool of energy you speak of, you are actually refering to a person's aura. while i believe in the aura itself as the electromagnetic field emitted by our bodies, i believe that the aura is miscontrued to be associated with a sense of mystic persona, and is actually vastly physical.

if you can gather that together, in a sense, your body is almost like an inductor. we know that inductors emit an EMF and when placed close to another inductor, both EM fields act upon each other. so theoretically, i believe we are connected on that level.

it is an out there theory, and im no expert, so i may be completely off the wall with this one, but it seems to make sense...

Answer 3

I would argue no, I strongly believe that the human mind, works much like a program in a computer, you have habbits, occasionally do things even you yourself dont understand, and in general if you *completly* forget you did something, you'll do it the second time exactly the same way. Conciousness is nothing more than million year old biological software.

Answer 4

yeah, I believe in that pool of whatever,

its more at the atomic and molecular level that we run at , rather than quantum I think

also, more electrochemical than electromagnetic

get a biochemical pathway chart sometime, just to contemplate it

yeah we ARE part of a vast sea of energy

Answer 5

Is mortality the fee of my expertise? i don't believe of that expertise includes mortality. expertise is a made from being inspite of it truly is that we are. expertise comes 2d. expertise is something that can not be defined in clinical words. It has an area for philosophy, yet what it truly is that all of us understand, that we like, that we adventure, is something previous any rationalization.

Answer 6

I wont give you a long answer. I wont give you a short one either. I don't belive that although i do your mind be alterd slightly by a high EMP.

Answer 7

yes