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170 4. Physical and Biological Sciences better than monks imprinting chocolate alone. Intriguing as these meditator-based studies were, replication and expansion of the field has been practically impossible due to the highly variable prerequisites of powerful meditators and specially-conditioned spaces. As well, there have been no standardized objective instruments and methods. The more extraordinary the claim, the greater the need for freedom to replicate and verify it. Accordingly, here we show how to emancipate psychoenergetic research from its esoteric traditions and gatekeepers to the humble environment of the standard electronics workbench. Since 2005 we have evolved this technology to peer-reviewed leading edge status, culminating in pending patents for the resulting psychoenergetic computing system. New instrumentation and methodology removes the need for meditators and so-called conditioned space. Entanglement between devices, or space conditioning effects can be quantified and studied objectively by anyone. Initially, these new tools and methods offer unprecedented statistical evidence for semiconductor device entanglement that is far more precise than generally yet expected or understood. The experimental results display the first serious conversion of spatial and intentional psychoenergetic research from qualitative idiosyncratic ritual into quantitative industrial rigor. This may be most plainly demonstrated by the coincidental emergence of a new, parsimonious theoretical model unifying the historic lore of crystals with the contemporary fabrication of complex semiconductor arrays. An informed review of the electronics seems to render unnecessary prior insistence upon elaborate and controversial quantum theories. From the validation of imprinting technology may emerge new processing tools such as healing machines and food enhancers. A new science of space conditioning may create verifiable EMF protection; also applications ranging from inducing psychological effects to potential nanoprocessing opportunities through programmable gauge state modulation. The robust device data entanglement demonstrated here could be recast over thousands of miles to create a new ultra-low power communication system alternative to the profoundly increasing toxicity of wireless upon the biosphere. SJL’s alternative theory offers unifying and testable support for a broad array of fascinating theoretical and experimental work emerging worldwide. P4 247 Microtubule as a Universal Fourth Circuit Element Satyajit Sahu, Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Daisuke Fujita (Advanced Nano Characterization, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, IBARAKI Japan) The charge, voltage, current and magnetic flux vary in pairs to define resistor (R), capacitor (C) and inductor (L). Since a change in magnetic flux generates a voltage, thus far, magnetic flux and charge have been correlated as the fourth element in pristine electrical devices (H) that are incapable of generating magnetic flux. Major problem with this approach is that all properties of H could be generated using combinations of L, C, R; obviously, H thus defined is not an essential element. Here, we define an essential fourth element H that includes all aspects of symmetry argument and experimental evidence shows that microtubules (MT) follow these criteria. Our H is a helical nanotube/nanowire that stores/releases charge like C and a spiral current generates magnetic flux like L. Even though L and C grows/decays together inside, an ideal H is remarkably linear in dc output. For purely geometric reason, an accurate magnetic flux regulator and co-existence of L and C turns an input ac signal out of phase. H may initiate a ballistic transport as its conductance increases by 10^10 orders in magnitude, and complete architecture may become a coherent system under particular field. Recently, helical/rossette nanotubes, which look like H, are under rigorous investigations and our H features resemble their properties. MTs tune electromagnetic energy storage/transport by changing its length and provide essential out-of-phase signal conversion capabilities to bio-systems. Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy Group, Advanced Nano Characterization Center, National Institute for Materials Science 1-2-1 Sengen, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0047 Japan, C13 4.8 Biophysics and living processes
4. Physical and Biological Sciences 171 4.9 Evolution of consciousness 248 Towards a Unified Field Theory of Human Behavior - Global Cultural Evolution Marcus Abundis, (GFTP, Stanford Graduate School of Business (GFTP), Santa Cruz, CA) This paper develops a new structural psychology, and therein proposes a specific model for the scientific study of consciousness. The presented model uses Earth’s geologic history of mass-extinction & recovery (evolutionary dynamics) in determining humanity’s adaptive response (conscious and non-conscious traits). It argues humanity adaptively mirrors Earth’s basic evolutionary dynamics, in a “mythologizing of natural adversity” as foundation for all human knowledge - a process that continues well into the modern era. The intellectual lineage used to develop this model includes: Evolutionary biology - offers a context for this study answering Chalmers’ “hard question”; Paleoanthropology - defines the circumstance of human emergence from Gaia; Environmental forces - on a dexterous human neurophysiology derive an ambiguous but instructive narrative logic (mythic sensibility); Psychology tracks humanity’s shift from animal-self to modern creative-self, using work of Hegel > Freud > Jung > Rank > Joseph Campbell > Arnold Mindell as a new structural psychology; Fractal geometry offers a holographic design for modeling consciousness, in a form consistent with Quantum Theory; Memetics presents a tool for measuring conscious traits, in a variation of the Hall-Tonna values inventory; Finally, Structured Opportunistic Thinking, a hybrid of NTL’s T-group, and Pierce’s Power Equity Group Theory, suggests a developmental methodology. This work presents a “general hypothesizing model” of human consciousness, in attempting a science of consciousness. Additional info available at: http://vimeo.com/evolv and http:// philpapers.org/profile/4404 P10 249 If Birds Have Conscious Experiences, Do Fish Too? James Beran (Richmond, VA) Although brains of birds are much different than ours, there is evidence that birds have conscious experience similar in ways to ours. [1] It has also been suggested that human conscious experiences correspond to features of rhythmic electromagnetic (EM) waveforms measurable by electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG). [2] Although human brain mechanisms that produce EM waveforms are not fully understood, extracranially measurable waveforms are believed to result from synchronized electrical currents in apical dendrites of pyramidal neurons. [3] This work compares features of pyramidal neuron formations in mammalian and avian brains, and finds evidence of some similar EM-waveform systems. [4] If EM waveform features indeed correspond to conscious experiences, simple EM-interactive neural structures that learn to have conscious experience could have arisen in primitive EM-waveform systems; then, development of more advanced EM-waveform systems could have led to complex consciousness. [5] Therefore, this work also considers features of brains of primitive, jawless fish, e.g. hagfish, and advanced, pretetrapod fish, e.g. lungfish, with attention to precursors of pyramidal neuron formations. If EM-waveform systems in fish brains led to formations that learn to have conscious experience in mammalian and avian brains, do fish also have conscious experience? We propose a threestage model based on dendritic interaction with EM waveforms: Under the proposed model, evolving structures within EM-waveform systems could learn to have conscious experience; the model’s stages resemble certain analog signal processing techniques. [1] See, e.g., Pepperberg, I.M., Alex & Me, Collins, 2008, at pp. 202-205 and 219-222. [2] See, e.g., Lewine, J.D. and Orrison, W.W., Jr., “Magnetoencephalography and Magnetic Source Imaging” in Orrison et al., Eds., Functional Brain Imaging, Mosby, 1995, pp. 369 et seq., at pp. 411-412. [3] Id. at pp. 375-382; see also Kirchstein, T., and Koehling, R., “What is the Source of the EEG?” Clinical EEG and Neuroscience, July 2009, pp. 146-149. [4] Compare, e.g., ten Donkelaar, H.J., “Reptiles”, in Nieuwenhuys et al., Eds., The Central Nervous System of Vertebrates, Springer, 1998, pp. 1315 et seq., at 1480. [5] Compare Buzsaki, G., Rhythms of the Brain, Oxford, 2006, p. 115. C20
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TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS A
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