Bio-Physics
"Matter and energy are spiritualised and spirit is continuously materialised"
Brain of Melchizedek, Joshua 2009
In neuroscience it has been generally accepted that information flows from an axon which projects information via neurotransmitters across a chemical synapse to a dendrite or cell body of another neuron. This keeps on happening in a sequence of axonal neural firing after certain post-synaptic thresholds are met triggering action potentials associated to dendritic structures of post-synaptic cell bodies and this has lead many neuroscientists to the belief that consciousness is an emerging property related to this flow of information. Hameroff, Penrose and others like Pribram and Freeman have proposed other alternatives for understanding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC).
Some authors like Hameroff explore the idea of the brain as a quantum system whose connectedness to everything else in the universe is ill captured by a functional and classical computational understanding of cognition in service of biological survival. The only way to begin to understand such theories is to conceptually blend understandings of the quantum world with neuroscience in ways that loosens up the conventional boundaries of neuroscientific scholarship. This theory is based in previous works of neuroscience, like the one of Pribram, where the phenomenon of consciousness is explained as more than just information processing in the brain and is mediated by microtubules and microstructures at a dendritic level, potentially interfacing with the quantum domain of reality as Hameroff and Penrose have explained. They developed a model called orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR) based on quantum computation in cytoskeletal microtubules inside the brain’s neurons which accounts better for the phenomenon of consciousness than the ones proposed by “classical functionalism”.
When studying peace and harmony, the above theories allow for a view of consciousness which can refer to events backwards in time and that becomes extremely important because the experience of a Spiritual Value like Certainty or Love, for example, may be referred backwards in time before the onset of certain brain activity. This poses another complexity in determining the neural traces of Spiritual Values, because Love may be subjectively received at a quantum level without any need for biological neural correlates or any association to visual or auditory perception. A person can experience Love without being able to consciously detect a physical source of Love or sometimes may confuse the source of Love with a physical human being’s behavioural pattern until the brain develops a cognitive map capable of discerning its source.
It is important to note that entanglement is a very interesting concept, which has been repeatedly confirmed and pertains to the fact that complementary quantum particles remain entangled even when separated. This means that when there is a change in one particle, regardless of how far they are in space, the other will change simultaneously. Entanglement could possibly be a first scientific approximation to the understanding of the Spiritual Value of Unity unexplained by physical connection.
Both Hameroff and Penrose coincide in suggesting that one of the consequences of this view is that consciousness and mind may exist at a subatomic level in the quantum domain, which may account for subjective experience.
This suggests that Spiritual Values, thoughts, quanta and the quantum field are intimately connected as part of the same one absolute potentiality of reality and it manifests in the matter field when certain states of consciousness (and associated brain processes) are associated with quantum wave function collapse (objective reduction). However, as much as Orch OR is a good and plausible theory, it is still a very difficult one to validate and therefor it will take time before science and technology make it possible to substantiate such claims.
On the other hand, there is a body of research that could lead us to the scientific understanding of consciousness, love and spiritual values by explaining how meaning and knowledge are created in the brain. Walter J. Freeman and Giuseppe Vitiello in their paper, “Nonlinear brain dynamics as macroscopic manifestation of underlying many-body field dynamics,” have proposed an alternative based on many-body field theory in treating brain dynamics which appears to them “as the only existing theoretical tool capable to explain the dynamic origin of long-range correlations…” (2006, p.96). They explain that many-body quantum field theory is appropriate to the understanding of ordered pattern formation in condensed matter physics in objects like the brain where the application of classical physics fails to describe this phenomenon. They contend that there are microscopic features in systems like crystals and magnets that need quantum dynamics to explain the ordered patterns which can be observed at room temperature which stand as examples of macroscopic quantum systems. For them this is justified because there are brain states showing co-ordinated oscillations of populations of neurons which are synchronized with changes in the environment and they do so very fast which are crucial to explain the integration of different modules in the cortex. In their study they are aiming to, “understand global cooperation among modules we have focused on the fields of potential established by dendritic currents of populations of neurons…”(2006, p. 95).
This is a very important effort in the understanding of perception and its association to field theory where consciousness is viewed as emerging from quantum-like processes interfacing brain fields which are supported by dendritic structures for example. This is a good start for a theory of consciousness which incorporates quantum physics in the study of meaning and knowledge creation as the foundation for both human spirituality and perception of reality.
The ideas treated before present a view of reality that regards consciousness as arising from all levels of brain function and bio-physical systems instead of an emergent property of matter understood in terms of information and biological feedback systems only. It is also compatible with the idea that consciousness is brought about by a complex engagement with systems of meaning and lifted to the level of spirituality when the meanings are spiritual. All of this complex understanding of the delicate fabric of reality may be showing the reader that all of life is spiritual, that all of life is sacred, that matter and energy are spiritualised and spirit is continuously materialised.
Brain of Melchizedek, Joshua 2009
In neuroscience it has been generally accepted that information flows from an axon which projects information via neurotransmitters across a chemical synapse to a dendrite or cell body of another neuron. This keeps on happening in a sequence of axonal neural firing after certain post-synaptic thresholds are met triggering action potentials associated to dendritic structures of post-synaptic cell bodies and this has lead many neuroscientists to the belief that consciousness is an emerging property related to this flow of information. Hameroff, Penrose and others like Pribram and Freeman have proposed other alternatives for understanding the Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC).
Some authors like Hameroff explore the idea of the brain as a quantum system whose connectedness to everything else in the universe is ill captured by a functional and classical computational understanding of cognition in service of biological survival. The only way to begin to understand such theories is to conceptually blend understandings of the quantum world with neuroscience in ways that loosens up the conventional boundaries of neuroscientific scholarship. This theory is based in previous works of neuroscience, like the one of Pribram, where the phenomenon of consciousness is explained as more than just information processing in the brain and is mediated by microtubules and microstructures at a dendritic level, potentially interfacing with the quantum domain of reality as Hameroff and Penrose have explained. They developed a model called orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR) based on quantum computation in cytoskeletal microtubules inside the brain’s neurons which accounts better for the phenomenon of consciousness than the ones proposed by “classical functionalism”.
When studying peace and harmony, the above theories allow for a view of consciousness which can refer to events backwards in time and that becomes extremely important because the experience of a Spiritual Value like Certainty or Love, for example, may be referred backwards in time before the onset of certain brain activity. This poses another complexity in determining the neural traces of Spiritual Values, because Love may be subjectively received at a quantum level without any need for biological neural correlates or any association to visual or auditory perception. A person can experience Love without being able to consciously detect a physical source of Love or sometimes may confuse the source of Love with a physical human being’s behavioural pattern until the brain develops a cognitive map capable of discerning its source.
It is important to note that entanglement is a very interesting concept, which has been repeatedly confirmed and pertains to the fact that complementary quantum particles remain entangled even when separated. This means that when there is a change in one particle, regardless of how far they are in space, the other will change simultaneously. Entanglement could possibly be a first scientific approximation to the understanding of the Spiritual Value of Unity unexplained by physical connection.
Both Hameroff and Penrose coincide in suggesting that one of the consequences of this view is that consciousness and mind may exist at a subatomic level in the quantum domain, which may account for subjective experience.
This suggests that Spiritual Values, thoughts, quanta and the quantum field are intimately connected as part of the same one absolute potentiality of reality and it manifests in the matter field when certain states of consciousness (and associated brain processes) are associated with quantum wave function collapse (objective reduction). However, as much as Orch OR is a good and plausible theory, it is still a very difficult one to validate and therefor it will take time before science and technology make it possible to substantiate such claims.
On the other hand, there is a body of research that could lead us to the scientific understanding of consciousness, love and spiritual values by explaining how meaning and knowledge are created in the brain. Walter J. Freeman and Giuseppe Vitiello in their paper, “Nonlinear brain dynamics as macroscopic manifestation of underlying many-body field dynamics,” have proposed an alternative based on many-body field theory in treating brain dynamics which appears to them “as the only existing theoretical tool capable to explain the dynamic origin of long-range correlations…” (2006, p.96). They explain that many-body quantum field theory is appropriate to the understanding of ordered pattern formation in condensed matter physics in objects like the brain where the application of classical physics fails to describe this phenomenon. They contend that there are microscopic features in systems like crystals and magnets that need quantum dynamics to explain the ordered patterns which can be observed at room temperature which stand as examples of macroscopic quantum systems. For them this is justified because there are brain states showing co-ordinated oscillations of populations of neurons which are synchronized with changes in the environment and they do so very fast which are crucial to explain the integration of different modules in the cortex. In their study they are aiming to, “understand global cooperation among modules we have focused on the fields of potential established by dendritic currents of populations of neurons…”(2006, p. 95).
This is a very important effort in the understanding of perception and its association to field theory where consciousness is viewed as emerging from quantum-like processes interfacing brain fields which are supported by dendritic structures for example. This is a good start for a theory of consciousness which incorporates quantum physics in the study of meaning and knowledge creation as the foundation for both human spirituality and perception of reality.
The ideas treated before present a view of reality that regards consciousness as arising from all levels of brain function and bio-physical systems instead of an emergent property of matter understood in terms of information and biological feedback systems only. It is also compatible with the idea that consciousness is brought about by a complex engagement with systems of meaning and lifted to the level of spirituality when the meanings are spiritual. All of this complex understanding of the delicate fabric of reality may be showing the reader that all of life is spiritual, that all of life is sacred, that matter and energy are spiritualised and spirit is continuously materialised.