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The human brain
The Human Brain has about 10^18 Tubulins and 10^11 Neurons: The first detailed quantum model of consciousness was probably the American physicist
Evan Walker's synaptic tunneling model (1970), in which electrons can
"tunnel" between adjacent neurons, thereby creating a virtual neural network
overlapping the real one. It is this virtual nervous system that produces consciousness
and that can direct the behavior of the real nervous system. The real nervous system
operates by means of synaptic messages. The virtual one operates by means of the quantum
effect of tunneling (particles passing through an energy barrier that classically they
should not be able to climb). The real one is driven by classical laws, the virtual one by
quantum laws. Consciousness is therefore driven by quantum laws, even if the brain's
behavior can be described by classical laws. One of the strongest proponents of a theory of consciousness founded on Quantum Theory is Roger Penrose in person, one of the leading British physicists of our times. In his opinion, consciousness must be a quantum phenomenon because neurons are too big to account for consciousness. Inside neurons there is a "cytoskeleton", the structure that holds cells together, whose "microtubules" (hollow protein cylinders 25-nanometers in diameter) control the function of synapses. Penrose believes that consciousness is a manifestation of the quantum cytoskeletal state and its interplay between quantum and classical levels of activity.
Classical Physics can't explain consciousness Many attempts have been made at explaining consciousness by reducing it to something else. To no avail. There is no way that our sensations can be explained in terms of particles. So, how does consciousness arise in matter? The American physicist Henry Stapp holds that classical Physics cannot explain consciousness because it cannot explain how the whole can be more than the parts. In Quantum Mechanics, on the other hand, the relationship between the parts and the whole is completely different. Stapp therefore advances a "quantum theory of consciousness". All contemporary Neuroscience is based on classical Physics. No surprise that it
derives a view of the brain as a set of mechanical laws: that is the "only" view
that classical Physics can derive. No surprise that it cannot explain how consciousness
arises, since there is no consciousness in classical Physics.
My own opinion based on my own experience of aliens trying to push me here and there by manipulating my mind is : A big part of peoples consciousness and personality is a creation in alien (God's and
the klingons) computer software.
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My own experience and research |