Conventionally, consciousness is thought to be a result of the brain's neuronal activity, and much research activity is focused along this line of thought; however, circumstantial evidence has not yet been obtained. As an alternative, I posit that the multidimensional picture of the universe can be important in seeking the origin of the consciousness outside the brain. Herein, I hypothesize the existence of a new particle called the parasite fermion. This is a material particle that exists in the extra dimension, i.e., outside our four-dimensional universe. Further, the differences in material properties of the parasite fermions and the particles that exist in our universe, termed as host fermions, and the mechanism that causes these differences are reviewed in this paper. Moreover, it is hypothesized that the aforementioned mechanism renders the parasite fermion invisible, although they exist around us. The question is what happens if we apply the parasite fermion concept to the mind-body problem. In the regard, the parasite fermion model has the possibility to help clarify the origin of conciseness being outside the brain.
A mechanism that enables fermions to live outside of but be localized near a brane is proposed based on the field-theoretical framework. Two types of fermion fields are considered: one is localized to the brane through the Yukawa interaction, and another is localized through the fermion interaction. It is shown that, besides the well-localized zero-mode, there exists a light mode continuum of which oscillating components are delocalized. As a consequence it is possible to assume existence of invisible material particles that live outside the brane on which we reside and beleaguer visible particles. A possible extension to the mind-body problem is discussed.
Local functions of the brain can be complemented by other parts by training, even if they were lost by an accident such as external injury and internal bleeding. This is the dynamical redistribution of functions inside the brain. It can be regarded as a result of the Operating System (OS) function of the brain, on the analogy of computers. On the other hand, the passive consciousness hypothesis is known to be a powerful cognitive model in the sense that it figures out the difficult problems concerning consciousness such as the frame problem, binding problem, etc. Intrinsic problem of the model, however, lies in the dubious mechanism by which collective opinions are decided by “majority vote†in the unconscious system and are collected to the local conscious system in a bottom-up manner. No one has elucidated, so far, how the unconscious system and the conscious one are connected in the neural network. The Parasite Fermion Model is a physical model that solves those problems. The Model asserts that, only by assuming the multi-dimensional universe that is nowadays commonly discussed in the modern physics and two types of fermions (material particles), there exists the materialistic subject, called Parasite Fermion Object (PFO), in the extra-dimensional space. One can avoid above-mentioned difficulties, by assuming that the PFO plays a significant role in the OS function and decision process of the unconscious system.
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