Brain-mind operational architectonics: At the boundary between quantum physics and Eastern metaphysics

Fingelkurts, Andrew A.; Fingelkurts, Alexander A.; Neves, Carlos F.H.; Kallio-Tamminen, Tarja

doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2018.11.001

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“…In a nested hierarchy, higher levels are physically composed of lower levels (Feinberg, 2012). Indeed, every OM is a functional integration of several local brain fields (registered by the correspondent EEG electrodes), which in their turn are the integration of yet smaller local fields of transient functional neuronal assemblies (Fingelkurts & Fingelkurts, 2001Fingelkurts et al, 2019; see also Freeman & Kozma, 2000;Kozma & Freeman, 2009;Freeman et al, 2015). All three OMs, together, form a higher level of a functional nested architecture -the self-referential network (marked as a dashed circle line that connects three OMs).…”

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Selfhood triumvirate: From phenomenology to brain activity and back again

Fingelkurts

Kallio-Tamminen

2020

Consciousness and Cognition

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Recently, a three-dimensional construct model for complex experiential Selfhood has been proposed (Fingelkurts et al., 2016b,c). According to this model, three specific subnets (or modules) of the brain selfreferential network (SRN) are responsible for the manifestation of three aspects/features of the subjective sense of Selfhood. Follow up multiple studies established a tight relation between alterations in the functional integrity of the triad of SRN modules and related to them three aspects/features of the sense of self; however, the causality of this relation is yet to be shown. In this article we approached the question of causality by exploring functional integrity within the three SRN modules that are thought to underlie the three phenomenal components of Selfhood while these components were manipulated mentally by experienced meditators in a controlled and independent manner. Participants were requested, in a blockrandomised manner, to mentally induce states representing either increased (up-regulation) or decreased (down-regulation) sense of (a) witnessing agency ("Self"), or (b) body representational-emotional agency ("Me"), or (c) reflective/narrative agency ("I"), while their brain activity was recorded by an electroencephalogram (EEG). This EEG-data was complemented by first-person phenomenological reports and standardised questionnaires which focused on subjective contents of three aspects of Selfhood. The results of the study strengthen the case for a direct causative relationship between three phenomenological aspects of Selfhood and related to them three modules of the brain SRN. Furthermore, the putative integrative model of the dynamic interrelations among three modules of the SRN has been proposed.

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Section: The Triad Model Of the Complex Experiential Selfhoodmentioning

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Selfhood triumvirate: From phenomenology to brain activity and back again

Fingelkurts

Kallio-Tamminen

2020

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…Stress management techniques include the science of meditation as well [6,7]. This is due to quantum physics [8][9][10], metaphysics [9], neuroplasticity [11] and psychoneuroimmunology [12] appearing in meditation. The essence of the science field is that objective perception is replaced by subjective perception (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpuwm7cmp1M).…”

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The Role of Nutrition in Preventive Medicine: The Place of Street Food in International Gastronomy and Health Development

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Molnár

2021

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Nowadays, due to the pandemic, preventive medicine also plays a prominent role in medical science. In addition to physical activity or techniques used in alternative medicine (acupuncture, forms of massage, yogic exercise etc.), the science of meditation has become the part of preventive medicine thanks to quantum physics, epigenetics, metaphysics, neuroplasticity, and psychoneuroimmunology. Firstly, we examined the role of nutrition science in preventive medicine in the manuscript. Therefore, we present foods that reinforce the street food philosophy while being healthy and promoting health improvement. Furthermore, these foods can be used as part of various diets. The manuscript contributes to the health promoting effect of nutrition science and gastronomy and its role in preventive medicine.

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“…Operational Architectonics (A-O) purports that unified consciousness is achieved by means of a dynamic, nested hierarchy of electromagnetic fields in the brain (Fingelkurts et al, 2010(Fingelkurts et al, , 2019). An internal physical space-time (IPST) reorganizes and processes signals from the outside world, external physical space-time (EPST), turning those streams of data into dynamic, volumetric spatial-temporal patterns of local extracellular electric fields (Fingelkurts et al, 2010).…”

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“…But, serious attention should be extended to include other established frameworks, such as Operational-Architectonics (O-A) and Temporo-Spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC). In particular, O-A has been making substantial theoretical progress (Fingelkurts et al, 2019(Fingelkurts et al, , 2020. Important recent efforts have been made to compare and contrast a wide range of consciousness theories (Northoff and Lamme, 2020).…”

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The Temporally-Integrated Causality Landscape: Reconciling Neuroscientific Theories With the Phenomenology of Consciousness

Winters

2021

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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In recent years, there has been a proliferation of neuroscientific theories of consciousness. These include theories which explicitly point to EM fields, notably Operational Architectonics and, more recently, the General Resonance Theory. In phenomenological terms, human consciousness is a unified composition of contents. These contents are specific and meaningful, and they exist from a subjective point of view. Human conscious experience is temporally continuous, limited in content, and coherent. Based upon those phenomenal observations, pre-existing theories of consciousness, and a large body of experimental evidence, I derived the Temporally-Integrated Causality Landscape (TICL). In brief, the TICL proposes that the neural correlate of consciousness is a structure of temporally integrated causality occurring over a large portion of the thalamocortical system. This structure is composed of a large, integrated set of neuronal elements (the System), which contains some subsystems, defined as having a higher level of temporally-integrated causality than the System as a whole. Each Subsystem exists from the point of view of the System, in the form of meaningful content. In this article, I review the TICL and consider the importance of EM forces as a mechanism of neural causality. I compare the fundamentals of TICL to those of several other neuroscientific theories. Using five major characteristics of phenomenal consciousness as a standard, I compare the basic tenets of Integrated Information Theory, Global Neuronal Workspace, General Resonance Theory, Operational Architectonics, and the Temporo-spatial Theory of Consciousness with the framework of the TICL. While the literature concerned with these theories tends to focus on different lines of evidence, there are fundamental areas of agreement. This means that, in time, it may be possible for many of them to converge upon the truth. In this analysis, I conclude that a primary distinction which divides these theories is the feature of spatial and temporal nesting. Interestingly, this distinction does not separate along the fault line between theories explicitly concerned with EM fields and those which are not. I believe that reconciliation is possible, at least in principle, among those theories that recognize the following: just as the contents of consciousness are distinctions within consciousness, the neural correlates of conscious content should be distinguishable from but fall within the spatial and temporal boundaries of the full neural correlates of consciousness.

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Brain-mind operational architectonics: At the boundary between quantum physics and Eastern metaphysics

Cited by 17 publications

References 34 publications

Selfhood triumvirate: From phenomenology to brain activity and back again

Selfhood triumvirate: From phenomenology to brain activity and back again

The Role of Nutrition in Preventive Medicine: The Place of Street Food in International Gastronomy and Health Development

The Temporally-Integrated Causality Landscape: Reconciling Neuroscientific Theories With the Phenomenology of Consciousness

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