The archetypal molecular patterns of conscious experience are quantum analogs

Abstract

We define quantum analogs as vibrational excitations of quasi-particles coupled to electromagnetically-mediated resonance energy transfer in water (a crystal lattice). This paper addresses how neural magnetic resonance spectra of the brain’s magnetic field influence dipolar oscillation waves in crystal lattices of interfacial water molecules to produce correlates of phenomenal consciousness. We explore dipolar oscillation waves in hydrophobic protein cavities of aromatic amino acids as a conduit for coherent propagation of vibrational excitation and hydrogen bond distortion associated with phase coherence present in the magnetic field intensity oscillations at a frequency at which the energy switches from its trapped form as excited phonon states to free, cavity-mode magnetic field energy states. A quasi-polaritons that reflect “hydro-ionic waves” is a macroscopic quantum effect of crystal lattice vibrations, consisting of vibron polaritons coupled to ions across the neocortex, except the cerebellum, due to the absence of protein-protein interactions. They are quantum-like at the core and hence can exhibit quantum-like signaling properties when resonant energy is transferred as dipolar waves in hydrophobic protein cavities of aromatic amino acids. This is due to aromatic residue flexibility in molecular electromagnetic resonances. Finally, the archetypal molecular patterning of conscious experiences, which carries an inherent ambiguity necessary for non-contextually applying ‘meaning’ that encompasses cognitive signatures of conscious experience, satisfies the nature of quantum analogs and their transmutative properties.

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“…In this respect, our quantum analogs are based on quantum statistical mechanics and not quantum mechanics. This advances the quantum analog theories of consciousness as expressed in panexperiential materialism and subsequently espoused in Poznanski et al (2022b) and Tuszynski et al (2022).…”

“…A new theory of brain consciousness is needed where traditional quantum mechanics goes wrong. This new theory of brain consciousness where quantum mechanics goes wrong results in what we call quantum analogs (Tuszynski et al, 2022). Consciousness depends on the material composition of brains, where a particular quasiparticle interaction is uniquely mapped in the brain.…”

“…Consciousness depends on the material composition of brains, where a particular quasiparticle interaction is uniquely mapped in the brain. We proposed that quasiparticles are the minimalist material origins of consciousness at the molecular scale (Tuszynski et al, 2022), which makes perfect sense as quasiparticles reflect on the intrinsic material composition of the brain. In other words, unlike fundamental particles like electrons, quasiparticles have intrinsic properties that depend on the material properties of the brain.…”

“…A neuroscientific understanding of consciousness requires us to start thinking of the brain not as a connectome, i.e., assembly of neural networks, but as a hyper network of quasipolariton waves across protein pathways as the fundamental consciousness process (Tuszynski et al, 2022). Consciousness is built from a unique combination of quasi-particles such as vibrons and polaritons.…”

“…The inner core encapsulates cognitive and perceptual states to bring about conscious experience. We must further assume that quasipolaritons surrounding the quasiparticles are an archetypal quantum analog of conscious experience that naturally depend on cognitive dynamics attributed to the arrangement of ions encapsulating the polaritonic wave (Tuszynski et al, 2022). Attempts at unifying quantum analog models of precognitive energy processing with cognitive processing of ions and water molecules that realize these higher-level behaviors have begun based on quasiparticles (see Tuszynski et al, 2022).…”