<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#444444"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Brent Allsop <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brent.allsop@canonizer.com" target="_blank">brent.allsop@canonizer.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><br><br></div>Hi Colin,<br><br></div></div></div><br></div><div>Isn't the 'hard problem' all about knowing what other minds are qualitatively like? (as in is my redness the same as yours?)<br>
</div><div><br></div>Brent<br><br></div></blockquote><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(68,68,68);display:inline">Yes, do the research, but I have to doubt that even if you can locate consciousness in brain areas, just what kind of explanation of it does that provide? It certainly won't answer Brent's problem above. Maybe not ever, as they will find that not all brains do identical things under identical conditions, if they haven't already (likely).</div>
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<div dir="ltr"><br><div><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Colin Geoffrey Hales <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cghales@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">cghales@unimelb.edu.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dear Folk,</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I thought you might be interested in the following paper, which is essentially my PhD outcome packaged
into a journal paper (49 pages!), contextualised with respect to consciousness, and now finally published in a special journal issue on the ‘Hard problem of Consciousness’. Online-ready only at this point. Came out yesterday. There are 14 supplementary videos.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="146d420f8ba7b235_146d38dedf7aa9dc__ENREF_1"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hales, Colin G. 2014: 'The origins of the brain’s endogenous electromagnetic field and its relationship
to provision of consciousness'. <i>Journal of Integrative Neuroscience</i>, Vol 13 Issue 2, pp. 1-49.</span></a><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219635214400056?queryID=%24%7bresultBean.queryID%7d" target="_blank">http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S0219635214400056?queryID=%24{resultBean.queryID}</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">ABSTRACT</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt">As a potential source of consciousness, the brain's endogenous electromagnetic (EM) field has much to commend it. Difficulties connecting EM phenomena
and consciousness have been exacerbated by the lack of a specific conclusive biophysically realistic mechanism originating the EM field, its form and dynamics. This work explores a potential mechanism: the spatial and temporal coherent action of transmembrane
ion channel currents which simultaneously produce electric and magnetic fields that dominate all other field sources. Ion channels, as tiny current filaments, express, at a distance, the electric and magnetic fields akin to those of a short (transmembrane)
copper wire. Following assembly of appropriate formalisms from EM field theory, the paper computationally explores the scalar electric potential produced by the current filaments responsible for an action potential (AP) in a realistic hippocampus CA1 pyramidal
neuron. It reveals that AP signaling can impress a highly structured, focused and directed "sweeping-lighthouse beam" that "illuminates" neighbors at mm scales. Ion channel currents thereby provide a possible explanation for both EEG/MEG origins and recently
confirmed functional EM coupling effects. Finally, a physically plausible EM field decomposition is posited. It reveals objective and subjective perspectives intrinsic to the membrane-centric field dynamics. Perceptual "fields" can be seen to operate as the
collective action of virtual EM-boson composites (called qualeons) visible only by "being" the fields, yet objectively appear as the familiar EM field activity. This explains the problematic evidence presentation and offers a physically plausible route to
a solution to the "hard problem".</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">For those impoverished and for those without institutional access I do have the preprint. Just email
me.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Traction. Finally.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Cheers</span><span><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span><font color="#888888">
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Colin Hales<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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