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A Foundational Approach
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BIOPHYSICS
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A Foundational Approach
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Editors
Roman R. Poznanski
The Rockefeller University, USA
and
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Jack A. Tuszynski
University of Alberta, Canada
Todd E. Feinberg
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
and
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center,
USA
World Scientific
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Title: Biophysics of consciousness : a foundational approach / editors, Roman R. Poznanski,
Jack A. Tuszynski, Todd E. Feinberg.
Description: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015031941 | ISBN 9789814644259 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Consciousness. | Biophysics.
Classification: LCC QP411 .B56 2016 | DDC 612.8/233--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015031941
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, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach
R. R. Poznanski, J. A. Tuszynski and T. E. Feinberg
Copyright © 2017 World Scientific, Singapore.
CONTENTS
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Preface xi
Foreword: Addressing the Hard Problem of Consciousness xiii
John R. Searle
Contributing Authors xix
Chapter 1 Neurobiological Naturalism 1
Todd E. Feinberg and Jon Mallatt
Chapter 2 The Evolutionary Origins of Consciousness 47
Todd E. Feinberg and Jon Mallatt
Chapter 3 How Language Evolution Reshaped Human
Consciousness 87
Michael A. Arbib
Chapter 4 Consciousness by Surprise: A Neuropsychoanalytic
Approach to the Hard Problem 129
Mark Solms
Chapter 5 Can Qualitative Biophysics Solve the Hard Problem? 149
Alfredo Pereira Jr., Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
and Massimo Pregnolato
Chapter 6 The Causal Roots of Integration and the Unity
of Consciousness 189
Riccardo Manzotti and Antonio Chella
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, viii Contents
Chapter 7 The Holoinformational Foundations
of Consciousness 231
Francisco Di Biase
Chapter 8 Neural Transition Dynamics
and Conscious Perceptive States 251
Gustav Bernroider
Chapter 9 The Two-Brains Hypothesis: Implications
for Consciousness 279
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D. Bercovich, G. Goodman, L. A. Cacha
and R. R. Poznanski
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Chapter 10 The Origins of the Brain’s Endogenous
Electromagnetic Field and its Relationship
to Provision of Consciousness 295
C. G. Hales
Chapter 11 Consciousness as a Quantum Dynamic Effect 355
R. R. Poznanski, L. A. Cacha, J. Ali, D. Aur,
J. L. Perez Velazquez, M. Bahadoran, P. P. Yupapin
and J. Yunus
Chapter 12 Quantum Spin Formalism on Consciousness 415
Huping Hu and Maoxin Wu
Chapter 13 The “Quantum Underground”: Where Life
and Consciousness Originate 459
Travis J. A. Craddock, Stuart R. Hameroff
and Jack A. Tuszynski
Chapter 14 Consciousness in the Universe An Updated
Review of the “Orch OR” Theory 517
Stuart R. Hameroff and Roger Penrose
Index 631
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“It is not consciousness that has been evolved — an elementary flash of
consciousness may be a native property of matter — but a particular kind of
integrated consciousness, a consciousness spun into a continuous thread by a
faculty of memory, a consciousness embroidered as upon a canvas, whose func-
tion is to hold in place and in their proper relation the components of the
picture.”
— Alfred J. Lotka
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A Foundational Approach
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BIOPHYSICS
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, BIOPHYSICS
OF CONSCIOUSNESS
A Foundational Approach
Biophysics of Consciousness Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com
by KAINAN UNIVERSITY on 10/28/16. For personal use only.
Editors
Roman R. Poznanski
The Rockefeller University, USA
and
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Jack A. Tuszynski
University of Alberta, Canada
Todd E. Feinberg
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
and
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center,
USA
World Scientific
NEW JERSEY • LONDON • SINGAPORE • BEIJING • SHANGHAI • HONG KONG • TAIPEI • CHENNAI • TOKYO
9444_9789814644259_TP.indd 2 18/7/16 10:57 AM
, Published by
World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
5 Toh Tuck Link, Singapore 596224
USA office: 27 Warren Street, Suite 401-402, Hackensack, NJ 07601
UK office: 57 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9HE
Biophysics of Consciousness Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Poznanski, Roman R., editor. | Tuszynski, J. A., editor. | Feinberg, Todd E., editor.
by KAINAN UNIVERSITY on 10/28/16. For personal use only.
Title: Biophysics of consciousness : a foundational approach / editors, Roman R. Poznanski,
Jack A. Tuszynski, Todd E. Feinberg.
Description: New Jersey : World Scientific, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015031941 | ISBN 9789814644259 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Consciousness. | Biophysics.
Classification: LCC QP411 .B56 2016 | DDC 612.8/233--dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015031941
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Copyright © 2017 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form or by any means,
electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage and retrieval
system now known or to be invented, without written permission from the publisher.
For photocopying of material in this volume, please pay a copying fee through the Copyright Clearance
Center, Inc., 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. In this case permission to photocopy
is not required from the publisher.
Typeset by Stallion Press
Email: enquires@stallionpress
Printed in Singapore
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b2237_FM.indd v
and Karl H. Pribram
Dedicated to Gerald M. Edelman, Walter J. Freeman,
7/18/2016 1:11:11 PM
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, Biophysics of Consciousness: A Foundational Approach
R. R. Poznanski, J. A. Tuszynski and T. E. Feinberg
Copyright © 2017 World Scientific, Singapore.
CONTENTS
Biophysics of Consciousness Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com
by KAINAN UNIVERSITY on 10/28/16. For personal use only.
Preface xi
Foreword: Addressing the Hard Problem of Consciousness xiii
John R. Searle
Contributing Authors xix
Chapter 1 Neurobiological Naturalism 1
Todd E. Feinberg and Jon Mallatt
Chapter 2 The Evolutionary Origins of Consciousness 47
Todd E. Feinberg and Jon Mallatt
Chapter 3 How Language Evolution Reshaped Human
Consciousness 87
Michael A. Arbib
Chapter 4 Consciousness by Surprise: A Neuropsychoanalytic
Approach to the Hard Problem 129
Mark Solms
Chapter 5 Can Qualitative Biophysics Solve the Hard Problem? 149
Alfredo Pereira Jr., Ram Lakhan Pandey Vimal
and Massimo Pregnolato
Chapter 6 The Causal Roots of Integration and the Unity
of Consciousness 189
Riccardo Manzotti and Antonio Chella
vii
b2237_FM.indd vii 7/22/2016 12:59:44 PM
, viii Contents
Chapter 7 The Holoinformational Foundations
of Consciousness 231
Francisco Di Biase
Chapter 8 Neural Transition Dynamics
and Conscious Perceptive States 251
Gustav Bernroider
Chapter 9 The Two-Brains Hypothesis: Implications
for Consciousness 279
Biophysics of Consciousness Downloaded from www.worldscientific.com
D. Bercovich, G. Goodman, L. A. Cacha
and R. R. Poznanski
by KAINAN UNIVERSITY on 10/28/16. For personal use only.
Chapter 10 The Origins of the Brain’s Endogenous
Electromagnetic Field and its Relationship
to Provision of Consciousness 295
C. G. Hales
Chapter 11 Consciousness as a Quantum Dynamic Effect 355
R. R. Poznanski, L. A. Cacha, J. Ali, D. Aur,
J. L. Perez Velazquez, M. Bahadoran, P. P. Yupapin
and J. Yunus
Chapter 12 Quantum Spin Formalism on Consciousness 415
Huping Hu and Maoxin Wu
Chapter 13 The “Quantum Underground”: Where Life
and Consciousness Originate 459
Travis J. A. Craddock, Stuart R. Hameroff
and Jack A. Tuszynski
Chapter 14 Consciousness in the Universe An Updated
Review of the “Orch OR” Theory 517
Stuart R. Hameroff and Roger Penrose
Index 631
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“It is not consciousness that has been evolved — an elementary flash of
consciousness may be a native property of matter — but a particular kind of
integrated consciousness, a consciousness spun into a continuous thread by a
faculty of memory, a consciousness embroidered as upon a canvas, whose func-
tion is to hold in place and in their proper relation the components of the
picture.”
— Alfred J. Lotka
ix
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