What is Consciousness?

How do you feel? Lecture by Bud Craig. from Medicinska fakulteten vid LiU on Vimeo.

The Source of Consciousness - with Mark Solms. Solms argues that the source of consciousness is feeling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmuYrnOVmfk .

Homeostatic Feelings and the Emergence of Consciousness. PMID: 38319678. 

The Energetic Oscillatory Nature of Human Consciousness

A new variant of the electromagnetic field theory of consciousness: approaches to empirical confirmation. PMC11527664.

Consciousness: Matter or EMF? PMC9889563

Consciousness and inward electromagnetic field interactions. PMC9714613. 

Qualia and Phenomenal Consciousness Arise From the Information Structure of an Electromagnetic Field in the Brain. PMC9289677. 

The Slowest Shared Resonance: A Review of Electromagnetic Field Oscillations Between Central and Peripheral Nervous Systems. PMC8888685.

Neural Correlates of Non-ordinary States of Consciousness in Pranayama Practitioners: The Role of Slow Nasal Breathing. PMC8977447.

The Easy Part of the Hard Problem: A Resonance Theory of Consciousness. PMC6834646.

The frequency architecture of brain and brain body oscillations: an analysis. PMC6668003.

The Clinical, Philosophical, Evolutionary and Mathematical Machinery of Consciousness: An Analytic Dissection of the Field Theories and a Consilience of Ideas. PMC7813534.

Magnetic correlates in electromagnetic consciousness. PMID: 27049696.

The entropic brain: a theory of conscious states informed by neuroimaging research with psychedelic drugs. PMC3909994.

Integrating information in the brain's EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness. PMC7507405. 

The CEMI field theory: Closing the loop. PDF.

Synchronous Firing and Its Influence on the Brain’s Electromagnetic Field. PDF. 

The Conscious Electromagnetic Information (Cemi) Field Theory: The Hard Problem Made Easy? PDF. 

Brain Oscillations

The frequency architecture of brain and brain body oscillations: an analysis. PMC6668003. 

Brain Rhythms 101. Harvard Brain Science Initiative. Dr. Cash discusses what is known about different types of brain oscillations, how they are measured and studied, what the biggest unanswered questions in this research area are, and why achieving a better understanding of brain oscillations matters clinically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-755MtdojL8 

Chaos: Making a New Science

Chaos: Making a New Science

The book that popularized Chaos Theory

Feelings Are the Source of Consciousness. PMID: 35896152. 

Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution. PMC10567559.

Groundbreaking chemist defines all of life in 2 words | Lee Cronin

"Existence and copying gives you Biology"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gq-5qNekdo

Measures characterizing the complexity of heart rate (HR) dynamics have been informative in predicting age- and disease-related decline in cardiovascular health, but few studies have evaluated whether mind-body exercise can impact HR complexity. This study evaluated the effects of long-term Tai Chi (TC) practice on the complexity of HR dynamics. ResearchGate.

Non-Linear Dynamics of Human Function and Homeostasis

The intricacies of the human body have amazed scientists for generations. Innumerable, entwined feedback loops regulate our internal processes, keeping us within the narrow bounds needed for survival. Despite this regulation, our systems are aperiodic and unpredictable in the long term. We are incredibly ordered on several scales of magnitude, but irregularly so. Our bodies conform to a set of non-linear, dynamic rules. The human body is not a simple machine, but an amazingly complex chaotic system. Human Beings as Chaotic Systems. By Crystal Ives.

"Life is an aperiodic crystal, it is not random, but also it is not periodic; it is something in between." Shrodinger

Complexity and Chaos in Biological Systems - Ary Goldberger

What is whole-person health and how can it be measured?

Fractal Heart - Ary Golberger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRFOaQMiLs0

Ilya Prigogine (Chemistry '77) at Nobel Conference XXVI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpPpWN1p_Fg

Nobel Conference XXVI at Gustavus Adolphus College. October 2 and 3, 1990.

Ilya Prigogine (Илья Пригожин) - The End of Certainty (Interview 1997)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZtLoN3n9X8

Sabine Hossenfelder - What's the Deep Meaning of Probability?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVNtM0XFTaE

Brain-heart interactions in the neurobiology of consciousness. PMC9846460. 

Fundamentals of Chaos and Complexity

A simple guide to chaos and complexity. PMC2465602.

Equinox Documentary
An Introduction to Chaos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h6i_FlyRQQ

Complexity Theory
Key Concepts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mAF6Czs1qs

Sabine Hossenfelder

The Real Butterfly Effect 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxwvYEI2qE0

Chaos: The real problem with quantum mechanics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJzKLTavk-w

Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics: How are they related??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1wqUCATYUA

The Biggest Gap in Science: Complexity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPUZiWMNe-g

An Introduction to Complexity and Chaos

Professor Robert Sapolsky gives what he calls "one of the most difficult lectures of the course" about chaos and reductionism. Stanford University lecture: Human Behavioral Biology (May 19, 2010). 

Qigong: Essence of the Healing Dance

Qigong Essence of the Healing Dance

"QIgong should teach you to be flexible, not just in your body, but in your spirit. This is why we use the word hundun [chaos -- G.G.] when we teach Qigong. Hundun refers to the nature of this existence; everything is in a state of flux in the matrerial world. To take a rigid stance is to seek an early death. To be inflexible to the change around you is to live in fear. Qigong is a useful tool to improve your flexibility, both mental and physical. To flow with the hundun is to live in a natural way."

Brains not required...

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Another way of thinking of the brain is that the brain is not just in the head, but it is distributed and extended throughout the body. Any cell of the body, not just neural cells, handles bioelectric signals, physical signals, and chemical changes at the cell membrane and within the parts of the cell, and thus is naturally intelligent. The cognitive scientists refer to this cellular intelligence as basal cognition or the biology of how cells do their work of being cells. Josie Weaver. 

Microtubules as Electrical Oscillators

Consciousness, Cognition and the Neuronal Cytoskeleton – A New Paradigm Needed in Neuroscience. PMC9245524. 

Physical energies to the rescue of damaged tissues. PMC6600852. 

Electrical Oscillations of Isolated Brain Microtubules.

Electric Resonance in Microtubules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiLplTc8rQY

Quantum Cognition and Brain Microtubules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6Mt9BoZ_M

Microtubules - Electric Oscillating Structures in Living Cells (Google Workshop on Quantum Biology)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo8omvoO108

Fröhlich formulated a hypothesis of coherent electromagnetic activity in biological systems. Electric and electromagnetic oscillations in various biological systems were found in a wide frequency range from acoustic to visible and UV bands but their internal physical mechanisms are rather unclear.

Discovery of quantum vibrations in 'microtubules' inside brain neurons supports controversial theory of consciousness.

A Theory Which Associates Quantum Processes with Consciousness

Quantum Processes in Neurophotonics and the Origin of the Brain's Spatiotemporal Hierarchy. 

Chronobiology Meets Quantum Biology: A New Paradigm Overlooking the Horizon? PMC9296773. 

Theoretical Neuroscience Defines a Model in the Brain Fundamental to Interoception

The Free Energy Principle is a formal description of how life resists entropy across scales by minimizing surprise. Surprise is an information-theoretic view of how unlikely a particular sensory state of an organism is, not the psychological phenomenon of surprise. The free energy principle describes how organisms attempt to reduce the difference between their model of the world and their perception of it. 

"The free energy principle invokes variational Bayesian methods to explain how biological systems maximize evidence for their predictive models via the minimization of variational free energy, a tractable information-theoretic quantification of prediction error." Allostasis, interoception, and the free energy principle: Feeling our way forward. Corcoran and Hohwy in The Interoceptive Mind. From homeostasis to interoception.

Free Energy Principle - Karl Friston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIu_dJGyIQI

Is Reality a Controlled Hallucination? - with Anil Seth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXcH26M7PQM&t=861s

Free Energy Principle: Organisms mainain themselves in states they (statistically) expect to be in, in the long run. This imperative to remain being a thing and striving to stay in a small set of habitable states gives rise to prediction, prediction error, and control. 

Embodied Cognition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW0JnjgCO3o

An Overview of the Free Energy Principle and Related Research. PMID: 38457757. 

An insula hierarchical network architecture for active interoceptive inference. PMC9240682.

In the Body's Eye: The computational anatomy of interoceptive inference. PMC9506608.