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Name: Huping Hu & Maoxin Wu
Affiliation: , Biophysics Consulting Group
Email: [email protected]
Abstract Title: Concerning Spin as Mind-Pixel and Primordial
Self-Referential Process Driving
Consciousness
Abstract: We have recently theorized that spin is the mind-pixel
and primordial self-referentialprocess driving consciousness.
Applying these ideas to the particular structures and dynamics
ofthe brain, we have developed a qualitative model of quantum
consciousness. Here, we report somealternatives to our original
model and discuss the ontology of the self-referential spin process
andthe collapse of associated spin state. The first alternative is
to use unpaired electronic spins insteadof unpaired nuclear spins
as the mind-pixels. The key question then is how will
unpairedelectronic spins achieve long-lived (~ms) quantum coherence
in the warm and wet brain. Onepossibility is that the unpaired
electronic spins caged inside a network of large molecules are
ableto form long-lived macroscopic quantum coherence through
tunneling since they are insulated to
certain extent from the noisy brain environment. The second is
to use the unpaired nuclear spinensembles in membrane proteins and
even microtubules as the mind-pixels instead of smallermolecules
such as phospholipids and cholesterols. Presumably, these nuclear
spins are moreinsulated from the brain noise thus more readily to
form long-lived macroscopic quantumcoherence through intra- and
inter-molecular spin-spin interactions than those carried by
smallermolecules. The key question is how do they communicate with
the classical neural networks ofthe brain. It is possible that they
directly communicate with said networks through theconformational
changes of these large molecules and it is also plausible that they
communicatewith said networks through the weak magnetic fields
produced by said networks. The thirdalternative is to drop oxygen
from the original model if one is to assume that the
unpairedelectronic spins of oxygen would not play a role in
consciousness. In this scenario, both the keyquestion and its
answer are quite similar to those in the second alternative. Thus,
in principle, even
without the unpaired electronic spins of oxygen as
pixel-activating beam through their strongmagnetic dipoles, it is
still possible for the nuclear spin ensembles in the neural
membranes to beactivated through the conformational changes of the
molecules carrying these nuclear spins andthe weak magnetic fields
produced by classical neural activities.
On ontology, we will first discuss from a reductionist
perspective the ontological connections ofspin, mind and the
imaginary number i. Then, we will outline the semantics of the
operationsbased on i and connect them to the self-referential spin
process and the collapse of associated spinstate.
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