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formative causes of evolution, embryonic development, thoughts, behaviours and even many metaphysical phenomena. | find the theory's ability to explain how thoughts work particularly insightful. formative causes of evolution, embryonic development, in the way that we tend to think they are. Instead, they thoughts, behaviours and even many metaphysical are created anew each time in the present moment. The phenomena. | find the theory's ability to explain how genesis of new neural pathways for the conduction of thoughts work particularly insightful. electrical patterns that can tune into different areas of he information field can be observed happening rapidly Biomolecular Quantum Communication hrough the formation of physical subsynaptic maging brain activity through functional magnetic structures called spines. resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography Spines can be produced and retracted rapidly, giving (EEG) reveals four-dimensional space-time patterns of he brain a high degree of plasticity and allowing it to electrical activity produced by the action potentials of | remodel and rewire itself faster than is required through billions of neurons. Electrical propagation along diverse production of entirely new synapses and, in some cases, pathways of such networks produces specific patterns of | whole new neurons. In fact, when we feel that we have activity that have been clearly correlated with physical grasped or learnt a new concept it is because spines and sentient states. One of the most elusive questions ave been generated that produce novel synaptic within neurobiology is how this electrical activity can contacts, allowing different patterns of electrical activity produce what we experience as thoughts, behaviours o occur that can tune into different morphic resonances. and memories. It is so difficult for neurobiologists to However, perception itself does not occur within the address this question because it is completely physical brain; perception is only facilitated by it perplexing from a_ purely because it is consciousness that physical point of view, which perceives, and consciousness scientists have been inclined to does not occur within the brain restrict themselves to in their . but is only restricted by it. investigation of Nature. This means that the This is perhaps one of the 8 ; ; Pernaps t a pcan sine | rain has never produced 0" <'. ovesion wih delineation of brain activity a thought, and never will produced? Again, it is a b it i hysical 1 ° tion that will b ecause it is a nonphysica ag question that will never be phenomenon: the brain only because that Is not what answered using the old- acts as an interface for the the brain does. paradigm science because consciousness is not produced sentience to be transduced into by physical phenomena: it is he physical experience. This primary and fundamental to all means that the brain has never of existence. It is a prerequisite produced a thought, and never will, because that is not to existence itself because, without conscious what the brain does. Thoughts exist as ideas within the | awareness, how can something be said to exist? What morphogenetic field—and a specific program of would differentiate it from nonexistence if it is houghts is a behaviour within the morphogenetic completely unperceived? Trying to imagine something ield—so behaviours are a higher-nested morphic existing that is unperceived is similar to trying to structure of thoughts. Remember that the imagine nonexistence. It can't be done. morphogenetic field is simply a categorisation of the There have been very few attempts to explain information field, which is a part of the unified field. So scientifically the supposed physical processes by which it is anonphysical component of the mind that accesses — consciousness is produced (remembering that within the nonphysical information field; it can be referred to the consensus paradigm, all phenomena must be as the higher mind. explained by physical processes). The scientific The impetus for all ideas occurs within the higher community has largely been content with assuming that mind, whereby ideas are transduced to the brain and consciousness is an emergent aspect of highly complex elicit the action potentials that produce specific fourr neural networks, specifically those comprising the dimensional patterns of electrical activity. These space- — neocortex of the human brain. This has actually led to time patterns tune into a program of ideas within the some productive avenues of enquiry, in that it has morphogenetic field through morphic resonance and promoted some to think beyond the normal self- allow the physical mind to perceive ideas as thoughts. imposed restrictions and entertain theories of quantum Similarly, memories are produced by the same kind of | mechanical processes within the biological context to four-dimensional patterns of electrical activity. The explain the emergence of consciousness. specific patterns of neural activity tune into distinct Roger Penrose in collaboration with Stuart Hameroff morphic fields that contain the information which developed a theory in which the delocalised pi electrons produces images corresponding to a past event. This within microtubules are sufficiently sheltered from means that memories are really not recorded anywhere = environmental fluctuations that they can maintain a purely energetic aspects of brain has never produced a thought, and never will, because that is not what 46 * NEXUS This means that the the brain does. FEBRUARY - MARCH 2012 www.nexusmagazine.com