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Letter to The Editor

Theory of Consciousness
Tapan Das

Abstract A new theory of consciousness is given based on Yukawa coupling between Nambu-Goldstone boson scalar field and electron Dirac field in the brain. Key Words: Nambu-Goldstone boson, Dirac field, quantum theory NeuroQuantology 2009; 2: 336-337

The idea that consciousness is a manifestation of a complex net of electric impulses within the brain is now discredited. Roger Penrose advocated macroscopic quantum states in the brain. However, quantum states in the physical environment of the brain at body temperature became unacceptable. The critical temperature Tc below which the Bose quanta can be maintained is inversely to the mass m of the Bose quantum. Tc m -1 For quanta of matter far heavier than electron, we have a very low critical temperature, thus eliminating the possibility of Bose-Einstein condensation at body temperature in the brain. Umezawa and Takahashi applied quantum field theory (QFT) to explain quantum state in the brain. In QFT, photons are not thought of as little particles, they considered as field quanta ripples in a field. Similarly, fermions like electrons can also be described as ripples in a field, where each kind of fermions has its own field. In the end according to QFT, particles are regarded as excited states of a field (field quanta). Taking the QFT approach to the brain within the cranium, the brain made of
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atomic constituents can be described as the spatial distribution of quantum electric dipoles. Thus brain is a quantum electric dipole field coupled with electromagnetic field. Umezawa and Takahashi described an interesting physical process for memory retrieval in the brain in terms of quantum field theory. As long as memory is maintained in the geometric objects of the quantum electric dipole field, Nambu-Goldstone bosons emerge from the geometric objects due to breakage of symmetry triggered by arbitrarily small incoming energy. Emergence of Nambu-Goldstone bosons is memory retrieval. Then what is consciousness? It should be some kind of physical property created by the Nambu-Goldstone bosons. The physical property can be explained by Yukawa coupling, named after Hideki Yukawa, which is an interaction between a scalar field and a Dirac field !. Nambu-Goldstone bosons create the scalar field and the Dirac field is created by fermions like electrons. The Yukawa coupling is given by, V Kfjf Where K is the Yukawa coupling factor and V is the energy transfer due to Yukawa interaction. The Dirac field for an electron is:
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f = me e jwt
Where m is the electron mass. 2 Hence, V Kjme The wave function f(x) of the Nambu-Goldstone boson condensate can be written as,

j (x) = r (x)e jq ( x )
Where r(x)is the local density of the condensate and q(x)"is the phase.
2 Hence, V (x) Kme r (x)e jq ( x )

This energy transfer could be photons with nonzero mass. The electrons causing the Yukawa coupling come from the axons of the various neurons in the brain for a certain event. Hence, the energy V(x) from each coupling will have different phases. If we call the energy V(x) from each coupling as V(x1), V(x2), V(x3), etc, then these energy levels will form an interference pattern creating an image. This image is the consciousness created in the brain. Hence, consciousness is a property of the Nambu-Goldtone bosons created by Yukawa coupling between the Namubu-Goldstone boson scalar field and the electron Dirac field.

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