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Quantum-Holographic Informational Consciousness 2009 PDF
Quantum-Holographic Informational Consciousness 2009 PDF
Quantum-Holographic Informational
Consciousness
Francisco Di Biase
Abstract
The author propose a quantum-informational holographic model of brain-
consciousness-universe interactions based in the holonomic neural networks of
Karl Pribram, in the holographic quantum theory developed by David Bohm, and
in the non-locality property of the quantum field described by Hiroomi Umezawa.
I consider this model an extension of the interactive dualism of Sir John Eccles, of
an interconnection between brain and spirit by means of quantum microsites
named dendrons and psychons. I propose a dynamic concept of consciousness
seen as a holoinformational flux interconnecting the holonomic informational
quantum brain dynamics, with the quantum informational holographic nature of
the universe. This self-organizing flux is generated by the holographic mode of
treatment of neuronal information and can be optimized through practices of
deep meditation, prayer, and others states of higher consciousness that underlie
the coherence of cerebral waves. In brain mapping studies performed during the
occurrence of these harmonic states we can see the spectral array of brain waves
highly synchronized and perfectly ordered like a unique harmonic wave, as if all
frequencies of all neurons from all cerebral centers played the same symphony.
This highly coherent brain state generates the non-local holographic
informational cortical field of consciousness that interconnect the human brain
and the holographic cosmos. The comprehension of this holonomic quantum
informational nature of brain-consciousness-universe interconnectedness allows
us to solve the old mind-matter cartesian hard problem, unifying science,
philosophy, and spiritual traditions in a more transdisciplinary, holistic, integrated
paradigm. In this new arrangement cosmovision, consciousness and
transpersonal phenomena becomes part of Science and of the very
holoinformational nature of the Holographic Conscious Multiverse.
information could travel faster than light and interference pattern can be used to rebuild the
created a thought experiment to demonstrate virtual image of the object by the application of
that quantum physics was therefore incomplete. the inverse process. Gabor showed that from a
But contrary to their initial proposition, the dimension of frequencies objects in spacetime
existence of nonlocality has been dramatically can be rebuilt in a virtual form!
and convincingly proven to exist in modern
physics experiments. According to Bohr, if an Holographic Neural Networks Fields
atom simultaneously emits two opposite spin Karl Pribram has demonstrated with his
particles, and if we alter the spin of one, even if holonomic theory of brain dynamics that the
they are separated by an enormous distance (for cerebral cortex is the site of a holographic
instance, one in a lab on Earth and the second information process he calls a multiplex neural
on the other side of the galaxy), the spin of the hologram that is dependent on local circuits of
second is instantaneously modified.. neurons without long fibers that do not transmit
ordinary nervous impulses. These neurons
Holographic Systems function in the undulatory mode and are above
Holographic systems are systems that can all responsible by the horizontal layer
generate three-dimensional virtual images. The connections of the neural tissue where
virtual image or hologram is created when a holographic interference patterns can be built
laser falls upon an object and reflects on a plate (Pribram, 1993). Pribram presents evidences
and a second laser or rectilinear reflected beam that at the level of conscious experience,
falls on this plate generating a mix of the waves information processing in the brain is basically
from the two beams. This wave interference Gabor-like rather than binary (as in Shannons
pattern stores all the information about the information measurement theory). He shows
form and volume of the object, and when it is that the process takes place in a phase space
reflected it generates a three-dimensional image created by a multiply interconnected web of
of the object in space. The relevancy for us is teledendrons, synapses and dendrites, called
that we can prove mathematically and synaptodendritic web.
experimentally that in holographic systems The neural hologram is build by the
information about the whole system is interaction of the electromagnetic fields of the
distributed in each part of the system. If we neurons similarly to the interaction of sound
break the holographic plate, each part of it will waves in a piano. When a piano is played the
display the entire three-dimensional image of keys strike the strings generating a vibrational
the object in space, showing us that in standing wave between the two ends of the
holographic systems the whole is in the parts as string, creating an interference pattern (This
each part is in the whole. interference can be destructive or constructive).
These holographic transformations form Nodes of constructive interference, of these
spacetime order from a spectral dimension of sound frequencies, create the harmony or
frequencies the description of which is harmonics that are the notes making up the
dependent on the pioneering mathematical music we listen to. Pribram has demonstrated
formulations first described by a concept called that a similar process is continuously occurring in
monads developed by Leibniz. In the Twentieth the cerebral cortex by means of the
Century Dennis Gabor described the interpenetration of the electromagnetic fields of
mathematical principles of holography, winning the adjacent cortical neurons, generating a
him a Nobel Prize. The mathematical harmonic field. According to Pribrams model his
formulations that describe the harmonic curve harmonic electromagnetic field distributed in
resulting from the interference pattern of waves the cerebral cortex, holographically stores and
are called Fourier transformations, after the encodes a huge information field responsible for
18th century French mathematician that the emergence of memory and consciousness.
described it. Gabor applied Fourier As the music is not in the piano but in the
transformations to the creation of the hologram resonating field that surrounds it, so our
showing how Fourier transforms of the memories and consciousness are not in the
other words, from the spectral dimension of Brain Dynamics in neural microtubules, in
frequency one can reconstruct mathematically synapses and in the molecular organization of
and experimentally the object in spacetime the cerebrospinal fluid. This Quantum Brain
dimensions! Dynamics can generate Bose-Einstein
This holographic organization mode is condensates and the Frhlich Effect. Bose-
also what Bohm applied to quantum theory to Einstein condensates consist of atomic particles,
develop his holographic quantum theory of the or in the case of the Frhlich Effect biological
universe. In Bohms universe model, space and molecules, that can assume a high level of
time are mixed, folded into a dimension of coherent alignment, functioning as a highly
frequencies that is an implicit hidden order ordered and unified informational state, as seen
without spacetime relations. In this field of in lasers and superconductivity. These quantum
frequencies dimensional fluctuations occur, dynamics show us that the interaction process
more intense undulations like holographic between dendrons and psychons, described by
patterns, to build a spacetime dimension (Peat, Eccles, are not limited to the synaptic cleft, as
1987). This explicit order is our manifest stated by Eccles, but a much wider embodiment
universe. According to Bohm (1983): throughout the whole brain. Psychons are
presumed to operate on synapses by way of
In the implicate order everything is folded quantum processes.
into everything. But its important to note Pribram (1991) demonstrates good
here that the whole universe, is in principle evidence that Eccles' dendrons make up
enfolded into each part actively through the receptive fields in cortical sensory units.
holomovement, as well as the parts. Now
Dendrons are composed of pre-synaptic
this means that the dynamic activity-internal
and external- which is fundamental for what
teledendrons, synapses and post-synaptic
each part is, is based on its enfoldment of all dendrites. They compose the fine fiber structure
the rest, including the whole universe. But of wherein brain processing occurs. As Pribram
course, each part may unfold others in states (1991), as sensory generated receptive
different degrees and ways. That is, they are fields they can be mapped in terms of wavelets,
not all enfolded equally in each part. But the or wavelet-like patterns such as Gabor
basic principle of enfoldment in the whole, is Elementary Functions. Dennis Gabor (1946)
not thereby denied. Therefore enfoldment is called these units Quanta of Information. The
not merely superficial or passive but, I reason for this name is that Gabor used the same
emphasize again, that each part is in a
mathematics to describe his units as had
fundamental sense internally related in its
basic activities to the whole and to all the
Heisenberg in describing the units of quantum
other parts. The mechanistic idea of external microphysics. Here they define the unit structure
relation as fundamental, is therefore denied. of processes occurring in the material brain.
Of course such relationships are still Like Pribram , I see this quantum
considered to be real, but of secondary holographic interactions not as a contradiction
significance. That is, we can get but as a natural extension of Eccles ideas (Eccles,
approximations to a mechanistic behavior 1952; 1989; 1993; 1994; 1998; Popper and
out of this. That is to say, the order of the Eccles, 1977).
world, as a structure of things that is I expanded my conjecture that the
basically external to each other, comes as
interconnectedness between brain and cosmos
secondary and emerges from the deeper
implicate order.
is an instantaneous nonlocal connection and to
the concept of a holoinformational flux, from
4. Towards a Holoinformational Theory of which both mind and matter are in-formed, that
Consciousness resembles Bohms holomovement. But in this
Experimental research developed by Pribram new concept, quantum holographic brain
and other consciousness researchers like dynamic patterns are conceived as an active part
Hameroff (1994; 2007) and Penrose (Hameroff of the universal quantum-holographic
and Penrose, 1996; 2003), Jibu and Yassue informational field, and capable of generating an
(1995), confirm the existence of a Quantum informational field interconnection that is
simultaneously nonlocal (quantum-holistic) and They define the unit structure of processes
local (Newtonian-mechanistic), i.e., occurring in the material brain. However,
holoinformational. Taking yet in consideration Gabor invented his function, not to describe
the basic mathematical property of holographic brain processes, but to find the maximum
compressibility of a telephone message that
systems in which the information of the whole
could be sent over the Atlantic Cable without
system is distributed in each part of the system, destroying its intelligibility. The Gabor
plus Bohms holographic quantum physics data, function thus describes both a unit of brain
and the experimental data of the holonomic processing and a unit of communication.
theory of Pribram, we propose that this Brain is material, communication is mental.
universal interconnectedness (Laszlo, 2003) The same mathematical formulation
could permit us to access all the information (Di describes both. The elementary structure of
Biase and Rocha, 2000; 2004; Di Biase and processing in Eccles material dendron is
Amoroso, 2005; 2008) codified in the wave identical to the elementary structure of
interference patterns existing in all the universe processing of a mental (communication)
psychon. There is a structural identity to the
since its origin. The quantum-holoinformational
dual interactive process (Amoroso, 2003).
nature of the universe interconnects each part,
each brain-consciousness, with all the
Richard Amoroso, creator of Noetic Field
information stored in the holographic patterns
Theory (Amoroso, 1999; 2000; Amoroso et al.,
distributed in the whole cosmos, in an indivisible
2000), tell us that Consciousness pervades
irreducible informational cosmic unity (Bohm
atoms, is the organizing power deeper than
and Hiley, 1993; Di Biase and Amoroso, 2008;
gravitation (unitary field), that frames the
Zurek, 1990).
universe, causes gravitation, and the flux or lan
As a consciousness exercise, analogous
vital which gives life and is the light of the
to Einsteins thought experiments, we could
mind... this basic holistic framework
compare this universal informational
incorporates the implicate and explicate order
interconnectedness with the following
described by Bohm (Eccles, 1989; 1994). This
metaphoric quotations from various spiritual
noetic definition of consciousness is as radical as
traditions: As above so below (Alchemy). All that
our holoinformational consciousness, and I think
is outside is inside (Upanishads). The father is
we are saying the same thing with different
inside us (Christianity). As in the earth so in the
approaches.
heavens (Christianity). This universal
interconnectedness could be perfectly
5. Transpersonal States of Consciousness as
understood as a Cosmic Holographic
highly synchronized harmonic brain state
Consciousness.
Through practices of deep meditation, prayer,
Consciousness in this conception is the
and others states of higher consciousness that
holoinformational flux that permits the
elevates the coherence of cerebral waves, this
interaction of the Holonomic Informational
universal interconnectedness becomes
Quantum Brain Dynamics - that we can consider
expanded by synchronizing the functioning of
as extended dendrons - with the quantum-
the cerebral hemispheres and unleashing a
holographic nature of the universe, that we can
highly coherent brain state that optimizes the
view as an extended cosmic psychon.
holographic treatment of neuronal information.
As I have already put Pribram states, that as
In brain mapping studies this highly
sensory receptive fields dendrons can be
synchronized harmonic state shows brain waves
mapped in terms of Gabors Elementary
highly synchronized and perfectly ordered, in a
Functions or wavelet-like patterns, and Gabor
unique harmonic wave, as if all frequencies of all
called these unities Quanta of Information,
neurons from all cerebral centers played the
because he used the same mathematics to
same symphony. In my concept this highly
describe it as Heisenberg did in describing units
harmonic synchronized state generates a
of quantum physics. Yet Pribram shows:
nonlocal holographic informational cortical field
creating a holoinformational flux of
consciousness interconnecting the human mind
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Di Biase, Quantum-holographic informational consciousness
with the Holographic Cosmic Consciousness. A a recent paper I published with Richard
survey of these electroencephalographic and Amoroso, we presented in Belgium (Di Biase and
clinical studies can be found in my Portuguese Amoroso, 2008).
books (Di Biase, 1995; Di Biase and Rocha, 1998;
2004), and the mathematics of it can be view in
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