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JNLRMI Vol. II Nr.2  July 2003

 

Quantum Model of Nerve Pulse, EEG and ZEG
 by Matti Pitkanen


URL: www.emergentmind.org/PDF_files.htm/pulse0702.pdf


Abstract: The topics of this article is the TGD inspired model of nerve pulse, EEG and ZEG (classical Z0 fields are a prediction differentiating between TGD and standard model). The basic idea is that Z0 boundary MEs for which classical fields propagate with effective phase velocity equal to the conduction velocity of nerve pulse induce also electromagnetic membrane oscillations and even nerve pulse if Z0 electric field is strong enough and of correct sign. The mysterious anesthetic action of noble gases can be seen as a direct evidence for the role of the classical Z0 force. The model explains elegantly also the strange findings challenging the notions of ionic pumps and channels.

The TGD view about the functions of membrane oscillations, nerve pulse and neural transmitters is summarized. Electromagnetic membrane oscillations induced by Z0 MEs provide a realization of the memetic code as a fundamental cognitive code. The binding of various information molecules to the corresponding receptors gives rise to neuronal qualia. Neurotransmitters could be also seen as conscious links in quantum web. The view that inhibition actually requires active energy feed and that excitation occurs automatically in the absence of the energy feed and induces entanglement with environment, is defended. This view conforms with Huxley's vision about brain as a lter inhibiting conscious experiences.

A p-adic hierarchy of superconductivities is the basic prediction of TGD inspired model of living matter. The many-sheeted model of the effective electronic superconductivity explains at quantitative level the recent findings of Hafedh Abdelmelek and his group about the reduction of the axonal resistivity in the range of physiological temperatures. The effective superconductivity might play key role in the saltation within myelin sheeted portions of the axon. The view about what happens at the microtubular level during synchronous neuronal firing relies on a many-sheeted model for sol-gel phase transitions as conscious bits and on the seesaw mechanism of remote metabolism according to which sol-gel transitions induces gel-sol transitions elsewhere in the cell and vice versa. Microtubular surfaces can be seen as analogs of cortical sensory and motor areas providing kind of conscious log files about sensory and motor history of the cell in terms of conformational transitions of tubulin dimers representing conscious bits.

In the TGD inspired model of EEG and ZEG EEG-ZEG dichotomy corresponds to sensory-motor dichotomy. EEG rhytms are induced by negative energy MEs whereas evoked and even related potentials are assumed to relate to positive energy EEG MEs responsible for classical communications of symbolic representations to magnetic body and declarative long term memories. The scaling law of homeopathy and p-adic length scale hypothesis allow to see the evolution of consciousness as the emergence of lower EEG and ZEG frequencies.

The hypothesis that EEG and ZEG resonance frequencies correspond to the universal p-adic frequencies and their sums and differences (and more general superpositions) by mutual modulation, and that each p-adic prime p approx. 2^k, k power of prime, defines a hierarchy of cognitive codons with k bits and duration given by the n-ary p-adic time scale, reduces EEG and ZEG to simple number theory. The outcome is a successful prediction for the resonance frequencies of EEG and ZEG, and one can understand the informatics of EEG and ZEG and relate them to the brain structure and function.

The findings that cyclotron frequencies in the Earth's magnetic field are in EEG range and ZEG cyclotron frequencies are in alpha band, motivate the hypothesis that p-adic frequencies correspond to cyclotron frequencies. This hypothesis allows to identify the ions responsible for various cognitive representations. The dropping of ions between magnetic flux tubes corresponding to different p-adic primes explaining the findings of Peter Gariaev explains also the modulation of p-adic frequencies by p-adic frequencies. Only the biologically most important ions are needed if one assumes that p-adically scaled versions of the Earth's magnetic field are present, and are quantized as stripe like structures characteristic for a superconductor of type I near criticality. The disappearance and appearance of EEG bands as percepts are changed lead to the view that the magnetic body is subject to intentional control by the generation of wormhole magnetic fields consisting of flux quanta with opposite time orientation and thus having a vanishing net energy.

The notion of feature introduced by Freeman to describe mesoscopic aspects of brain function is related to the memetic code but generalizes to the case of an arbitrary cognitive code. Neuronal synchronization in terms of Z0 MEs serves as a basic element in the model for how intentional action is realized at neuronal level.