Power Politics and Mass Media — New Facts of Cultural Evolution in the Late 19th and 20th Centuries Ethnic conflict is a timeless element of society as the customs and views of various cultures are brought together by migration and immigration; they speak different languages, have competing beliefs, look and act differently, and just plain don’t…

Theory and Power — Cultural Evolution and Attempts to Comprehend It In the 19th century, resurgent commitment to historical analysis was becoming perceptive enough to make theoretical overview of the human race’s civilized past a realistic goal, and it was clear to early researchers that economic conditions had largely determined the fate of the…

Introduction — Theories of Consciousness As psychology and neuroscience progress, theory rapidly expands in its capacity to model and predict mental phenomena, but while practical for the field of medical treatment and instructive as we attempt to make our knowledge of the world and our place in it more profound, this growth…

Electric Currents, EM Fields and EM Radiation in the Brain — Abstract: A paradigm in neuroscience is developing which views resonance as the phenomenon responsible for consciousness in matter. Much progress is being made in the investigation of how resonance as oscillating flows within the brain’s electric field might result in production of mind from matter, but the way vibration among…

Fundamental Physics of the Brain — The Spectrum of Coherence Most have become accustomed to thinking of charge as absolutely differentiated into positive and negative particles interacting in a relatively simplistic manner. A positively charged proton attracts a negatively charged electron, and cations similarly attract anions. Absolute dichotomies such as this do not mesh especially well…

Coherence Field Theory and the Physics of Mind — Consciousness, Quantum Coherence and the Brain In 1983, philosopher Joseph Levine proposed that an explanatory gap exists between comprehension of the physical world and consciousness. Matter as we know it is discrete, deterministic, tangible to the organic body, while the mind seems more indivisible, fluid, spontaneous, fleeting, closer to a…

What are neuronal currents? — The predominant paradigm in neuroscience views neural networks as webs of electric current. A usual assumption is that these currents are transmitted by ion diffusion, but it is actually the case that most ion movement in a neuron consists of perpendicular transit through the cell membrane (via ion channels concentrated…

How Mind May Arise From Matter — Johnjoe McFadden, a British biochemist and researcher, suggests in his papers on consciousness theory that EM fields located throughout the brain, which are generated by the electric charges of highly concentrated ion flow, cause phase locking between neurons via some still unknown mechanism of sensitivity that the molecular structures of…

Interactions of Radiative and Particularate Fields — Atoms, comprised of subatomic particles and their quantized arrangements, have electric charge. The movement of charged particles produces electromagnetic fields. The highly charged nature of ionic movement with its voltage differentials in the nervous system and brain gives rise to a strong electromagnetic field. These charges and strong electromagnetic fields…