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The Pribram–Bohm Hypothesis Part II: The Physiology of Consciousness

Shelli R. Joye, Ph.D.

Abstract: A physiology of consciousness is elaborated, based upon implications of the Pribram-Bohm hypothesis (developed in Part I of this series). The model presented here is in sharp contrast to the prevailing conviction among neuroscientists that consciousness will eventually be discovered to be a physiological epiphenomenon of neuronal electrical impulses firing in the brain. In contrast, the Pribram-Bohm theory holds that consciousness, inherent in what Bohm views cosmologically as “the Whole,” manifests as a dynamic conscious energy resonance bridging the explicate space–time domain with the nonlocal, transcendent flux domain termed the “implicate order.” Presented in Part I, the Pribram-Bohm hypothesis posits a relatively infinite ether- like ground of innumerable quantum black holes, or “holospheres,” centrally located at every point in cosmological space. Being nonlocal, the implicate order is clearly a singularity, yet topologically accessible at each and every point within space, connected everywhere below the Planck length of 10-35 m. Bohm suggests that within the implicate order, consciousness is the primary awareness as contrasted with human mental cognition, a derivative in the explicate order (space– time). It is into these centers of the implicate order that information from space– time flows, and within which this information is eternally (non-temporally) stored. In this topology, consciousness is looking out from the implicate order center, everywhere, while simultaneously projecting form into the explicate order, space– time universe. Within such a topology of consciousness, human physiology would have evolved with structural aspects that provide feasible wavelengths (frequency bands) within which modulated information might be processed and stored isospherically in resonance with holoflux consciousness in the implicate order. Physiological candidates discussed as carriers of human consciousness processing and information storage (memory) include infrared radiation among erythrocytes in the blood stream, and the waveguide potential of microtubules for ultraviolet radiation throughout the neuronal system.

Keywords: consciousness, cosmology, psychology, physics, communication, information, experience, hard problem, holosphere, holoflux, holonomic, holoplenum, electrical engineering, Pribram-Bohm

The fundamental interconnectedness • THE HOLOPLENUM: An invariant of all phenomena, and within this holoplenum of close-packed holospheres, or fundamental interconnectedness not Planck isospheres, underlying and from only is each entity, relationship, which is projected the explicate order; the experience and phenomenon a holoplenum fills a continuum of isospheres whole, in its own right, but all everywhere in the physical universe from wholes are held together by a great the center of each position in space–time; unifying force. (Collister, 2010, p. the concept had been intuited by Leibniz 69). (Rescher, 1991) in his theory of the monads.

The Holoflux Theory of Consciousness • RESONANCE: Holoflux frequency resonance complementarity connects the The holoflux theory of consciousness explicate order (the outside world), with the rests upon two fundamental paradigms: Karl implicate order (the inside world); holoflux Pribram’s (2013) holonomic brain theory resonance occurs everywhere between the and David Bohm’s (1980) ontological implicate order (frequency-phase flux in the interpretation of quantum theory. These theories have been shown to be congruent, implicate order, fi) and isospheres of the supported and knit together by established explicate order in spherical shells. These principles of electrical communication holo-shells would manifest at corresponding engineering. As described in Part I of this distances, λi, from each central Planck

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holosphere, to maintain the relationship, fi within the implicate order are “expressed” in space–time (the explicate order) via the λi,= c, where c is the speed of light in a 8 effect of Bohm’s quantum potential vacuum, 3x10 m/sec. function, Q, a concept pioneered in de Broglie’s “pilot wave” paradigm of 1927. • CYCLIC PROCESS: A flowing movement, an electromagnetic-holoflux movement of A FOURIER LENS: The Fourier-type energy continually cycles between the • mathematical transform can be seen to act as implicate order and the explicate order; the a lens through which the implicate “views” flow can be mathematically modeled or “cognizes” the explicate order of space– through Fourier transforms and the Bohm time; this Fourier lensing is the process by quantum potential wavefunctions. which the implicate order observes, retrieves, and projects information generated • A COSMIC CLOCK: Granular units of within the explicate order. Planck time (tP), vibrate at a “clock-cycle” 44 rate of 5.39106 x 10 cycles per second A diagram of these nine propositions is synchronizing the flow between alternating presented in Figure 1, “Solving the Hard manifestations of implicate and explicate Problem of Consciousness,” in which frequency information; in Cartesian congruent concepts of five contemporary coordinates, this can be pictured as a square pioneering philosophers of consciousness wave, a Planck-time clock. studies are contextually positioned.

• BOHM’S QUANTUM POTENTIAL FUNCTION: Conceptional computations

Figure 1. Solving the hard problem of consciousness (Joye, 2016, p. 344). Author’s figure.

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an electron, certainly to any human observer maximum resolution of 1.584 x 1034 of the cosmos, even at quantum dimensions. holopixels per inch. At such hyper-fine resolution, even a Higgs boson in the 10-17 The approximate image resolution of a meter dimensional range would appear to be “holoplenum display” obtained by dividing moving smoothly through space. one inch by the Planck length, yields a

Holonomic Information Storage: maximum possible clock cycle, as discussed The Bekenstein Bound previously, this pilot wave might be seen to operate at the extreme clock cycle rate of the In Wholeness and the Implicate Order, Planck time constant, or 1044 Hz. Bohm (1980) articulates and developed a “quantum potential” (p. 77) function which Somewhere, however, such a cosmic projects the explicate space–time universe out process would require a memory storage from within an enfolded sub-quantum repository in space–time. Regarded as a implicate order. Bohm’s quantum potential cybernetic process, the sequence of function is congruent with de Broglie’s “Pilot information feedback and action can be wave” theory of 1927, as both are based upon metaphorically imaged in the alchemical a conviction that there exist “hidden Ouroboros, the classical symbol for variables” in sub-quantum regions not consciousness, depicted as a snake in a accessible to observational exploration using circular configuration eating (or chasing) its current material science technology (and far own tail. This process can be viewed as the beyond the capabilities of the CERN Large cyclic transfer of information coming in (from Hadron Collider). the tail) and the resulting action (by the head). A cybernetic feedback loop thus needs data, The de Broglie (1927) pilot wave information, as input. Where then might data theory and Bohm’s (1980) quantum potential be accumulated and retrieved in space–time at are mathematical attempt to map sub-quantum these most fundamental sub-quantum levels, effects issuing from an implicate order in a in a Bohmian holonomic universe consisting domain of “hidden variables” far below the topologically of the distributed plenum of observational capabilities of contemporary Planck holospheres, each surrounded by a material science. series of nested quantum isospheres?

Both theories posit a cybernetic One possibility is to consider the processing of information, simultaneously information storage potential of an isosphere being cycled from the space–time world and encoded with granular “bits” of data. In 1970, enfolded into the nondual frequency domain Jacob D. Bekenstein, then a graduate student where the accumulating information is working under John Archibald Wheeler (who processed nonlocally within the implicate himself coined the term “black hole”) order. Driven then by the implicate order, a proposed a novel idea. Bekenstein proposed pilot wave of quantum potential nudges the that there must be an absolute maximum configurations in space–time into an altered, amount of information that can be stored in a slightly new configuration, much as a small finite region of space, and that the Planck tugboat might influence an enormous constants in quantum theory can be used to freighter. If the cosmos operates at its determine this limit (Wheeler, 1990). Twenty

Figure 2. Planck length qubits on the surface of an isosphere. From A Journey Into Gravity and Spacetime (p. 220), by J. Wheeler, 1990, New York, NY: Scientific American. Copyright 1990 by Scientific American.

Unfolding an Implicate Order into Space– consciousness, and to do this the concept of Time: Waveguides and the Topology of isospheres, shells within shells, must be Human Consciousness considered. Moving outwardly, radially, from the interior bounding event horizon at each The basic topology of the Pribram– central Planck holosphere, can be identified Bohm hypothesis has now been delineated. isospheric shells of the implicate order, The ontological understanding of quantum extruding into space at exact Planck length physics which Bohm sought emerges in this (quantum) intervals. model of a sub–quantum, omni-present holoplenum of Planck holospheres, each This series of concentric shells, each enclosing a contiguous transcendent region of one separated from the next by one Planck non-spatial, non-temporal dimensions termed length, are isospherical loci of the implicate by Bohm “the implicate order” (Joye, 2016). order (see Figure 3); they extrude into space and they intersect in space with other shells What are the implications of this bounding other Planck holospheres in the model for human consciousness, cognitively space–time holoplenum. It is the cumulative operational at temporal and spatial scales interference effect of the intersection of vastly larger than those found at these sub- individual isospheric shells which project quantum Planck boundaries? images at higher scales, holographically, into three dimensional space. To answer this we must first complete the Pribram–Bohm cosmological topology of

Figure 3. Topology model of isospheres surrounding a Planck holosphere. (Joye, 2016, p. 333). Author’s figure.

Each isospheric shell, as Bekenstein Within this cosmic geometry of the (1973) determined, has a potentially Pribram–Bohm hypothesis can be identified a enormous storage capacity in “qubits” of framework for omnipresent two-way portals, information encoded on the event-horizon potential bridges between the explicate and bounding each shell, depending only upon the the implicate. Here, the deep consciousness of radius of the shell within the range of 10-35 m the universe flows in a cyclic, cybernetic, to 1027 m. Accessible simultaneously in both perhaps fractal movement in time and space, the implicate order and the explicate order, moving through an endless, bi-directional such encoded information provides the data to process, consciousness involving itself in a guide evolving forms as they project into the dance of transformation. explicate via the pilotwave mathematics of Bohm’s (1980) “many-dimensioned quantum How then does this topology support potential” (p. 80). As part of this process, in- human consciousness, thought and perception formation becomes ex-formation as the in space–time? How can electromagnetic implicate order unfurls into the explicate. The frequency plasma in space–time resonate with plasmoidal forms appearing in space–time as holoflux plasma in the implicate order? First electromagnetic flux energy are mirrored by of all, the energies must be within the same and resonate within the implicate order as the frequency range in order for maximum dark energy of frequency–phase holoflux. interactive resonance to occur. Where the frequencies overlap as they superimpose and interpenetrate one other, resonance occurs.

Corresponding author: [email protected] Retrieved from http://www.conscjournal.org/?page_id=191 https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/conscjournal/vol4/iss4/1ISSN applied for www.conscjournal.org Page 8 8 Joye: The Pribram – Bohm Hypothesis Part II Consciousness: Ideas and Research for the Twenty First Century | Fall 2016 | Vol 1 | Issue 4 Joye, S.R., The Pribram–Bohm Hypothesis Part II: The Physiology of Consciousness Resonance is a naturally occurring first, as its name implies, the waveguide phenomena characteristic of physical objects guides the electromagnetic wave within its or plasma fields extended in space–time. The channel with maximum efficiency, and resonance effect is seen when objects or secondly, it shields the signal in the channel complex signal systems exhibit remarkable from external electromagnetic waves. The frequency sensitivity to particular external inner diameter of the hollow waveguide is frequencies, flowing in, through, and around designed to be equal to exactly half the the system, frequencies which approach the wavelength of the electromagnetic energy “natural resonant frequency” of the object or signal shielded by and flowing through the signal system; perfect resonance occurs where waveguide channel. the input frequency and the natural frequency are identical (Feynman, Leighton, & Sands, Waveguides have been used for over a 1964, p. 78). This principle of resonance century both commercially and in research to governs all cybernetic feedback loops, and is channel and guide vibrating energy of specific a key factor in the design of antennas in limited frequency ranges; the fiber–optic electromagnetic transmitting and receiving networks hosting the global internet operate systems. The goal of antenna design is to on this principle, channeling electromagnetic construct an antenna that is maximally radiation at fixed laser frequencies (Dorf, th resonant within a specific narrow frequency 1997). It was discovered late in the 19 range of incoming (external or internal) century that circular metallic tubes, or hollow electromagnetic radiation; when the input metal ducts, similar to A/C ventilation ducts, frequency and the natural frequency of the but much smaller, could be used to channel antenna coincide or move significantly close and guide either sound vibrations in air, or to one another, resonance occurs. This electromagnetic energy in air or vacuum. simplest and most common antenna design is Without the waveguide, the vibrational the dipole antenna, which depends directly on energy field is transmitted in all directions, the size (wavelength) of the incoming visualized as magnetic lines or arrows electromagnetic wave. A dipole antenna is emerging from a point at the center of an designed to be physically half the size of the expanding sphere. This energy disperses incoming wavelength, as stated in a textbook outwardly, the magnetic vectored arrowheads of antenna design: pushing into the inside of an infinitely expanding sphere. A waveguide, however, A fundamental form of an antenna: constrains the magnetic component of the length is approximately equal to half wave–front of vibrating energy to one specific the transmitting wavelength. It is the linear direction, in parallel with the center of unit from which many more complex the waveguide, and thus, conceptually, the forms of antennas are constructed. It confined wave itself loses very little power is known as a dipole antenna. while it propagates along the central axis of (Blakeslee, 1972, p. 580) the waveguide, like a stream of water emerging from the pinprick of a large, taut, This same half-wavelength effect water balloon (Dorf, 1997). governs the design of network communication waveguides applied to fiber-optics in the The most common type of fiber optic Internet, where the antenna is the fiber cable used in the Internet has a core diameter channel itself acting as a waveguide. The of 8–10 micrometers and is designed for use waveguide is highly efficient for two reasons, in the near infrared (Gowar, 1993, p. 64). The

Figure 4. Microtubules and capillaries as waveguides (Joye, 2016, p. 181). Author’s figure.

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Figure 5. Isospheric capacity of a single erythrocyte (Joye, 2016, p. 224). Author’s figure.

Assuming each unique frequency each of quantum discrete frequency, might be would match its radially unique isosphere, nested within the geometry of a typical human separated by only one Planck length, Figure 5 red blood cell (in the image, a multiple of 7 suggests how 7 billion unique isospheres, billion times the Planck length of

approximately 10-35 m results in an estimated wavelengths. Teilhard also occasionally refers shell thickness of 10-26 m). This supports the to radial consciousness as “soul” and “spirit” feasibility that each living human being might in his essays (perhaps to satisfy superiors in have a unique holospheric frequency, his religious order), and he also describes this detectable by other human blood cells via the radial component of energy as “a new implicate order about which each is centered, dimensional zone” (Teilhard de Chardin, and thus provides a possible mechanism for 1953b, p. 29) that brings with it “new communication, via the mechanisms of properties” (p. 29). Teilhard (1953a) describes resonance, nonlocality, and superposition in how increasing centration along the radial the frequency domain of the implicate order. component leads to increasing states of complexity–consciousness which result in Two Primary Modes of Consciousness: “being mentally ultra–humanized by self– Explicate Consciousness and Implicate compression” (p. 344). Congruently, Steiner Consciousness (1951) and Teilhard (1953a) both agree that these modes of awareness can be seen to According to the two highly trained, operate orthogonally to one another, each in professional, methodologically introspective their own domain, and thus they both refer to explorers of consciousness, Teilhard de consciousness as operating in two modes: a Chardin (1937/1969) and Rudolf Steiner tangential consciousness and an axial (1923/1951), there are two primary modes of consciousness. It is of interest to note that consciousness. In the last page of his essay, Steiner (1951) says that one of these primary “The Activation of Human Energy,” Teilhard modes, the radial mode of consciousness, de Chardin (1953a) states, “there are two operates within the blood system (p. 43). different energies one axial, increasing, and irreversible, and the other peripheral or The Pribram–Bohm hypothesis posits tangential, constant, and reversible: and these that human consciousness, what is normally two energies are linked together in experienced as awareness by humans who are ‘arrangement’” (p. 393). Likewise, during his not sleeping, nor in a coma, is tangential discussion of a human physiology of consciousness, as it manifests, in accordance consciousness, Rudolf Steiner (1951) with Pribram’s (1971, 1990) research, in the provides a description, replete with diagrams, resonance of electromagnetic plasma fields of how “nerve-activity” (p. 42) must be seen swirling in space–time within the felt–like to be at right angles to the alignment of the dendritic neuronal regions of the cerebral “blood-activity” (p. 42) in consciousness. In cortex. This is the “consciousness” examined the Pribram–Bohm hypothesis these two in experiments conducted by Benjamin Libet primary modes of consciousness are (2004) whose research revealed that human characterized rather generally as implicate awareness of an “intention to act” (p. 86) consciousness and explicate consciousness. lagged behind the actual EEG measured “readiness potential” (p. 87) by an average of Teilhard de Chardin (1953a) goes 200 milliseconds. This evidence supported the further and links the axial component of currently widely held view among consciousness to the process of crossing “a neurophysiologists that consciousness is an certain critical point of centration” (p. 106), epiphenomenon of neuronal activity. This thus thermodynamically heating up epiphenomenal view is correct only if one consciousness while moving radially inward mode of consciousness is being considered, to resonate with ever smaller radial what Teilhard and Steiner would call the

Figure 6. Axial consciousness and tangential consciousness. Author’s figure.

This timing is in accordance with the part of the experience with is Libet’s (2004) experimental data, and Bohm before thought. (Bohm, 1985, p. 128) uses the phenomenon to draw a distinction between thought and a more primary mode of Solutions and Recommendations consciousness that is “before thought,” the mode of consciousness that dwells in the The topological model set forth in this present moment: essay provides a feasible solution to the Chalmers (1995) “hard problem of To dwell in the present moment consciousness” (p. 5). If consciousness is requires not dwelling in thought, considered to be manifesting as energy flow because thought takes duration and is in electromagnetic-frequency fields, then one a slow process. We start to find a should be able to determine experimentally need, not to deny thought, but to find the location of high information bandwidth

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Figure 7. Eight feasible electromagnetic radiation bands of consciousness (Joye, 2016, p. 353). Author’s figure.

As indicated in Figure 7, potential field manifesting information characteristics waveguide structures can be found to exist in multiple bandwidths of radiant energy within the human body ranging in diameter associated with biological systems would (recall that diameter correlates to a dipole support the feasibility that, in principle, wavelength resonant frequency) from major components of consciousness might ultraviolet radiation in microtubules at a eventually be stored, maintained, and wavelength of approximately 10-8 m to manipulated using non-biological systems erythrocyte radiation in capillaries located in (e.g., fiber optics and silicon, perhaps) the 10-3 m wavelength region. instead of wetware (biological tissue). An intriguing implication would be that Conclusion consciousness might be uploaded from wetware into such a hardware environment. Finally, it is reasonable to speculate Current mainstream research, however, is on practical implications for this topology almost exclusively directed at neuronal on future technology. In considering future activity and brain wiring, under the tacit technologies, the identification of an energy assumption that consciousness is somehow

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