Tag Archives: Consciousness

Jim Al-Khalili and the Quantum Robin

Posted on February 14, 2013 by PlatoHagel

 http://youtu.be/jepgOQEvWT0 We’ve known for some time that certain animals can navigate the Earth using it’s magnetic fields, but the methods by which they do this have remained largely unknown. However, an emerging field known as quantum biology is shedding light … Continue reading →

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Quantum Biology

Posted on February 12, 2013 by PlatoHagel

The frequency of vibration of an object is, among other things, a function of mass: A heavy guitar string vibrates more slowly than a light one and produces a lower tone. These tiny cantilevers vibrate at radio frequencies, in the … Continue reading →

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The Emerging Physics of Consciousness

Posted on February 11, 2013 by PlatoHagel

This is an interesting post for me because of what I wanted to portray as the signs and length scale used in the determinations of quantum effects associated with the use of consciousness. As well to understand the historical beginnings … Continue reading →

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What is Life?

Posted on February 10, 2013 by PlatoHagel

WHAT IS LIFE? ERWIN SCHRODINGER First published 1944 What is life?  The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell. Based on lectures delivered under the auspices of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at Trinity College, Dublin, in February 1943. What … Continue reading →

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Delving Deeper into the Subject of Binaural Beats

Posted on February 2, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Scheme showing the course of the fibers of the lemniscus; medial lemniscus in blue, lateral in red. (Superior olivary nucleus is labeled at center right.) The superior olivary nucleus is considered part of the pons and is a part of … Continue reading →

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The Fundamentals of Consciousness?

Posted on January 30, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Ian Waldie/Getty Images Science also lacks even a back-of-the-envelop concept explaining the emergence of consciousness from the behavior of mere matter. We have an elaborate understanding of the ways in which experience depends on neurobiology. But how consciousness arises out … Continue reading →

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Materialism/Physicalism

Posted on January 23, 2013 by PlatoHagel

In philosophy, the theory of materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter or energy; that all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions. In other words, matter is … Continue reading →

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Quantum Consciousness (Stuart Hameroff)

Posted on January 21, 2013 by PlatoHagel

  See Also:   See:  Nikola Tesla – Wardenclyffe Tower Dialogos of Eide

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The Observer

Posted on January 17, 2013 by PlatoHagel

Thomas Kuhn However, the incommensurability thesis is not Kuhn’s only positive philosophical thesis. Kuhn himself tells us that “The paradigm as shared example is the central element of what I now take to be the most novel and least understood … Continue reading →

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Heaven’s ephemeral Qualities?

Posted on November 20, 2005 by PlatoHagel

“Materialism: Basically, the view that everything is made of matter. But what is matter? Probably the most innocent and cheerful acceptance of it comes right at the start of materialism with Democratius of Abdera (in Northern Greece) in the fifth … Continue reading →

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