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Induction of an Isoelectric Brain State to Investigate the Impact of Endogenous Synaptic Activity on Neuronal Excitability In Vivo
Published on: March 31, 2016
[ Physiology of consciousness. II]
1Ustav normální, patologické a klinické fyziologie 3. LF UK, Praha. Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON., Canada.
Abstract:
At present, no plausible theory or even working hypothesis of the formation of human consciousness based on physiological processes of the central nervous system has been proposed. An obvious and principal obstacle is, how an immaterial process, consciousness, may arise from any material processes, and vice versa. For this reason, it is extremely difficult to propose such a hypothesis. Therefore, a working hypothesis is proposed based on well known interactions of the human consciousness with quantum submicroscopic processes.
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