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 Consciousness as an electromagnetic field
Consciousness has been the observation and study object of each field of the following: philosophy, religion, psychology, neuroscience and probably a few more others. But, up to now, no one can provide a clear definition of the consciousness field. Where does our consciousness start and where does it end? Is it related to our brain or is consciousness only the field of our inward experiences, including only our emotions, feelings, and sensations? Can we talk about consciousness when it comes to what is beyond our perception or consciousness implies awareness? Are we conscious of what we are doing out of pure reflex?
There are many questions related to the consciousness field and few of them, if any, have been answered. One of the most controversial hypotheses considers human consciousness an electromagnetic field, similar to the one that makes the broadcast of TV and radio signal possible. The Consciousness Electromagnetic Field Theory was developed separately by professor Johnjoe McFadden from the School of Biomedical and Life Sciences at the University of Surrey and by Sue Pockett, a neurobiologist from New Zeeland. Both of them argue that somewhere in the electromagnetic field of our brain each signal sent by a nerve that fires binds together with the other signals existing in the brain and they bring forth what we generally call consciousness.
For example, when we look at a tree, according to scientists, we don’t experience the tree itself; the information is disseminated by a multitude of neurons, sending signals to the brain seemingly to a wireless processor and allowing the brain to get its own image of the tree, based on the data received. If the theory of consciousness as an electromagnetic field stands, it can bring us closer to creating the artificial consciousness, in a similar way the artificial intelligence was created.
Basically, the consciousness electromagnetic field theory is based on an older idea that the reality is in fact an image that we create in our mind. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant made a clear distinction between what we perceive as real – defining this as phenomenon (which in Greek means “what it appears to be”) – and the reality itself, which was called noumenon (translated as “apprehended”). According to Kant, we only get to know phenomenon, while noumenon remains always beyond our power of perception.
Similar to the consciousness electromagnetic field theory is also the concept of quantum vacuum developed by the philosopher Ervin Laszlo, in an effort to build an Integral Theory of Everything. To make the concept of quantum vacuum easier to understand, he used the metaphore of a sea with ships, where each ship produced waves and along with the waves, it sent some information to the other ships. The image of the sea was used by Laszlo especially to exemplify the concept of collective consciousness, but it can be applied also to the individual consciousness field, if we think of the ships as the multitude of nerves sending signals (waves) that influence the other nerves’ activity. Then, the sea and its waves are the image of our consciousness, built upon the stimuli that meet in the electromagnetic field of our brain.
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