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TGD AND EEG



||Introduction|| ||Magnetic Sensory Canvas Hypothesis||TGD Inspired Model for Nerve Pulse||Dark Matter Hierarchy and Hierarchy of EEGs ||Quantum Model for EEG: Part I ||Quantum Model for EEG: Part II|| Quantum Model for Hearing||
||Appendix||



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    Introduction

  1. Basic ideas of TGD

    1. TGD as a Poincare invariant theory of gravitation

    2. TGD as a generalization of the hadronic string model

    3. Fusion of the two approaches via a generalization of the space-time concept

  2. The five threads in the development of quantum TGD

    1. Quantum TGD as configuration space spinor geometry

    2. p-Adic TGD

    3. TGD as a generalization of physics to a theory of consciousness

    4. TGD as a generalized number theory

    5. Dynamical quantized Planck constant and dark matter hierarchy

    6. The contents of the book

      1. Magnetic Sensory Canvas Hypothesis

      2. Quantum Model for Nerve Pulse

      3. Dark Matter Hierarchy and Hierarchy of EEGs

      4. Quantum Model for EEG: Part I

      5. Quantum Model for EEG: Part II

      6. Quantum Model for Hearing



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    Magnetic Sensory Canvas Hypothesis

  1. Introduction

    1. Sensory canvas hypothesis

    2. Why the world is not experienced to rotate as head rotates?

    3. Model for the sensory representations

    4. EEG as a communication and control tool of magnetic body

  2. Where me is?

    1. Is "me" outside my body or does it contain it?

    2. Sensory canvas hypothesis and some problems related to sensory representations

    3. Are the primary sensory organs the seats of sensory qualia?

    4. Altered states of geometric consciousness

  3. A model for sensory representations, long term memories, and motor actions

    1. Magnetic body as the sensory canvas

    2. The mental images at the personal magnetic body

    3. Cortex as a collection of attributes assigned to the objects of perceptive field represented at magnetic canvas

    4. Place coding

    5. Magnetospheric sensory representations

    6. Remote mental interactions and sensory magnetic canvas hypothesis

    7. Mirror mechanism of geometric memories

    8. Sensory perception, motor action, long term memory, and time

  4. First attempts to relate sensory canvas idea to neuroscience

    1. Anatomical structure of the cortex and sensory canvas hypothesis

    2. EEG and sensory canvas hypothesis

    3. How to test the sensory canvas hypothesis

  5. Generalized EEG as a basic control and communication tool of the magnetic body

    1. Fractal hierarchy of Josephson junctions

    2. What is EEG made of?

  6. Support for the magnetic sensory canvas hypothesis

    1. Atmospheric and ionospheric phenomena and sensory canvas hypothesis

    2. Taos hum



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    TGD inspired model of nerve pulse

  1. Introduction

    1. General vision about living matter as a macroscopic quantum system

    2. A general view about quantum control, coordination and communication inspired by dark matter hierarchy

    3. The role of electronic super-conductivity

    4. The role of MEs and magnetic flux tube circuitry

    5. The most recent model for the generation of nerve pulse

    6. What happens at the micro-tubular level during nerve pulse?

  2. Empirical indications for exotic charge transfer between cell interior and exterior as a fundamental control mechanism

    1. Strange behavior of the intracellular water

    2. Are channels and pumps really there?

    3. Cytoplasm as gel

    4. TGD based vision inspired by the findings

  3. Further experimental findings

    1. Genes and water memory

    2. Water electric as protocell

    3. A model for chiral selection

    4. Burning water, photosynthesis, and water memory

  4. TGD based model for the generation of nerve pulse and EEG

    1. Soliton model for nerve pulse

    2. TGD based model for nerve pulse

    3. Model for anesthetic action

  5. More speculative ideas about generation of nerve pulse

    1. Could scaled variants of weak bosons be key players in the model nerve pulse?

    2. Some aspects of the model of nerve pulse based on charge entanglement

    3. Could cognitive fermion pairs accompany the nerve pulse?

  6. Many-sheeted neuron

    1. Neuronal consciousness

    2. Functions of nerve pulse

    3. Functions of transmitters

  7. A model for the effective electronic super-conductivity in axons

    1. Many-sheeted space-time and connection between thermal de Broglie wavelength and size of the space-time sheet

    2. Magnetic flux tubes as effective super-conductors and breaking of super-conductivity

    3. Quantitative model for the breaking of super-conductivity

    4. Application at axonal level

  8. Relating the model of nerve pulse with the micro-tubular level

    1. Dark matter hierarchy and big leaps in evolution

    2. Some TGD inspired new ideas about biochemistry

    3. Nerve pulses and microtubules

    4. Magnetic bodies, MEs and microtubules

  9. Self hierarchy and hierarchy of weakly coupled super conductors

    1. Simple model for weakly coupled super conductors

    2. Simplest solutions of Sine-Gordon equation

    3. Are both time like and space-like soliton sequences possible ground states?

    4. Quantum tools for bio-control and -coordination



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    Dark Matter Hierarchy and Hierarchy of EEGs

  1. Introduction

    1. General mechanisms of bio-superconductivity

    2. Bose-Einstein condensates at magnetic flux quanta in astrophysical length scales

    3. Fractal hierarchy of magnetic flux sheets

    4. Fractal hierarchy of EEGs and ZEGs

    5. The effects of ELF em fields on brain

    6. TGD assigns 10 Hz biorhythm to electron as an intrinsic frequency

    7. DNA and topological quantum computation

    8. EEG, ZEG, and consciousness

  2. General TGD based view about super-conductivity

    1. Basic phenomenology super-conductivity

    2. Universality of parameters in TGD framework

    3. Quantum criticality and super-conductivity

    4. Space-time description of the mechanisms of super-conductivity

    5. Super-conductivity at magnetic flux tubes

  3. TGD based model of high Tc super conductors

    1. Some properties of high Tc super conductors

    2. Vision about high Tc super-conductivity

    3. A detailed model for the exotic Cooper pair

    4. Some speculations

  4. Models for ionic superconductivity and topological condensation at the magnetic flux quanta of Earth

    1. Superconductors of exotic bosonic counterpart of fermionic ions

    2. Model for ionic superconductivity

    3. Model for Bose-Einstein condensation in Earth's magnetic field

  5. Magnetic genome, magnetic homeostasis, and magnetic circulation?

    1. The new view about genetic code

    2. Magnetic homeostasis and magnetic circulation?

    3. Some remarks and questions

  6. Two models for the hierarchy of Josephson junctions

    1. Generalization of the notion of imbedding space

    2. The new model for the hierarchy of Josephson junctions

    3. The two hierarchies of Josephson junctions and generalized EEGs

    4. A more precise identification of layers of magnetic body

    5. Relation with the structure of CNS

  7. The effects of ELF fields on brain and high Tc ionic super conductivity

    1. Summary about effects of ELF em fields on brain

    2. Interpretation of the temperature window

    3. Interpretation of amplitude windows in terms of resonance bands of generalized EEGs

    4. Why it is necessary to have both cyclotron frequency and amplitude in the window?

  8. What is EEG made of?

    1. The most recent model for the generation of nerve pulse

    2. Basic contributions to EEG

    3. Classification of cyclotron frequencies

    4. Wake-up EEG

    5. Satellites exist as mirror pairs!

    6. Alpha band dominance during relaxed state

    7. EEG during sleep

    8. Scaled up EEG periods at levels kd=5,6,7

    9. Is kd=3 level responsible for kHz neuronal synchrony?

    10. Generalization of EEG to ZEG

  9. How EEG and ZEG relate to conscious experience?

    1. Sensory canvas hypothesis

    2. Magnetic quantum phase transitions, EEG, and ZEG

    3. Altered states of consciousness and EEG

    4. Pineal gland, EEG and ZEG

  10. Great vision about biological evolution and evolution of brain

    1. Dark matter hierarchy and big leaps in evolution

    2. Could insect colonies have "EEG"?

    3. Dark matter hierarchy, hierarchical structure of nervous system, and hierarchy of emotions

  11. Appendix: Tables of em and Z0 cyclotron frequencies

    1. Em cyclotron frequencies of biologically important ions

    2. Cyclotron frequencies of exotic ions and periodic table



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    Quantum Model of EEG: Part I

  1. Introduction

    1. Magnetic canvas hypothesis

    2. Dark matter hierarchy, sensory representations, and motor action

    3. General vision about EEG and ZEG

    4. Emotions and cognition as sensory qualia of magnetic body

    5. Scaling law

  2. EEG, MEG, nerve pulse and mini-potentials

    1. EEG

    2. MEG

    3. Nerve pulse

    4. Miniature postsynaptic potentials

  3. Summary about TGD based view about qualia

    1. Non-geometric qualia and thermodynamics

    2. Geometric qualia and zero modes

    3. Place coding by cyclotron frequency scale

    4. Capacitor model for sensory qualia of biological body

  4. EEG and sensory canvas hypothesis

    1. Evolution as emergence of lower EEG frequency scales: dark matter hierarchy

    2. Evolution as emergence of lower EEG frequency scales: p-adic length scale hierarchy

    3. EEG rhythms in contrast to evoked and event related potentials

    4. Coherence of EEG and sensory canvas hypothesis

    5. EEG synchrony

    6. Narrow EEG bands and sensory canvas hypothesis

    7. Propagating and standing EEG waves

  5. Generalized EEG as a basic control and communication tool of the magnetic body

    1. Fractal hierarchy of Josephson junctions

    2. What is EEG made of?

  6. Emotions, cognition, and EEG

    1. Some aspects of emotions

    2. The coding of pulse patterns to Josephson current

    3. Music as a language of emotions

    4. p-Adic cognitive representations at EEG frequencies

    5. Biological body as an instrument of cognitive and emotional expression

  7. Scaling law

    1. Scaling law for the qualia about brain structure of given size scale

    2. Scaling law and evolution

    3. Scaling law and sensory maps

    4. Does the structure of neocortex correlate with the hierarchy of p-adic frequencies?



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    Quantum Model of EEG: Part II

  1. Introduction

    1. Features

    2. Synchronization

    3. Stochastic resonance

    4. Temporal codings

  2. Generalization of the model for sensory receptor and new view about hearing

    1. General ideas

    2. TGD based model for hearing

    3. Some examples about deficits of color vision as a test of the model for cognitive representations

  3. Features and synchronization

    1. Features

    2. Synchronization

  4. Stochastic resonance and brain

    1. Stochastic resonance

    2. Basic model for stochastic resonance

    3. Stochastic resonance and neuronal systems

    4. How neuronal stochastic resonance could be realized at quantum level?

  5. Temporal codings

    1. General view

    2. As if time really mattered

    3. Rate coding contra temporal coding

    4. Spectroscopy of consciousness favors spike-statistics coding

    5. Objections against temporal coding can be circumvented in TGD framework

    6. Spike-interval coding

    7. Latency-place representations

    8. Why ELF MEs are scanning the cortex?

    9. p-Adic transition frequencies and EEG

    10. Do brain areas correspond to particular EEG resonance frequencies?



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    Quantum model for hearing and memetic code

  1. Introduction

    1. Development of the model of hearing

    2. Hearing as a universal frequency quale?

    3. Does the basic quale of hearing correspond to the increment of electro-weak isospin?

    4. Infinite primes, cognition, and intentionality

    5. Neutrinos, hearing, and cognition

  2. Generalization of the model for sensory receptor and new view about hearing

    1. General ideas

    2. TGD based model for hearing

  3. Dark neutrino super conductivity

    1. The analogy between superconductors of type I and quantum critical superconductors

    2. Empirical guidelines

    3. Dark neutrino superconductor as a quantum critical superconductor

    4. Structure of brain and neutrino super conductivity

  4. Dark neutrinos and quantum model for hearing and cognition

    1. General ideas

    2. Neutrinos and hearing

    3. Cognitive codes based on cognitive neutrino pairs

  5. More general view about cognition

    1. Micro-tubules and information transfer from cell membrane to nucleus

    2. DNA, micro-tubules, and cell membrane as cognitive structures?

    3. Micro-tubules as quantum computers?

    4. Cognition at the level of the entire body?



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    Appendix

  1. Basic properties of CP2

    1. CP2 as a manifold

    2. Metric and Kähler structures of CP2

    3. Spinors in CP2

    4. Geodesic sub-manifolds of CP2

  2. CP2 geometry and standard model symmetries

    1. Identification of the electro-weak couplings

    2. Discrete symmetries

  3. Basic facts about induced gauge fields

    1. Induced gauge fields for space-times for which CP2 projection is a geodesic sphere

    2. Space-time surfaces with vanishing em, Z0, or Kähler fields

  4. p-Adic numbers and TGD

    1. p-Adic number fields

    2. Canonical correspondence between p-adic and real numbers



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