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Integrating Information in the brain's EM field: the cemi field theory of consciousness

Neuroscience of Consciousness, Volume 2020, Issue 1, 2020, niaa016, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaa016

Published:

22 September 2020

[xavierpayne]

📷: @johnjo

[rilkerainer]

Cosmic Greetings with Juno Birch - Jo Malone London directed by Scandebergs from Scandebergs on Vimeo.

COSMIC GREETINGS! Learn the best cosmic etiquette for your human guests with alien drag queen turned desperate housewife @junobirch! written, directed and art directed by us @scandebergs for @jomalone

Directed by @scandebergs Stefano Colombini + Alberto Albanese Art direction and script: #scandebergs

Set design: Afra Zamara @afrazamara assisted by Teodoro Rava, Bianca Trombi, Theresa Bates GLAM & Wardrobe: #JunoBirch assisted by @liquorice_black and Steph Kelly Set build: Cloud and Horse @cloudandhorse

DOP: Jake Hunter @jakehunterrrrrrrr 1st AD: Ellicia Lotherington @ellxcxa 1st AC: Mike Linforth Loader: Saskia Dixie Grip: Alex Hudson Video Playback: Andy Sandom Runner: Liam Wallace-Cook Gaffer: Leopold Naessens Sparks: Johnjoe Besagni, Shuan Clark, Keiran Brown

Production : Sam Haywood at @artProduction @east__co Edit: Jesse Watt at @pundersonsgardens VFX and Sound: @pundersonsgardens Grading: John O’Riordan @pundersonsgardens @_johngrades_ Graphic Elements: Dougal Burgess #BurgessandBeech Filmed on @kodak_shootfilm @panavisionofficial

[ramandjafari]

Ashnikko - Worms from Raman Djafari on Vimeo.

Ashnikko in a monstertruck and a squad of develish beasts ride towards the sunset to battle the angelic overlord robots.

Credits: director - raman djafari // @ramandjafari executive producer - josef byrne head of production- Alex halley production company: blinkink @blink_ink

producer - jake river parker // @jakeriverparkerfilms animation producer - molly turner // @molly___turner production manager - rowan mackintosh king // @rowanmackintosh production assistant - maddy williams // @melodramaddy

commissioner- sam seager // @seagez

creative director - vasso vu @vassovu manager - george shepherd // @shepherdgeorge day to day manager - hannah browne // @hannahbr0wne

storyboards - raman djafari storyboards - mysie pereira // @mysiepereira animatic editor - Isabel gomez concept artist - Camille perrin

cg character design - raman djafari cg background design - raman djafari cg lighting, camera & layout - raman djafari cg character animation & rigging - dominic lutz // @domolutz cg character animation & rigging - harry bhalerao // @harrybhal cg character animation & rigging - barney abrahams // @_yenrab cg character animation & rigging - nate die // @spish.tv cg artist - sandrine gimenez // @sandrine_gimenez cg artist - klaas harm deboer cg artist - michael marczewski additional lighting - balasz simon // @notbalasz

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edit - rich woolway edit assist - chris hutchings edit producer - Maggie mcdermott grade - coffee & tvt colourist - George neave colour producer - Kathryn tallis sound design - absolute post sound designer - rich Martin additional sound design - Daniel panayi additional sound design - paminos kyriazis sound design producer - Peter winslett

a special thanks to will hooper

[futuristicallytoocollectorworld]

Kano x Star Wars from GoshDamn on Vimeo.

Creative Director / Aaron Hinchion Production / JustSo Producer / Rory Calder 1st AD / Conor Joyce DOP / Tim Fok 1st AC / Kate Eccarius 2nd AC / Cameron Axsel Gaffer / Greg Probert Spark / Peter Riches & Johnjoe Besagni Sound recordist / Louis Tompkins Hair & Makeup / Chelsea Huntley Fok Art Dir / Katie South Production assistant / Ella Myerscough Runner / Dayo Olufemi & Dan Marsden Colourist / Dan Moran

[luxe-pauvre]

In that hospital room watching my son’s EEG, I wondered what it was like to be one of his neurons, processing the information registering the slamming of a door. As far as we can tell, an individual neuron knows just one thing – its firing rate. It fires or doesn’t fire based on its inputs, so the information it carries is pretty much equivalent to the zero or one of binary computer language. It thereby encodes just a single bit of information. The value of that bit, whether a zero or a one, might correlate with the slamming of a door, but it says nothing about the door’s shape, its colour, its use as a portal between rooms or the noise of its slamming – all features that I’m sure were part of my son’s conscious experience. I concluded that being a single neuron in my son’s brain would not feel like anything. Of course, you could argue, as neurobiologists usually do, that although a single neuron might know next to nothing, the collection of 100 billion neurons in my son’s brain knew everything in his mind and would thereby feel like something. But this explanation bumps into what’s known as the binding problem, which asks how all the information in millions of widely distributed neurons in the brain come together to create a single complex yet unified conscious perception of, say, a room or a stele. Another issue is one of omission. Why don’t you know anything about the complex network of informational inputs and processing events between immune cells that decide what kind of immune response your body will deploy to protect you from infection? Why hadn’t Katumuwa been aware of the highly complex computations needed to keep himself upright while walking across his room? Why didn’t Deep Blue’s electronic brain maintain an interest in chess? The puzzle is to understand what is special about some, but not all, brain activity that confers awareness and thought but is absent from artificial brains.

Johnjoe McFadden, Brain wifi

[rosszulorzott]

Reading Journal

I got injured in the manual labor side gig I do for some much needed extra money, I think I’ll need to give it up completely. “I’m too old for this shit.” Except I was proud to be able to work hard, so it’s not a defiant, but a sad outcry. For the pain, for the loss of ability. I will never lose my place in the working class so I’m not mourning for that.

But it is possible now to find some bearable reading positions so I’m reading Life on the Edge, The Coming Of Age Of Quantum Biology by Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili.

This is the level of scientific information I can handle and I enjoy it very much so far. Quantum! But not like magic quantum or catchword quantum but for real. It ties nicely into my last book, 2312, which was also full of the quantum thingies, though not in birds; I like to imagine the author decided that would seem too far- fetched as fantasy for his SF fan readership ;)

[stopthefeeling]

So happy for Rose and Gio, they deserved that win!!!

[codigoocultocom]

Conciencia es creada por ondas electromagnéticas emitidas por neuronas, propone científico

Conciencia es creada por ondas electromagnéticas emitidas por neuronas, propone científico

Neurocientífico propone en una nueva teoría que nuestra conciencia se deriva de un campo de ondas electromagnéticas emitidas por neuronas.

LEE MÁS

[tanumuino]

Harry Styles - As It Was from tanumuino on Vimeo.

Director: @tanumuino Creative Director: @mollyjane_x DOP: @nikitakkkuz Choreographer: @yoann_bourgeois  Assistant Choreographer: @sagefanny Production Designer: @nightwindow Artist Stylist: @harry_lambert Label: @columbiarecords Commissioner: @bryanyounce Production Company: @underwondercontent Exec Producer: @frankborin Exec Producer: @ivannaborin UK Production Company: @a_just_fred_production  Exec Producer: @freeagentuk Producer: @bonhamcarterfd Producer: @andrew.rawson Production Manager: @Zoe.gunn Production Coordinator: @ojginn Editor: @carlosfontclose VFX: @maxcoltt @the_frender Colorist: @josephbicknell @company_3 1st Assistant Director: Andy Mannion  2nd Assistant Director: @gemmamorton31 Gaffer: @elliot_be Location Manager: Danny Bedford  Location Manager: Daniel Lansbury Spray  Runner: @louisreeves Runner: @allspeachy Runner: Tom Chesterman Artist Runner: @scoutdewynter Focus Puller: @kate_mo_ 2nd AC: @mcpb Camera Trainee: Oliver Barwell Camera Car Driver (WED): Martyn Sheasby  Camera Car Driver (THURS): Anthony Bugge DIT: Will Gardner  Key Grip: Simon Ward  Grip: Pete Nash  Crane Tech: Tim Plunket  Head Tech: Steve Hideg Video Playback: Johnjoe O’Driscoll @jjod77 Ronin Tech: Jack Coulthard-Little Ronin Tech: Drew Tate @drewtate_  Best Boy: Dak Kannan  Spark: Nick Tombs  Spark: Laurent Arnaud @sparkswars Spark: Gamba Kannan  Spark: Rob Eye Genny Op: Luis Santos  Head Rigger: Ian Thomson Rigger: Gary Grant Rigger: James Molloy Rigger: Pat Daly Rigger: Harrison Laws Rigger: Mike Lee Frost Construction Manager: Sean Wild @seanwild Construction: Chris Cooper @chriscooper__ Construction: Russel Carr  Construction: George Williamson  Construction: Andrea Sinigaglia  Art Director: @hip_charlie Prop Master: @neil.mccarrick Art Dept. @juce_luce Art Dept. Assistant: @tildaatwork Prop Transport: Zac Martin Playback Op: @simon_haggis_sound Playback Assistant: @ariannycanepa Artist Stylist: @ryanwohlgemut Artist Make Up: @lauradomini2 Artist Hair Stylist: @roxy___hair  Cast Hair & Makeup: @shamirah_makeup Cast HMU Assistant: @the_sweeney_ Cast.HMU Assistant: @gloriamakeup Cast Stylist: @robbiecanale Cast Stylist Assistant: @tess_gibson_ Cast Stylist Assistant: @a_thompson Cast Stylist Trainee: Izzy Cresswell  Client Minibus: @bus2set Minibus: @Ashfaq Mohammed  Minibus: @Franco Verducci  Minibus: @Paul Diss Medic: Nadine Rudkin  Lifeguard: Lloyd Wakefield  Dancer: @mathilde_lin Dancer: @jonnyvieco Dancer: @annaengerstrom Dancer: @beckynamgauds Dancer: @joshuajs91 Dancer: @ewebzell Dancer: @danielphuuung Dancer: @maxcookward Supporting Artist: Erin Jones  Supporting Artist: Keith Leech  Supporting Artist:  Emily Bevan  Supporting Artist:  Chidozie Obi  Supporting Artist: Larah Mudkavi  Supporting Artist:  Cordi Laurent  Supporting Artist:  Maria Tayler  Supporting Artist: Holly Johnstone  Supporting Artist:  Linda Edmonds  Supporting Artist:  Weimin Zhu  Supporting Artist:  Roopa Bhudia  Supporting Artist:  Zhaniya Aliyadin  Supporting Artist:  Milan Ogier  Supporting Artist:  Erin Mason-White  Supporting Artist:  Ahmed Alblooshi  Supporting Artist:  Sean Tizzard  Supporting Artist:  Cleopatra Southcombe  Supporting Artist:  Rachael Kayy  Supporting Artist:  Elizabeth Haran  Supporting Artist:  Luke McInroy  Supporting Artist:  Francesca Biscozzi  Supporting Artist:  Mandy (Xiodan) Wood  Supporting Artist:  Keith German  Supporting Artist:  Natacha Sleiman  Supporting Artist:  Foxy Valentine  Supporting Artist:  Neo-Rae Gardener

[kenyatta]

Watching those wiggly lines march across the EEG screen gave me the germ of a different idea, something that didn’t boil down to pure neuronal computation or information-processing. Every time a neuron fires, along with the matter-based signal that travels down its wire-like nerve fibre, it also projects a tiny electromagnetic (EM) pulse into the surrounding space, rather like the signal from your phone when you send a text. So when my son heard the door close, as well as triggering the firing of billions of nerves, its slamming would have projected billions of tiny pulses of electromagnetic energy into his brain. These pulses flow into each other to generate a kind of pool of EM energy that’s called an electromagnetic field – something that neurobiologists have neglected when probing the nature of consciousness.

Neurobiologists have known about the brain’s EM field for more than a century but have nearly always dismissed it as having no more relevance to its workings than the exhaust of a car has to its steering. Yet, since information is just correlation, I knew that the underlying brain EM field tremors that generated the spikes on the EEG screen knew the slamming of the hospital room door, just as much as the neurons whose firing generated those tremors. However, I also had enough physics to know that there was a crucial difference between a million scattered neurons firing and the EM field generated by their firing. The information encoded by the million discrete bits of information in a million scattered neurons is physically unified within a single brain EM field.

The unity of EM fields is apparent whenever you use wifi. Perhaps you’re streaming a radio documentary about Katumuwa’s stele on your phone while another family member is watching a movie, and another is listening to streamed music. Remarkably, all this information, whether movies, pictures, messages or music, is instantly available to be downloaded from any point in the vicinity of your router. This is because – unlike the information encoded in discrete units of matter such as computer gates or neurons – EM field information is encoded as immaterial waves that travel at the speed of light from their source to their receiver. Between source and receiver, all those waves encoding different messages overlap and intermingle to become a single EM field of physically bound information with as much unity as a single photon or electron, and which can be downloaded from any point in the field. The field, and everything encoded in it, is everywhere. While watching my son’s EEG marching across the screen, I wondered what it was like to be his brain’s EM field pulsing with physically bound information correlating with all of his sense perceptions. I guessed it would feel a lot like him.

Locating consciousness in the brain’s EM field might seem bizarre, but is it any more bizarre than believing that awareness resides in matter? Remember Albert Einstein’s equation, E = mc2. All it involves is moving from the matter-based right-hand side of the equation to energy located on the left-hand side. Both are physical, but whereas matter encodes information as discrete particles separated in space, energy information is encoded as overlapping fields in which information is bound up into single unified wholes. Locating the seat of consciousness in the brain’s EM field thereby solves the binding problem of understanding how information encoded in billions of distributed neurons is unified in our (EM field-based) conscious mind. It is a form of dualism, but a scientific dualism based on the difference between matter and energy, rather than matter and spirit. Awareness is then what this joined-up EM field information feels like from the inside. So, for example, the experience of hearing a door slam is what an EM field perturbation in the brain that correlates with a door slamming, and all of its memory neuron-encoded associations, feels like, from the inside.

[transconsciente]

🔥La conciencia no está alojada en el cerebro🔥 - Revelan estudios recientes

Según investigadores de la Universidad de Surrey dirigidos por el profesor Johnjoe #McFadden, quien luego publicó esta teoría en la revista Neuroscience of Consciousness, la #conciencia no se encuentra en el #cerebro, ¡vamos a descubrir donde!

[sciencespies]

New vaccine will stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis

https://sciencespies.com/biology/new-vaccine-will-stop-the-spread-of-bovine-tuberculosis/

New vaccine will stop the spread of bovine tuberculosis

Credit: CC0 Public Domain

Scientists at the University of Surrey have developed a novel vaccine and complementary skin test to protect cattle against bovine tuberculosis (bovine TB).

Publishing their findings in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers reveal they have for the first time created a vaccine that is compatible with a synthetic form of the tuberculin skin test (PPD), a legally required test used for the surveillance of TB in cattle throughout the UK.

Bovine TB is an infectious disease in cattle affecting their lungs, and those that test positive for the disease are culled. The BCG vaccine, which is currently used to protect humans against TB and is effective in cattle, is incompatible with the PPD test. Cattle that are vaccinated with the BCG vaccine, which contains a harmless strain of the bovine TB pathogen Mycobacterium bovis, produce a positive PPD test for TB making it impossible to distinguish, with the PPD skin test, if the animal has TB or has simply been vaccinated.

Vaccinating cows with BCG is therefore banned in most countries in the world, enabling vets to continue to use the PPD skin test to diagnose the disease in cattle.

During this innovative study, researchers sought to make a new BCG vaccine strain that lacks some of the proteins that are shared with the pathogen Mycobacterium bovis by identifying genes that contain encoded immunogenic proteins that could be removed from BCG without affecting its ability to work as a live vaccine. To do this, a collection of BCG strains that had each lost a single gene were injected into cows and survival rates measured. This allowed the team to identify genes that could be removed without compromising the BCG vaccine’s effectiveness.

These dispensable genes encoding immunogenic proteins were then deleted from the BCG chromosome to make a BCG-minus strain. The deleted immunogenic proteins were then used to develop a new synthetic skin test that, like PPD, will be positive for animals that have been exposed to TB but, unlike PPD, will be negative for animals that have been vaccinated with the BCG-minus strain.

The protective efficiency of the new strain was tested in guinea pigs. It was found that TB-infected guinea pigs tested positive for the disease using the synthetic skin test whilst guinea pigs vaccinated with the BCG-minus strain did not. So, unlike PPD, the new skin test also works in animals that are protected from TB by BCG-minus vaccination. This potentially allows farmers and veterinarians to protect their animals with the new BCG vaccine, whilst still maintaining a diagnostic test that will detect TB.

Johnjoe McFadden, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey, said: “In order to control the spread of bovine TB, effective vaccination and accurate early diagnosis of the disease are critical. This new vaccine provides protection against bovine TB and will help in the fight against this deadly disease which infects over 50 million cattle worldwide and is economically devastating to farmers.

“The next stage of our work will be to demonstrate that both synthetic skin test and BCG-minus vaccine works in cattle herds. If they do, then it will be possible to vaccinate cattle against TB yet retain the value of skin test for diagnosis.

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New tuberculosis tests pave way for cow vaccination programs

More information: Scientific Reports (2019). DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-54108-y

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[sleepypeaky]

send me john mb requests because pinterest is homophobic and has no pics of aimee or esme so my jesme board is like just johnjoe

[kim-jongdae]

thinkin bout how furudate was like "ah fuck it. Johnjoe McOwl"

[hicapacity]

Jim Al-Khalili - Johnjoe McFadden

Az élet kódja - Titokzatos kvantumok

A tudomány máig legnagyobb megválaszolatlan kérdése, hogy az élettelen atomok és molekulák hogyan alakulnak át szerető, gyűlölködő, vágyakozó, rettegő, gondolkodó élő anyaggá. Amire bolygónk legegyszerűbb mikrobája is képes, azt mi, emberek még mindig nem tudtuk megvalósítani: nem tudunk tisztán élettelen anyagok felhasználásával életet teremteni. Talán elkerülte a figyelmünket, hogy mi teszi elevenné az élőket?

Jim Al-Khalili és Joe McFadden az életnek nevezett rejtélyes kirakós játék hiányzó darabkái után kutat egy fiatal tudományág, a kvantumbiológia eredményeire támaszkodva. Vajon a költöző madarak honnan tudják, merre repüljenek? Hogyan érzékeljük a rózsa illatát? A génjeink miként tudnak magukról pontos másolatot készíteni? A szerzőpáros szemléletes példákon keresztül bizonyítja: a kvantummechanika amellett, hogy a lehető leghétköznapibb jelenség, a hiányzó darabkát jelenti a kirakósban.

A lebilincselő könyv hatását tudományos körök Richard Dawkins Az önző gén című művéhez mérik.

Hullám-részecske kettősség, koherencia, kvantumösszefonódás, alagúthatás hangozzanak bár elsőre idegenül, ezek nem csupán a laboratóriumokban dolgozó tudósok számára fontos kvantummechanikai fogalmak. Ráadásul éppen annyira valóságosak és hétköznapiak, mint nagymamánk almás sütije. Igazság szerint nagymamánk almás sütijét is e jelenségeknek köszönhetjük.

Jim Al-Khalili, akadémikus, író és műsorvezető. Elméleti fizikusként dolgozik a Surrey-i Egyetemen, ahol a tanítás mellett kvantummechanikai témájú kutatásokat végez. Több sikerkönyv szerzője, nevéhez számos televíziós és rádiós ismeretterjesztő-sorozat fűződik. Johnjoe McFadden a Surrey-i Egyetem molekulárisgenetika-professzora, emellett a molekuláris biológia és a tuberkulózis területén megjelent tankönyvek szerkesztője. Több mint egy évtizede specializálódott a tuberkulózis és az agyhártyagyulladás vizsgálatára utóbbi kapcsán az ő nevéhez fűződik az első sikeres molekuláris teszt kifejlesztése. A The Guardianben jelennek meg cikkei olyan témákban, mint a genetikailag módosított növények, pszichedelikus drogok és a kvantummechanika.