Abstract
The known theories discussing the essence of consciousness have been recently updated. This prompts an attempt to integrate these explanations concerning several distinct components of the consciousness phenomenon such as the ego, and qualia perceptions. Therefore, it is useful to consider the latest publications on the ‘Orch OR’ and ‘cemi’ theories, which assume that quantum processing occurs in microtubules and that the brain’s endogenous electromagnetic field is important. The authors combine these explanations with their own theory describing the neural circuits realizing imagery. They try to present such an interdisciplinary, integrated theoretical model in a manner intuitively understandable to people with a typical medical education. In order to do this, they even refer to intuitively understandable metaphors. The authors maintain that an effective comprehension of consciousness is important for health care professionals because its disorders are frequent medical symptoms in emergencies, during general anesthesia and in the course of cognitive disorders in elderly people. The authors emphasize the current possibilities to verify these theses regarding the essence of consciousness thanks to the development of functional brain imaging methods—magnetoencephalography, transcranial magnetic stimulation—as well as clinical studies on the modification of perceptions and feelings by such techniques as mindfulness and the use of certain psychoactive substances, especially among people with self-awareness and identity disorders.
Highlights
Published articles enable improved cognizance of the essence of consciousness
Stuart Hameroff recalled the arguments in favor of the theory associating the nature of consciousness with quantum processing in the microtubules [1]
These arguments have recently been discussed by Tianwen Li et al [2]. Wider interest in this theory comes from the detection of high-frequency vibrations in the microtubules [3]
Summary
Published articles enable improved cognizance of the essence of consciousness. Making a brief review of the mentioned theories will allow us to endorse below a comprehensible theory integrating all these concepts, which will enable improved cognizance of the essence of the nature of self-awareness. It is necessary, to pay attention to a certain methodological difficulty. Contemporary theories explaining physiological processes are interdisciplinary and are based on fields of knowledge so advanced that they exceed the possibility to be fully understood by people with a typical medical education We mean such areas as quantum physics and electromagnetic field theory. We mark in this text, the subsequent references to such a glossary by specifying the number of a comment in parentheses, as {x}
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