Quantum brain theory and the appearing of world

Issue title: “Biological Quantum Consciousness”: A Journey from Bacteria to Animals and Humans

Guest editors: Massimo Cocchi

Article type: Brief Report

Authors: Globus, Gordon

Affiliations: University of California, Irvine, USA. E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: The appearing of world is approached via the dream world which has generally been thought to be merely derivative: a “composition” of memory traces from waking life, which are merged and fused into a dream world that in some instances can be indiscernable from the world of waking life. Two dreams are presented which challenge the composition theory of dream formation. An alternative unified theory of world appearance in both waking and dreaming is proposed, which makes use of developments in quantum brain dynamics. For this “monadological” proposal the wake world and the dream world are ontologically at parity. This surprising conclusion extends the quantum revolution to our very Existenz.

Keywords: Dream world, compositional theory of dreams, monadology, quantum brain theory, deconstruction

DOI: 10.3233/JIN-170065

Journal: Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, vol. 16, no. s1, pp. S37-S42, 2017