The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness: Brain Waves and Dreaming, 1st Edition

The Electrical Fields of Consciousness: Brain Waves and Dreaming examines neuro-electrophysiology from its origins in the electrical fields of primitive organisms to its roles in the electrophysiologically defined states of human consciousness. This volume presents and cogently organizes the wide spectrum of information available as to how and why bioelectrical fields are used to define and function in supporting both life and consciousness. Integrating electrophysiology in a comprehensible manner into neuroanatomical, electromagnetic, and global platform theories of neuroconsciousness, this book brings together the wide spectrum of available data-based evidence regarding the physiology and functions of bioelectric fields and their relationship to consciousness.

Chapters examine the origin and potential function of bioelectrical fields and EEG associations with conscious states, as well as the relationship between electrical fields and consciousness. Incorporating the basic science, clinical correlates, and functional potential of CNS bioelectrical fields, this book is a must-read for all working in the field of CNS electrophysiology or neuroconsciousness.

• Addresses our current understandings of the origin and potential functions of bioelectricity
• Integrates electrophysiology into current theories of neuroconsciousness, presenting within an historic research and clinical context
• Explores the origin, nature, bioenergetics, and potential genetic effects of synchronous physiologic electrical fields and their use as markers for life and death
• Addresses the definition and assessment of consciousness in human and non-human systems and reviews electrophysiological markers of wake and sleep consciousness states
• Discusses electrophysiologic drug and disease correlates as well as modern forms of electrical therapy

Table of Contents

Copyright
Dedication
Preface : The electric brain
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Intro: The search for markers of consciousness
1. Bene qui latiut, bene vixit (He who hid well, lived well)
2. Definitions
3. Primary consciousness
4. Markers of primary consciousness
5. Markers of life
6. Secondary consciousness
7. Tertiary consciousness
8. The archeology of tertiary human consciousness
9. The electromagnetic fields of consciousness
Chapter 2. Lightning and bioelectric pseudoscience—A short history
1. The discovery of bioelectricity
2. Electrical patent medicine
3. Electrohomeopathy
4. Lightning and the primordial soup
5. The electrical environment
Chapter 3. Formula consciousness: The other side of the equation
1. Ur-Formulas: E = mc2
2. The Schrödinger equation
3. Bioelectric fields
4. Cellular kinetics
5. Hodgkin, Katz, Goldman—Neuroelectric fields
6. The effects of impinging electrical frequencies on cellular kinetics
7. Bioenergy—The paradigm and the problems
8. Material bias
9. Complexity
10. The electrical environment
11. Electrical fields and consciousness
Chapter 4. Conveying bioenergy
1. The atomic realm
2. The chemical realm—Ionic biology
3. The realm of intracellular electrical fields
4. The neuron and the action potential
5. The high cost of information
6. Dark energy
Chapter 5. Life, death, and the music of the EEG
1. Life
2. Death
3. The music of the EEG
4. Aural dreams
5. Aural archetypes
6. The beat of the wave
7. Activation—An initial insert
8. Musical training—Learning access to internal rhythms
9. Echolocation and other extended senses
10. A summary—Life, death, and the music of the EEG
Chapter 6. Brain wave theory
1. What we can visualize
2. The EEG
3. The origin of EEG waves—Network theory
4. Brain wave theory
5. What brain wave theory offers—An overview
6. Brain wave systems of consciousness
Chapter 7. Space, time, and waves—The global workspace
1. The places in between
2. Neural networks
3. The global workspace
4. Space time particles in the CNS
5. The temporal space of cognition
6. Electrical waves in the workspace
7. Rumination
8. Integrating brain wave theory into the global workspace
9. The inner horizon of consciousness
Chapter 8. The labyrinth of consciousness
1. Neurobiological theories of consciousness
2. Digital theories of consciousness
3. Analog thought
4. Maze running
5. The analog phenomenon of consciousness
6. The forms of consciousness
Chapter 9. The spike/waves of consciousness
1. Waking
2. Evoking potentials
3. Spike/waves
4. Spike/wave consciousness
5. The digitally produced wave
6. Problems with digital wave theory
7. Digital waves—functions
8. Spike-wave consciousness
9. So what of the waves?
Chapter 10. Alpha wave consciousness
1. The physiologic neurofrequencies
2. Alpha wave consciousness
3. Waking alpha states
4. Alpha in sleep-wake transition
5. Sleep onset alpha consciousness
6. Sleep onset parasomnias
7. Alpha wave diseases
8. Medications affecting the alpha rhythm
9. Alpha consciousness
Chapter 11. Sigma consciousness
1. Stage 2—Sigma sleep
2. Sigma sleep consciousness—Stage 2 dreaming
3. Learning, memory, and sleep
4. The origins and neurophysiology of sigma
5. Sigma spindling in the other stages of sleep
6. Sigma—Disease associations
7. Sigma—Drug associations
8. Sigma consciousness
Chapter 12. Delta consciousness
1. Delta neuroscience
2. Delta nondreaming
3. Delta dreaming
4. A delta dream
5. The parasomnias of delta (deep sleep)
6. The functions of delta sleep
7. Delta consciousness
Chapter 13. Theta consciousness (Rapid eye movement sleep)
1. REMS is not dreaming!
2. Paradoxical REMS
3. Theta/REMS dreams
4. Bizarreness
5. Lucidity
6. Sexuality
7. Theta parasomnias
8. Theta waveforms—Operation and functions
9. Theta abnormalities—Diagnostic correlates
10. Theta consciousness
11. The theta homunculus
Chapter 14. The other physiologic frequencies of consciousness: Focusing on gamma and subdelta
1. Global resonance theory
2. The other ones
3. The gamma-wave hypothesis
4. Problems with the gamma hypothesis
5. Gamma—The signature of consciousness?
6. The 40Hz dream
7. Faster rhythms in the homonucleus
8. Subdelta
9. Overview—Gamma and subdelta: The other rhythms
Chapter 15. The ninth wave—Electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial alternating current stimulation, and other neuroelectric manipulations
1. Electroconvulsive therapy—Shock therapy
2. Inducing virtual lesions—Transcranial magnetic stimulation
3. Using TMS to manipulate brain frequencies
4. Transcranial alternating current stimulation
5. Manipulating brain oscillations
6. Integrating electrical treatments with neuroscience
7. Environmental fields
8. Summary—Applied electrical fields
Chapter 16. Artificial neurons and perfect zombies
1. The neuroanatomical structure of the CNS
2. Neuroanatomical zombies
3. Artificial neural networks
4. The multidimensional neuron
5. Neuroanatomical consciousness
6. The consciousness of large language models
7. AI ethics
8. AI consciousness
Chapter 17. Electro-neuro-consciousness
1. Activation
2. Synthesis
3. Activation-synthesis, or: A mental or cognitive state should reflect its associated neural processing
4. Bidirectional digital consciousness
5. Neuroreflective programming: Large language model
6. Consciousness?
7. The cosmological global workplace
8. The electrical fields of consciousness
9. Electro-neuro-consciousness
Chapter 18. Future consciousness
1. Quantum fields
2. Cellular fields
3. Ionic fields
4. The electrical fields of the EEG (general)
5. Alpha (10Hz)
6. Delta
7. Sigma
8. Harmonious homonuclear theta
9. Extracellular gamma
10. Subdelta
11. The environmental fields
12. The biologic basis of consciousness
13. Artificial intelligence
Chapter 19. Neuroelectrophysiology—The oscillations of the neural network
1. The neuronatomic workspace
2. The electric fields of consciousness
3. Origin
4. Functions
5. Interactions
6. Phenomenology
7. Consolidating consciousness
Index