TITLE:
Cerebral Networks of Interfacial Water: Analogues of the Neural Correlates of Consciousness in a Synthetic Three-Shell Realistic Head Model
AUTHORS:
Nicolas Rouleau, Michael Persinger
KEYWORDS:
Interfacial Water, Hydronium Ion, Electromagnetic Consciousness, Cerebral Water, Schumann Resonance, QEEG
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Signal and Information Processing,
Vol.5 No.4,
October
30,
2014
ABSTRACT: The physical properties of
water, particularly the nature of interfacial water and pH shifts associated
with dynamics of the hydronium ion near any surface, may be a primary source of
the complex electromagnetic patterns frequently correlated with consciousness.
Effectively all of the major correlates of consciousness, including the 40 Hz
and 8 Hz coupling between the cerebral cortices and hippocampal formation, can
be accommodated by the properties of water within a specific-shaped volume
exposed to a magnetic field. In the present study, quantitative
electroencephalographic activity was measured from an experimental simulation
of the human head constructed using conductive dough whose pH could be changed
systematically. Spectral analyses of electrical potentials generated over the
regions equivalent to the left and right temporal lobes in humans exhibited
patterns characteristic of Schumann Resonance. This fundamental and its
harmonics are generated within the earth-ionospheric cavity with intensities
similar to the volumetric intracerebral magnetic (~2 pT) and electric field (~6
× 10-1 V·m-1)
strengths. The power densities for specific pH values were moderately
correlated with those obtained from normal human brains for the fundamental
(first) and second harmonic for the level simulating the cerebral cortices.
Calculations indicated that the effective pH would be similar to that
encountered within a single layer of protons near the plasma membrane surface.
These results reiterate recent measurements in a large population of human
brains showing the superimposition of Schumann power densities in QEEG data and
indicate that intrinsic features of proton densities within cerebral water may
be a fundamental basis to consciousness that can be simulated experimentally.