The title of this post could have been written as ‘to think is to electro-magnetize’ in the tradition of two other posts ‘to sleep is to demagnetize’ and ‘to eat is to electrolyze’. However, the final choice is made in order to fish out the similarity between optical coherence and human consciousness for a direct correspondence as a biophysical relation of QBD (quantum brain dynamics).
What is consciousness? A simple definition would be the separate awareness of space and time for a complete holistic understanding of space-time. But is this space-time the same as in special and general relativity as well as that of quantum field theories? Yes! But instead of speaking it as a single entity it is split back into ‘space’ and ‘time’.
‘Space’ is relative to electric field. This spatial relativity gives a definition of spatial frequency response for achieving spatial coherence. ‘Time’ is relative to magnetic field. This temporal relativity gives a definition of temporal frequency response for achieving temporal coherence. The ratio of these distinct frequencies is constant in a given physical theory. If it is the spatial over the temporal then it is the speed of light. In MKS system of measurements the statistical average is 300,000,000 meters per second. The reason behind this constancy is a principle of phase stability.
Phase stability is an intrinsic adaptive property of space-time for self-adjustment and restoration analogous to elasticity of bulk matter such that the ratio of spatial and temporal attribute remains a constant within the domain of applicability in the space-time evolution of a given process.
Two sets of quantum-mechanical conjugate variables described by the uncertainty principle are (1) the product of spatial frequency and the change in linear momentum of a quantum field particle (2) the product of temporal frequency and the energy. Both are greater than or equal Planck’s constant of action. If the change in momentum is further decomposed into the product of a possible change in mass and a constant velocity and the change of energy is equivalent to the change in mass by ∆E=∆mc then the ratio of spatial frequency over the temporal frequency is greater or equal to the speed of light. This implies that from space-time point of view the speed of light becomes a tachyon’s lower limit while for normal matter (electron, proton, neutron, etc.) it is an upper limit. This superluminal spatial expansion has been verified by astrophysical observations. Similarly, mental waves of consciousness travel at superluminal speeds to such an extent that they form memory cells which travel back in time, within limit of course. So that brain wave is related to the phase velocity (w), this is always greater than light speed. In general, the group velocity (g) of physical waves is always less than light speed such that the next compound inequality holds g ≤ c ≤ w. Perfect space-time coherence happens exactly when both absolute magnitudes of the phase velocity and group velocity are equal. The particular conditional is |g|-|w|=|w|-|g|=0 and the general conditional is |g-w|=0. The first is the difference between scalar fields while the second is the absolute norm of vector fields.


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