I am inspired by this paper (see the excert below)
REVIEW
published: 31 October 2019
doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00378
Edited by:
Felix Blankenburg,
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Reviewed by:
Timothy Joseph Lane,
Taipei Medical University, Taiwan
Jakub Limanowski,
University College London,
United Kingdom
*Correspondence:
Tam Hunt
Specialty section:
This article was submitted to
Cognitive Neuroscience,
a section of the journal
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Received: 08 January 2019
Accepted: 07 October 2019
Published: 31 October 2019
Citation:
Hunt T and Schooler JW (2019)
The Easy Part of the Hard Problem:
A Resonance Theory
of Consciousness.
Front. Hum. Neurosci. 13:378.
doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2019.00378
The Easy Part of the Hard Problem: A
Resonance Theory of Consciousness
Tam Hunt* and Jonathan W. Schoole
Dehaene (2014) states the problem clearly (p. 211): “[C]ould any brain image ever prove or disprove the existence of a mind?” He answers this question in the affirmative, with various discussions about the neural correlates of consciousness and “signatures of consciousness” (what he considers to be the necessary and sufficient correlates of consciousness), but also recognizes that (p. 214) “no single test will ever prove, once and for all, whether consciousness is present.” He instead recommends a battery of tests be developed to give more confidence about the presence of consciousness in various contexts, focused on human subjects.
Testing the framework presented here should focus initially on the three conjectures in our Table 1. This approach follows the Lakatosian research program (Lakatos, 1968) that focuses on testing the “hard core” principles of any given theory. Conjectures 1–3 in Table 1 are the core of General Resonance Theory. There are many ways that various MCC may be measured to test conjectures 1–3 and we are fleshing out these ideas in other work.
Here again are the three primary conjectures of General Resonance Theory:
Conjecture 1: Shared resonance is what leads to the combination of micro-conscious entities into macro-conscious entities (“the shared resonance conjecture”).
Conjecture 2: The boundaries of a macro-conscious entity depend on the velocity and frequency of the resonance chains connecting its constituents (“the boundary conjecture”).
Conjecture 3: Any biological macro-conscious entity will have various levels of subsidiary/nested micro- and macro-conscious entities (“the nested consciousness conjecture”).
TABLE 2 | Various energy pathway velocities and frequencies in mammal brains.
Energy pathway Velocity Frequency Distance traveled per cycle
Terahertz-level tubulin resonance (Craddock et al., 2017) Possibly > c 613 THz 0.0049 m
Electrochemical pulses through axons (Siegel et al., 2019) 80–120 m/s Various Various
Gamma waves in human whole brain 10 m/s ∼40 Hz 0.25 m
Theta waves in human whole brain (Zhang and Jacobs, 2015) 3 m/s ∼5 Hz 0.6 m
Beta waves in human whole brain (Takahashi et al., 2011) 0.23 m/s ∼25 Hz 0.0092 m
Weak electric fields (“ephaptic coupling”) (Chiang et al., 2019) 0.1 m/s
The difficult part is that consciousness is a kind of phenomenon,which is based on a set of physical entities, possibly billion physical entities, rather than a single entity.
Psychology is the study of mind and behaviour.Mostly neuroscientists working on brain structure and function though electric impulses. We Psychologists working on mind that is outcome of brain activities.
My personal opinion we can quantify the mind as to study there parameters.
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