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How does consciousness interact with the brain?

Thermos aquaticus

Well-Known Member
There's also the issue of the mechanism for consciousness on the 'other side'. Exactly how does it work? How does it send signals to the brain? How does it receive signals from the brain? What is the physics of thoughts?

Precisely. For those who are experimentalists the first thing that pops up is the question of how the physical system differs when it is transmitting or receiving and when it is not. If it is through QM interactions, then how do those QM interactions differ from those that are not interacting with a consciousness?

For those who are driven by ideology, I don't think these questions ever cross their mind.
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
Good questions.

This subject is explained in Vedic and western (theosophical) traditions. I'll try to explain in a nutshell to the best of my knowledge and abilities..

We are not just a physical body. We also have (names differ by tradition) etheric, astral and mental bodies interpenetrating the physical body. The non-physical bodies are in dimensions beyond our familiar three and matter in those higher realms are at a vibratory rate orders of magnitude greater than the physical. These higher realms are not directly detectable by our physical senses and instruments (kind of like dark matter).

Now thought actually originates on the mental plane of nature and through the process of sympathetic vibrations is carried down through the gradually denser planes to the gross physical brain. Events in the physical body are carried upward to through a similar process.

You asked about wanting to tie this in with quantum mechanics. I would speculate the 'spooky' behavior of quantum mechanics actually involve dimensions not directly detectable by our physical senses and instruments. One theory is that quantum behavior occurs in the neuronal micro-tubules in the physical brain but this is getting in over my head at that point.

I'll add that consciousness is non-physical and is the experiencer of all this vibrating matter that it incarnates.
an action is a physical phenomena; so vibration is physical. everything has a body.
 

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
Consciousness is reactive chemistry through stimulus. It's what referred to as active matter. Besides Consciousness is on par with seeing or thinking, it's not an actual thing.

seeing and thinking are actions. they don't have an exact form because everthing is a matter of mind, or state of mind. the All is mental, panpsychism.


seeing and thinking arise from an action and can be nouns derived from verbs,like singing.
 

George-ananda

Advaita Vedanta, Theosophy, Spiritualism
Premium Member
an action is a physical phenomena; so vibration is physical. everything has a body.
True, everything is physical except that fundamental mystery, Consciousness, and the physical is its thoughts/creation.
 
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