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A Possible Flux Density Value of 10 -12 W·m -2 for "Spontaneous" Photon Emissions in Fixed Human Brain Tissue: Was Spinoza Correct?

2016· article· en· W2401427660 on OpenAlexaff
Justin N. Costa, Michael A. Persinger

Bibliographic record

VenueResearch in neuroscience · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicParanormal Experiences and Beliefs
Canadian institutionsLaurentian University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHuman brainPhysicsDark energyChemistryQuantum mechanicsCosmologyNeuroscienceBiology
DOInot available

Abstract

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The equivalence between universal values of 10 -20 J and 10 -12 W·m -2 involves the product of the inverse of diffusivity of wave impedance distributed over the hydrogen wavelength divided by the magnetic permeability of free space. These two values reflect the increment of energy associated with action potentials (a major correlate of cognition) and the power densities of photon emissions during imagination as measured experimentally. The human brain, alive or dead (if structurally maintained) has similar mass and occupies space. We tested the hypothesis that these two properties would be sufficient to produce enhanced spontaneous photon emission compared to empty space. The photon flux density from different volumes (masses) of fixed human brain ranging between 20 mg and 1100 g were measured. Compared to the 20 mg masses that did not differ from dark counts (background), the average flux density for 100 to 1000 g volumes was ~2·10 -12 -2 . These results are consistent with the possibility that mass occupying space reflects it fundamental properties that relate to an intrinsic relationship between energy (J) and flux density (kg·s -3 ). Within the human cerebrum the energy density would be about 10 -11 W·m -3 or 10 -14 J·s -1 . This is equivalent to the discharge of ~10 7 cortical neurons which is within the range of experiencing a percept in the living human brain. These results also support the Hameroff and Penrose concept of consciousness as well as Spinoza's implicit argument that cerebral properties indicates it is a subset of all space. There is quantitative evidence by calculation that the mediating variable may be related to the neutral hydrogen line which exhibits ubiquitous presence in the universe.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.439
Threshold uncertainty score0.622

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.136
GPT teacher head0.477
Teacher spread0.342 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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