The Clinical, Philosophical, Evolutionary and Mathematical Machinery of Consciousness: An Analytic Dissection of the Field Theories and a Consilience of Ideas.
Cureus December 18, 2020 Hassan Kesserwani 1 citation
Consciousness can be understood as a tangible energy field—the conscious electro-magnetic information (CEMI) field—rather than a dualistic mind or soul. This field arises from the brain's high-entropy, wet biological medium and accounts for the binding problem by generating synchronous gamma oscillations across neuronal ensembles, as seen in Freeman's rabbit experiments. The temporo-parietal-occipital cortex, expanded in hominid evolution, along with thalamo-cortical oscillations, is proposed as the minimal neural correlate of consciousness. The theory integrates Kantian philosophy of space and time, Avicenna's thought experiment, and Karl Friston's free energy principle, interpreting consciousness as a flow of probability densities on a Riemannian manifold that minimizes divergence in Bayesian inference. The study of consciousness has moved beyond metaphysics into neurophysiology and mathematics.