The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness
Brain Waves and Dreaming
- 1st Edition - May 29, 2024
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: J. F. Pagel
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 7 3 8 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 9 7 3 9 - 3
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Request a sales quoteThe Electrical Fields of Consciousness: Brain Waves and Dreaming examines neuro-electrophysiology from its origins in the electrical fields of primitive organisms to its roles in the electrophysiologically defined states of human consciousness. This volume presents and cogently organizes the wide spectrum of information available as to how and why bioelectrical fields are used to define and function in supporting both life and consciousness. Integrating electrophysiology in a comprehensible manner into neuroanatomical, electromagnetic, and global platform theories of neuroconsciousness, this book brings together the wide spectrum of available data-based evidence regarding the physiology and functions of bioelectric fields and their relationship to consciousness.
Chapters examine the origin and potential function of bioelectrical fields and EEG associations with conscious states, as well as the relationship between electrical fields and consciousness. Incorporating the basic science, clinical correlates, and functional potential of CNS bioelectrical fields, this book is a must-read for all working in the field of CNS electrophysiology or neuroconsciousness.
Chapters examine the origin and potential function of bioelectrical fields and EEG associations with conscious states, as well as the relationship between electrical fields and consciousness. Incorporating the basic science, clinical correlates, and functional potential of CNS bioelectrical fields, this book is a must-read for all working in the field of CNS electrophysiology or neuroconsciousness.
- Addresses our current understandings of the origin and potential functions of bioelectricity
- Integrates electrophysiology into current theories of neuroconsciousness, presenting within an historic research and clinical context
- Explores the origin, nature, bioenergetics, and potential genetic effects of synchronous physiologic electrical fields and their use as markers for life and death
- Addresses the definition and assessment of consciousness in human and non-human systems and reviews electrophysiological markers of wake and sleep consciousness states
- Discusses electrophysiologic drug and disease correlates as well as modern forms of electrical therapy
Graduate students in biological and biomedical sciences, infotechnology, and electrophysiology, neuroscientists, clinicians, biomedical scientists, post-doctoral fellows, researchers
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface : The electric brain
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Intro: The search for markers of consciousness
- 1. Bene qui latiut, bene vixit (He who hid well, lived well)
- 2. Definitions
- 3. Primary consciousness
- 4. Markers of primary consciousness
- 5. Markers of life
- 6. Secondary consciousness
- 7. Tertiary consciousness
- 8. The archeology of tertiary human consciousness
- 9. The electromagnetic fields of consciousness
- Chapter 2. Lightning and bioelectric pseudoscience—A short history
- 1. The discovery of bioelectricity
- 2. Electrical patent medicine
- 3. Electrohomeopathy
- 4. Lightning and the primordial soup
- 5. The electrical environment
- Chapter 3. Formula consciousness: The other side of the equation
- 1. Ur-Formulas: E = mc2
- 2. The Schrödinger equation
- 3. Bioelectric fields
- 4. Cellular kinetics
- 5. Hodgkin, Katz, Goldman—Neuroelectric fields
- 6. The effects of impinging electrical frequencies on cellular kinetics
- 7. Bioenergy—The paradigm and the problems
- 8. Material bias
- 9. Complexity
- 10. The electrical environment
- 11. Electrical fields and consciousness
- Chapter 4. Conveying bioenergy
- 1. The atomic realm
- 2. The chemical realm—Ionic biology
- 3. The realm of intracellular electrical fields
- 4. The neuron and the action potential
- 5. The high cost of information
- 6. Dark energy
- Chapter 5. Life, death, and the music of the EEG
- 1. Life
- 2. Death
- 3. The music of the EEG
- 4. Aural dreams
- 5. Aural archetypes
- 6. The beat of the wave
- 7. Activation—An initial insert
- 8. Musical training—Learning access to internal rhythms
- 9. Echolocation and other extended senses
- 10. A summary—Life, death, and the music of the EEG
- Chapter 6. Brain wave theory
- 1. What we can visualize
- 2. The EEG
- 3. The origin of EEG waves—Network theory
- 4. Brain wave theory
- 5. What brain wave theory offers—An overview
- 6. Brain wave systems of consciousness
- Chapter 7. Space, time, and waves—The global workspace
- 1. The places in between
- 2. Neural networks
- 3. The global workspace
- 4. Space time particles in the CNS
- 5. The temporal space of cognition
- 6. Electrical waves in the workspace
- 7. Rumination
- 8. Integrating brain wave theory into the global workspace
- 9. The inner horizon of consciousness
- Chapter 8. The labyrinth of consciousness
- 1. Neurobiological theories of consciousness
- 2. Digital theories of consciousness
- 3. Analog thought
- 4. Maze running
- 5. The analog phenomenon of consciousness
- 6. The forms of consciousness
- Chapter 9. The spike/waves of consciousness
- 1. Waking
- 2. Evoking potentials
- 3. Spike/waves
- 4. Spike/wave consciousness
- 5. The digitally produced wave
- 6. Problems with digital wave theory
- 7. Digital waves—functions
- 8. Spike-wave consciousness
- 9. So what of the waves?
- Chapter 10. Alpha wave consciousness
- 1. The physiologic neurofrequencies
- 2. Alpha wave consciousness
- 3. Waking alpha states
- 4. Alpha in sleep-wake transition
- 5. Sleep onset alpha consciousness
- 6. Sleep onset parasomnias
- 7. Alpha wave diseases
- 8. Medications affecting the alpha rhythm
- 9. Alpha consciousness
- Chapter 11. Sigma consciousness
- 1. Stage 2—Sigma sleep
- 2. Sigma sleep consciousness—Stage 2 dreaming
- 3. Learning, memory, and sleep
- 4. The origins and neurophysiology of sigma
- 5. Sigma spindling in the other stages of sleep
- 6. Sigma—Disease associations
- 7. Sigma—Drug associations
- 8. Sigma consciousness
- Chapter 12. Delta consciousness
- 1. Delta neuroscience
- 2. Delta nondreaming
- 3. Delta dreaming
- 4. A delta dream
- 5. The parasomnias of delta (deep sleep)
- 6. The functions of delta sleep
- 7. Delta consciousness
- Chapter 13. Theta consciousness (Rapid eye movement sleep)
- 1. REMS is not dreaming!
- 2. Paradoxical REMS
- 3. Theta/REMS dreams
- 4. Bizarreness
- 5. Lucidity
- 6. Sexuality
- 7. Theta parasomnias
- 8. Theta waveforms—Operation and functions
- 9. Theta abnormalities—Diagnostic correlates
- 10. Theta consciousness
- 11. The theta homunculus
- Chapter 14. The other physiologic frequencies of consciousness: Focusing on gamma and subdelta
- 1. Global resonance theory
- 2. The other ones
- 3. The gamma-wave hypothesis
- 4. Problems with the gamma hypothesis
- 5. Gamma—The signature of consciousness?
- 6. The 40Hz dream
- 7. Faster rhythms in the homonucleus
- 8. Subdelta
- 9. Overview—Gamma and subdelta: The other rhythms
- Chapter 15. The ninth wave—Electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, transcranial alternating current stimulation, and other neuroelectric manipulations
- 1. Electroconvulsive therapy—Shock therapy
- 2. Inducing virtual lesions—Transcranial magnetic stimulation
- 3. Using TMS to manipulate brain frequencies
- 4. Transcranial alternating current stimulation
- 5. Manipulating brain oscillations
- 6. Integrating electrical treatments with neuroscience
- 7. Environmental fields
- 8. Summary—Applied electrical fields
- Chapter 16. Artificial neurons and perfect zombies
- 1. The neuroanatomical structure of the CNS
- 2. Neuroanatomical zombies
- 3. Artificial neural networks
- 4. The multidimensional neuron
- 5. Neuroanatomical consciousness
- 6. The consciousness of large language models
- 7. AI ethics
- 8. AI consciousness
- Chapter 17. Electro-neuro-consciousness
- 1. Activation
- 2. Synthesis
- 3. Activation-synthesis, or: A mental or cognitive state should reflect its associated neural processing
- 4. Bidirectional digital consciousness
- 5. Neuroreflective programming: Large language model
- 6. Consciousness?
- 7. The cosmological global workplace
- 8. The electrical fields of consciousness
- 9. Electro-neuro-consciousness
- Chapter 18. Future consciousness
- 1. Quantum fields
- 2. Cellular fields
- 3. Ionic fields
- 4. The electrical fields of the EEG (general)
- 5. Alpha (10Hz)
- 6. Delta
- 7. Sigma
- 8. Harmonious homonuclear theta
- 9. Extracellular gamma
- 10. Subdelta
- 11. The environmental fields
- 12. The biologic basis of consciousness
- 13. Artificial intelligence
- Chapter 19. Neuroelectrophysiology—The oscillations of the neural network
- 1. The neuronatomic workspace
- 2. The electric fields of consciousness
- 3. Origin
- 4. Functions
- 5. Interactions
- 6. Phenomenology
- 7. Consolidating consciousness
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 29, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 316
- No. of pages (eBook): 400
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323997386
- eBook ISBN: 9780323997393
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J. F. Pagel
JF Pagel has authored more than 170 publications. His basic research addressed the electrophysiology of consciousness, the neurochemistry of sleep and dream, and the role of REM sleep in learning and memory. His clinical work includes proofs for non-dreaming and the requirement of sleep for dream and nightmare, the diagnostic code for nightmare disorder, a definition protocol for dream, and demonstrations that REM sleep and dreaming are doubly dissociable. He has developed approaches to treating insomnia, sleep & altitude, narcolepsy, pediatric parasomnias, and waking somnolence, as well as addressing dream and nightmare use in trauma, art, creativity and filmmaking. He is co-editor of one of the major sleep-medicine texts: Primary Care Sleep Disorders (2007/ 2014). His books include: The Limits of Dream – A Scientific Exploration of the Mind /Brain Interface (2007), Dreaming and Nightmares (ed.) (2010), and Dream Science – Exploring the Forms of Consciousness (2014).
Affiliations and expertise
University of Colorado, School of Medicine, USARead The Electromagnetic Fields of Consciousness on ScienceDirect