The Brain Is a Field Computer, Not a Digital Chip

it seems to have more explanatory power than some of the other theories, particularly on this persistent question that neuroscientists and philosophers ruminate about, the hard problem of consciousness, right? We could look at what the brain does.

We could look at all of these processes.

We're still looking into a window from the outside.

Your postulate, and I think what makes GRT difference is you're saying that these electromagnetic standing waves, which are nested and reinforce each other, that is not separate from consciousness.

That is, in fact, consciousness.

That's what you're experiencing when you're conscious.

You're experiencing, I guess, the subjective experience of this resonance.

that is taking place all the time.

Yeah, exactly.

So it's a strong assertion, but it's one we make with the confidence of our assertion, at least, and we frame it as an empirical program.

We say, look, our approach suggests that Uncontroversially, the physics of life and consciousness is nothing but EM fields.

And the very small is governed by nuclear forces also, strong, weak nuclear forces.

The very large is governed by gravity also.

But at the realm, the scale of life and consciousness, it is uncontroversially EM fields.

It's the physics of EM fields.

So there's a trivial part of our assertion that is just true by definition.

There is a non-trivial part in that we say, well, it's not about neurons and their spikes.

We say there's a lot more to it than that.

We say, look, the spike code, yes, is important, And yes, it certainly has a major role to play in motor neurons and movement and sensory structures.

But in terms of complex cognition and consciousness, there seems to be a whole lot more going on empirically in the EM fields that are produced by the brain and body and not necessarily the spikes themselves.

And so the spikes seem to play a strong role in creating a penumbra of EM fields in and around the brain and body.

And we are saying that penumbra, that EM field, the hair of the brain and body, that is where complex cognition and consciousness reside.

It's not mystical.

It's not woo-woo.

It's just physics.