Conscious Mind Could Be An Electromagnetic Field

Daily University Science News ^ | 16-May-2002 | Daily University Science News

[Scully]

Knowing the science-junkies around here, I was surprised that this article had not been posted.

[Mo1]

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[Scully]

A conscious ping.

[jlogajan]

Actually, I think it was posted here a couple weeks ago.

[AgentEcho]

AHHH... So tinfoil hats don't prevent reception, they prevent transmission.

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[opbuzz]

Duh

Isn't chemistry an 'electron kinda thing'?

Kinda like everything you can see, hear, taste, feel, or smell?

[IronJack]

The answer is that our skin, skull and cerebrospinal fluid shield us from external electric fields.

And a thin layer of metallic tin wrapped around the cranium provides an additional protective barrier against not only electromagnetic radiation but mind control beams, laser death rays, and coded transmissions from alien satellites.

[PatrickHenry]

You mean ... the mind isn't red jello?

[Ken522]

If this theory - that the mind is just an electromagnetic field - is ocrrect, then anyone who passes through an electromagnetic field would have their thoughts ... POLARIZED!

[Ken522]

uh .. "correct" .. sorry about the misspelling, FR Punctuation and Diction Police!

[Bedford Forrest]

Quite apparently, Professor Johnjoe McFadden is so excruciatingly dim that he has neither had [and therefore]never considered, much less understood, the ineluctable implications of what used to be called "the identity crisis', the shattering realization of the question, how did "I" become "I", as opposed to "I" becoming "Jake". It is through this process that the sentient individual comes to understand and accept that he is perceiving his own soul, bestowed upon him by God. The Johnjoes [what a stupid name!!!]of the world cannot abide the existence of the human soul, [because of its irrefutable implications] and so waste ink and paper trying to explain it in terms of chemistry and synapses clicking away like reed switches. My my my, how pathetic are the gyrations of fraud scientists trying to deny the reality and the provenance of the human soul.

[alley cat]

Thanks for posting this! If it was posted before, I missed it.

[gcruse]

 The answer is that our skin, skull and cerebrospinal
fluid shield us from external electric fields.

What is an electric field?  Is that the same
as a magnetic field?   I thought it took something
like lead and a lot of it to shield something from
an electromagnetic field.  And can anything stop
a magnetic field?  I don't unnerstan'.

[MainFrame65]

If consciousness were nothing but the vector sum of the electromagnetic fields generated by the neurons, why would an Xray (penetrating electromagnetic radiation) not cause some distortion of the psyche? The cat scan (an entire series of Xrays) of my head early this year might have been the cause for me to change my mind about unqualified support of the President's domestic policies. And if I ever need to have an MRI (exposure to extremely high static and oscillating magnetic fields), I'll have to find out if my insurance pays for treatment of raving, ranting liberalism, just in case!

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Centurion2000]

A couple of things ..... if this is the case then why are people's minds not scrambled when placed into extreme electromagnetic fields ? Electrical shock of any kind would have devastating consequences for a mind.

It does not and people's minds are not scrambled by extreme magnetic fields.

Junk science is this, or GIGO.

[weikel]

Cool