THE DISSIPATIVE QUANTUM MODEL OF THE BRAIN: HOW CONSCIOUSNESS (OF THE OTHER) ARISES FROM THE INTERACTIVE PROCESS OF THE BODY-BRAIN AND ENVIRONMENT. OUR IGWEBUIKE-NESS IS QUANTUM

Abstract

It was Boethius who defined person as an individual substance with a rational nature, pointing out three important aspects of the nature of the human person, namely his individuality, his rationality and his being a substance. The rational nature of man is not just limited to the use of logic in his dealings, it is not merely reduced to the fact that man thinks or reasons before and even after undergoing an action. It also comprises the fact that man is conscious of all that he does, he is aware of his rationality. The human person is not the only substance in the animal kingdom with consciousness, for all animals have a certain level of consciousness, but the human person is the only animal whose consciousness comes with an awareness; that is to say that the human person is conscious of his awareness or is aware of his consciousness (to put in tautological terms, he is conscious of his consciousness and aware of his awareness). The issue of consciousness only gained momentum in the 19th/20th century, although some put it in the mid 20th century. The debate as to how man is conscious and as to how this power arises in him has awed greatly the scientific world, with some holding that the validly accepted explanation to this resides in the homunculus, which is original dated to the 16th century alchemist Paracelsus. This theory is presently rejected, using the infinite regress argument. With the dawn of the quantum field theory, which is relativity applied to quantum mechanics, applied to the field of Neuroscience, the issue of how consciousness arises from the brain has resurfaced. Applying Quantum Field Theory (QFT) to the thought about the brain and consciousness has paved the way for the quantum model of the brain. How much can we know of our conscious state using QFT? Is it even possible to dabble into the matter of consciousness whose matter is absent, yet whose effect is seen, using scientific theories that depends on the availability of matter? The Igwebuike ideology speaks of two strong tenets, solidarity and complementarity (and even togetherness). What this paper will address is that these two main tenets of Igwebuike depend on consciousness, for it is the consciousness of the other, that is the foundation of Igwebuike’s trends of solidarity and complementarity. With this being said, can it be proposed that the Igwebuike gospel has not just macroscopic underpinnings but it also has quantum?