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Blog discussing the scientific evidence of the human brain and mind. Despite centuries of brain research, no theory exists to explain how human brains can generate a mind. In fact, this hypothesis is directly challenged by modern scientific research on cellular scale intelligence. We believe "all" cells in your body create your mind, not just brain cells. Keyword Search General Cellular Mind Dropdown New Page General Cellular Mind Blog Cellular Mind New Page New Page New Page Search Results 此語言尚未有已發佈之文章 文章發佈後將於此處顯示。

Evidence that molecules behave as if they have minds that experience their world. Molecules and molecular clusters inside cells communicate and coordinate their activity, often changing shapes to execute the processes of life. These behaviors lie beyond current scientific description hence we view them as evidence of molecular scale mind. Keyword Search General Cellular Mind Dropdown New Page General Cellular Mind Blog Cellular Mind New Page New Page New Page Search Results 此語言尚未有已發佈之文章 文章發佈後將於此處顯示。

Evidence that plants & fungi behave as if they have minds that experience their world. Plants & fungi do not have brains yet actively communicate, solve problems, and collaborate with other organisms across the kingdoms of life to ensure their collective survival. These behaviors suggest that plants and fungi have minds. Keyword Search General Cellular Mind Dropdown New Page General Cellular Mind Blog Cellular Mind New Page New Page New Page Search Results 此語言尚未有已發佈之文章 文章發佈後將於此處顯示。

Solution to the mind combination problem facing panpsychism using the fundamental forces of nature and the universal conservation laws of science. Resolving the Mind Combination Problem with Existing Science Introduction Mainstream science considers the human mind to be generated by the brain, yet despite centuries of brain research no evidence has been found to support this hypothesis. While some conceptual frameworks exist, nothing close to a scientific theory has been developed to explain how neuronal processes inside our brains can produce the vibrant conscious experiences of our minds. This is widely known as the “Hard Problem of Consciousness”, a term coined by philosopher David Chalmers in 1995. While the hard problem has existed for millennia in many forms, Chalmer’s articulation distilled the essence of the problem by illustrating the difficulty in explaining qualitative subjective experience (e.g. the feeling of beauty watching a sunset or of feeling pain in a broken bone) using the quantitative properties, equations, and theories of science. Conscious experiences are “qualitative” in nature, lacking any “quantitative” properties whatsoever. Consider the sweet taste of chocolate, the pungent smell of a skunk, excitement, anxiety, love, thoughts, memories, pain, and so on. These experiences have no units of measure and simply cannot be reduced to quantitative variables and equations. The mind is a “mental” phenomenon whereas science describes “physical” phenomena. Our minds “experience” the world from an “internal, 1st person, and subjective” point of view that is completely private to each of us. Meanwhile physical science describes the “behavior” of objects in our world from an “external, 3rd person, and objective” point of view that is publicly observable and quantitatively measurable with scientific instrumentation. Quantitative vs. qualitative, objective vs. subjective, 1st person vs. 3rd person, internal vs. external, experience vs. behavior, and physical vs. mental. Each of these characteristics are polar opposites of one another, which explains why the “quantitative, 3rd person, objective, physical, external behavior” theories of science have been unable to explain the “qualitative, 1st person, subjective, internal, mental experiences” of the mind. The hard problem remains one of the most intractable problems in the entirety of science. The hypothesis that the human mind emerges from brain processes is rooted in the metaphysics of materialism, which posits that everything in the universe can be explained by scientific laws that govern the behavior of matter and energy. Other metaphysical views avoid the hard problem but face their own unique problems. Dualism posits the mind is a separate non-physical property or substance that interacts with matter, raising the “Mind-Body Problem” which questions how a non-physical mind can interact with a physical body. Idealism posits mind is the only fundamental thing that exists and that matter is derivative from a universal mind, raising the “Decombination Problem” which questions how human bodies and minds can be split off from a universal mind. Panpsychism posits that mind is intertwined with matter at every scale of the universe, raising the “Combination Problem” which questions how the individual minds of elementary particles can combine to form more complex minds in atoms, molecules, cells, and ultimately humans. The combination problem traces back to 1890 when philosopher William James challenged panpsychism by arguing that individual conscious experiences cannot be combined to form a single unified conscious experience. James’ challenge has withstood the test of time as many solutions have been proposed but none have received widespread support from philosophers and scientists. Most of these solutions analyze the properties of complex minds and use reductionist logic to deduce the properties of more rudimentary forms of mind and then infer how they might be able to combine. The present solution takes the opposite approach by starting with the hypothesis that mind is fundamental and illustrating how rudimentary minds can combine using existing scientific theories and principles. This bottoms up approach requires just one straightforward assumption - that existing scientific laws which apply to all forms and scales of matter and energy in the universe, would apply equally to all forms and scales of mind. In other words, if mind exists at the quantum scale, then the laws of quantum physics would apply equally to quantum scale matter and quantum scale mind. Likewise, as matter is molded into more complex forms by the forces of nature, mind must also be molded into more complex forms by the same forces of nature. This discussion will show that this singular assumption - that matter and mind should be treated identically from a scientific standpoint - is sufficient to resolve the mind combination problem. Discussion The most fundamental constituents of matter and energy in the universe are described by the "Standard Model of Elementary Particles." The standard model currently contains 61 unique quantum scale energy patterns that have been directly or indirectly detected in laboratories and particle colliders which scientists consider to be the most elementary building blocks of everything that exists in our universe, the quantum scale equivalent of the periodic table of the elements in chemistry. Mind clearly exists in our universe and since science has thus far failed to explain mind as an emergent phenomenon in brains, let’s consider the possibility that mind exists at the quantum scale and see what existing science has to say about this. The vast majority of the 61 particles in the standard model cannot exist for more than a fraction of a second before decaying or combining into a more stable form of matter and energy. This allows us to focus only on the subset of elementary particles that form stable matter, specifically up quarks, down quarks, gluons, electrons and photons. The most fundamental matter interaction in the universe occurs when the gluons of the strong nuclear force combine one red color charge quark, one green color charge quark, and one blue color charge quark, to form a neutral white color charge proton or neutron, the subatomic particles that form atoms.* Whether three quarks combine to form a proton or neutron depends on the mix of up and down quarks being combined. The main takeaway here is that the strong nuclear force combines elementary particles to form subatomic particles. This is the smallest matter combination event known to science. As elementary particles are forged into subatomic particles, each of their 4 known properties are “conserved” throughout the process. This means the mass/energy**, spin, charge, and color charge of the incoming quarks and gluon binding energy can be combined and the result will match the properties of the resulting proton or neutron. Each of the properties being combined has a conservation law associated with it, specifically the conservation of mass/energy, the conservation of spin, the conservation of charge, and the conservation of color charge. That the properties of quarks and gluons are universally combined and conserved in strong nuclear force interactions is a foundational principle in quantum physics. This foundational principle also applies to all scales of the universe where the forces of nature (the strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, the electromagnetic force, and gravity) all universally combine and conserve every known property of matter and energy, in every type of interaction, at every scale of the universe. This is true whether three quarks are combined to form a subatomic particle, or whether two galaxies collide to form a larger galaxy. It is now time to bring mind into this discussion via two thought experiments. Thought Experiment #1: Mind as a Property of Quarks Consider a thought experiment where tomorrow morning scientists announce a discovery that quarks have a 5th property. Logic dictates that this 5th property would also be combined and conserved by the strong nuclear force along with the 4 previously known properties of quarks when forging protons and neutrons. The scientists would no doubt propose a new universal conservation law associated with this new quark property since everything in the known universe is subject to conservation laws. Now imagine this newly discovered property somehow relates to mind existing at the quantum scale, let's call it the "mind property" of quarks. This new mind property would be combined by the strong nuclear force and conserved by a new “conservation of mind” law. The resulting subatomic particle would have the combined mind of its constituent quarks along with the combined mass/energy, charge, spin, and color charge of its constituent quarks and gluons. Moving up to the atomic scale, the electromagnetic force replaces the strong nuclear force as the primary force driving matter combination events, where photons replace gluons as the carriers of the fundamental force of nature facilitating the combination. Various combinations of subatomic particles are electromagnetically combined to form the 100+ atoms of the periodic table. Atoms are literally forged and held together by the electromagnetic attraction between their constituent electrons and protons, which attract each other and stick together like magnets on your refrigerator. The mass/energy, charge, spin, and mind properties of subatomic particles and photon binding energy would be combined and conserved as the electromagnetic force combines them to form atoms with atomic scale minds. Moving up to the molecular scale, the 100+ atoms of the periodic table electromagnetically combine in various combinations to form hundreds of millions of molecules. Every molecule is literally held together by the electromagnetic attraction between the protons and electrons in their constituent atoms. The mass/energy, charge, spin, and mind property of atoms would be combined and conserved by the electromagnetic force when forming molecules with molecular scale minds. The same logic holds as we move up to the cellular scale. Every cell is literally held together by the electromagnetic attraction between protons and electrons in the molecules that form cell membranes and internal cell structures. The mass/energy, charge, spin, and mind properties of subcellular molecules are combined and conserved by the electromagnetic force when forming cells with cellular scale minds. Finally, multicellular organisms are held together by the electromagnetic attraction between the protons and the electrons in the membranes of adjacent cells and interstitial molecules. The mass/energy, charge, spin, and mind properties of cells are combined and conserved by the electromagnetic force when forming the more complex bodies and minds of multicellular organisms, including humans. This thought experiment chose to only consider quarks as having a mind property for simplicity reasons, but the same logic would apply if all elementary particles were assumed to have a mind property. The thought experiment resolved the combination problem using the simple assumption that scientific laws should apply equally to a hypothetical mind property of matter as they do to the other properties of matter. Rejecting this hypothesis requires taking the position that the fundamental forces of nature and the universal conservation laws of science that apply to every known property of matter would not apply to a hypothetical mind property of matter, an illogical and unscientific position to take. Thought Experiment #2: Mind as an Elementary Particle Physicists have long speculated the possible existence of new particles to explain currently unexplained phenomena. This has been going on for more than a century since quantum theory was first formulated in the 1920’s. Scientists make predictions based on the assumed properties of hypothetical particles, then conduct experiments that attempt to confirm or refute the particle’s existence. The most recently discovered particle is the Higgs Boson which was hypothesized in 1964 and experimentally confirmed in 2012, after which it was added to the Standard Model. The Standard Model, and quantum physics more broadly, remain incomplete as physicists continue to search for new particles to explain mysteries such as gravity, dark energy, dark matter, the matter-antimatter imbalance, supersymmetry, the hierarchy problem, and other unexplained phenomena. Since the mind is also a mystery to science, let’s consider a second thought experiment where tomorrow scientists announce the discovery of a “mind particle" that provides evidence of mind operating at the quantum scale. Each of the 61 elementary particles in the Standard Model has a quantum field associated with it that spans the entire universe. This means the newly discovered mind particle would also have a universal “mind field” associated with it. Let’s assume the mind particle is a boson which would enable it to behave more like a force carrier than as a building block of matter. In essence, the mind boson would be the carrier of a 5th force of nature, a “mind force.” Many scientists have speculated on the possible existence of a 5th force of nature to explain a variety of mysteries. They typically assume the hypothetical 5th force operates at energies undetectable by modern scientific instruments, providing an explanation for why the 5th force does not create anomalies in atomic spectroscopy and particle accelerators. We will make the same assumption, that the mind boson operates below the level detectable by existing scientific instruments, hence new technology needed to be invented before it could be discovered. Since modern science can already account for the mass of subatomic particles via the Higgs boson, there is no “missing” mass to be accounted for by our mind boson, hence we will assume it will be a “massless” boson like the photon. It is useful to consider the behaviors of photons to shed light on the behaviors of mind bosons. Bosons are not subject to the Pauli exclusion principle, meaning multiple bosons can occupy the same place at the same time. This allows photons to seamlessly combine their energy to produce a higher power electromagnetic fields that is integrated and unified. This is a foundational principle in Quantum Electrodynamics theory (QED) and in Maxwell’s classical theory of electromagnetism. Positively charged protons and negatively charged electrons naturally attract each other, generating tiny electromagnetic fields between them facilitated by photon exchange. When atoms, molecules, and cells combine to form more complex matter structures, these tiny electromagnetic fields seamlessly combine to form higher power, unified, and integrated electromagnetic fields that surround and pervade the matter structure. Mind bosons would similarly combine their energy to form higher power, unified, and integrated mind fields that surround and pervade combined matter structures. Mind as a massless boson would therefore not face a combination problem, provided that the laws and principles of science apply equally to the fundamental constituents of matter and mind. The Mind Division Problem Both thought experiments illustrate how matter and mind can combine from elementary particles to cells. Beginning at cellular scale a "Mind Division Problem" appears because growth at the cellular scale is primarily based on cell division rather than cell combination. Dividing cells replicate their entire internal structures, after which their cell membranes fold down the middle to split the duplicated internal structures into two separate cells with independent minds and bodies. Since mind is embedded in the subatomic particles of the divided cells in both thought experiments, the dividing cells would have independent minds once they move far enough apart to cause their electromagnetic and mind fields to bifurcate. This would be the case in single cell life such as a bacterium that divides into two independent bacteria which subsequently move away from one another. In multicellular life, the combination problem applies only to egg fertilization. Sperm and egg cells combine their entire physical structures during fertilization. This is an indisputable scientific fact. When a sperm enters an egg, their electromagnetic fields naturally combine to produce a unified and integrated fertilized-egg electromagnetic field. This is also an indisputable scientific fact. Regardless of whether mind is an undiscovered property of matter or an undiscovered boson field, the sperm and egg will combine their molecular structures, electromagnetic fields, and mind fields, consistent with both proposed solutions to the combination problem. After fertilization occurs, all subsequent growth is driven by cell division as opposed to cell combination. But unlike single cell life, the dividing cells in multicellular organisms never move far enough away from one another to cause their electromagnetic fields to bifurcate. Multicellular organisms remain inside a single, expanding, unified, and integrated electromagnetic field that surrounds and pervades the fertilized egg throughout development, birth, life, and death. Similarly, the collective mind of the dividing cells would remain inside a single, expanding, unified, and integrated mind field that surrounds and pervades the fertilized egg throughout development, birth, life, and death This would provide an explanation for the unity of human conscious experience, our sense of self that persists over time, a phenomenon that is considered a mystery in philosophy of mind circles. Evidence That Minds Combine There is direct electromagnetic evidence that minds can combine at the scale of the human brain. A procedure for treating epilepsy involves severing the nerve fibers that connect the two hemispheres of a patient’s brain, which greatly reduces the severity of seizures by preventing them from electromagnetically oscillating between brain hemispheres. Neuroscientists have been studying these “split-brain” patients since 1962 when it was discovered that each hemisphere acts as if it has a separate mind. The left hemisphere controls and receives sensory input from the right side of the body while the right hemisphere controls and receives sensory input from the left side of the body. This is known as the contralateral organization of the brain and body, an organization structure that has allowed scientists to perform isolated hemispheric testing on these split-brain patients. Experiments on split-brain patients involve presenting isolated sensory stimuli to one hemisphere and soliciting isolated responses to questions from one or the other hemisphere. Split-brain patients give different answers based on whether the isolated stimuli and question are presented to the same hemisphere or opposite hemispheres. Researchers have even “interviewed” each hemisphere of split-brain patients and found they hold differing views on subjects ranging from career goals to a belief in God, strong evidence that each hemisphere hosts a separate mind. This view fits with a large body of brain research on patients with normal brains where each hemisphere has been found to have a unique learning style, operates with its own working memory, is responsible for different tasks, and contributes unique aspects to a person’s blended personality. When the nerve bundles connecting the hemispheres are intact, high bandwidth sensory information is shared across the hemispheres electromagnetically via synapses, resulting in the single unified mind that we all experience in our daily lives. But when these nerve bundles are severed, sensory information is no longer shared between the hemispheres via high bandwidth nerve fibers, resulting in each hemisphere experiencing the world exclusively through its half of the body’s sensory systems. The hemisphere thus responds to isolated queries based on the isolated information it received, causing it to behave as if it has a separate mind. This can be seen as evidence that minds electromagnetically combine at the scale of human brain hemispheres. Conclusion This solution does not seek to explain how an undiscovered fundamental mind property or particle can produce subjective experience, it only seeks to illustrate that if mind were indeed a fundamental property or elementary particle, it would not face a combination problem. William James' challenge was that rudimentary mental states cannot combine to form more complex mental states. We agree. This solution argues that whatever phenomenon creates the capacity to have mental states is what combines, as opposed to combining individual mental states which would essentially create another variation of the hard problem. If mind is fundamental and subject to the same scientific laws and principles that matter is subject to, then minds can progressively combine to form more complex minds as matter scales up from quantum particles to atoms, to molecules, to cells, to humans. The foundational principles of the universal conservation laws and the combinatorial power of the forces of nature underpin the entirety of physics at every scale of the universe. Extending these foundational principles to include mind resolves the combination problem. The reader is not asked to accept the hypothesis that mind is fundamental, only to recognize that if mind were fundamental, it would not face a combination problem. Rejecting this view requires taking the position that mind is not subject to the same universal scientific laws and principles that apply to everything else in the known universe, effectively placing mind beyond scientific explanation. The mind combination problem is therefore a red herring, a problem that does not exist for any theory asserting that minds can combine. * Quarks and gluons do not literally have colors as we know them at the human scale. Color charge is a property of quarks discovered in the 1960's which behaves similar to electric charge but comes in three charge types (red, green, and blue) instead of two types (positive and negative for electric charge). This strange charge-like property was called "Color Charge" as an analogy to the human scale colors red, green, and blue which combine to form a neutral white color. Color charge can be ignored for all matter larger than quarks, which only involve neutral white color charged matter interacting with other neutral white color charged matter resulting in more neutral white color charged matter. ** Mass and energy are interchangeable properties per Einstein’s E= mc2 equation, thus are treated as a single property for purposes of this discussion. Return to Theory Page

Evidence that animals and insect behave as if they have minds that experience their world. Mammals, birds, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and insects all demonstrate communication, problem solving skills, and social behaviors that strongly suggest they have minds that experience their environment and engage with other lifeforms. Consciousness pervades the animal kingdom. Keyword Search General Cellular Mind Dropdown New Page General Cellular Mind Blog Cellular Mind New Page New Page New Page Search Results 此語言尚未有已發佈之文章 文章發佈後將於此處顯示。

The etheral nature of the quantum realm is perfectly suited for mind being able to influence matter The deepest mystery in quantum physics is that simply observing quantum scale matter influences the behavior of that matter. The ethereal wave energy of the quantum substrate enables mind at various scales to influence the behavior of its matter structure. Keyword Search General Cellular Mind Dropdown New Page General Cellular Mind Blog Cellular Mind New Page New Page New Page Search Results 此語言尚未有已發佈之文章 文章發佈後將於此處顯示。

Cellular Mind reviews modern scientific evidence that suggests the human mind is generated by all of the cells of the human body, not by the brain. Cellular Mind by Michael Rowen Your Cells Create Your Mind, Not Your Brain 4.9 Stars Buy eBook $4.99 Paperback $9.99 Mainstream science views the human mind as generated by the brain, yet despite centuries of brain research no evidence has been found to support this hypothesis. Meanwhile, modern research in biology and neuroscience is directly challenging this view, suggesting that all of the cells in our bodies create our minds, not just the neurons in our brains. Cells have been known for centuries to be building blocks of our bodies, and now modern science is suggesting they are also building blocks of our minds. Scientists have known for decades that all types of cells (from tiny single cell bacteria to the large and complex neurons in the human brain) can learn, store memories, flee from danger, stalk prey, communicate with other cells, and solve problems that pose risks to their survival. Cells can do everything that humans can do, just at a more rudimentary level. The incredible complexity of cellular life simply defies scientific explanation, as evidenced by the fact that no theories have been developed to explain the origin of life, embryo development, nor how cells communicate and coordinate activity with one another. Consider that scientists have been watching cells divide in their microscopes for centuries, imaging and describing the process in incredible detail. Yet despite having this front-row seat, no theory has been developed to explain how cells can create new life from a collection of non-living molecules using the laws and theories of physics and chemistry. Before we can hope to explain how the first living cells emerged from non-living matter 3 billion years ago, we first need to explain how new cells are created from non-living matter 3 million times every second inside each of our bodies. It is crystal clear that we need new biophysical theories in order to explain both life and mind. Cells can best be understood as intelligent organisms with minds that experience and interact with their microscopic world. Cellular Mind Theory (CMT) proposes that each of the 30 trillion cells that form your body has a mind that experiences the world inside of your body. Your cells also electromagnetically combine their cellular-scale minds to create your human-scale mind which experiences the world outside of your body. A recent discovery is that all types of cells, not just neurons, constantly emit and absorb electromagnetic energy. This energy had evaded discovery until recently because it is ten million times weaker than the brain synapses detected by EEGs, and required the latest state-of-the-art equipment to detect. The laws of physics dictate that these cellular emissions will combine to form an integrated and unified electromagnetic field that surrounds and pervades the bodies of multicellular organisms, called "biofields" by the scientists who study them. Biofields have been found to carry information between cells throughout our bodies, functioning like a wireless communications network connecting all of the cells of our bodies. CMT asserts that your 30 trillion cells electromagnetically combine their cellular-scale minds in your full-body biofield, which is where your human-scale mind resides. This may seem like a radical assertion but consider the simple experience of burning one of your fingertips. You don't experience the burn in your brain, you experience it in your fingertip. Theories that assume your brain generates your mind offer no explanation for how you can experience a burning sensation in your fingertip because by definition no conscious experiences can occur outside of the brain that generates the mind. Rather than produce the mind, CMT views the brain as the organ that evolved to comprehend and navigate the external world in order to ensure the collective survival of your 30 trillion cellular ecosystem. It is your full-body collective cellular mind that experiences the external world presented to it by your brain and sensory systems, including experiencing the burning sensation in the portion of your biofield that surrounds your fingertip. The CMT hypothesis resolves many cross-disciplinary mysteries including how we experience our senses, where our memories are stored, the placebo effect, split-brain and Libet experiments, the binding and combination problems, the unity of conscious experience, and even near-death experiences. Finally, CMT provides a framework to better understand epigenetics, embryo development, and evolution. If you are open to a new theory of mind that resolves numerous mysteries which current scientific theories struggle to explain, then this book will open your eyes to a new way to view your body and your mind. Your cells create your mind, not your brain. Foreword by Jon Lieff MD, Neuroscientist, and Author of The Secret Language of Cells Mind, or consciousness, has not been explained by any current scientific theory. By default, the current assumption is that mind is manufactured by the brain, like a computer running a program. A large number of scientists deny that most creatures with brains have conscious minds, with the exception of humans and perhaps a select group of animals that have large brains. Very few would extend consciousness to creatures with small brains like birds, reptiles, and insects, although there is substantial evidence to do so. When I wrote my book The Secret Language of Cells five years ago, it was quite radical to extend the list of creatures with mind to include individual cells. The purpose of my book was to present incontrovertible evidence that cells do indeed lead complex conscious lives, communicating with other cells using a highly complex language that science is just beginning to acknowledge. In recent years there has been an increasing amount of scientific research demonstrating volition in many life forms, including single cells. This has led to a steady increase in the number of scientists who believe that cells have cognition, some of them highly respected leaders in their fields. The evidence that cells have minds is becoming increasingly hard to deny and is causing many to rethink the paradigms of life, mind, and evolution. This shift will have significant implications for the fundamentals of biology, including neuroscience. Yet despite the accumulating evidence and shift in the views of some scientists, there is still very strong academic pressure to maintain the view that consciousness is generated by brains. This is one reason why this book is so valuable. I met Mike Rowen in 2024 when he reached out to me to discuss my book. He mentioned his theory on cellular minds and sent me an early version of this book. Mike has a background in electrical engineering, physics, and business. While his career pursuits were in business and technology, his lifelong hobby was keeping up with developments in quantum theory, brain research, and consciousness studies. Once he retired, he spent a few years investigating how individual cellular minds might be able to combine to form the human mind, which culminated in this book. With fresh eyes that are unencumbered by dogma and bias, Mike is able to clearly analyze the current state of consciousness research, both as it refers to brains and to cells. He concludes, as I do, that cells have minds, and that cells electromagnetically combine their minds to form multicellular organism minds, including the human mind. As in the literary folktale The Emperor’s New Clothes, he rightly finds that science has no idea what mind is nor where it is in nature, that consciousness science has no clothes. He is able to cut through current paradigm biases and make compelling and concise arguments that are supported by evidence and theory. I particularly like his chapter on neuroscience mysteries and its discussion of the brain, where he gives multiple carefully reasoned arguments as to why the mind is not created by networks of brain circuits. He explores a wide variety of problems with the idea that brains generate the mind, an unproven hypothesis that is very popular among scientists and philosophers. But if mind exists in all cells, biological tissues, and organs, then our human mind operates as a society of trillions of conscious cells throughout our bodies, not as a neuronal connectome computer. This is akin to our human society that operates with billions of conscious humans throughout the world. While most scientists will probably not agree with all of his many arguments, some are extremely convincing and provide evidence that directly refutes the widely held assumption that the brain produces the mind. Most scientists also don’t appear to recognize the relationship of the mind to electromagnetic fields and their relation to the intelligence of all the cells of the body. This is likely due to long-standing biological dogma that vitalism has been debunked, which resulted in electricity and magnetism being banned from biological explanations. This absurd view of ignoring electricity and magnetism has, in fact, been overturned by the rapid march of research into electrical, magnetic, photonic, and ultrasound stimulation of living tissues, cells, and brains. Despite all of this research, electromagnetic views are still considered fringe among biologists. Another area of sublime clarity is Rowen’s view that electromagnetic forces not only bind atoms and molecules together, but they are essential to the entirety of chemistry and biology, literally allowing cells and multicellular creatures to exist and powering the processes of life at all scales. Mike cuts through the current convoluted views on what consciousness is in nature, to the obvious, but until recently banished, view that mind is also related to electromagnetic forces. New discoveries of high resolution imaging, resulting in actual observations of the lifestyle of cells, made my book possible five years ago. More recent advances are going deeper into the cell and providing detailed views of the lifestyles of the macromolecules, droplets, and even atoms that enable the processes of life inside cells. The incredible complexity and sophistication of the subcellular world is astounding and is rendering the current scientific views of life and mind obsolete. An entirely new scientific paradigm arises from these two often overlooked facts – that each cell is individually conscious, and that the electromagnetic field is the substrate that enables mind and matter to combine at all scales of life. My hope is that this valuable book will help continue to move this inevitable paradigm shift forward. Jon Lieff, MD Neuroscientist and author of The Secret Language of Cells 12/21/2024 Editorial Review by Publisher's Weekly Rowen makes a long-form case for his contention that it's cells rather than processes of the brain that both create and contain consciousness. Rowen refutes the orthodoxy that individual cells are the non-sentient simple building blocks of life, arguing that CM Theory, which "posits that all cells have rudimentary minds" that, prioritizing their own survival, connect, electromagnetically, into collectives or "multicellular organism minds." CM Theory, he writes, is "more grounded in evidence and scientific logic than the current paradigm," and Rowen sees in it paths toward understanding mysteries of consciousness, from the experience of pain and the success of placebos to near death experiences. Rowen makes an eloquent, well-structured argument for CM Theory, plunging into gaps of our understanding of cognition and laying out research demonstrating the "extraordinary capabilities of cells." In each section, Rowen carefully defines an assertion ("Assertion: Cells in electromagnetically connected collectives prioritize collective survival over survival of individual cells"), showing evidence that supports or contradicts the issue at hand in prose that readers up-to-date on entry-level biology will follow without trouble. The evidence Rowen mounts stirs awe and fascination, such as single-celled organisms demonstrating "genetic engineering skills and survival agency," or the worms that were taught to recoil from a strobing light and then, after being cut and allowed to regrow, still knew in their newly constructed brains to recoil from the same stimulus. As Cellular Mind examines questions concerning "the biophysical discontinuity" between living and non-living matter, or what might be the driving force behind evolution, skeptics will appreciate that Rowen argues fairly and with welcome clarity, laying out step-by-step reasoning with clear citations, always taking pains to acknowledge the limitations of the theory and what aspects he believes will need refinement in future. The result is a treatise that excites at the possibilities, geared to readers certain that there is more to the world than humanity yet realizes. Major Themes of The Book Excerpts BRAINS DON'T CREATE MINDS The cerebral cortex is the primary brain region target suspected to generate the mind. Click to read about children having conscious experiences without a cerebral cortex. Read Excerpt ALL CELLS HAVE MINDS Numerous experiments are discussed that demonstrate that cells have intelligence, cognition, and agency. Click to read a few of these experiments. Read Excerpt MINDS COMBINE ELECTROMAGNETICALLY The electromagnetic force combines and powers matter and mind at every scale of life. Click to read how electromagnetic fields influence cellular behavior. Read Excerpt CELLS DRIVE EVOLUTION Current theories for the origin of life, cell reproduction, and evolution are inadequate. Click to read about an experiment that completely defies evolution theory. Read Excerpt Mysteries Explained By Cellular Mind Theory How We Experience Our Senses Placebo Effect Where Memories are Stored Anesthesia Libet Experiments Split-Brain Experiments Blindsight Synesthesia Neural Correlates of Consciousness Neuroplasticity Epigenetics Hydranencephaly Terminal Lucidity Combination Problem Binding Problem Unity of Conscious Experience Sense of Self Evolutionary Purpose of Mind Organism Development Evolution of New Species Mental Connections in Conjoined Twins Lucid Dreaming Extra Sensory Perception Altered States of Consciousness Near Death Experience Human Energy Fields About The Author My Story My name is Mike Rowen, a retired electrical engineer, business strategy consultant, corporate executive, entrepreneur, and holder of 20 U.S. patents. I have a lifelong passion for science and have been following leading-edge developments in quantum physics, neuroscience, biology, cosmology, and consciousness research for more than 40 years. My career successes have always been rooted in my creative problem-solving skills, combined with rigorous, fact-based analytical and logical reasoning. One of my retirement goals is to apply these skills to scientific mysteries that I have been pondering for decades — specifically, the human mind, the origin of life, the origin of the universe, and the nature of reality at the quantum scale. I chose the human mind as my first target, where the cross-disciplinary evidence strongly suggests that the human mind is not generated by the brain, but rather emerges as the collective mind of sentient cells located throughout the body. Cellular Mind attempts to demonstrate this by connecting the dots between anomalous neuroscientific evidence at the level of the human brain with the evidence from modern biology experiments demonstrating the intelligent behaviors of individual cells. Cellular Mind Theory builds upon Endosymbiosis Theory, developed by biologist Lynn Margulis in 1967. She was the first scientist to propose that individual cells have rudimentary minds, and that billions of years ago, single-cell bacteria and archaea combined their bodies and minds to form the more complex bodies and minds of eukaryotic cells — the building blocks of all complex multicellular life from plants to insects to humans. The modern biology community has accepted the part of her theory that asserts single-cell bacteria and archaea merged their bodies to form eukaryotic cells, but rejects the portion that asserts that cells have minds and that their minds can combine to form more complex minds. It is only a matter of time before her full theory will be accepted by the scientific community because the accumulating evidence that cells are intelligent sentient creatures is overwhelming to anyone with an objective mind not impeded by the current scientific paradigm that the human mind is generated by the brain. My contributions to her theory are two-fold: (1) identifying the electromagnetic field as the substrate that enables cellular minds to combine, and (2) using electromagnetic theory and modern scientific evidence to extend her theory to explain the human mind as a collective cellular phenomena. I hope you will join me on a journey to explore what modern scientific evidence is actually telling us about the human mind. Contact * Name * Email * Message Submit

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Evidence that plants & fungi behave as if they have minds that experience their world. Eukaryotic cells are the building blocks of all forms of multicellular life. These large complex cells were formed by the symbiotic merger of simpler single cell lifeforms which work together to perform a dazzling array of complex processes to keep the cell alive. Is this evidence of a mind? Keyword Search General Cellular Mind Dropdown New Page General Cellular Mind Blog Cellular Mind New Page New Page New Page New Page New Page New Page New Page Search Results 此語言尚未有已發佈之文章 文章發佈後將於此處顯示。

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