Tuesday, March 19, 2013  Conscious Electromagnetic Field
Information (CEMI) Theory  Peter at Conscious Entities recently
posted a summary of a new article by Johnjoe McFadden in support
of his conscious electromagnetic field information (CEMI)
theory. The theory of CEMI is based on the observations of
synchronous neural firing, which McFadden claims is correlated
with conscious awareness.  Of course, others have taken note of
synchronized firing of a lot of neurons firing at specific
frequencies and suggested this might be significant. CEMI
theory, however, explains why it is important by suggesting that
"synchronous firing produces effects in the endogenous magnetic
field, which unsynchronised activity does not. If registering in
that field is taken to be the same as presentation to
consciousness we have a neat account of the phenomenon."  In the
new paper, McFadden claims several new experiments support his
model. The following is from the summary of Conscious Entities,
CEMI Vindicated? The first of the new