Who Am I?

Abstract

I am in an ordered state of my limited perception, which will be in another state for there is no past, there is no present and there is no future, these exists in my limits of perception.

• I am a living being different from non-living beings around me, but similar to other living beings around me (acquired from knowledge)
• I am a body that gives me my identity
• I am a soul that gives me the hope that I am living
• I am built from the knowledge that I have gained
• I am a father, a son and a husband
• I am the cells that make up every organ of my body as well as the body
• I am the atoms that make up the elements that make up the cells, that make up my body
• I am the sub-atomic particles that make up the atoms, that make up the elements, that make up the cells which make up the body
• I am the strings of energy that make up the sub-atomic particles, that make up the atoms, that make up the elements, that make up the cells; which make up my body
• I am that energy; a constant according to physics
• I am the nothingness that is filled with this energy
• I am that which utilizes this energy
• I am a collection of that which all claim to exist in the world obtained in their limited perceptions
• I am my own perception that makes all these thoughts prevail
• I am an ever changing state, limited to the perception of a current state that I am in

The deeper I look, the more I realize that I was not what I am before I started writing this down. Based on my limited perception I will rather adhere to energy, a constant that no living being like me can understand or rather why I should need to know what I am.

  

I am a state which changes as a thought emerges, because for a thought to emerge and represent itself, there energy consumed by the cells of my body that are made up of elements, that are further made up of atomic and sub atomic particles further broken down to be imaginative strings or bundles of energy. Every layer of me consumes this energy that exists. If I unwrap myself, I am made of energy that can dissipate into nothingness that which itself is filled with energy. Energy that cannot be quantified, hence I am an unlimited source of energy; a constant that will never be known under the limits of my current perception.

Comparing me to a piece of paper, we both are made of elements, atomic and sub atomic particles and strings of energy that are defined within the realms of science, but why am I then called as ‘living’ and a piece of paper ‘non-living’. Chaos within nothingness gives rise to an ordered state, which exists in both of us, but the ordered state multiplies; it gives rise to my living state. My perception is limited to my senses which is a sketchier view of my ordered state, but perceiving myself in an disordered state, is my raw state that is similar to the state that a piece of paper is currently in. The change of state is infinite for both of us, because there is no way to determine how many dots exist between two dots, or how many musical notes exists between two notes or how many number points exist between 0 and 1; there is no limit. To limit my perception to a level of understanding I push the infinite to a finite until I am convinced; which is where my perception arises.

 

What is the time that I take to support my perception? Time is a dimension just like the other dimensions that may exist and that I cannot perceive within the limits that I consider as limits. The chaos of nothingness is an indefinite change from one state to another which I suppress with my perception of the uni-directional arrow of time. The randomness of time can put me into any state I long to be, but my perception is what defines the order to this randomness; I can be energy and I can be my body; or I can be both, for I am energy that moves from a state of randomness to a definite ordered state. I am the source, but can change within the source. I am blind-folded within my perceptions and knowledge from what I actually am. 

Seeking within the limits of my perception is the destroyer of my will to know more because the moment I seek I am not what I feel that I am. A change in state is a change in me, is a change in dimension which I shall perceive when I change my state of perception, for every dimension has its limits of perception. Seeking something more than what I have is like being stuck in the loop of infinity, for the state cannot be pinned to one state and seeking it creates a void within me. There is therefore no beginning nor there is an end within the vast expanse of nothingness, I am in an ordered state of my limited perception, which will be in another state for there is no past, there is no present and there is no future, these exists in my limits of perception. 

Contzen Pereira, Ph.D. Independent Scholar, Mumbai, India. Email Address: contzen@rediffmail.com, contzen@gmail.com

What Was it That Was Leaving Me? An Unusual Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)

Abstract

This paper is a narration of a unique experience, that which is arduous to circumscribe as an out-of-body experience; ambiguously to-be called a fractional out-of-body experience or a partial autoscopy. It was an experience in the presence of observers who were naive of what the individual was experiencing. This experience has surely helped the individual plummet into imagining the existence of an form beyond the body; the existence of a soul; that which is conscious; that which can think like the mind; that which resides within the body and that which can detach from the body when death advances. There is a possibility of it being a neuro-psychological or neuro-parapsychological experience; an experience whose actuality is grim to prove or construct in third person, but certainly subsists for the experiencer; the experiencer being myself.

Key Words 

Out-of-body, Experience, Soul, Consciousness

The experience of being out-of-my body

It was a beautiful day; I was with a few friends sitting on the over-head water tank of my 6 storied building, approximately 90 feet high. This place was our regular hangout, as it always felt great to be up there, as the view till today is always amazing. I was 18, with an eagerness to enjoy and explore life; with an enthusiasm to do things that would defy life, but the least I knew that this day would change my perception of life forever. As we chatted, jokes filled us with joy and play, which somehow lead us into trivial games; games that one should never play. The over-head tank is laden with water-pipes and has a large water-pipe approximately 2 inches thick, that runs along the tank, where one could attempt to balance on it; an insane thing to do at such a height, but definitely gave a feeling of achievement if completed. It was not something new that I was doing, as I had been repeatedly doing it whenever I would go up there and therefore was confident about completing it without tripping over.

Excited and with my adrenaline all pumped up, I challenged my friends that I would complete the walk in one go and I decided to attempt the task, not knowing what I was about to experience. Over-confidence made my strides wider and faster, and with everyone cheering, it heightened my confidence and inadvertently my ego. While balancing on the water pipe, I missed a step and slipped, I lost my balance and at that point I felt my body fall off the water tank; I felt my body being pulled away from the tank and with nothing there to cling on to, I knew that it was the end; I was aware that my body would fall 90 feet to the ground and death was approaching. My confidence and ego was shattered as my legs left the ground and my hands precipitously moved around to grab whatever came my way, but all that I felt was nothingness. That moment resulted in an experience where in a flicker of a second a life review began; my past flashed in front of my eyes and I saw images as one would see it in a personal scrap book; my life story in frames flashing in front of my eyes.

As my life review began, I somehow felt being detached from my body and lost sensation of being within it; a feeling of weightlessness. I felt as if I was rising rather than going down. My life review stopped and I could see myself in a form emanating out of the body from the face till my chest and at that moment I felt someone grab me and pull me to the ground. It was my friend who did this as part of his reflex and therefore I owe my life to him. I was back again in my body when I hit the ground and passed out. All of a sudden my eyes opened and I saw all my friends staring at me, all perplexed. It felt as if I had just woken up after a long night sleep, to see my friends looking at me. The frightful feeling of falling didn’t seem to exist and at that moment I felt a feeling of joy and happiness; a feeling as if I had learned something.

As I woke up, my friends asked me what happened, but I did not know where to begin or rather I could not put it into words; I was confused. I asked them how long did I pass out, and they said that it was just a few minutes, but for me the whole episode seemed to have lasted for almost half an hour. The trip, the fall, the review, the experience of the departing form, all of it happened in just a few minutes, but for me it seemed like a long period. As I narrated this experience to my friends, they laughed and joshed about it. It was a personal experience, a beautiful experience where I defied death. If that was my soul, it was definitely nimbler than my body, and in case I would have fallen, that form would have taken off from my body. It was my experience and I felt no one and neither did I see anyone; all that came as a flash in front of me was my past in the form of images.

It seems that my nimbler form exists within my body and knew the limitations of my body as I felt it ripping out of my body, for it knew that my body would not survive the fall; a mutilated body is definitely no place to reside. The moment I was held and pulled back, it realized that my body is safe and it pulled itself back, putting me into a deep sleep. It is an experience that bought a significant change in me; a change that has made me fearless of death; changed my perception of death. I have been very reluctant to share this experience, but my endeavors to understand the existence of a non-local soul or consciousness or mind has made me more open towards sharing it. The vividity and richness of the experience still persists that only I as the experiencer could experience.

Conclusion

My out-of-body or fractional out-of-body experience fortified the feeling of the presence of a form that resides within me; call it my soul, consciousness or mind. Based on this first experience, it can be said, but not concluded that this form that resides within me is aware, it thinks and sustains. This event could be easily passed-off as a neuro-psychological or neuro-parapsychological event associated with the dysfunctioning of the brain, where the brain in mental shock could possibly result in such an event. But for me as the experiencer this event will always remain phenomenal until proven within the realms of scientific explanation. It is definitely a difficult experience to understand and explore from a scientific perspective, but surely a vivid experience that made me realize the beauty that lies within; for it remains as my experience and therefore is purely my opinion. 

Contzen Pereira, Ph.D. Independent Scholar, Mumbai, India. Email Address: contzen@rediffmail.com, contzen@gmail.com

 

Understanding Embodiment: Advancing Towards a Lesser Body and More Soul

Abstract

The nature of the soul is attribute-less and boundless. To experience its true potential, the dimensionless soul manifests itself in the physical dimension as a body. Materialism originates with the creation of the body as it grows around the soul and in the process of forming, enchants the soul with its materialistic conducts. The soul has the ability to materialize and dematerialize into bodily forms as per will, but such an entropic amendment may change the true essence of bodily life. The avarice for materialistic needs mutilates the body physically and mentally, and unshackles the soul; for as we grow in our materialistic conducts, the body and its senses endure this burden, gradually progressing towards a lesser body and more soul.   

Keywords

Body, Soul, Materialism, Disembodiment

   

Positing the Experience of Disembodiment

Disembodiment or dissociation is a state when the body loses consciousness only to experience the limitless true experience in another world; where thoughts flow with no restrictions; for there are no bodily features, but oneness with creation. Conscious disembodiment is the body’s expression of freedom to experience the elusive soul. We are conscious to the limit of our body, beyond which consciousness does not exist; it is a pure energy with forces and senses beyond those that can be only germane to the body.  In the physical world, a material body gives rise to a non-material shadow, but the laws of the other world could be different; hence one can think of the material body as the shadow of the non-material soul. As this bodily attachment grows, our physical desires get deeply rooted within the egotism and sense pleasures of the bodily self, where the compulsion of materialism through our senses overpowers the exquisiteness of the soul.

Soul loves to experience the freedom from the known, so it prefers to impound its own self as the body. The physical body is like a piece of cloth that wraps the soul and is acquired as we develop from a unicellular to multi-cellular being; it’s a cover-up for the true self that resides within us. Death is a mere dropping off of the body that has accumulated over a period of time to release the self. For the survival of the body we need the soul that thinks and collates information processed by organized structures like the brain; which can be retrieved so long it stays connected. We are not what we think we are; for we are beyond the body and its senses. We vibrate not with the body but without the body and through these vibrations we perceive all that is around us; we resonate. Be it the brain or the body, they are mediums that help us understand the meaning of bodily life just like the God’s of the countless religions that act as mediums in spiritual life.

If our true self is what we ultimately are, then why do we procure a body that needs to be shed with age? Why can’t we always be our true selves? Why should the body need to bear pain? Creation abides the laws of nature and so everything needs to be transformed from one form to another. This transformation is what creates the body to shape the soul; for the soul has no shape without the body. Just like egoism, materialism is the price we need to pay for this entropic change which commences with the creation of the body; for the body gathers from the exterior as it grows around the soul and in the process of forming, enchants the soul with its materialistic ways; thus the feeling of death always seems like a loss. A glimpse into what lies beyond death sets in a realization of what we truly are, this can change in our approach towards the death of our bodily self. 
 

We must realize that everything that happens around us is needed, and does not happen without a cause; for we are the cause and pain for our own bodily life. Similarly everything that we are made up of is made for a reason; a small change in this design can result in the loss of the body and liberation of the soul. The body clings to the soul and forms a bond that seems unbreakable; breaking such a bond is difficult for the body but not for the soul. Without the body the soul bears no shape, but with the body the soul takes shape of the body. So long the shape of the body remains intact the shape of the soul retains; for a detached soul will stay alongside a body until the body is completely blemished mentally and physically, which is when the release or dispersal takes place.

The growth of the body depends on what it gathers during its survival, but the soul only sustains itself; for it is unchangeable and unlimited. To experience its true potential, the dimensionless soul manifests itself in the physical dimension as a body. It crafts a phenomenon called the mind to identify and experience itself. Even though the soul knows that the experience is limited by the senses of the body; it craves to perceive its boundless and vast nature from the bounded envelop and glimpse into state of attribute-less through the attributed doorways of the body. Thus the mind is linked to the body, thinks for the body, but when the soul is out of the body, the mind can think no more; for the liberation of the soul is liberation of thoughts created through materialistic needs and beliefs. The soul when with the body vibrates at frequencies that build connections with one another and with the universe. Upon dropping the body, the frequency of the soul blends with the frequency of the universe, making us resonant beings. 

Fate of Being Embodied

In today’s world, the greed for materialist needs has led to the liberation of many souls, but has hurt and mutilated the bodies of many. A body of a child that has partially grown over its soul and with its mind gradually maturing; ready to understand and explore the beauty of this world, can be shattered in no time. The shape of the body can be ruined to a state where even the soul may weep for the body; where being conscious does not feel magical, but feels like a curse.

This 5 year old boy never expected his body to be mutilated in such a manner; he never meant to have memories that cannot be wiped away easily. At the age of 5, his body is growing and so is his brain, this is the age he needs to play, explore, understand, and most importantly smile. But in a flash of a second, an airstrike destroys him within and puts him in a state of shock where he is neither conscious nor unconscious; a state where you don’t know whether to smile or not to smile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZw3VpGPqM4   Video credit: News Today’s Trending

“They may torture my body but my soul will stay unhurt; for their materialistic needs cannot last forever; someday these needs will perish to the real"

“There will be a time when my vibrations will be felt and appreciated; my awareness will flow beyond limits; this is when I will truly smile”. 

Why be in a body when being out of it is so beautiful and peaceful? Why is the embodied state so materialistic driven? Is there so much happiness in materialism, that the soul is forgotten? To be embodied in today’s world means to experience pain mentally and physically especially with the ones that hurt the most. The soul watches the body beyond its senses and the bodily limitations of time and space and asks “Why am I in this body?”

“Disembodied, I shall be free of misery that my body is facing; for in this instance my clothes have been torn of my soul and as time goes by they will be ripped further to release my soul.”

Towards Less Body and More Soul

The world is gradually becoming dark with destruction. Death at all stages occurs across the globe as the killing continues and the greed for materialistic needs progresses. Bodies are growing and bodies are perishing. Every now and then, souls are liberated and souls are clothed, and with this change the body is losing its identity, its vigour; for someday the body may be more soul than the body itself. The soul has the ability to materialize and dematerialize into bodily forms as per will; such an irreversible entropic change may change the true existence of life. The avarice for materialistic needs mutilates the body physically and mentally, and unshackles the soul; for as we grow in our materialistic ways, the body and its senses will need to bear this excessive burden as we gradually progress towards a lesser body and more soul.     

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Dr. Contzen Pereira

Independent Scholar, Mumbai, India

Corresponding Author. Address: Nandadeep, 302, Tarun Bharat Soc, Chakala, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 099, India. Tel: +919819642456, +912266750530 Email Address: contzen@rediffmail.com, contzen@gmail.com

  

J. Shashi Kiran Reddy

jumpal_shashi@yahoo.com (and) jumpalreddy@jncasr.ac.in

M.S (Engg) Research student, EMU, JNCASR, Bangalore.

   

Metaphysics of Cosmic Energy and its Goodness

Abstract

Cosmic energy is good and its goodness created all that was created; for the creator is immortally teeming with goodness. The cosmic energy is therefore the blueprint of the creator, which accommodates information of what was, what is and what will be and in its goodness creates, shapes and guides matter. The cosmic energy transformed matter to create the being that emerged to be intelligent; a being that acquired the understanding of language. Language and intelligence were essentially meant to articulate goodness, but ego bought in doubt; subjugated the goodness of energy to bring in a disparity of good and evil.  The goodness of energy exists all around us and within us, but our intelligence and egoistic capacitance ignores it; for if we utilize the goodness of this energy, we can overcome our ego and change our thoughts. Everything is good and everything was created from goodness to be good and to remain good, all that needs to be grasped is the goodness that resides in the cosmos and within us.

Key Words

Cosmos, Energy, Goodness, Good, Evil, Language, Being

Goodness of the Cosmic Energy

Energy that resides within the cosmos is indisputably good and it is the cosmic energy that guides and shapes the cosmos. In the old testament, the first chapter of Genesis states “Let there be light,” and there was light and God saw that the light was good” and similarly all that was created after that was good; for if all that was created was good then all that exists should be good. Scriptures have acclaimed that the act of creation by the creator was good and that it was performed by the goodness that prevailed in the creator. From a scientific perspective, we understand that post the big bang, a symmetric state gave rise to forms of light and matter. Surprisingly, the anti-matter disappeared and all what remained was asymmetric forms of light and matter; but was definitely good, for if the anti-matter had remained there would never have had been a creation. Alongside goodness, evil is said to reside and originate within energy and matter and since it originated from good, the evil was actually good at some point of time. The question here is, if all that was created by the creator was good, why did the creator not destroy evil that emerged from good? The intent of this paper is to seek an answer to this question. For the creator is the creator of all and there should be no one above this symmetric form of light; the light that holds the goodness that prevails in our cosmos.

Goodness created matter and light and this goodness was embedded in light and matter that formed from the cosmic energy. The cosmic energy is therefore the blueprint of the creator, which holds information of what was, what is and what will be and its goodness is what creates, shapes and guides matter; for it is said to exist beyond the limits of space and time. On Earth, its goodness that created life and creates life by the flow of cosmic energy through it and within what exists in it. The goodness of this energy created matter; which was good, it organized matter to create beings that would understand and acclaim their creation. Why life does not exist on another planet? Or why the goodness of energy didn’t support life elsewhere? This is a question that can be rightfully asked but cannot be answered immediately. The cosmic energy follows the laws of energy and therefore can neither be created nor destroyed but can be transformed from one form to another and so does its goodness, that can never diminish but can be moved from one form to another; from matter to matter and light to light. Matter transformed; beings became intelligent and with intelligence came ego; an entropic price to be paid alongside the growing intelligence and the increasing complexity of matter. Ego is therefore a derivative of transforming matter and with its growing complexity can take over the goodness that resides within it.

Matter transformed to incorporate the cosmic energy within structures like the brain; the seat of intelligence that was intended to be good; unknowingly the seat of intelligence transformed to a seat of egoism. Cosmic energy is pure energy but the way this energy is used differentiates the good from evil e.g. a knife is an instrument that uses energy to cut; when used to cut fruits and vegetables, it is considered good as it satisfies hunger but when the same knife is used to kill, it is bad or evil. It all depends on the way the energy is used and the way it is perceived; for the perception of one can be different from the other that which comes with the complexity of matter. Energy is neither good nor evil, it is just energy and it all depends on how it is utilized by intelligent beings. Intelligence creates ego and ego is what drives matter and energy to take these forms; for all that was created was good and in goodness to experience the creation. With the emergence of intelligence and complex transformation of matter came language; that which controls intelligence; that which can express goodness but brings in a differentiation; that which can be used to create a misapprehension to replace the goodness with evil; that which can bring in a doubt and lack of faith in the creator and the creation.

Language is a harvest of intelligence and can control the cosmic energy flow within matter bringing in restrictions that alter the normal paths of flowing energy. Intelligence drives ego with the use of complex matter and destroys the ability of a being to express the goodness that resides within the cosmic energy. Lack of language and the use of goodness within the cosmic energy can be understood in lower intelligent organisms. These organisms are intelligent but since the ego has not overcome the goodness of their energy and matter, it prevails and is acknowledged, to live in harmony and respect; to live and enjoy all that has been created. Due to the lack of language there is no restriction to the flow of energy which gives these organisms the ability to explore the beauty and creativity of the creator and the creation. This energy has always been good and was created in goodness, it is the way we interpret it and use it. All creation will always be good and will remain good, for this goodness is what creation is all about and therefore this goodness exists in the creation of the creator.

Matter transformed with the help of cosmic energy, as the blueprint of the creator, a plan which would helped create forms that could be admired and that which could admire the beauty of the creation. Intelligent beings were part of this plan, with abilities to express with language and intelligence to understand the creation and acclaim its beauty but this transformation apparently came with a heavy price; the creation of ego and therefore we now see intelligence being used to destroy oneself; destroy matter and its goodness. The cosmic energy and its goodness has been taken for granted and has been utilized to bring in destruction and despair; sadness and misery. The elucidation to ego is death, which releases the energy and matter to be refurbished. Death brings in a reversal; rehabilitates and purifies the energy; where matter and energy regain their goodness, for with death, the ego, intelligence and language is rescinded; it is an act of transformation or reversal to the original plan of what the creator had created and intended.

Conclusion

The cosmic energy is good and its goodness guides, but it needs to be felt and followed; as it guides one through the path and provides the experience of what truly exists. Goodness exists all around us and within us, but our intelligence and egoistic methodologies make us flout it; for if we harness the goodness that prevails within the cosmic energy, we can surmount our egos and our doubt’s. Everything is good and everything was created from goodness to be good and to remain good, all that needs to be followed is the goodness of the creator that resides within the cosmos in the form of energy.

Dr. Contzen Pereira

Independent Scholar, Mumbai, India

Corresponding Author. Address: Nandadeep, 302, Tarun Bharat Soc, Chakala, Andheri (East), Mumbai 400 099, India. Tel: +919819642456, +912266750530 Email Address: contzen@rediffmail.com, contzen@gmail.com

Quantum Consciousness in Animals

Abstract

Consciousness occurs when one is in a state of awareness of one’s self and the external environment. Quantum consciousness is computed within the cytoskeleton of the cells; basic units of life which comprise of unicellular and multicellular animal life. Consciousness has always been linked to the nervous system but there are several studies that have recorded conscious behaviours in animals with and without nerve cells. Animal behaviour is represented as conscious moment, which occurs due to an event, which may be intentional or unintentional. The existence of consciousness in animals can be based on the exhibited behaviours and its comparison to multifaceted conscious behaviours observed in higher beings; which is driven by protein conformational changes within the cytoskeleton network of cells, performed within the domains of space time geometry.

Key Words:  Animals, Quantum, Cytoskeleton, Consciousness
 

Introduction

Human based consciousness comprises of, what we see, hear, touch, taste, smell, feel, etc, which is termed as ‘phenomenal consciousness’ and this has led to a one-way thinking in determining the existence of true consciousness (Clark 2001). Humans evolved at a much later stage in evolution, before which the earth was dominated by organisms which survived and are still surviving based on their manipulative intelligence, to perceive and understand the environment. Conscious behaviours observed in animals may not be similar to human consciousness but are unique in their own space. Superiority does not exist and cannot be falsely determined by the brain size or its capacity, as organisms much smaller have demonstrated capabilities which cannot be matched to human intelligence, especially when the human genome has almost 150 genes that have originated from microorganisms and viruses (Crisp et al., 2015).Several forms of conscious behaviours are known to exist in organisms ranging from viruses to humans and there is no reason why arguments for possession of consciousness must be backed by the existence of the nervous system, which is a wonderful system, but in its own place and organism. Failure to behave like humans does not mean the absence of capability. 

Many years ago, humans realized that in order to survive they needed to form communities with people of different talents which could be achieved through proper communication and cooperation. Animals ranging from micro to macro levels such as cell, worms, ants, bees, mammals, etc are known to display conscious behaviours and are known to engage in Hamiltonian descriptions of cooperative interactions such as altruism, where interactions are beneficial to the recipient but costly to the actor and mutualism, that provides a direct fitness benefit to the organism that performs the behaviour, which outweighs the cost of performing the behaviour (Neilands 1995). Lynn Margulis, in the endosymbiotic theory of organelle evolution, suggested that not only animals but every organized being is conscious (Margulis and Sagan 1995). Humberto Maturana was the first to propose that living systems though cognitive systems are applicable to all organisms with and without a nervous system (Maturana 1970). At the first annual Francis Crick memorial conference on consciousness held on 7^th July, 2012, a group of scientists formally declared a document entitled “Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in Non-Human Animals” which stated that the capacity of consciousness emerged very early in evolution and those processes that support consciousness in humans are likely characteristics of many living organisms (Low 2012). 

Animal Consciousness is Purely Quantum Computed

Consciousness is the ability to be aware of and to be able to perceive the relationship between one’s self and one’s environment. It is to be associated with the ability to process, store and act on information gathered from the external environment (Miller and Bassler 2001) while quantum consciousness proposes the existence and creation of a conscious moment through a computational event (Hameroff and Penrose 2014). The information of consciousness gained by the movement of the energy, resides in patterns of matter and energy, which are built up in the cell based on prior experiences with more interaction and knowledge.  The quantum hologram theory by Marcer proposes that, life at the most basic level such as primitive cells exchange information with the environment by utilizing quantum coherence of non-locality (Mitchell and Staretz 2011). Evolutionary comparison of the cytoskeleton and its structures suggests that consciousness existed from the very beginning and has been propagating by means of the cytoskeletal network of the cell by means of quantum computing (Pereira 2015) and therefore forms the basis of consciousness for every living being. Animal consciousness originates within the cytoskeletal structures at a cellular level. The microtubules in the brain cells have demonstrated this message transfer via the Orch OR theory penned by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff (Hameroff and Penrose 2014). The cytoskeleton is expected to be a source of vibrations that generate cellular electromagnetic forces at kilohertz to gigahertz range, which is also connected to the metastatic growth of this network (Sahu et al., 2013).

Penrose and Hameroff claim that constant formation and reformation of tubulin states in the cytoskeleton are governed by quantum mechanical effects within each tubulin interior and these effects function as a quantum computer using "quantum bits" that interact non-locally with other tubulins and with quantum holograms. When enough tubulins are entangled long enough to reach a certain threshold, a "conscious event" occurs with the collapse of the wave function within the domains of space-time geometry (Hameroff 1998).  Quantum based consciousness originates within every cell of all unicellular and multicellular organisms and therefore forms the support mechanism for important functions managed at a cellular level such as cell proliferation and differentiation, apoptosis, DNA synthesis, RNA transcription, protein expression, ATP synthesis and metabolic activity. Quantum consciousness enables animals to understand and judge perceptions, which gives the animal a prospect to behave as per will.

Conclusion

Conscious behaviour is prevalent in the animal kingdom and in comparison to the neural system, is in lower form, but by division of labour in cells it propagates and attains a higher state, as observed in higher organisms. Whether unicellular or multicellular, we all depend on our past experiences and observation and use this for several actions that need to be performed in our day to day life, which is managed by the conscious decisions that we take, which may be new or retrieved from memory. Quantum generated consciousness or sentience within the cytoskeleton, has the ability to make an animal conscious of its surroundings and its main effort is to gain a clear perception to associate and recognize favourable and unfavourable conditions, just like the brain in higher animals and the protoplasm in unicellular organisms. 

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Dr. Contzen Pereira

Independent Scholar, Mumbai, India

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