Solving the binding problem: cellular adhesive molecules and their control of the cortical quantum entangled network
Year: 2003
Type: preprint
Abstract: . Quantum entanglement is shown to be the only acceptable physical solution to the binding problem. The biological basis of interneuronal entanglement is described in the frames of the β-neurexin-neuroligin model developed by Georgiev (2002) and is proposed novel mechanism for control of the neurons that are temporarily entangled to produce every single conscious moment experienced as present. The model provides psychiatrists with ‘deeper ’ understanding of the functioning of the psyche in normal and pathologic conditions. The binding problem in psychology How does the brain allow us to bind ideas together? Coming upon an object such as a rose, for example, one is able to correctly recognize it as a particular rose. But how do we recognize complex objects? It is well known that information in the brain is segmented; thus when one is confronted with the rose, the olfactory system (located in one region of the brain) recognizes the associated smell. The visual system (located in another region) takes the visual input stimuli and further segments them so as to recognize shapes and colours. Somehow, within the visual system, the shapes and colours come together, allowing us to recognize the form of the visual object. Further, the smell and the visual image are somehow able to fuse together, or bind, so that one is able to recognize the rose in its fullness from either component. How could this happen? This question is known as the binding problem. As Valerie Hardcastle has recently put it, “given what we know about the segregated nature of the brain and the relative absence of multi-modal association areas in the cortex, how [do] conscious percepts become unified into single perceptual units? ” (Hardcastle, 1994). The binding problem is not a new one; indeed it has over a century history.
Author: Данко Георгиев
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7097276559