Mae-Wan Ho
The Rainbow and the Worm; The Physics of Organisms
Published 2008
Page 197
“That electromagnetic signal is involved in intercommunication is suggested by the photon-emission characteristics of normal and malignant cells. While normal cells emit less light with increasing cell density, malignant cells show an exponential increase in light emission with increasing cell density. This shows that long-range interactions between the cells may be responsible for their differing social behaviour: the tendency to disaggregate of malignant tumour cells, as opposed to attractive long range interactions between normal cells. The difference between cancer cells and normal cells may lie in their capacity for intercommunication, which in turn depends on their degree of coherence. The parameter 1/d in the hyperbolic decay function can be taken as a measure of incoherence, as it is directly correlated with the inability of the system to re-absorb emitted energy coherently. This parameter is shown to increase with increasing cell density in the malignant cells, and to decrease with increasing cell density in normal cells. These results are consistent with the suggestion that tumour cells have a diminished capacity for intercommunication.”
Page 229
“I have come to the conclusion that a more accurate account is that our consciousness is delocalized throughout the liquid crystalline continuum of the body (including the brain), rather than being just localized to our brain, or to our heart. By consciousness, I include at the minimum, the faculties of sentience (responsiveness), intercommunication, as well as memory.”
Page 236
“Proton jump-conduction belongs to a form of semi-conduction in condensed matter, and is much faster than conduction of electrical signals by the nerves. Thus the ‘ground substance’ of the entire body has a much better intercommunication system than can be provided by the nervous system and are nonetheless sensitive and responsive…..There is no doubt that a body consciousness exists prior to the ‘brain’ consciousness associated with the nervous system. The body consciousness also has a memory.“
Page 237
“Memory is thus dynamically distributed in the structured network and the associated, self-reinforcing circuits of proton currents, the sum total of which will be expected to make up the DC body field itself.”
“Body consciousness possessing all the hallmarks of consciousness – sentience, intercommunication and memory – is distributed throughout the entire liquid crystalline matrix that connects each single cell to every other. Brain consciousness associated with the nervous system is embedded in body consciousness and is coupled to it. That bound water plays a crucial role in conscious experience is supported by evidence that anaesthetics act by replacing and releasing bound water from proteins and membrane interfaces. Significantly, Becker found that general anaesthesia leads to the complete attenuation of the DC body field, possibly by destroying the structure of bound water.”
Page 243
“Ervin Laszlo, philosopher and systems theorist, has proposed that much of personal memory may be stored in an ambient, collective quantum holographic memory field delocalised from the individual – in the universal holographic medium of the quantum vacuum – and that memories are accessed by the individual from the ambient field. This is fully consistent with the ‘romantic’ idea, increasingly validated by the foundation of quantum theory, that all nature is interconnected, and that the separateness and discreteness of things in the commonsensible world are illusory.”
Page 284
“Space-time in living systems has its own interesting consequences of which I can only give a hint here. Time structure manifests itself most clearly in the known biological rhythms that range over some ten orders of magnitude from the millisecond oscillations of membrane action potentials to the 10 to the 7ths for circannual rhythms. These are coherent over varying spatial domains from single cells to entire organs and from whole organisms to populations of organisms. A coherent space-time structure theoretically enables ‘instantaneous’ communication to occur over a range of time scales and spatial extents.”