At this time I will post a “take away” from all that has been presented to this point about the tremendous complexity of dualist interactionism. Along the way I have endeavored to make the posts as understandable as possible, but neurophysiology and quantum mechanics are . . . complex!
Dualist interaction involves a nonmaterial mind with the capacity to cause a probabilistic, directed transmission of synchronous action potentials through coherent synaptic networks of the physical brain. It occurs by quantum tunneling which induces conformational changes in the protein scaffolds, vesicles, vesicular pores and ionic channels of the components of synaptic networks. By this process neural transmitters are released from vesicular pores into synaptic clefts. The transmitters stimulate linguistically encoded spike trains of action potentials that are conducted through a network of postsynaptic downstream neurons. Synaptic transmission of specified (meaningful) information occurs by this process and is interpreted by a mind through a lifetime of learning. When the intention, attention or will of one’s mind generates encoded neural impulses the mind interprets the codes as Eccles’ “percepts” in real time so that one knows what one is thinking and intending. The linguistic code generated is by an immaterial energy of the mind considered in detail by the blog, “Waves in Our Brains,” Parts One and Two..