The description of the model proposed by the authors is EXTREMELY complex, involving bohmian quantum mechanics, PILOT WAVE THEORY, quantum field theory, the schrodinger wAVE FUNCTION EQUATION AND A NEW QUANTUM POTENTIAL ENERGY REFERRED TO AS “q” THAT GIVES DIRECTION TO A PARTICLE, SUCH AS AN ELECTRON, through the brain. fOR READERS INTERESTED IN THE SPECIFICS OF THIS MODEL, i MAKE REFERENCE TO THE ARTICLE.
iN BRIEF, THE AUTHORS PROPOSE THAT MIND HAS CAUSAL EFFECTS ON THE MATTER OF THE BRAIN “VIA THE CREATION OF CONSTRAINTS . . . USING QUANTUM MECHANICAL LAWS TO REACH ITS AIM.” A CAUSE IS NEEDED “TO ACTUALIZE ONE OF THE POSSIBILITIES [OF THE WAVE FUNCTION] . . . THIS CAUSE IS A MIND WHICH . . . AFFECTS THE APPEARANCE OF STATES. . . . MIND CAN BE EFFECTIVE ON THE PARTICLE/MATTER DYNAMICS THROUGH AN EFFECT ON THE FINAL [wave function] POSSIBILITY DISTRIBUTION. . . . AND LEADS TO THE CREATION OF THE QUANTUM FORCES THAT GUIDE THE BRAIN ACTIVITY TO WHAT THE MIND WANTS. . . . THE OCCURRENCE OF A CERTAIN STATE AMONG MULTIPLE POSSIBILITIES NEEDS AN EFFICIENT CAUSE, AND THIS IS MIND.”
THE AUTHORS CANNOT IDENTIFY JUST HOW THE CAUSAL INTERACTION OCCURS BETWEEN MIND AND THE SYNAPTIC NETWORKS. IN PREVIOUS BLOG POSTS i HAVE PROPOSED A MECHANISM BY WHICH INTERACTION OCCURS VIA SYNCHRONOUS, COHERENT WAVE FORMS WITH SPECIFIED TRAJECTORIES THROUGH SYNAPTIC NETWORKS TO BRING ABOUT DESIRED ACTIONS. IT IS INTERESTING THAT THESE AUTHORS ALSO SEE EVIDENCE OF INTERACTION, DRAWING UPON QUANTUM MECHANICS. I HAVE IDENTIFIED THIS PARTICULAR ARTICLE TO GIVE FURTHER SUPPORT FOR DUAlist interactionism.