What is the "non-material energy" in synaptic transmission?
In my books and blogs I have addressed the role of a “non-material energy” in the transmission of neural codes within spike trains of action potentials through coherent, synchronous synaptic networks, refuting the reductive materialism so prevalent today. Action potentials are characterized by electrochemical reactions which arrive at presynaptic vesicular grids where there exists an activation barrier against the opening of ionic channels. The arrival of action potentials stimulates calcium ions to move through ionic channels into the interior of presynaptic terminals. Molecular and electronic configurations of the components of synaptic vesicles and membranes bordering synaptic clefts are excited by these ions into metastable levels referred to as quasiparticles. Does a similar process occur within ionic channels driven by action potentials? The metastable levels consist of electrons and hydrogen bonds which are altered from superposition states to unstable states which lead to the unidirectional processes of exocytosis. The motion along a given direction occurs by quantum tunnelling through the potential, or activation, barriers. The time scale for this action is in pico- to femtoseconds and corresponds to the quantal dynamics of electron transfers. Molecular transformations that occur between synaptic vesicles and cleft membranes cause membrane fusion and the formation of pores through which synaptic transmitters are released into synaptic clefts. I submit that the metastable level of quasiparticle formation that sets into motion quantum tunnelling can be considered the “non-material energy” of the activated state. It is this energy that serves as the quantum trigger for exocytosis. Might the non-material energy of the Mind of God and the mind of Man act at these sites by this mechanism? There is evidence that cognition generates specified wave forms that can tunnel. Is there an interaction between the proposed wave forms and the wave functions of molecular components in superposition within ionic channels, synaptic vesicles and cleft membranes that leads to exocytosis? Could such a process relate to Hebrews 11:1 that mentions “evidence of things unseen?”
I refer the reader to the article by Friedrich Beck entitled “Synaptic Quantum Tunnelling in Brain Activity.” It was published in NeuroQuantology in June 2008. It is a key article that reveals a link between spike trains of action potentials and the quasiparticle wave function which tunnels through potential barriers of synaptic vesicles and cleft membrane components resulting in the transmission of neural codes along synaptic networks. The synaptic quantum trigger identified by Beck frees the physical processes of synaptic transmission from the strict determinism of a classical mechanistic picture. Beck regarded “exocytosis as a candidate for quantum processes to enter the network [of synaptic transmission], and thus regulating its performance.” Within his quantum trigger model is likely the “non-material energy” that enables coherent synaptic transmission, a dual process of interaction between what is immaterial and material.
Current investigators in the neurosciences are accepting in increasing numbers the microsite hypothesis of John Eccles that I have discussed in my writings and his work in collaboration with Friedrich Beck. I strongly recommend this article to you since it is relevant today to the processes of neural transmission under active investigation. I continue the search for concordance between scripture and science in explaining the process of minds in communion.