THE BRAIN AND SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE - QUESTION OF MULTILEVEL ROLE OF RESONANCE

Everything we experience and do as individuals is assumed to be a func tion of the nervous system. It is as though we were born with a total supply of algorithms for all given forms of psychic states and solutio ns for immediate or eventual actions. There is evidence that the foreb rain is, so to speak, the central processor for psychic experience and psychologically directed behavior. Since information itself is immate rial, all forms of psychic experience represent immaterial emanations of the forebrain, including sensations, perceptions, drives, affects, thoughts, and the precisely measured, cold hard facts of science. But it is to be emphasized that there can be no manufacture or communicati on of information without the intermediary of behaving entities. Becau se of the immateriality of information and the Godel-like problem of s elf-reference, a central question arises as to whether or not we can e ver rely on the brain with its viscoelastic properties to achieve a re liable yardstick for measuring time and space and the general nature o f things. Most needed at the present time is a refined picture of the anatomy and chemistry of the brain's circuitry accounting for its part icular species of algorithms. Emphasis is given to the basic role of v arious proteins in generating subjective experience. Because of the ro le of resonance in contributing to the dynamical excitability of neura l circuits, examples are given here of how it might play an algorithmi c role at macroscopic, microscopic, molecular, and atomic levels. To d escribe this idea attention is focused on three evolutionary types of cortex that have developed in the triune evolution of the mammalian fo rebrain from the mammal-like reptiles (therapsids) to human beings.