IMR Press / JIN / Volume 19 / Issue 4 / DOI: 10.31083/j.jin.2020.04.250
Open Access Original Research
Experimental evidence refuting the assumption of phosphorus-31 nuclear-spin entanglement-mediated consciousness
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1 Department of Anesthesiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430030, Wuhan, P. R. China
*Correspondence: zhv@hust.edu.cn (Shi-Hai Zhang)
These authors contributed equally.
J. Integr. Neurosci. 2020, 19(4), 595–600; https://doi.org/10.31083/j.jin.2020.04.250
Submitted: 16 August 2020 | Revised: 23 October 2020 | Accepted: 26 October 2020 | Published: 30 December 2020
Copyright: © 2020 Chen et al. Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY 4.0 license ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Abstract

Phosphorus-31 nuclear-spin entanglements within Ca 9 (PO 4 ) 6 molecules (Posner molecules) have been proposed to be central for neural processing. However, this has yet to be proven experimentally. Relatedly, increasing calcium ion concentration in the cerebrospinal fluid has been proposed to enhance consciousness by accelerating Posner molecules’ creation. A dependence on calcium isotope is also expected. Here we test these predictions experimentally by measuring the loss of righting reflex ED 50 for mice to sevoflurane - an increase in loss of righting reflex ED 50 indicates a higher level of consciousness and vice versa. Our mice’s findings demonstrate that intracerebroventricular injection of EGTA enhances the sevoflurane-induced loss of righting reflex ED 50 while injecting calcium-40 chloride or calcium-43 chloride causes an opposite effect. Further, the identical effects of calcium-40 and calcium-43 indicate an absence of calcium isotope dependence. Here, our findings disprove conventional proposals that calcium ion concentration correlates with consciousness.

Keywords
Quantum consciousness
anesthesia
Posner molecules
entanglement
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