In the “Int’l Court” of Quantum Mind (2003) ) In Re: ) SPIN-MEDIATED ) CONSCIOUSNESS THEORY ) Possible Roles of O2Unpaired Electronic

The Model: Neural Substrates

•Unpaired nuclear spins in neural membranes and possibly proteins are the mind-pixels since atomic nuclei are almost immobile and shielded from much of the noise in the “warm and wet” brain.

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•Unpaired electronic spins of rapidly diffusing O2, NO etc are the spin beam for pixel-activation since they are very mobile, can generate strong fluctuating E.M. fields via their large magnetic dipoles associated with their spins, and strongly couple to unpaired nuclear spins.

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•Spin chemistry is the bridge to classical neural activities since biochemical reactions mediated by free radicals are very sensitive to small changes of magnetic energies.