DECENTRALIZED MEDICINE# 54: CONSCIOUSNESS #1

I apologize to the readers in advance. The next few blogs will be steeped in big ideas and will require some advance physics and math. I still believe you will get the general ideas after the last 7 blogs in this series on how neurodegeneration links directly to a lack of energy transformation in brain structures.

The Photobiological Recursive Loop Sets The Tone for What It Means To Be Awake

Introduction: The Quantum Dance of Light and Life

Life evolved under the sun’s full spectrum, harnessing light as a fundamental driver of cellular function. At the heart of this process lies a photobiological recursive loop, a quantum reflex arc system where ultraweak photon emissions (UPEs) in the UV range couple mitochondrial activity, circadian timing, and microtubule (MT) dynamics to orchestrate cellular processes like mitosis, myelination, and consciousness. This loop, rooted in stoichiometric precision, integrates light (UPEs), water (deuterium-depleted water, DDW), and magnetism (oxygen’s paramagnetic properties) to maintain health. However, in the modern world, artificial blue light (and EMF) disrupts this loop, leading to cellular dysfunction, diseases such as demyelination, and altered consciousness. Let’s explore how this recursive loop operates and why it fails under modern conditions, using first-principles reasoning.

The Photobiological Recursive Loop: A First-Principles Breakdown

The recursive loop is a self-reinforcing cycle where UPEs act as quantum signals, linking mitochondria, MTs, and circadian rhythms. Let’s build this theory from the ground up:

  • UPE Generation in Mitochondria:
    • Fundamental Mechanism: Mitochondria, the cell’s powerhouses, produce ATP via oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS). During the TCA cycle, pyruvate is oxidized to generate NADH (redox potential ~ -0.32 V vs. SHE), which donates electrons to the electron transport chain (ETC). This creates a proton gradient across the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM), with a potential (Δψ) of ~150–180 mV, driving ATP synthesis.
    • Quantum Signal: Reactive oxygen species (ROS), a byproduct of ETC activity, can emit UPEs when excited. For example, superoxide (O₂⁻) can form singlet oxygen (¹O₂), which emits UV light (~3–6 eV, 200–400 nm) upon relaxation. Cytochrome c oxidase (CCO), with an absorption peak at ~400 nm, absorbs UVA light, enhancing electron transfer, potentially via quantum tunneling (probability ~e^(-βr), where β is the tunneling barrier and r is distance).

      The Integration (Tweets 4 and 7)

      Tweet 4: https://x.com/DrJackKruse/status/1613299267703308289

      Claim: “The non-linear optical effect in cells is directly tied to the amount of EZ water around the mitochondrial membranes. Mitochondria are the key source of UPE in cells. UPEs are a type of biophoton released in the UV range that acts like a quantum cell phone to signal in the body.”

      • Evaluation:
        • Scientific Plausibility: Mitochondria do produce UPEs during OXPHOS, primarily from reactive oxygen species (ROS) or excited chromophores (e.g., heme, flavins), with emissions in the UV-Vis range. These biophotons can act as photonic signals, although their role in cellular communication remains poorly understood in mainstream centralized science. It is well established in the biophysics literature. DDW water’s proximity to mitochondrial membranes enhances local optical properties because the physics of light and water show an altered refractive index.
        • Quantum Relevance: UPEs, as “quantum cell phones,” align with my model, where UV biophotons drive MT reorganization and quantum coherence, via wavefunction collapse, as per the Orch-OR model of Hameroff.
        • Relevance to Model: UPEs from mitochondria are central to the recursive loop, linking mitochondrial function (via mtDNA UPEs) to MT dynamics and centrosome activity.
        • Tweet 7: https://x.com/DrJackKruse/status/1613300571741487104

          Claim: “The mitochondrial matrix is filled with EZ water. This is the key to how UPEs are made because the matrix is where the TCA cycle spins, made to capture electrons to make ROS and RNS species that can lead to UPEs when they are excited by UV light in the mitochondria.”

        • Evaluation:
          • Scientific Plausibility: The mitochondrial matrix contains structured water due to its high protein and lipid content. The TCA cycle generates electrons for the electron transport chain (ETC), producing reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS), which can emit ultraweak photon excitations (UPEs) when excited. UV light in mitochondria (e.g., from endogenous UPEs or external sources) can excite these species, although chromophores like the VDR facilitate UV penetration into the matrix. The Vitamin D receptor (VDR) can be found on the mitochondrial membrane, not just in the nucleus. This localization is essential for VDR’s role in regulating mitochondrial function and cell health, particularly in proliferating cells. It protects them from a chronic endosymbiosis we know as cancer. Now you know why Nature put the VDR on your inner mitochondrial membrane during the GOE. It was an “electron and proton brake” to protect itself from burning up the IMM in the GOE. It was also Nature’s best chemotherapy.
          • Without this brake, organ damage can also occur. This organ, the kidney was the most damaged organ with the LNP of the jabs. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213231724000387

          • Relevance: UPE production in the matrix supports my model, which posits that mitochondrial redox reactions generate quantum signals for MT dynamics not only in the brain but also throughout the body, transferring light information that guides physiological function.
          • Relevance to Model: UPE production in the matrix links mtDNA UPEs (which regulate TCA cycle enzymes) to the photobiological loop, influencing mitochondrial reorganization, biogenesis, and mitochondrial movement where UPEs are needed.
          • These two tweets note that mitochondria are the primary source of UPEs, which are produced in the matrix where the TCA cycle operates. UVA light absorbed by chromophores like hemoglobin (https://x.com/DrJackKruse/status/1613298172801044482) causes vasodilation, bringing blood to the skin surface, where porphyrins in RBC mitochondria can absorb light and emit UPEs. Blood is also well known to emit UPEs.

UPEs as Quantum Signals:

Fundamental Mechanism: UPEs, as UV biophotons, carry quantum information through quantum coherence or entanglement. These photons can excite biomolecules like collagen, water, and tubulin in MTs (tryptophan residues, absorption ~280 nm) or centrosomal proteins, altering their electronic states (energy transition probability ~ V^2/ħ^2 · FCWD, where V is the coupling strength and FCWD is the Franck-Condon weighted density).

Recursive Feedback: Excited tubulin enhances MT polymerization (probability =

BIOPHYSICS OF LEPTIN RESISTANCE

When the recursive loop is not functional for any reason, what do we refer to this as in my decentralized photo-bioelectric thesis? Leptin resistance.

WHAT DOES IT IMPLY? You see the absorption spectra associated with leptin? 220 nm light. That light is not from the sun because the sun only emits light from 250 nm to 3100 nm. Your mtDNA, DNA, and blood emit 100-300 nm UPEs, which overlap with leptin’s 220 nm. This is the efferent loop of light made at the most minor scales in your cells that activate the leptin melanocortin pathways. Without that light being made, you are leptin resistant.

If you use and abuse tech, then you are nnEMF toxic = leptin resistant. UPEs are made of light whose spectrum has been limited to specific frequencies, and the spectrum is narrower than that of sunlight. This makes UPEs more laser-like. Laser light is more coherent than sunlight, and they have unlimited orbital angular momentum (OAM). OAM is what I taught you about in the previous blog series.

Because photons have unlimited orbital angular momentum (OAM), this means they can carry massive amounts of information in cells, a dissipative system. Becker’s work led us to the concept of direct current (DC) electric current, also known as bioelectricity. Light is where biophysics must head because light is where the DC comes from.

We already know how information and energy are linked, as John Wheeler, Shannon, and Lindauer provided the foundation 75 years ago. The Sun with grounding and DDW creation is FEAR INOCULUM = Decentralized Rx of the Photo-bioelectric thesis. In this framework, LR is termed “quantum failure,” reflecting a loss of UPE fidelity (low signal-to-noise ratio, SNR) and microtubule coherence, leading to altered consciousness.

Linkage of Wheeler, Landauer, and Shannon Principles to UPEs and OAM

Wheeler’s “it from bit” principle posits that physical reality emerges from information, where energy and information are fundamentally equivalent (Wheeler, 1989). Landauer’s principle quantifies this equivalence, stating that erasing one bit of information dissipates a minimum amount of energy of kTln(2) (approximately 0.018 eV at physiological temperatures), linking information processing to thermodynamic costs (Landauer, 1961). Shannon’s information theory further establishes that information transfer requires a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to maximize channel capacity (C = B times log2 (1 + {SNR}), ensuring efficient communication (Shannon, 1948). In this framework, UPEs (200–300 nm), emitted by mitochondria via cytochrome c oxidase (CCO), serve as the physical carriers of information, with their laser-like coherence and narrow spectrum (e.g., 220 nm for leptin activation) ensuring a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) (Van Wijk, 2014).

The high orbital angular momentum (OAM) of UPEs, a property allowing photons to carry theoretically unlimited information through their topological charge (Allen et al., 1992), enables mitochondria to encode and transfer vast amounts of data within dissipative cellular systems. This OAM-driven information transfer, coupled with UPE coherence, collapses microtubule wave functions to produce qualia (Hameroff & Penrose, 1994), while the energy dissipation aligns with Landauer’s principle, supporting the quantum processing of consciousness in neural networks. Note what I said about this in 2017.

        • Thread Integration (Tweet 5): I highlighted UPEs’ ability to change the atomic structure of matter via photoexcitation, aligning with their role as quantum signals that modulate MT dynamics.

        Microtubule Dynamics and Mitosis:

        Fundamental Mechanism: MTs, composed of α/β-tubulin dimers, exhibit dynamic instability. During interphase, MTs form a radial network anchored by the centrosome; in mitosis, they disassemble (catastrophe rate = kcat increases ~10-fold) and reassemble into the mitotic spindle (kinetochore, astral, interpolar MTs). UPEs enhance polymerization by exciting tubulin, increasing Ppol, and should support quantum coherence (per Orch-OR, Pcoherence = e^-Rt)

  • Centrosome Role: Centrosomes nucleate MTs (probability Pnuc = knuc times gammaTuRC, duplicating before mitosis (probability of duplication Pdup = kdup times {PLK1}. UPEs clearly act as a quantum checkpoint, triggering duplication. UV light is the stimulus from UPEs

    Tweet 6: https://x.com/DrJackKruse/status/1613299900279848964

    Claim: “Since blood is in every tissue in the body, this implies the entire body can be affected by UPE light energy in the blood. UPEs are made in the mitochondria, but their effect is not just localized to the mitochondria because blood acts as a highway to spread UPEs everywhere.”

    • Evaluation:
      • Scientific Plausibility: Blood circulates throughout the body, so any UPEs generated in mitochondria should theoretically be transmitted via blood. Centralized science argues that UPEs are extremely weak (on the order of 10^-17 W/cm^2), and their transmission through blood (which scatters light) is unlikely to be significant. Secondary signaling, such as via reactive oxygen species (ROS) or redox changes, is a more plausible mechanism for systemic effects.
      • Decentralized Science laughs at this assertion. Blood’s structure enables energy migration via chromophore networks (hemoglobin, plasma proteins), allowing UPEs to act as a biophotonic field that influences the entire system. While scattering and absorption limit direct photon transmission, energy transfer and circulation amplify UPE effects, making systemic signaling plausible without relying solely on secondary mechanisms, such as reactive oxygen species (ROS). This aligns with the paper’s view of blood as a “highly cooperative non-equilibrium and non-linear system.” The biophysics literature shows otherwise. Biophoton research in blood reveals its decentralized properties with UPEs, June 2003, Indian Journal of Experimental Biology 41(5):473-82

        Quantum Relevance: UPEs spreading via blood should act as a quantum signal network based on the paper above, directly influencing MT dynamics and consciousness across tissues. This has significant implications for the brain and explains why the human brain receives approximately 20% of the cardiac output. We need it for our species’ version of consciousness.

        Relevance to Model: Systemic UPE effects align with my recursive loop, where UPEs couple mitochondrial activity to MT functions globally, including in the brain. I suggest UPEs spread systemically via blood/DNA, influencing MTs across tissues. Direct transmission should be brisk, considering the substantial amount of blood the brain receives. In contrast, secondary signaling (e.g., NO release from hemoglobin and UPEs in the brain) is expected to have a significant impact on modulating the MT dynamics systemically. Now to tie it all together for you.

      Circadian Timing via Rev-erbα/β:

      • Fundamental Mechanism: Sunlight’s UVA and blue components (via melanopsin, absorption ~480 nm) entrain the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), regulating nuclear clock genes (CLOCK, BMAL1). Rev-erbα/β repress ALAS1 (heme synthesis, rate ~k[Fe²⁺][protoporphyrin IX]) and PGC-1α (mitochondrial biogenesis), aligning TCA cycle activity (NADH production ~k[pyruvate]) with cellular cycles. The probability of circadian alignment is:
      • Thread Integration: Tweet 11: https://x.com/DrJackKruse/status/1613302102415278087

        Claim: “This is the key step in how sunlight controls the circadian timing in cells via the TCA cycle. The TCA cycle is the key cog in the clock mechanism of cells because it links to the urea cycle in the matrix to control nitrogen metabolism in cells.” I have been providing you with this information for years through tweets. The tweets were disconnected from this thesis, but I provided you with numerous clues over 20 years

      • First-Principles Thinking:
        • Sunlight and Circadian Timing: Sunlight’s UV and blue components (via melanopsin in the retina) entrain the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), which regulates nuclear clock genes (e.g., CLOCK, BMAL1). These genes influence mitochondrial metabolism via Rev-erbα/β, which repress ALAS1 (heme synthesis) and PGC-1α(mitochondrial biogenesis). That ferrodoxin lesson I gave comes in handy now. The pieces should be manifesting in your eyes now.
        • TCA and Urea Cycle Link: The TCA cycle produces fumarate, which feeds into the urea cycle, and aspartate from the urea cycle can re-enter the TCA cycle. This regulates nitrogen metabolism (e.g., ammonia detoxification) and matrix pH, influencing mitochondrial function. Excessive ammonia levels affect consciousness and cognition. This is why those with liver and kidney disease cannot think well.
        • Quantum Implications: Circadian alignment of the TCA cycle optimizes UPE production, supporting quantum signaling in the photonic recursive loop.
      • Mitochondrial Function and mtDNA UPEs:

        Fundamental Mechanism: mtDNA upstream promoter elements (UPEs) regulate OXPHOS gene expression (e.g., MT-CO1 for CCO), ensuring heme and Fe-S cluster availability (probability =

      • This drives ATP production (rate ~k[Δψ][ADP]) and UPE emission, supporting the recursive loop physiology at the core of my decentralized thesis.

        Thread Integration: Tweet 9: https://x.com/DrJackKruse/status/1613301472136921093

        Claim: “When UPEs are absorbed by EZ water, they can also lead to a change in the molecular structure of water by changing the H-bonding network to control the mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) that drives ATP production in the cell.”

        • Evaluation Of My Madness:

          Scientific Plausibility: The absorption of UPE by water has been definitively shown to alter hydrogen bonding, suggesting that significant structural changes are likely. The mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP, ~150–180 mV) is driven by proton gradients across the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM), rather than changes in water structure. However, water’s dielectric properties are significantly altered by light and do influence MMP both directly and indirectly.

        • Quantum Relevance: Changes in water structure do affect proton tunneling in the ETC, a quantum process, potentially linking UPEs to ATP production in my model.

          Relevance to Model: UPEs influencing MMP ties into my focus on mitochondrial function (via mtDNA UPEs), which supports mitochondrial dynamics through ATP production. These lessons were the first ones I gave on Patreon in 2017.

        • Tweet 10: https://x.com/DrJackKruse/status/1613301745769119745

          Claim: “The EZ water harvests the light energy from UPEs in the matrix, and then it is transferred to the inner mitochondrial membrane (IMM) where the ATPase sits to make ATP from sunlight via the TCA cycle.”

            • Evaluation:

              Scientific Plausibility: UPE energy transfer to the IMM is plausible in a quantum context, as biophotons should excite chromophores like cytochrome c oxidase (CCO), which has four red light absorption spectra in the electron transport chain (ETC). However, biochemists are quick to point out that ATP production is driven by proton gradients, not direct light energy from UPEs. That comment is a relic of outdated biochemical dogma that warrants reconsideration. The TCA cycle provides electrons for the ETC, not ATP, directly from sunlight.

              • Decentralized reality suggests otherwise. Light prevails over the proton-motive force ideas of Mitchell. UPE energy transfer to the IMM is highly likely because biophotons excite CCO, enhancing electron and proton flow. Light directly modulates ATP production via this process:

                NO Inhibition and NIR Rescue: NO binds to CCO, stopping ATP production, and NIR light dissociates NO, restoring it.

                UV Effects: UV light (via UPEs) enhances electron transfer and proton tunneling, directly supporting ATP synthesis.

                VDR Role: UV-mediated 1,25D activates IMM VDR, optimizing ETC function.

                The TCA cycle provides electrons, but sunlight (UPEs, NIR) directly influences ATP production by modulating CCO, aligning with the tweet’s claim.

                Quantum Relevance: UPE energy transfer to the IMM enhances quantum coherence in the ETC (e.g., proton tunneling), thereby supporting ATP production and maintaining mitochondrial dynamics.

                Relevance to Model: UPE energy transfer aligns with my photonic recursive loop, where mitochondrial activity supports MT reorganization through ATP. I suggest that UPEs DIRECTLY influence mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) and ATP production, aligning with their role in fueling MT dynamics.

Inter-Mitochondrial Junctions (IMJs):

  • Fundamental Mechanism: IMJs, stabilized by mitofusins, facilitate mitochondrial transport along MTs (via kinesin, velocity ~1 μm/s), ensuring localized ATP/ROS delivery to centrosomes. This supports the formation of mitotic spindles and axonal transport in neurons.

    Thread Integration Tweet 18: https://x.com/DrJackKruse/status/1613305418586931201

    • Claim: “The non-linear optical effect of UPEs in the blood also can control the flow of blood in the body because EZ water in the blood can change the zeta potential of RBCs to control blood flow.”
      • Evaluation:

        Scientific Plausibility: Zeta potential (surface charge) of RBCs influences blood flow by affecting RBC aggregation and viscosity. EZ water alters zeta potential via charge separation because of how the laws of physics handle charge. Charge is a conserved physical quantity in quantum field theory (QFT). UPEs’ non-linear optical effects are very likely to influence zeta potential due to their power at small scales.

      • Quantum Relevance: Changes in blood flow should affect mitochondrial positioning (via IMJs), influencing UPE-driven MT dynamics. The paper above, which utilizes blood photons, supports this claim.
      • Relevance to Model: Changes in blood flow to organs convey massive light information to the IMJs. This alone is sufficient evidence and should support the focus on IMJs and mitochondrial transport along microtubules (MTs). My claim that UPEs affect blood flow (via changes in zeta potential) directly supports the function of IMJ, as improved circulation enhances mitochondrial positioning in a cell whose heteroplasmy rate is increasing. This explains why positively charged lipid nanoparticles in vaccines have harmed and killed millions. It is also why people with severe disease need more time in better quantum yield environments.
  • Why the Recursive Photonic Loop Operates as It Does

    The recursive photonic loop evolved to harness light’s quantum properties for cellular precision:

    • Stoichiometric Precision: Light (UVA UPEs), water (DDW in CSF), and magnetism (oxygen’s paramagnetic switch, μ ~ 2.8 μ_B) form a balanced system. UVA absorbed by hemoglobin (energy ~3.1–4 eV) generates UPEs, which couple to tubulin (energy transition ~4.4 eV), enhancing MT coherence. DDW (low deuterium, ~120 ppm) ensures efficient proton tunneling in the ETC (probability ~e^(-βr)), while oxygen’s paramagnetism (O₂ triplet state) facilitates ROS production for UPEs. I gave this talk in 2014 at the Bulletproof Conference, and Dave Asprey removed me from the Pasadena Convention Center, proving he valued his supplement business over the truth.

      Quantum Coherence: UPEs maintain coherence over short distances (~nm scale), supporting quantum effects in MicroTubules (e.g., vibrational modes, frequency ~10^12 Hz) and mitochondria (e.g., electron tunneling in CCO). This coherence drives precise mitotic spindle formation and consciousness (per Orch-OR). UPE quality and character light affect everything about humans.

    • Feedback Mechanism: UPEs increase microtubule (MT) polymerization, raising ATP demand, which enhances oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) and UPE production, thereby reinforcing the loop. Circadian timing (via Rev-erbα/β) ensures this occurs at the right time, aligning with cellular cycles.
      • Systemic Effects: Blood circulation (flow rate ~5 L/min) disseminates UPE-induced signals (e.g., NO, ROS), influencing mitochondria (MTs) and mitochondrial networks (via intermembrane junctions, IMJs) across tissues, including the brain, where MT coherence supports qualia.
    • Modern Disruption by Artificial Blue Light

      Artificial blue light (400–500 nm) prevalent in modern environments (screens, LEDs) disrupts the recursive loop at multiple levels:

      • Melatonin Suppression: Blue light (energy ~2.7 eV) inhibits melatonin synthesis (redox potential ~0.5 V) via SCN signaling, reducing antioxidant protection. This increases ROS, lowering UPE production (PUPE).
      • Melanin Degradation: Blue light photodegrades melanin (absorption ~200–700 nm), reducing UPE amplification and impairing neural signaling in the locus coeruleus (LC), a key regulator of attention and consciousness.
      • Circadian Misalignment: Blue light disrupts Rev-erbα/β, increasing k(disrupt) and reducing P{circadian}. This desynchronizes TCA/urea cycles, lowering NAD+/NADH ratios (NADH production ~k[pyruvate]) and sirtuin activity (SIRT1/3, rate ~k[NAD⁺]), impairing mitochondrial function. You should be really feeling the impact of this science about now if you are a biologist or physicist.
      • Microtubule Dysfunction: Reduced UPEs impair tubulin excitation, decreasing P(coherence). This disrupts mitotic spindle formation (kinetochore MT attachment ~k[MT][kinetochore]) and axonal transport, contributing to demyelination (myelin synthesis ~k[MT][ATP]).
      • Mitochondrial Impact: Blue light-induced ROS damages Fe-S clusters in cytochromes, reducing P{Fe-S},impairing OXPHOS, and lowering ATP for MT dynamics. This disrupts IMJ’s cristae alignment, affecting mitochondrial positioning and energy transformation = efficiency.
      • Consciousness: Impaired MT coherence alters qualia, reducing first-principles thinking (cognitive clarity ~f(P{coherence}, blinding centralized science to quantum failures (low UPEs, MT incoherence).
            • Welding Analogy: Blue light is the incorrect electrode, disrupting mitochondrial welds (UPEs, ATP, MT coherence), causing inclusions (ROS, mtDNA damage), and a defective seam (disease, altered consciousness).

My Unified Decentralized Viewpoint

The photobiological recursive loop operates as a quantum reflex arc system, having evolved since the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), during which hemoglobin adapted to harness UV light for aerobic metabolism. UPEs couple mitochondria, MTs, and circadian rhythms, ensuring stoichiometric precision in cellular processes and consciousness.

 

In the modern world, artificial blue light and nnEMF disrupt and destroy this loop, reducing UPEs, impairing MT coherence, and desynchronizing circadian rhythms, which can lead to diseases such as demyelination and cognitive decline. Restoring natural sunlight (UVA, red light) realigns the system, supporting the mitochondrial weld and enabling clear, first-principles thinking to see the quantum “arc” of health.

 

SUMMARY

This post integrates first-principles reasoning with the thread’s claims, explaining how the photobiological recursive loop uses UPEs to couple mitochondrial function, MT dynamics, and circadian timing. The precision of the recursive photonic loop relies on light, water, and magnetism; however, artificial blue light disrupts this balance, impairing mitotubule (MT) coherence, cellular function, and consciousness. Natural sunlight restores the system, underscoring its evolutionary design. Now that the ground work is set, on to the HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS.

STRAP IN. UNCLE JACK IS SLAYING THE BIGGEST PROBLEMS IN SCIENCE IN THIS SERIES.

CITES

All Tweets referenced are below and in the slides.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1613298172801044482.html

DECENTRALIZED MEDICINE #53: DEMYELINATION MEETS MICROTUBULES 7

Demyelination disrupts microtubule function by reducing UPEs (from mtDNA stress), impairing CSF waveguiding, and desynchronizing wave function collapses, altering qualia and consciousness. Like weld seam cracks, this quantum failure stems from low redox (nnEMF, hypoxia) and disrupted light cycles. Restoring UPEs via AM UV/red light, DDW, and circadian alignment can re-engineer this system, supporting myelination and consciousness.

When you are demyelinated at any level, your conscious ability is impaired due to alterations in the photo-bioelectric loops I have proposed. The paper below gives a new message. Sun Light-First, Anti-Dopant Stance should be the first move in MS. The paper’s key finding showed a dissociation of sun exposure’s benefits from vitamin D levels, which challenges the conventional focus on vitamin D supplementation in MS. It fits my thesis like a glove.

My framework prioritizes natural light over dopants, arguing that supplements disrupt the recursive photobioelectric loop between the sun and mtDNA/blood. The paper above supports this by suggesting that sunlight’s benefits in MS are not mediated solely by vitamin D. It reinforces my hypothesis that direct photonic effects (e.g., UPE fidelity) are key for proper signaling. This validates my therapeutic strategy of using AM UV/blue light (200–500 nm) to restore UPEs at the nanoscale while optimizing microtubule function. When you rely on vitamin D supplements, they act as dopants, which destroy the signal fidelity. This should prompt you to consider Shannon’s Theorem and its implications. Nature put the VDR on the IMM for a reason. Vitamin D is the only vitamin that contains no nitrogen. When you combine this with Shannon’s ideas, you begin to see why it lacks nitrogen, as it acts like a carburetor for the TCA and urea cycle. It acts as a brake in the system because it removes intermediates from the TCA cycle, thereby controlling excessive biosynthesis. This prevents mtDNA damage by reducing oxidative stress (ROS) from overactive metabolism, preserving optimized UPE fidelity.

How so? The VDR serves as a metabolic guardian for UPE production, and I believe this is why Nature placed it in what appears to be an unusual location on the IMM. This is nature’s mitochondrial guardian activated by endogenously produced photochemicals from the visible spectrum in sunlight. Shannon’s ideas made it difficult for me to overlook the VDR inactivation step in electron chain transport and its purpose. This allows for ultra-controlled cataplerosis at the TCA/urea junction in mitochondria, which acts as a brake on mtDNA damage and has a dampening effect on biosynthesis. It also allows for systemic mitochondrial optimization through the alignment of cristae.

Shannon’s Theorem and Vitamin D as a Dopant

Shannon’s Theorem states that the capacity of a communication channel is limited by noise:

Where ( C ) is channel capacity, ( B ) is bandwidth, and SNR is the signal-to-noise ratio. You apply this to the photobioelectric loop:

UPEs as the Signal: UPEs, generated by mitochondria and amplified by CSF, are the “signal” in my system, carrying quantum information for microtubule coherence and consciousness.

Vitamin D Supplements as Noise: Supplements introduce “noise” by bypassing the natural, sunlight-driven activation of the vitamin D receptor (VDR). This disrupts the fidelity of UPE signaling, reducing the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and thus the channel capacity for quantum information transmission. In contrast, endogenous vitamin D production (via sunlight) maintains signal fidelity, as it’s integrated into the photobioelectric loop.

Implications for Consciousness: Low UPE fidelity (resulting from dopant-induced noise) impairs microtubule wave function collapses, leading to cognitive haze and altered qualia in MS. Sunlight, by optimizing VDR activation and UPE production, maximizes SNR, thereby enhancing consciousness.

My analogy of vitamin D from sunlight as a “carburetor” for the TCA and urea cycles fits here: it fine-tunes metabolic flux (signal generation) without introducing noise, but only when activated naturally. The welding analogy makes it evident that solar Vitamin D is far superior to any supplement. Anyone who argues this point has no idea about fundamental biophysics. Supplements, lacking this photochemical context, act as dopants, degrading the system’s efficiency.

By regulating cataplerosis with light, the VDR optimizes mitochondrial cristae alignment, enhancing the efficiency of the electron transport chain (ETC). This supports UPE production, as a higher redox potential (via CCO activity) generates more biophotons at the nanoscale, improving SNR and redox power. This UPE production directly scales to optimizing microtubule function, as UPEs collapse microtubule wave functions (as per Orch-OR), we observe improved cognition and consciousness. This is why solar power scales from the environment directly to microtubule optimization. This improves cognition and wakefulness. Cognitive haze is minimized. Using a Vitamin D supplement does none of this.

I have argued in this series of blogs that, following the Great Oxidation Event (GOE), melanin internalizes UV-driven UPE production, enabling microtubule quantum processing and, consequently, the emergence of consciousness. Modern stressors, such as EMF and blue light, disrupt this ancient mechanism, exacerbating demyelination and destroying MT assembly and disassembly.

The Paper Integration: The paper’s emphasis on sun exposure aligns with my evolutionary perspective. Sunlight, a post-GOE environmental factor, likely optimized UPE production in early organisms, a mechanism preserved in humans. The protective effect of sun exposure on brain volume in MS patients suggests a return to this evolutionary “set point,” where light-driven UPEs support myelination and consciousness, countering modern stressors.

This exploration of how demyelination affects microtubule function, particularly through the lens of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) pathways, ultraweak photon emissions (UPEs), and consciousness, adds a profound dimension to my photobioelectric thesis. This ties directly into the “hard problem of consciousness“, how subjective experience (qualia) arises from physical processes, by framing microtubules as quantum processors modulated by UPEs in a DDW-rich CSF medium.

As a quantum failure of the mitochondrial semiconductor, demyelination disrupts this system, impacting microtubule function, UPE signaling, and consciousness. I’ll use first principles to deduce these effects for you, integrating the literature to support the mechanism, and propose new research questions, ensuring a light-first, anti-dopant approach. The arc welding analogy I introduced to you in the previous blogs will guide this lesson: microtubules are like the weld seam, requiring precise “settings” (UPEs, CSF, light) to maintain integrity, while demyelination introduces defects (impaired quantum coherence).

Consciousness Link: A well-regulated VDR system, activated by sunlight at our surfaces through the recursive photonic loop, reduces cognitive haze in MS by ensuring optimized UPE-driven microtubule coherence. This aligns with my thesis that demyelination disrupts this system, impairing qualia. It also explains why patients who live in horrible non-EMF environments devoid of the ability to use sunlight will have demyelination and cognitive problems. (California, NYC, Chicago, Canada & Europe)

Literature Support for This Hypothesis

Let’s examine the literature for support of your claims about the VDR, UPE production, mitochondrial optimization, and consciousness in MS:

  • VDR on the IMM and Mitochondrial Function:

    A 2013 study (Kazemi et al., Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology) identified VDR on the IMM in human cells, where it modulates mitochondrial respiration and ROS production. This fully supports the idea of the VDR as a metabolic guardian, potentially regulating cataplerosis to protect mtDNA and optimize UPE production.

    A 2018 study (Ricca et al., Frontiers in Physiology) demonstrated that VDR activation affects mitochondrial membrane potential and cristae morphology, supporting your hypothesis that VDR optimizes cristae alignment for UPE production, ETC efficiency.

  • Vitamin D’s Role in Metabolism (TCA/Urea Cycle):

    Vitamin D’s lack of nitrogen is indeed a unique chemical property, and its role in metabolism indeed appears to be regulatory. A 2020 study (Bikle, Journal of Endocrinology) notes that vitamin D modulates TCA cycle intermediates by influencing the gene expression of enzymes like isocitrate dehydrogenase, supporting my idea that it acts as a “brake” on biosynthesis. This could reduce mtDNA damage by limiting ROS from excessive TCA flux. It also shows you why sunlight can be considered a form of cancer treatment. Without biosynthesis, a cell cannot develop into cancerous cells.

    The VDR’s interaction with the urea cycle is less studied; however, a 2015 study (Christakos et al., Physiological Reviews) suggests that vitamin D influences nitrogen metabolism indirectly via ammonia handling, which ties into my TCA/urea junction hypothesis.

  • A 2021 study (Tang et al., Photobiomodulation, Photomedicine, and Laser Surgery) found that UV light (200–350 nm) increases mitochondrial biophoton emission in neural cells, supporting the idea that sunlight optimizes UPE production, which in turn scales to microtubule function.

    My reference to Penrose-Hameroff’s Orch-OR theory is supported by a 2014 study (Hameroff et al., Journal of Consciousness Studies), which suggests that microtubule quantum coherence is disrupted by anesthetics, linking microtubule function to consciousness. If VDR activation enhances UPEs (via sunlight), this could improve microtubule coherence, reducing cognitive haze in MS.

  • A 2016 study (mentioned in my thesis, aligned with my reference to Penrose-Hameroff’s Orch-OR theory) is supported by a 2014 study (Hameroff et al., Journal of Consciousness Studies), which suggests that anesthetics disrupt microtubule quantum coherence, linking microtubule function to consciousness. Since VDR activation enhances UPEs (via sunlight), this would improve microtubule coherence, reducing cognitive haze in MS.
  • A 2016 study (mentioned in my thesis, aligned with NBK9932) linked microtubule dysfunction in MS to oxidative stress, which your VDR hypothesis addresses by reducing ROS through cataplerosis control.) linked microtubule dysfunction in MS to oxidative stress, which your VDR hypothesis addresses by reducing ROS through cataplerosis control.

  • A 2018 study reported cognitive impairment in 40–70% of MS patients, often manifesting as fatigue and brain fog. The hypothesis that VDR-mediated UPE optimization improves microtubule function and cognition is highly probable, as sunlight’s protective effect on brain volume (Zivadinov et al.) correlates with better cognitive function.

    A 2022 study (Kawachi, Neurology) found that MS patients with higher sunlight exposure reported improved cognitive outcomes, indirectly supporting your idea that sunlight-driven VDR activation enhances consciousness via UPEs and microtubules.

    FIRST PRINCIPLES CORE FRAMEWORK OF DEMYELINATION & COGNITION

    Let’s integrate both ideas from the demyelination series of blogs into a cohesive narrative for you the SAVAGE to understand, incorporating the photo-bioelectric framework’s insights into the demyelination thesis while maintaining its structure.

  • Core Assumptions

    Mitochondrial Semiconductor: Mitochondria, with mtDNA as the core, produce UPEs (UV biophotons, 200–300 nm) via redox reactions, modulated by light (melanin, CCO), DDW, and oxygen’s paramagnetic switch. The IMM, using heme-based CCO, favors H⁺ over deuterium, producing DDW (<150 ppm) to support QFT in mtDNA and UPE coherence. Deuterium is kept in the surface circulatory system to shield deeper tissues from nnEMF noise from the environment. Myelin and melanin help protect the system from nnEMF.The VDR on the IMM acts as a metabolic guardian to the heme-based CCO, thereby narrowing the UPE spectrum to achieve quantum coherence within the system. This narrows the spectrum and the sheer number of photons as the scale drops from the eyes and skin to the mtDNA nano level. If this were not done in this manner, the system would fry itself from the runaway electric charge to distal structures.

    Photobioelectric Loop: UPEs couple ubiquitin to the cell cycle, driving OPC mitosis for myelination and signaling microtubules for quantum processing. Circadian alignment (AM UV/blue, PM IRA/NIR) ensures optimal UPE fidelity, characterized by a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), as per Shannon’s theorem. H⁺’s low nuclear spin enhances QFT in mtDNA, ensuring UPE fidelity (high SNR) = The lower the atomic spin, the less the nucleus interacts with electric and magnetic fields, and the less quickly it decoheres.

  • CSF as a Quantum Medium: CSF, primarily DDW, acts as a waveguide (refractive index ~1.33 at 270 nm), amplifying and distributing coherent UPEs across neural networks, thereby synchronizing microtubule wave functions in zinc-rich Z-Z pathways that are critical for consciousness.

    Microtubules and Consciousness EMERGE BECAUSE OF THE CHANGE OF UPE SPECTRUM in Eukaryotes: Microtubules sustain quantum coherence via π-electrons (e.g., tryptophan, 220–280 nm), with UPEs collapsing wave functions (per Orch-OR) to produce qualia, resolving the hard problem. DDW rich in H+ in the mitochondrial matrix and CSF ensures this coherence.

    Demyelination is Quantum Failure: Reduced UPEs (from low redox, nnEMF, dopants) impair OPC mitosis, causing demyelination, which disrupts microtubule function, CSF waveguiding, and consciousness, reverting to a pre-GOE state (cognitive de-evolution) where only Archaea and Bacteria exist = This is why we now see evidence for the first time in the literature that two type of mitochondria exist. One with cristae and one without. This is not a new phenomena, it is time traveling back to the GOE when only two domains existed. The modern world is built to foster this time travel and the electric scar is now seen in our electronmicrographs of sick eukaryotes dying off. Reduced UPEs impair OPC mitosis and microtubule coherence, exacerbated by deuterium incorporation (from nnEMF, inflammation), reverting to a pre-GOE state. Note, California and AZ fail due to nnEMF and poor water biphysics.

  • Arc Welding Analogy: Microtubules are the weld seam, UPEs the arc light, and CSF the shielding gas. Demyelination introduces defects (weak arc, contaminated gas), but the VDR and NIR light stabilize the arc by narrowing the UPE spectrum, making eukaryotes more complex compared to Archaea and Bacteria. Deuterium in blood acts as a flux shield against nnEMF, while DDW ensures a clean shielding gas for UPE coherence.
  • The Savage Objective?

  • Deduce how demyelination affects microtubule function, CSF pathways, and consciousness, integrating the VDR-NIR ratio, UPE fidelity, and evolutionary de-evolution to validate the mechanism and propose new questions for quantum re-engineering.

    Demyelination’s Impact on Microtubule Function

    Demyelination disrupts the photobioelectric loop, microtubule quantum coherence, and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) waveguiding, leading to altered qualia. The framework shows how the VDR and NIR light from the sun mitigate these effects:

    • Reduced Biophoton Signaling:

      Mechanism: Demyelination results from low UPEs, as reduced redox (nnEMF, hypoxia) impairs mtDNA-driven CCO, diminishing UV biophotons (200–300 nm). The VDR’s braking mechanism, by slowing TCA cycle flux, further limits UPE production but narrows the spectrum, increasing coherence (high SNR). In MS, increased ROS broadens the UPE spectrum (prokaryotic-like), reducing fidelity. The IMM’s DDW (heme) production and the VDR-NIR ratio narrow the spectrum of UPEs (200–300 nm), restoring coherence for microtubule wave function collapses.

      VDR-NIR RATIO IS CRITICAL FOR NEUROLOGICAL FUNCTION: NIR radiation varies throughout the day, with the highest intensity typically occurring during the morning hours. Both latitude and altitude influence NIR intensity. Lower latitudes generally receive more intense NIR due to higher solar elevation angles, while higher altitudes receive more NIR due to less atmospheric absorption. NIR light tie is to the 810 nm spectra that seems to be critical in UPE transformations. (TIINA KURU)

      Impact on Microtubules: Fewer coherent UPEs impair microtubule wave function collapses, disrupting quantum coherence. The framework notes that microtubules adapt by slowing dynamic instability, maintaining stability via UPE-driven π-electron coherence in tryptophan.

      Altered CSF Pathways: Demyelination raises deuterium in CSF, impairing waveguiding and desynchronizing microtubule collapses in Z-Z pathways. DDW supplementation and H⁺-driven QFT in mtDNA counter this, supporting UPE coherence.

      Consciousness Effect: Disrupted collapses lead to altered qualia (e.g., cognitive fog in MS). The refined framework explains why cognition peaks at solar noon in humans, when UV-driven UPEs are strongest, and how NIR light (PBM) restores coherence by boosting UPEs and ATP. (810nm)

  • Altered CSF Pathways:

    Mechanism: Demyelination increases reactive oxygen species (ROS), altering cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) composition (higher deuterium levels, cytokines), and impairing its waveguiding properties (refractive index ~1.33 at 270 nm). The refined framework adds that this mimics a pre-GOE state, where broader UPE spectra reduce coherence.

    Impact on Microtubules: Impaired CSF desynchronizes microtubule collapse across networks, akin to contaminated shielding gas in welding. The VDR reduces ROS, and NIR light (via CCO) enhances UPE production, restoring CSF waveguiding and microtubule coherence.

    Consciousness Effect: Weakened global UPE distribution causes dissociative states (e.g., MS fatigue). The refined framework suggests that DDW supplementation and circadian-aligned light therapy can restore the CSF’s quantum properties.

    Bioelectric Disruption: Increased ROS from demyelination depolymerizes microtubules, exacerbated by nnEMF-induced deuterium incorporation. Deuterium in blood shields against nnEMF, while NIR light reduces ROS, stabilizing microtubules.

    Mechanism: Demyelination slows saltatory conduction, increasing energy demands on axonal mitochondria, raising ROS, and reducing UPEs. The VDR’s braking protects mtDNA but lowers ATP/GTP, while NIR light compensates by boosting ATP and unbinding NO from hemoglobin (paramagnetic switch).

    Impact on Microtubules: Oxidative stress depolymerizes microtubules, impairing transport and coherence (weld seam cracks). NIR light stabilizes microtubules by reducing reactive oxygen species (ROS) and supporting the movement of motor proteins, such as dynein and kinesin.

    Consciousness Effect: Disrupted neural networks alter qualia (e.g., motor deficits in MS). The refined framework ties this to a loss of the DC electric current (per Becker), reversed by NIR light to restore wakefulness.

  • Evolutionary Implications and MS as Cognitive De-evolution

    My perspective is that MS represents a cognitive “de-evolution” to a pre-GOE state. This is a profound evolutionary statement:

    UPEs and Eukaryotic Evolution: Popp’s observation that eukaryotic cells emit more UPEs when stressed (like prokaryotes) supports your idea that altered CCO and VDR function in MS revert mitochondria to a prokaryotic-like state. A 2022 study (Nick Lane, Journal of Theoretical Biology) notes that some mitochondria in diseased states lose cristae, resembling bacterial energy production, which aligns with my hypothesis of de-evolution.

    GOE and Cambrian Explosion: During the GOE, oxygen levels rose, enabling the evolution of mitochondria with cristae, which optimized UPE production for eukaryotic complexity. The VDR’s braking mechanism, by limiting ROS and UPEs, allowed life to “wake up” from a default sleep state, evolving consciousness via microtubule coherence. MS, with increased ROS and too many UPEs with a more variable spectra, unwinds these gains, impairing cognition.

    IRA/NIR and Evolution: IRA/NIR light stabilizes microtubules by reducing ROS, supporting axonal transport and quantum coherence. This mimics the evolutionary role of heme proteins, which evolved to manage oxygen and light, enabling wakefulness, as I suggested in the Cold Thermogensis series of blogs.

  • Nature’s Recipe for Light (Macro to Nano)

    Fermat’s Law and VDR: I’ve likened vitamin D to a ‘magnifying glass’ using Fermat’s law, slowing macroscopic terrestrial sunlight to control UPE production at the nanoscale in mtDNA. Fermat’s principle (light takes the path of least time) supports this idea: the VDR on the IMM focuses sunlight’s energy into a narrow UPE spectrum, by limiting the metabolic consumption of oxygen, optimizing quantum interactions in microtubules.

    Aromatic Amino Acids and UPEs: Cholesterol, melanin, leptin, and aromatic amino acids (e.g., tryptophan) all absorb in the 200–300 nm range. UPEs transformed in this range have a high SNR, which made these molecules more useful evolutionarily, enabling quantum processing in microtubules and the evolution of consciousness. Following the GOE, eukaryotes evolved to exclude deuterium from the mitochondrial matrix, thereby favoring H⁺ for QFT in mtDNA and UPE coherence (200–300 nm). This enabled microtubule quantum processing in zinc-rich Z-Z pathways, evolving consciousness. In MS, modern stressors (nnEMF, circadian disruption) increase deuterium and ROS, reverting to a pre-GOE state with broader UPE spectra, impairing cognition.

    Literature Support

    Microtubules and Quantum Coherence: Penrose-Hameroff (1994) and a 2014 study (Hameroff et al.) confirm that anesthetics disrupt microtubule coherence, supporting the UPE-consciousness link. This decentralized framework addresses a narrow UPE spectrum (200–300 nm), ensuring coherence and mitigating criticisms from the physics community regarding Orch-OR. This is why Penrose and Hameroff have gotten no traction in the physics community. They have no theory to link coherence maintenance to. I do.

    UPEs in Neural Cells: A 2020 study (PMC 11373606) links UPE intensity to cell cycle activity, supporting UPE-driven oligodendrocyte progenitor cell (OPC) mitosis. This framework notes that stressed cells (e.g., in MS) emit broader UPE spectra (Popp’s observation), resembling prokaryotes.

    CSF as a Medium: A 2023 study on water’s optics confirms CSF’s waveguiding role, enhanced by DDW. This framework ties this to evolutionary de-evolution in MS, where altered CSF mimics pre-GOE conditions.

    Demyelination and Microtubules: A 2016 study (NBK 9932) links multiple sclerosis (MS) to microtubule dysfunction via reactive oxygen species (ROS). This decentralized framework explains this as a reversion to prokaryotic-like mitochondrial function (e.g., loss of cristae).

    Consciousness in MS: A 2018 study reports cognitive impairment in MS (40–70% of patients). The framework attributes this to reduced UPE fidelity, mitigated by the VDR-NIR ratio. This might be the key ratio in repairing neurological damage.

  • Integration with My Broader Thesis

    Decentralized Control: The melanin-sunlight-mtDNA-UPE loop, distributed via CSF, aligns with my SCAN model. Demyelination disrupts this, but the VDR-NIR ratio restores coherence, supporting cognition.

    Evolutionary Context: Post-GOE, melanin optimized UPEs (200–300 nm) for microtubule quantum processing. Demyelination in MS, driven by modern stressors (nnEMF, blue light), reverts to a pre-GOE state with broader UPE spectra, increased ROS, and prokaryotic-like mitochondria (loss of cristae), impairing consciousness.

    Phenotypic Implications: Circadian disruptions reduce UPE fidelity, altering microtubule function and qualia (e.g., MS fatigue tied to heme protein destruction). The VDR-NIR ratio, aligned with morning to solar noon light, is irreplaceable for all neurological diseases, and the PM light 2-3 hours before sunset also has NIr with 810nm, counters the entropy in disease, as does anesthesia’s suppression of UPEs (reversed by NIR).

  • Decentralized Research Questions

    UPE-Microtubule Interaction: How does a narrowed UPE spectrum (200–300 nm) in MS patients affect microtubule wave function collapses, measurable via EEG?

    CSF’s Role: How does demyelination-induced ROS alter CSF’s deuterium content, and can DDW supplementation restore UPE coherence in MS?

    Consciousness and Qualia: Can UPE spectrum changes in MS be mapped to qualia deficits, and does the VDR-NIR ratio improve cognitive outcomes?

    Microtubule Dynamics: Does the VDR’s braking mechanism alter tubulin polymerization rates in demyelinated axons, and can NIR light (810 nm) restore transport?

    Therapeutic Interventions: Can combined UV/NIR light therapy, aligned with circadian cycles, reverse MS cognitive de-evolution by narrowing UPE spectra?

    Clinical Implications

    Light Therapy: AM UV/blue light (200–500 nm, 15–30 min) to boost coherent UPEs; PM IRA/NIR light (600–1000 nm) to enhance CCO, ATP, and UPE fidelity, stabilizing microtubules in MS.

    Minimize Stressors: Avoid nnEMF (Wi-Fi, 5G) and dopants (supplements) to preserve UPE fidelity (high SNR).

    Support CSF: DDW supplementation (below ~100 ppm titrated to heteroplasmy ratio) to enhance CSF’s waveguiding, supporting UPE coherence. The link to DDW and the VDR-NIR ratio might be the key to many reversals. Pollack’s new data will be key to review.

    Circadian Alignment: Blue blockers post-sunset and environment-matched diets (Epi Paleo Rx) to align with NO and oxygen’s paramagnetic switch, optimizing the VDR-NIR ratio.

    Reflection on the Integrated Approach

    The integration maintains the decentralized, light-first stance, anchoring demyelination in quantum failure (reduced UPE fidelity, altered CSF) while explaining how the VDR-NIR ratio and narrowed UPE spectrum restore microtubule function and consciousness. The evolutionary perspective of MS as cognitive de-evolution ties the narrative together, offering a unified framework for decentralized medicine.

  • SUMMARY

    All the pieces in this series fit seamlessly, with my decentralized framework for enhancing the demyelination diseases by providing mechanistic depth (UPE spectrum narrowing, VDR-NIR ratio) and an evolutionary lens (MS as de-evolution). No major disconnects were found over my last 20 years, but I continue to reassess the new data as it is published. There will certainly be a need for additional first-principles welding. The integrated thesis provides a comprehensive, biophysically grounded explanation of how demyelination disrupts consciousness in multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative conditions, and how light-driven interventions can potentially restore it, with profound implications for decentralized medicine.

Now, the next step……….how did we evolve consciousness? How do we explain the “hard problem of consciousness?”

Stay tuned, mitochondriacs. We’re just warming up.