Do conscious moments leave a measurable trace in brain light?

FirebrickEel

Photonic Dual-Aspect Consciousness (PDAC) asks whether felt moments leave a measurable trace in the brain’s ultra-weak light. The hypothesis is that brief biophotons co-vary with Selection, Binding, and Imprinting in a single conscious moment. Three tests are proposed: (1) a recognition-based delayed-choice task to see if familiarity nudges an even split; (2) a cortical-slice assay with single-photon cameras to detect a transient rise above a dark-corrected baseline; and (3) a compact photon-relation map (timing, phase, direction, polarisation) that beats shuffled baselines and reappears with recognition. Each met criterion scores 1 (PDAC score 0-3). A non-zero score would show that structure in brain light tracks reported experience, providing a practical way to gauge how quantum life might be.

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ShockwaveRider

You can easily use fuzzy logic and Percolation Statistics to measure consciousness in your own living room, by measuring laughter. Either the light-bulb comes on, or it doesn't, but you can also use the new Quantum Baye's Principle to get up to 14 decimal places of precision. Your entire visual system is organized around looking for what's missing from this picture, which is why academia has never documented the existence of consciousness.

FirebrickEel

Hey ShockwaveRider, thanks for reading 🙂 I agree we tend to overcomplicate things and the simple behaviour of laughing (and getting a joke) already tells us we're conscious and clever. With PDAC I'm just asking a narrower question, when someone is conscious, does the brain's light change in a way we can actually measure? Can we make it science-y, can we see the imprint of our choices and interactions? And maybe, curiously, can these be recalled. I think it's something worth testing with today's cameras. If the answer is NO, then that's worth knowing too.