Medical Hypotheses
Volume 62, Issue 2 , Pages 169-172, February 2004

Biophotons, microtubules and CNS, is our brain a “Holographic computer”?

  • F Grass

      Affiliations

    • Departement of General Psychiatry, University of Vienna, 1090 Waehringer Gürtel 18-20, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Present address: A-1070 Stiftgasse 33/2, Austria. Tel./fax: +431-522-5689
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  • H Klima

      Affiliations

    • Atomic Institute of the University of Vienna, A-1020 Schuettelstrasse 121, Austria
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  • S Kasper

      Affiliations

    • Departement of General Psychiatry, University of Vienna, 1090 Waehringer Gürtel 18-20, Austria

Received 20 August 2003; accepted 19 October 2003.

Abstract 

Several experiments show that there is a cell to cell communication by light in different cell types. This article describes theoretical mechanisms and subcellular structures that could be involved in this phenomenon. Special consideration is given to the nervous system, since it would have excellent conditions for such mechanisms. Neurons are large colourless cells with wide arborisations, have an active metabolism generating photons, contain little pigment, and have a prominent cytoskeleton consisting of hollow microtubules. As brain and spinal cord are protected from environmental light by bone and connective tissue, the signal to noise ratio should be high for photons as signal. Fluorescent and absorbing substances should interfere with such a communication system. Of all biogenic amines nature has chosen the ones with the strongest fluorescence as neurotransmitters for mood reactions: serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine. If these mechanisms are of relevance our brain would have to be looked upon as a “holographic computer”.

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PII: S0306-9877(03)00308-6

doi:10.1016/S0306-9877(03)00308-6

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 62, Issue 2 , Pages 169-172, February 2004