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Karl Pribram (Neurowissenschaften), entwickelte das holonome Gehirnmodell?
Pribram's holonomic brain theory is one of the most rigorously laboratory-tested heterodox models in 20th-century neuroscience — derived from over 40 years of experiments. It reframes cognition not as localized computation but as distributed wave interference processed across dendritic field networks. Its convergence with David Bohm's implicate order physics makes it the strongest scientific bridge yet proposed between quantum field theory and biological consciousness.
Evidence
- Karl Pribram (1919–2015), trained under Karl Lashley, began developing his holonomic model after observing that cortical lesions in primates failed to erase specific memories — mirroring Lashley's own 'engram' paradox.
- According to Pribram's own account in Brain and Perception (1991), processing occurs in the electromagnetic field environments surrounding dendritic branches — microprocesses operating below the threshold of classical axon-synapse signaling.
- Dean Radin at IONS has cited the holonomic framework as compatible with his replicated anomalous cognition experiments, since non-local field processing dissolves the geometric constraints that make psi phenomena theoretically impossible under classical models.
- Rather than abandoning localization incrementally, Pribram concluded that memory and perception are distributed as interference patterns across the brain's fine-fibered dendritic webs, not stored at discrete synaptic addresses.
- These field oscillations can be analyzed via Fourier transforms, the same mathematics Dennis Gabor used to formulate optical holography.