ABSTRACT
When applied to the heart's spatio-temporal neural network, the principIe of quantum eraser has an awful consequence: The sudden cardiac death ([47]). For this syndrome, nervous impulses to the heart are of critical importance. If an electrical input stimulus is applied to a patch of the heart tissue in a moment that is not precisely determined in advance, then the dangerous ventricular fibrillation phenomenon will never be observed. In this case the information content of the patterns of intrinsic electrical stimuli is preserved and the cooperative synchronization of the heart muscle fibers remains essentially unaffected. With the exception of a shift of the usual rhythm ahead or back, most of the extern al electrical impulses actually have no lasting effect on the subsequent contractions . In particular, the interval between impulses after the external stimulus does not change. If, however, a small electrical input stimulus arrives at a certain position during the vuln~rabel time interval of the heartbeat rhythm, the information content is completely erased by the marker so that the cooperative synchronization of the heart muscle fibers and their cooperative organization stop. Although the sinus node has a regular intrinsic discharge, the heartbeat timing of mammalians is not controlled by regular trains of impulses. Therefore, the detection of the vulnerable time interval needs a systematic study of pulse train recordings and a corresponding space-time variation of the external electrical stimuli to cover the interval between contractions. Indeed, the key point is that the contraction of the heart is spatially distributed and the timing of firings and strength of stimuli delivered by the spatio-temporal neural network of Purkinje cells vary considerably even across short distances. In the Purkinje fibers which control the neural pacemaking impulses passing into the ventricular muscle and hence the contractions of the ventricles, a cell drives a follower cell if it is active in cooperative phase-linked synchrony with many other cells which contact the same folIower cell for rapid pulse conduction. After having completely erased the information content of the neural hologram by marking the vulnerable time interval with abrief electrical impulse of proper magnitude and timing, the heart starts with chaotic convulsions which after five minutes imply almost certainly the exitus. Although the ventricular fibrillation actually can be reversed, every year several hundered thousand people are killed by the spatio-temporal disorganization of the normal coordinated contraction
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Figure 12: The heart - computer generated
of heart muscle fibers. Therefore the sud den eardiae death syndrome is one of the major ehallenges to eontemporary cardiology. Note that the stimulus employed will never eause erasion of information and henee ventrieular fibrillation unless it is properly timed within the eycle of heartbeats. The loss of phase information thai results in the arrhythmia eatastrophe of violent and disorganized activity is ofgenuine neural quantum holographie origin. The implantation of a cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) ean reverse ventrieular fibrillation.
