I agree that there is something very interesting going on with
microtubules. I beleive that water has a role to play in this and have
an article exploring this possibility for FtsZ, the procaryotic homolgue
of tubulin, the building block of microtubules. In microtubules this
should provide an environment within which the microtubules could well
be doing some very interesting things.
However, I dont think they are the substrate for conciousness. Firstly
microtubules, even in neurons are far to dynamic to be able to store
persistent information. If you start thinking instead of microtubules
being able to 'tune in' to information that is not physically stored in
the microtubules then there is nothing in the microtubules that tunes
the information to a specific individual, which is surely what is neede
for a quantum soul.
For this part of the story I think you need to go elsewhere,
particularly the nucleus, and particularly within the nucleus to the
nucleolus. Try looking up information about what DNA is found in the
nucleolus (as well as the ribosomal genes) and the structure of this
DNA, and also, returning to Hameroff, , the effect of anaesthetics on
the nucleolus.
Nigel Dyer
On 18/01/2014 05:41, H Veeder wrote:
"My Spider Senses are starting to tingle"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kek3GqbsTk
Harry
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com
<mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Discovery of Quantum Vibrations in 'Microtubules' Inside Brain Neurons
Supports Controversial Theory of Consciousness
Jan. 16, 2014 — A review and update of a controversial 20-year-old
theory of consciousness published in Physics of Life Reviews claims
that consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale activities
inside brain neurons. The recent discovery of quantum vibrations in
"microtubules" inside brain neurons corroborates this theory,
according to review authors Stuart Hameroff and Sir Roger Penrose.
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Terry Blanton
<hohlr...@gmail.com <mailto:hohlr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I think Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff have the best
explanation of
> consciousness to date. It's called Orchestrated Objective
Reduction,
> or Orch-OR. The two actually developed the idea separately, Sir
> Penrose being a physicist and Hameroff being a physician who
> specialized in anesthesia and cancer research. Roger was seeking a
> model of the brain that did not require computation. Hameroff
wanted
> to know how anesthesia worked and where the conscious went when
under.
> Penrose theorizes that spacetime is granular at the size of the
> Planck length and that quantum superposition is linked to the
> curvature. Orchestrated Reduction is the collapse of the
> superposition.
>
> Hameroff brought in the neuron microtubles which provide the
> structure. He sees a synchronous oscillation in neural MT can
> influence other neurons. Together they see these electrons as a sea
> embedded in the geometry of spacetime.
>
> Needless to say, they have many critics. :-)
