This paper proposes a mechanism producing quantum coherence in microtubules and questions, how this quantum coherence is scaled up to include the cerebral cortex. Microtubules are part of the cytoskeleton in all cells. In neurons, they are thought to play a key role in consciousness. The Orch-OR theory of consciousness maintains that consciousness—qualia, the feeling of life itself—requires quantum processes, and that Turing machine algorithms, though capable of astonishing calculations, lack insight and understanding. "Insight" as Gödel’s incompleteness argument suggests may not be demonstrable by an algorithmic process. Consciousness (Chalmer’s explanatory gap) may depend on more than calculation. In the current consciousness paradigm, quantum coherent microtubules are considered the primary unit of "computation" rather than neurons and the synapses between neurons.
Inhalt
1- Vicinal Water and Quantum Coherence in Microtubules
2- Scaling up the Quantum Property of the Microtubule to the Cerebral Cortex/Brain
3- Symmetry Breaking and Self-Synthesis
4- Phyllotaxis, the Phi Connectome and Bandyopadhyay’s Sphere-Spiral Fractal Structure
5- The Phi Connectome—Formation
7- Information Transmission Delays in the Brain and Consciousness
8- Paradoxical Results in Measurements of the ‘Time’ of Conscious States
9- The Cellular Automaton and Quantum Coherent States
10. Formation of Microtubules in Prokaryotes and Self-Synthesis of the Phi Connectome
11. Microtubule polarity in axons, soma, dendrites, and the phi connectome
12. Phi Connectome Connectivity—Quantum or Electromagnetic Field?
13. Discussion
14. References
- Quote paper
- Dr. Marshall Goldberg (Author), 2020, Heat-Induced Quasicrystal Formation in Vicinal Water. Quantum Coherence in Microtubules and the Phi Connectome, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/961537