Stuart Hameroff: Neuroscience needs a revolution
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Published 2023-07-31
Single cell organisms behave purposefully using their cytoskeletal microtubules to sense and navigate. Microtubules (MTs) are self-assembling cylindrical polymers of ‘tubulin’ protein which in neurons organize synapses, encode memory and process information (tubulin is the brain’s most prevalent protein). Evidence now suggests psychedelics, antidepressants and anesthetics act on microtubules inside neurons, rather than, or in addition to membrane receptors and ion channels.
Whereas neuronal membranes and channels operate in frequencies from hertz to 100 hertz (cycles per second), microtubules and tubulins collectively resonate inside neurons at deeper, faster scales over 12 orders of magnitude in fractal-like patterns in hertz, kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz and terahertz ranges (as shown by Anirban Bandyopadhyay group at NIMS in Japan). Like notes and chords resonate in music, quantum vibrations and state reductions can entangle and interfere across frequencies in the brain - a ‘quantum orchestra’.
The Penrose-Hameroff ‘Orch OR’ theory suggests brain microtubules ‘orchestrate’ quantum state objective reductions (‘OR’) into full rich conscious experience. Mainstream ‘neuroscientific’ consciousness theories (IIT, GNW, HoT, PC/RP) use membrane-only simple neurons (emulated in AI) which may be suitable only for non-conscious algorithmic functions – ‘zombie neurons’. To find consciousness, and treat mental and cognitive disorders, neuroscience must look inward to deeper, faster quantum processes in microtubules inside brain neurons.
Edited by Emilio Manzotti
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All Comments (21)
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We get to listen to all of this amazing stuff for free and people have tizzy fits about the camera or sound work. The solution is to pay for a flight, hotel and conference fees and take time off of work to see it. No one is obligated to provide this in any way to anyone online and yet they did. I for one am nothing but grateful.
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Stuart shows us images no other generation could see, It's amazing to see the super position of biology.
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The universe spins, the galaxies too, our solar system spins and so do the planets, spin up and down does plasma, compression of spin is the tech we're lacking.
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An electrical flow of charge in a magnetic field emits EMF and likewise light waves induce a current. We speak our thoughts to the universe and the universe answers back.
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Far as AI goes, if a wave collapse can affect its programming outputs when decision making then it will become as conscious as an ai will ever become.
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Wouldn't it be really nice to have slides from this presentation... Here are some thoughts: Subjectively, consciousness appears to be an observation process outside of the physical brain that triggers quantum state objective reductions, resulting in a 'BING' moment. It reacts to internal model errors based on external signals and triggers processes to rebuild the internal model of the world, which is relevant to point 8 of the argument for revolution. Once again, subjectively, consciousness appears to be a field-based entity in a symbiotic relationship with the physical body (not every body), and it likely originates from another dimension. The flow of time is the subjective experience of the three-dimensional brain in the physical world. In contrast, this entity can observe all of time (three-dimensional time, as per R. Bartini). However, the human brain needs further development to be able to construct a proper time-dimensional structure model.
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awesome, thanks!
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Is consiousness == self ????
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needed 45 minutes!
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stuart falls into his own pit when he says amoeba might be conscious.. of course they are !!
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But the question is how a wave function collapse causes consciousness?
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That’s a micro tubule full !!!
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The man is a legend.
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Via senses, the brain converts various signals into neurons (memory). These concepts (groups of neurons containing the translated signals) are connected in a 3D grid (probably in the cerebellum) and translated into motor action. In animals, this grid is fed back to the brain (attention). In humans, this grid is constantly read out via the amygdala and adapted via the concepts in the neocortex. Consciousness therefore originates basically in the cerebellum.
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I wonder if focused ultrasound on microtubules could trigger enlightenment experiences.
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Why don't camera operators realize we need to see the fucking slides he's referring to? We don't need to watch him talking , we need to see the cursor on the slides he's presenting!
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this guy get one thing wrong in the beginning, ultimately the revolution needs to start in philosophy, then physics and then so on, but it is dialectical so at some point one of these guys will think themselves at the cutting edge, and if they don't think that then we don't get to the endpoint, so it is what it is.
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Quanta of stored energy stored in microtubes gain core core coherent rhythm through systematic observer focus leads to a self paced collapsing and inter molecular jumps to a new neural pathway through consciousness shift
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Could this be edited to show the slides in full screen.
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i have regular out of body experiences and i know from these experiences that consciousness is "non-local", and i've also had OBEs during anaesthesia. so the notion that anaesthesia suspends or shuts consciousness down is wrong.
