(November 23, 2018 at 8:29 pm)Everena Wrote: Here's a .gov link about it
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594572/
Here's another link
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20...085105.htm
And here's another link
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/physic...vibrations
And here is another link about it
https://www.scribd.com/document/31829521...sciousness
And here's another link about it
https://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-...rates.html
So I guess you were wrong about that, but you did get to learn something new today!
The NIH link presupposes Orch-OR. It doesn't demonstrates it. Three of the other four links are pop-sci rewrites of the paper in "Physics of Life Reviews", link #3, so no surprise that they all seem to say the same thing. The actual publication, by Penrose and Hamerhoff again, shows only quantum vibrations in electrons in microtubules. It doesn't show entanglement or quantum computing. Or computing of any sort. Just electron vibrating, which they do pretty much all the time. It also didn't show bugger all in the way of citations, which is really sloppy scientific writing. The researchers seemed impressed that there was a correlation between the quantum vibrations and EEG patterns, though one might expect that pumping charged ions in and out of neurons regularly might set the electrons in the microtubules to vibrating.
A literature review shows little work by anybody other than Penrose and Hamerhoff. Rather tellingly, one of the few other publishers was Deepak Chopra, whom they appear to take seriously.
There's actually a really easy way to disprove Orch-OR. Electron spin is highly susceptible to influence by external magnetic fields, so if consciousness was produced by electron spin in microtubules then the high-powered magnets in an NMR machine should render you completely unconscious, at best. Clearly that doesn't happen.
Let's assume that Orch-Or is right though. Where does that get you? Now you have a quantum computer in your cells that rots and dies along with the rest of you. Congratulations. It's a very tiny snack for the worms.
"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."