The "Orch OR" theory suggests that quantum computations in brain neuronal dendritic-somatic microtubules regulate axonal firings to control conscious behavior. Within microtubule subunit proteins, collective dipoles in arrays of contiguous amino acid electron clouds enable "quantum channels" suitable for topological dipole "qubits" able to physically represent cognitive values, for example, those portrayed by Pothos & Busemeyer (P&B) as projections in abstract Hilbert space.
Download full-text PDF |
Source |
|---|---|
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X1200297X | DOI Listing |
Publication Analysis
Top Keywords
Similar Publications
Testing out-of-equilibrium life phenomena in underground laboratories: Comment on "At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory", by M. Derakhshani, L. Diósi, M. Laubenstein, K. Piscicchia, and C. Curceanu.
Phys Life Rev
December 2023
Center for Field Theory and Particle Physics & Department of Physics Fudan University, Shanghai, China; Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati INFN, Frascati (Rome), Italy; INFN sezione Roma "Tor Vergata", 00133 Rome, Italy. Electronic address:
Have underground radiation measurements refuted the Orch OR theory?: Comment on "At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory".
Phys Life Rev
March 2023
Philosophy Department, Chapman University, United States of America. Electronic address:
What if consciousness is not an emergent property of the brain? Observational and empirical challenges to materialistic models.
Front Psychol
September 2022
Research Department, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, CA, United States.
The nature of consciousness is considered one of science's most perplexing and persistent mysteries. We all know the subjective experience of consciousness, but where does it arise? What is its purpose? What are its full capacities? The assumption within today's neuroscience is that all aspects of consciousness arise solely from interactions among neurons in the brain. However, the origin and mechanisms of (i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConsciousness, Cognition and the Neuronal Cytoskeleton - A New Paradigm Needed in Neuroscience.
Front Mol Neurosci
June 2022
Department of Anesthesiology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States.
Viewing the brain as a complex computer of simple neurons cannot account for consciousness nor essential features of cognition. Single cell organisms with no synapses perform purposeful intelligent functions using their cytoskeletal microtubules. A new paradigm is needed to view the brain as a scale-invariant hierarchy extending both upward from the level of neurons to larger and larger neuronal networks, but also downward, inward, to deeper, faster quantum and classical processes in cytoskeletal microtubules inside neurons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWant AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?
Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!