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Stuart Hameroff

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I am an Astrobiologist, retired Anesthesiologist and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at The University of Arizona.

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Different temporal scales up to 95 Hz? Thats still the low bass and percussion sections of the quantum orchestra. Megahertz between 6 and 26 MHz from cortical microtubules is easily detectable from scalp in awake subjects, part of Anirban’s DDG and likely NCC. Connectivity? MHz

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It’s likely triplets between 6 and 26 megahertz will be the NCC and replace the BIS and SEDline processed numbers as best technological monitor for anesthetic depth. anesthesiology Stanford Anesthesiology Anesthesia&Analgesia

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Interesting paper attempting to disprove fractal organization of representation in neuronal assembles winds up agreeing with it! But it’s more like a hologram . In the first half of 20th century Karl Lashley found particular memories were not stored in particular places but

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I agree. The underlying OR event is in fundamental (‘funda-mental) spacetime geometry. But orchestrated by microtubules. So when people say the brain is just a receiver of consciousness they’re partially right. Their microtubules determine how they experience.

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AI-driven neuroscience is the worst thing to ever happen to understanding the brain, bribing neuroscientists into seeing only cartoon neurons at slow frequencies. Life and consciousness depend on organic carbon with quantum-friendly aromatic rings.

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Astrocytes are filled with microtubules oscillating and resonating in hertz, kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz and terahertz, just like microtubules in neurons which communicate by megahertz and gigahertz, bypassing synapse. Microtubules encode memory and can entangle. Spikes are

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Few comments: 1) If you want hierarchical processing you could use microtubule time crystals inside neurons. Hertz, kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz, terahertz self-similar dynamics. 2) Assigning valence isn’t tackling the hard problem. You need a motivation for cause, effect and

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Actually Anil there IS a distinction between ‘mindware and wetware’ in the brain. Mindware is the quantum-friendly solubility compartment where anesthetic gases act (nonpolar confluences of aromatic amino acid rings inside tubulin/microtubules). Wetware is where charged, polar

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Collaboration across divides isn’t what you’re doing. The TWCF adversarial collaborations only compare very similar theories, like voting for either Tweedle-Dum or Tweedle-Dee (e.g. IIT vs GNW). The only theory with explanatory power, biological connection and experimental

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Why does Anil Seth ignore the only theory of consciousness which HAS biological naturalism? Orch OR includes neuronal interiors including 12 orders of frequency processing in microtubules, quantum non-locality, explanatory power, biology and experimental validation. Anil only

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Epiphenomenalism also fails to explain why any living system performs any purposeful behavior. Everything we do is to optimize feelings, be they immediate or delayed, hedonistic or altruistic. Or to avoid bad feelings.

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If consciousness is an illusion, what does it matter? That’s Anil’s position apparently. Orch OR predicts a spectrum of conscious events accessing qualia in funda-mental spacetime, resonating with microtubule quantum oscillations. For example microtubules oscillate and

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Gamma synchrony is not caused by axons firing. It comes from dendritic LFPs, probably from beat frequencies in microtubule faster oscillations. This was Crick and Koch’s error when they first endorsed gamma synchrony as the NCC in 1990 because they thought it was spikes/firings.

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Depends on ‘perceived’ but your statement is a clear attempt to dodge the ‘hard problem’, similar to Anil Seth’s ‘real problem’ dodge, referring back to neural correlates of consciousness. Problem is NCCs like fMRI, EEG and MEG may not correlate with consciousness at all, as the

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No need. Plants have microtubules but not in the part of the Apple we eat. Maybe the skin. But plant stems and roots only have a few microtubules and a few conscious moments per minute so No biggie in my view. We gotta eat something.

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That’s as clear as Boston Harbor. Pattern recognition doesn’t equate to conscious experience. Fancy words don’t help and you’re just restating the problem. I gave you a pretty good explanation of the hard problem, far better than any other theory, so now you’re just

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No it doesn’t and you don’t need thalamus for consciousness (olfaction for example). If you want recursive nesting study Orch OR and its 12 orders of frequency with resonance and interference thanks to microtubule time crystal behavior. When all else fails, say ‘complexity’.

No it doesn’t and you don’t need thalamus for consciousness (olfaction for example). If you want recursive nesting study Orch OR and its 12 orders of frequency with resonance and interference  thanks to microtubule time crystal behavior. 

When all else fails, say ‘complexity’.
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Great. But while fMRI, EEG and MEG may correlate with cognition, they may not necessarily correlate with consciousness as the famous Carhart-Harris 2012 paper showed. Subjects with eyes closed in fMRI or EEG receiving IV psilocybin later reported vivid expanded consciousness. But