(2019-12-22, 10:01 PM)Max_B Wrote: Good find...
He gives IIT a boot doesn't he (which I agree with), and he also stomps on Orch-OR (which is probably right), but also seems to lay the boot into the more general idea that there are any quantum processes associated with Microtubules (MT's), which I think is a bit harsh.
It's Tubulin proteins which make up MT's, which then make up Centrioles, Cilia and Basal Bodies, and it does seem that these highly conserved structures are somehow involved in sensing, communicating, processing information, and generally moving around and navigating space-time.
Yeah I don't think Orch-OR as fully laid out is the right answer but it seems odd to not credit Hammeroff's research relating to anesthesia. Which is not to say Hammeroff [h]as demonstrably shown he's right either, but it seems as much a live hypothesis as McFadden's own?
And it's not too long ago (less than a decade IMO) that quantum biology in its entirety was considered impossible, so this idea that there's nothing to find re: microtubules, quantum biology, and consciousness seems presumptuous.
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