Wednesday, May 6, 2020

If you want something that's not finite, you have mathematics: Another great new Penrose lecture

Sir Roger Penrose & Dr. Stuart Hameroff: CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE PHYSICS OF THE BRAIN

Penrose HAS to use his left hand moving around like a Conductor - as he talks - because as a geometer he is more right-brain dominant.

2016

So delocalized electrons (nonlocal) resonate at Terahertz...
 your brain is a quantum orchestra
 smaller-scale terahertz vibrations among intra-tubulin ‘pi electron resonance clouds’, and to slower ones, e.g. by interference ‘beats’ giving rise to larger scale EEG.

 Using sound and light to generate ultra-fast data transfer

 perhaps even integrate structures generating sound with the terahertz laser, so that no external sound source is needed."
A research team from the University of Leeds and University of Nottingham believe they have found a way of delivering ultra- fast modulation, by combining the power of acoustic and light waves. They have published their findings today (February 11th) in Nature Communications.
John Cunningham, Professor of Nanoelectronics at Leeds, said: "This is exciting research. At the moment, the system for modulating a quantum cascade laser is electrically driven -- but that system has limitations.
"Ironically, the same electronics that delivers the modulation usually puts a brake on the speed of the modulation. The mechanism we are developing relies instead on acoustic waves."

13: THE “QUANTUM UNDERGROUND”: WHERE LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS ORIGINATE

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and Jack A. Tuszynski

 https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814644266_0013

 As our knowledge of reductionist details of living systems continues to grow, the gap in understanding life and consciousness remains wide. Progress has been made, e.g., biological organisms are seen as complex hierarchical amalgamations of elements interacting in self-similar, “scale invariant” patterns within and across spatio-temporal scales (“1/f”). But the mechanism for trans-scalar communication is unknown, as are the origin and foundation, i.e., the “bottom floor” of scale-invariant systems in biology. Here, we describe scale-invariant hierarchies in brain and living organisms in general, originating in a biomolecular “quantum underground” pervading neurons, glia and all living cells, most specifically within cytoskeletal microtubules. The quantum underground is a non-polar solubility phase composed largely of π-electron resonance clouds of aromatic amino acids, similar to pi-resonance arrays mediating quantum coherence in photosynthesis proteins. In the brain, the quantum underground is identified as the origin of consciousness by the Meyer-Overton correlation, showing where anesthetics act to erase consciousness while sparing non-conscious brain activities. Evidence points to anesthetics acting to dampen quantum dipole oscillations in the “Meyer-Overton quantum underground” within brain neuronal microtubules. These quantum dipole oscillations are seen as the “inward apex,” the origin of scale-invariant processes in consciousness and life.


 

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