Dr. Stuart Hameroff's New Quantum Theory of Consciousness

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1. its makes sense that elderly patients who undergo surgery under anesthesia- do no wake up because their brain looses consciousness-
   
   maybe anesthetics are the triggers of dementia - be it surgical or dental. it effects the Tau protiens and is the primary cause?
   use adult stem cells to create healthy tubules of a patient who has dementia,, and test this theory -
   genetics are controlled by genetic factors- not consciousness-
   
   the more synapses the more we can learn through emotion an experience -
   consciousness is not stored in tubules- maybe there is a consciousness particle like an electron which interacts with our quantum particles to allow us to think with out a brain.
   
   some indian religions believe god is everywhere- maybe this is consciousness - and god created the universe using a "sound" giving form to everything else. - fits in to the anthropic principle - like the Sikh religion
   
   hinduism, buddist and sikhism also state that god created beings of a higher consciousness than humans- but lower that that of the creator - beings such as the demi gods- hence they have more super natural powers than humans such as they can fly and live in other dimensions.
   
   currently we have Global Warming- this means the water in our bodies will change to the environment - colder water has more memory than hot water- as our bodies also heat up, our dna and resonance will also change?
   
   epidemiology study of cases of dementia linked to changes in temperature might show something?
   
   the underlying problem is that something is messing with our DNA to cause dementia- what could it be?
   Eastern religions also say that we are currently in Kalyug- "Time of darkness"- Where people have forgot how to be pure
   Dementia is also described as Darkness- perhaps they are literally describing the time of darkness "Kalyug" as dementia?
   Kal=darkness, Yug= era
   
   Maybe its the "thought circuits" we have been activating over the millennia through chanting gods name that kept our bodies and brains regulated- and now we have more distractions from technology, our brains are breaking down as we no longer activate our religious synapses and brain circuits ?
   many prayers in the sikh religion are prayers for the mind- e.g "Oh my mind", "tell my mind" "Train my mind" ...etc
   
   
   could religious chanting regulate our brains- ? what would an epidemiology analysis show? or playing religious chants to freezing water to see which forms the perfect water crystals, ?
2. Roger Penrose should allow Stuart Hameroff to present his ideas to the public. Penrose is truly brilliant but is way to mentally preoccupied to coherently articulate subject matter the way Hameroff can.
3. In Eastern philosophy consciousness is prior to everything, therefore all explanations- scientific, philosophical or otherwise -are said to be external to consciousness. Being the most prior principle, it remains untouched. It is perpetually the Seer and can not be reduced to a Scene (object).
4. Mostly wow!
5. Im amazed... will you ever come to Canada for speaches?
6. SASTPC: You are TRULY people after my own heart!
7. On Schrodinger's cat- an imaginary life and mind, but a real cat
   
   The cat illustrates the link between quantum (subjective, imaginary axis) and particle (objective, real axis) physics
   
   The link is Schoedinger's equation (eqn (1) below). The i axis is the quantum or mental axis. Without this, there is no life. The real axis is that of the quantum's corresponding particle, the real body and brain of the cat.
   
   Eqn (1) below is the link between quantum (mental) mechanics and real world physics (real axis). It also represents a Leibniz monad.
   
   Leibniz's monad is the simplest possible entity, a substance without parts. In other words, a quantum. It is not the same as the term "monad" commonly used in mathematics. But although it is without parts, it is one aspect of a philosophical monistic dualism, the other aspect being a particle.
   
   The basic assumption in this exploratory essay is that quanta are mental entities existing in imaginary space and time and
   particles are real entities in real space and time. This is so if we accept Leibniz's universe as a dual-aspect monism.
   Each real particle, if we use Leibniz's concept of the monad,has a corresponding quantum, orthogonal to the place and time
   because imaginary not real) of the real component, but in itself not belonging to spacetime.
   
   Consider Schrodinger's equation with Mind as a scalar quantum wave (the left hand side of the equation) , which is the equation for Leibniz's monad :
   
   - i * d(psi(r,t))/dt = H*psi(r,t) (1)
   
   Here we have a particle acting in an electric field where dpsi(r,t)/dt acts as the differential slope of the mathematical
   psi wave, and the Hamiltonian H is a real function containing a space-time gradient of psi and a potential energy.
   
   What this says is that properties of the quantum are defined by the nature of real scalar psi (r,t).
   
   Considera timeless holographic quantum pool table where the there is perhaps an additional
   equation something like
   
   - i (1-prob (r,t)) (2)
   
   where the imaginary component disappears if prob(r,t) = 1 and r,t is the position of a hole deterministically located
   (at fractal positions) to ensure a pre-established harmony. When the quantum drops through a hole it is no long purely
   mental but part of the brain. Due to feedback from the brain, the equation for the particle quntum, like Schroedinger's cat,
   will contain mixed real and imaginary components. And so on.
   
   
   -Ever since Hume, science has imprisoned us in the dark cave of materialism and empiricism and needs to restore us to the
   quantum sunlight of plato (plotinus) -- see my website https://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough
8. Unbelievably brilliant!
9. BING!! :)
10. We are indeed attuned to the universe - and it is profound.
    Joyce A. Kovelman, Ph.D., Ph.D.
11. Wonderful exposition, with some exciting new developments of the theory to explain the origins of terrestrial life itself.
    I would add "predictive inference" to "feel good" - as in, being able to predict the future of the environment confers evolutionary advantage. "Feeling good" about this further drives the "reward" epigenetic Lamarckian positive feedback loop in the system to optimise that predictive, enhanced Darwinian fitness capability.
    Regarding how OrchOr relates to Phi-IIT classical consciousness and beyond to CosmoGaia:
    The #OrchOR Quantum Consciousness theory of Hammeroff & Penrose, by Stuart Hammeroff (and its #Asynsis principle geometrical foundations & superstructure right through to its Platonic, Whitehead, Smolin-led conclusion - #AsAboveSoBelow).
    https://medium.com/@ASYNSIS/phi-vrs-orch-or-as-above-so-below-6c3a670cf7a7
    https://medium.com/@ASYNSIS/cosmogaia-2ffa281c73d