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                                             January 17, 2014

"Discovery of Quantum Vibrations in
'Microtubules' Inside Brain Neurons
Supports Controversial Theory of           CONSILIENCE_PRIZE
Consciousness"

Jan. 16, 2014

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140116085105.htm

  "The theory, called 'orchestrated objective reduction' ('Orch
  OR'), was first put forward in the mid-1990s by eminent
  mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose, FRS, Mathematical
  Institute and Wadham College, University of Oxford, and
  prominent anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, MD, Anesthesiology,
  Psychology and Center for Consciousness Studies, The University
  of Arizona, Tucson. They suggested that quantum vibrational
  computations in microtubules were 'orchestrated' ('Orch') by
  synaptic inputs and memory stored in microtubules, and
  terminated by Penrose 'objective reduction' ('OR'), hence 'Orch
  OR.' Microtubules are major components of the cell structural
  skeleton."

  "After 20 years of skeptical criticism, 'the evidence now
  clearly supports Orch OR,' continue Hameroff and Penrose. 'Our
  new paper updates the evidence, clarifies Orch OR quantum bits,
  or 'qubits,' as helical pathways in microtubule lattices,
  rebuts critics, and reviews 20 testable predictions of Orch OR
  published in 1998 -- of these, six are confirmed and none
  refuted.' "

  "An important new facet of the theory is introduced. Microtubule
  quantum vibrations (e.g. in megahertz) appear to interfere and
  produce much slower EEG 'beat frequencies.' Despite a century
  of clinical use, the underlying origins of EEG rhythms have
  remained a mystery. Clinical trials of brief brain stimulation
  aimed at microtubule resonances with megahertz mechanical
  vibrations using transcranial ultrasound have shown reported
  improvements in mood, and may prove useful against Alzheimer's
  disease and brain injury in the future. "




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