Re: OT: quantum conciousness

On 6/09/2024 3:15 pm, Jan Panteltje wrote:

New research on anesthesia unlocks important clues about the nature of consciousness
  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240905120923.htm
 Source:
  Wellesley College
Summary:
  New research on anesthesia has yielded important results about
  the physical basis of consciousness in the brain.
 quote:
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  More broadly, a quantum understanding of consciousness
  "gives us a world picture in which we can be connected to the universe in a more natural and holistic way,"
  Wiest says.

The fact that something that binds to microtubules in the neurone makes anesthetics less effective isn't any kind of argument that what going on in the microtubules is any kind of quantum effect.
The researchers are treating the Penrose speculation as if it were a proven fact, rather than a feckless speculation.
The fact that we don't know what's gong on in the microtubules isn't any kind of excuse to claim that it is a "quantum effect".
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Bill Sloman, Sydney