Discovering a New Form of Communication in the Brain

Re:Discovering a New Form of Communication in the Brain by Praxey on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @04:29PM (#19203004)

I wonder if this validates the Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory of consciousness pioneered by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff. Seems like it would.

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Re:Discovering a New Form of Communication in the Brain by gliptic on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @04:40PM (#19203102)

What does this have to do with supposed qubits inside neurons?

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Re:Discovering a New Form of Communication in the Brain by Praxey on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @05:49PM (#19203699)

A bit technical, but some of the most vocal critics of Orch-OR claimed there was no way that quantum states could orchestrate across synapses or between neurons. This quite interesting finding argues otherwise.

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Re:Discovering a New Form of Communication in the Brain by gliptic on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @06:56AM (#19207202)

I don't see how this enables any orchestration that other signals do not. There's still decoherence. It must have been among the weakest objections to Orch-OR. Knocking down the weakest counter-argument (which sounds like a strawman) doesn't really bolster the hypothesis in any way.

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