And you can use the quackery term of quantum and ask your doctor what the hell this means to your recovery. You can probably use that quantum communication to get neighboring neurons to neuroplastically work together. Your doctor should know how to be able to direct those communications so neuroplasticity works faster. You're not ROFL yet?, you will as soon as your doctor opens his/her mouth.
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A review and update of a controversial 20-year-old theory of
consciousness published in Physics of Life Reviews claims that
consciousness derives from deeper level, finer scale activities inside
brain neurons. The recent discovery of quantum vibrations in
“microtubules” inside brain neurons corroborates this theory, according
to review authors Stuart Hameroff and Sir Roger Penrose. They suggest
that EEG rhythms (brain waves) also derive from deeper level microtubule
vibrations, and that from a practical standpoint, treating brain
microtubule vibrations could benefit a host of mental, neurological, and
cognitive conditions.
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.
Orch OR was harshly criticized from its
inception, as the brain was considered too “warm, wet, and noisy” for
seemingly delicate quantum processes.. However, evidence has now shown
warm quantum coherence in plant photosynthesis, bird brain navigation,
our sense of smell, and brain microtubules. The recent discovery of warm
temperature quantum vibrations in microtubules inside brain neurons by
the research group led by Anirban Bandyopadhyay, PhD, at the National
Institute of Material Sciences in Tsukuba, Japan (and now at MIT),
corroborates the pair’s theory and suggests that EEG rhythms also derive
from deeper level microtubule vibrations. In addition, work from the
laboratory of Roderick G. Eckenhoff, MD, at the University of
Pennsylvania, suggests that anesthesia, which selectively erases
consciousness while sparing non-conscious brain activities, acts via
microtubules in brain neurons.
“The origin of consciousness
reflects our place in the universe, the nature of our existence. Did
consciousness evolve from complex computations among brain neurons, as
most scientists assert? Or has consciousness, in some sense, been here
all along, as spiritual approaches maintain?” ask Hameroff and Penrose
in the current review. “This opens a potential Pandora’s Box, but our
theory accommodates both these views, suggesting consciousness derives
from quantum vibrations in microtubules, protein polymers inside brain
neurons, which both govern neuronal and synaptic function, and connect
brain processes to self-organizing processes in the fine scale,
'proto-conscious' quantum structure of reality.”
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.
Lead author Stuart Hameroff concludes, "Orch OR is the
most rigorous, comprehensive and successfully-tested theory of
consciousness ever put forth. From a practical standpoint, treating
brain microtubule vibrations could benefit a host of mental,
neurological, and cognitive conditions."
The review is
accompanied by eight commentaries from outside authorities, including an
Australian group of Orch OR arch-skeptics. To all, Hameroff and Penrose
respond robustly.
Penrose, Hameroff and Bandyopadhyay will
explore their theories during a session on “Microtubules and the Big
Consciousness Debate” at the Brainstorm Sessions, a public three-day
event at the Brakke Grond in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, January 16-18,
2014. They will engage skeptics in a debate on the nature of
consciousness, and Bandyopadhyay and his team will couple microtubule
vibrations from active neurons to play Indian musical instruments.
“Consciousness depends on anharmonic vibrations of microtubules inside
neurons, similar to certain kinds of Indian music, but unlike Western
music which is harmonic,” Hameroff explains.
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