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Johnjoe McFadden PHD - QUANTUM BIOLOGY EXPLAINED

Chasing Consciousness

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The Consciousness Is Some Kind of Field

I was convinced by similar arguments that Penrose put forward that consciousness must be some kind of field and what he did with Stuart Hammerhoof was to propose that field is a quantum matter field. And this is these are these microtubules that they would behave like they were quantum mechanical in nature. Like they've been cooled to close to absolute zero and sitting in a vacuum and on an optical table where they would behave quantum mechanically. But they'll be doing that inside a busy brain. I thought, no way can that root big quantum mechanical. So it's always a struggle to find these kind of phenomena in hot, wettest, busiest, busiest system,. Microtubules inside cells

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