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Sir Roger Penrose | The Emperor’s New Mind: Consciousness & Computer | INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast (#311)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
The Pros and Cons of Symmetry in Microtubules
Microtubules have sort of a geometric connection to them. But is there something deeper to it other than just their geometric structure? Well I think there is. Although it's not being made use of very much in the later developments and it's already there. So that is these structures that are, well actually microtubules come in two forms. They're two different lattices. The ones which are highly symmetrical seem to me have a much better prospect of preserving quantum coherence.
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