Is consciousness to be found in quantum processes in microtubules?

Now transport the electricity through a variable potentiometer (light dimmer). Would you say that the potentiometer is processing electrical data? Such as the light flashes produced by cuttlefish.

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Instead of sliders, microtubules use growth and shortening, also known as "dynamic instability", to regulate their data-transport abilities. That function did not evolve by accident. It has a practical purpose.

 

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Microtubules do!!!!!!! Read the links!!!!

 

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Electro-chemical action potentials, just like the brain does.

 

Given the age of people in here, I hope the last month and a half of not posting anything about microtubules means a dearth of news about the subject. Or maybe there's a thread churning away about it on some other forum, that you're embroiled in.

 

As long as it isn't here, I'm OK with it... I do have a bit of sympathy for the other forum though.

 

Light dimmers do not use potentiometers for obvious reasons. They use phase control.

All functions evolve by accident. Whether they are retained is based on their practicality.

 

I wonder why this should be a "hoped for" condition?

I am sorry to disappoint you, but there is a plethora of new information and pertinent discoveries in the field of research on microtubules and related filaments.

For a moment there I hoped for an actual interest in the subject, but alas, even as I am not on line there seem to be a need for spreading ad hominem behind my back. So sad.

p.s. My absence was for an entirely different motive. (strike 2)

 

Oh, the superior mind speaks of the minor annoyances of life on the internet. (strike 3)

 

Really?
Everything You Need to Know About Variable Resistor Function

https://www.linquip.com/blog/variable-resistor-function/#

and variable resistors are potentiometers;

POTENTIOMETER: A VARIABLE RESISTOR

https://42electronics.com/blogs/learn-more/potentiometer-a-variable-resistor

and all that functions on the basis of mathematical "differential equations".

Artificial variable resistors must be manipulated by persons. Natural variable resistors, such as dynamic microtubules, change their differential potentials by rapid growth or reduction, based on chemical messages. In microtubules it is called "dynamic instability"

more...https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(06)01771-4.pdf

True, it was sloppy wording on my part. I should have written; That function did not evolve by accident, it is extant due to natural selection of a functional advantage. The second part of that sentence was correct, no?

No, it is "sensitive" to the existing variable "differential equations", a quasi-intelligent function.

In biological systems, cells have the ability to communicate with each other (inter-cellular communication), which can produce "quorum sensing" and a coordinated response via the simultaneous distribution of action-potentials troughout the system.

Quorum sensing is a proto-conscious electro-chemical inter-cellular data processing function and allows "heliotropism" for photosynthesis in flowers, coordinated "virulence" in bacteria, waggle dance for "locating" food in bees.
Quorum sensing itself does not need a neural network. It is the direct communication between cells that triggers a sensory response that can also be transmitted transmitted to the brain via the neural network and experienced by the brain as a physical action.

IMO, this is the stage of proto-consciousness that evolved into pure experiential brain function as processed by the billions of microtubules and the trillions of synaptic response actions and data comparing against stored memories.

It is a clear evolutionary process of increased sophistication in sensory response processes, starting with purely chemical interactions, to intermediate stage from purely electro-chemical response of individual objects to communal cellular response in biological organisms, to self-aware experiential response processes in the brain.

This process started perhaps 600,000 years after the formation of earth, and was later facilitated by the self-assembly of microtubules and the ability for variable date transmission potentials in Eukaryotic organisms, but took several billion of years to evolve into most extant organisms and most likely in human ability for abstract thought processes by way of a major genetic mutation such as the fusion of 2 ancestral chromosomes, yielding an increased growth and complex folding of the brain and a resulting ability to process complex relational data values.

The demarcation point of the human split being the fusion of 2 ancestral chromosomes into a single larger chromosome in humans, causing only humans to carry 23 pr chromosomes whereas all other apes have 24 pr chromosomes

 

OK, back to the science of microtubules.

The role of microtubules in mitochondrial dynamics

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4801864/#

I guess I must qualify my focus on microtubules as including related filaments and mitochondria. Obviously, it is a systemic network that acts as the substrate which generates the EM fields that the brain experiences as thoughts

much more to come!

 

Oh crap, he came back. Oh well, his absence was nice while it lasted...

 

Thinking must be really hard work for you, origin. You are completely ignorant of a whole new scientific field of inquiry and refuse to even look. What does that tell us of your mindset? It ain't scientific, that's for sure.

With your superior mind, what are you even doing, dwelling in the lowly pseudo-science
section?
A curious juxtaposition. I'll have to give that some thought.
OK, strike 4! You're out!!!!

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Glad you're in good heath then, which is still more important than microtubule news (even if shortage of such wasn't the cause of absence). Have no idea what else could be construed meaning-wise with respect to an opener like: "Given the age of people in here..."
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Very sympathetic of you.

And you gave this a "like"??? (strike 5) Your team is losing badly!

 

I am seriously beginning to regret wasting hundreds of hours of my time researching and posting new developments in an exciting new field of research on the emergence of cellular communication and the eventual evolution of sensory consciousness.

What is the expression? "Cast your pearls before the swine" ?

Cast your pearls before swine - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

 

Bye, silly person...

 

We all regret your efforts...