Is consciousness to be found in quantum processes in microtubules?

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  1. Write4U Valued Senior Member

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    Clearly you do not know much about empathy, the ability to experience someone else's electro-chemical response by mere observation of behavior.

    Talk about "qualia" . Empathy is the ultimate expression of commonly shared "qualia". I really urge you to do some research in this astounding ability for shared experience.
     
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    Qualia are not the Experiencing of any Wavelengths of anything. Qualia are way down the chain of Processing after the Retina converts the Electromagnetic Wavelength phenomenon into a Visual Neural Signal phenomenon that travels to the Visual Cortex for more Processing.. You can rub your Eye and manually induce Visual Neural Signals that you experience as Light Qualia. The Experience of the Qualia is the final stage in the Processing. The Qualia Experience is related to Neural Activity. The Electromagnetic Light doesn't Look Like anything. This is why your Brain/Mind has to create the Surrogate of Redness in your Mind. But in it's essence the Redness has nothing to do with Wavelength of anything.

    You have no idea what the Birds are Experiencing when they follow the magnetic field of the Earth.
    I'm sure you don't think the fluorescent bulb Experiences anything.

    Bottom Up analysis is a good approach but is the only approach that has ever been tried. Because we can measure all kinds of things in the Brain it gives Scientists something to do. But the Top Down analysis has been highly neglected because, let's face it, nobody really can come up with an approach. To even begin a Top Down approach we would need to have some Clue about the starting point, which is the Redness itself, the Toneness itself, the Saltiness itself, etc.. These Conscious Phenomena are things that exist in our Minds which are in the Manifest Universe. These are, for a lack of any better way to say it, Conscious Phenomena and they are only Experienced in a Conscious Mind. There is no Instrumentation that can measure, Redness, Toneness, or Saltiness. Instrumentation can only measure the Neural Correlates of these things.
     
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    It is interesting, but I will continue to stay focused on the goal of understanding more well defined things like Conscious Sensory Experience. To me Redness, Standard A Toneness, and Salty Tasteness are very well defined Phenomenon that I can identify, as Phenomena that only Exist in the Mind. They are not Explainable with words, but rather they must be Experienced. This is because they are not Physical things in the Physical world, but rather they are Experiences. Experiences must be recognized as a whole new kind of Phenomena by Science. Experiences will probably not be measurable by Physical Instrumentation that we can invent with Physical World materials. It is a Scientific Dilemma and I don't have the answer, but at least I can understand the Problem. But the important thing I want to emphasize is that to ignore the Qualia is to ignore the real Problem.
     
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    OK, then you just stay on that course and see where you end up.

    Qualia
    en.wikipedia.org

    See you on the other side, maybe.......

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    You understand the well defined thing like Conscious Sensory Experience?

    The time of a conscious sensory experience and mind-brain theories
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022519384800181#

    Well defined.................?

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    Psychophysics: Measuring Sensory Experience
    Organization of the Sensory Modalities
    Exteroception is the sensation of events occurring outside the body, and includes three subcategories.

    Proprioception
    concerns sensations that arise from within the body itself, particularly its motion and its position in space.
    Vision (seeing), in which light waves stimulate the rods and cones in the retina of the eye;
    Audition (hearing), in which sound waves stimulate hair cells on the basilar membrane of the cochlea of the inner ear.
    Which involves MT. See Auditory Pathway below.

    Interoception
    Notice, in passing, that many of the nine senses are variations on two different mechanisms.
    https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~jfkihlstrom/ConsciousnessWeb/Introspection/PsychphysicsSupplement.htm
     
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    But this is important:
    Auditory pathway[edit]

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    Section through the spiral organ of Corti, magnified. The stereocilia are the "hairs" sticking out of the tops of the inner and outer hair cells.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereocilia_(inner_ear)
     
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    An interesting article on "stereocilia"
    Mechanoelectrical transduction[edit]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereocilia_(inner_ear)

    one guess......microtubules?
     
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    Oh, have been posting Drew Berry since June 2015 as examples of "unseen biology" and how mechanical the entire process is.

    Here is the list of my posts:
    http://sciforums.com/threads/can-human-dna-change.148159/#post-3303244
    http://sciforums.com/threads/have-you-existed-before.159773/page-7#post-3491783
    http://sciforums.com/threads/have-you-existed-before.159773/page-7#post-3491860
    http://sciforums.com/threads/what-is-free-will.161544/page-14#post-3569612
    http://sciforums.com/threads/realit...matics-is-reality.161386/page-27#post-3584535
    http://sciforums.com/threads/is-con...s-in-microtubules.161187/page-17#post-3604822

    But this one is a perfect example of "unguided" self-assembly.
    http://sciforums.com/threads/is-con...s-in-microtubules.161187/page-58#post-3636305



    and for good measure:



    Better watch them quick before James transfers this to the microtubule thread.
    That's my bane of posting about such fundamental biological properties and processes that it is impossible to avoid posting about them in a variety of subforums about biological chemistry .
     
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    No he doesn't. I believe he admits to Abiogenesis.

    It's just that he proposes a Living Intelligence entity as the motivated causality of Abiogenesis

    (Kinda like an architect building a house from individual bricks.) Isn't that precious......

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    p.s. Q-reeus ;
    Penrose does not propose an Intelligent Designer.

    From the link; "THE GEOMETRIC NATURE OF THE SPECIALNESS" (Penrose)
    Sounds kinda mathematical to me.....

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    Continued.....

     
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    And an wonderful 3 part lecture by Ron Vale:
    Ron Vale #1

    #2

    #3
     
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    This may be of interest.

    UTSA professor develops open-access software for cytoskeleton
    by University of Texas at San Antonio
    https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-utsa-professor-open-access-software-cytoskeleton.html
     
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    It should be .

    Next should be , how does this manifest Living Beings in any Form ?
     
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    Microtubules are self-assembling dynamical complex structures which are responsible for neural information processing, mitosis, and motility, THREE of the requirements of living organisms (neural networks, cell division, and movement).

    IOW, MT are one of the transitional complex compound chemical structures leading to abiogenesis, the gradual chemical evolution from inanimate to animate forms.
     
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    No surprise really . The chemistry comes together to release life . In the very cold as well . Glaciers have life within them as well .
     
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    This is a new perspective
    That is nicely put. Bio-chemistry has the "potential" for life, everywhere!

    Living bio-chemistry can be found everywhere on earth, from;

    Extremophiles

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremophile

    To Tardigrades

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    Milnesium tardigradum, a eutardigrade
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade

    To Deep-Earth worms

    Life in deep Earth totals 15 to 23 billion tons of carbon—hundreds of times more than humans, by Deep Carbon Observatory

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    A nematode (eukaryote) in a biofilm of microorganisms. This unidentified nematode (Poikilolaimus sp.) from Kopanang gold mine in South Africa, lives 1.4 km below the surface. Credit: Gaetan Borgonie, Extreme Life Isyensya, Belgium
    https://phys.org/news/2018-12-life-deep-earth-totals-billion.html#:

    Life is abundant on earth and IMO, that indicates life is a relatively common bio-chemical occurrence, with a wide range of constituent parts and environments, and which does not require a "special" causality.

    However, as living organisms require energy, the organisms which the most efficient energy use and conversion will be favored by "natural selection" and it is to be expected that the evolution of "sensory organs" and the evolving ability to use this to survival advantage, should eventually lead to greater sensitivity to sensory stimulation and ultimately lead to "conscious awareness" of the environment and a dedicated processing center such as a brain.

    But that is not the only form of conscious intelligence. A slime-mold (multi-nucleic single celled organism) has no brain, but does have a cellular sense of awareness and memory of its environment and is an effective food (energy) gatherer. In fact it is one of the most successful organisms on earth, capable of some great logical behaviors.

    But in context of this thread;
    Mitosis in the cellular slime mold Polysphondylium violaceum

    Abstract
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2109490/
     
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    Are Slime Molds conscious?



    And this video suggests that the slime mold's intelligence resides in the cytoskeleton, specifically that motile part that forms the pseudo-podia.


    MICROTUBULES IN INTERPHASE AND MITOSIS OF CELLULAR SLIME MOLDS Urs-Peter Roos and Bruno Guhl University of Zurich, Institute of Plant Biology, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zurich switzerland

    INTRODUCTION
    THE INTERPHASE COMPLEX OF MICROTUBULES
    https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-83631-2_3
     
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    Just more intelligence than can reasonably be expected.

     
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    Abiogenesis?
    How about the evolution of inorganic life?

    How about movement of inorganic organisms?

    Check this out


    But what mode of transportation do they use? Looks like cilia to me!
     
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    All micro-organisms use 4 modes of transportation;
    Ciliates, Flagellates, Amoeboids (pseudo-podia), Sporozoa.

    If we compare this to the macro world we have; Rowing, Rotational Propulsion, Spreading, Sowing.
    Not too much difference in fundamentals between single celled and multi-celled organisms.


    All but Sporozoa are facilitated by microtubules.

    Is there a simpler dynamical electro-chemical information processor in nature?
     
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