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To: AndrewC
...have proposed that consciousness might arise from wave-like quantum-mechanical effects involving protein filaments called microtubules in nerve cells.

And what about all the microtubules in all the other cells?
10 posted on 09/06/2003 1:46:51 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: aruanan
And what about all the microtubules in all the other cells?

I suppose that might imply consciousness for individual cells. But it is Penrose's hypothesis.

12 posted on 09/06/2003 1:48:45 PM PDT by AndrewC
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And what about all the microtubules in all the other cells?

LOL

20 posted on 09/06/2003 7:35:20 PM PDT by Dataman
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