Q: Curt: “Do you know anything about Stuart Hammeroff and the quantum neural int

–Q: Curt: “Do you know anything about Stuart Hammeroff and the quantum neural interactions?”–
Of course. And of course, it’s unfounded nonsense. A microtubule in a cell is the equivalent of cartilage in a body – it provides structural rigidity. However because of that, it also provides a rail-line for the direct transport of molecules. Molecules can be ‘walked down’ the tubule. In neurons they assist in the transfer of molecules from the soma across the axon hillock, and down the axon.
Given that persistence of any form of proto particle to particle depends on isolation from the influence of the quantum background’s fluctuations by quanta, there is no evidence that tubules, or any other biological process responds to quantum fluctuations even if almost anything can respond to anything in the electromagnetic spectrum of particulate energy – and usually that response is disruptive not constructive.
Unfortunately, most scientists have largely bad ideas. Penrose, has the Laureate’s Curse: that stupid ideas from nobel prize winners are heard, where otherwise stupid ideas aren’t heard at all.
Cheers
CD

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