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2023 - INTRO - Encinitas 

Encinitas Summer Symposium Neuroscience Needs a Revolution to Understand Consciousness

Despite vast detailed knowledge of the brain, neuroscience cannot 1) explain consciousness, memory, binding nor real time conscious action, 2) effectively treat Alzheimer’s or other brain disorders, nor 3) define our place in the universe. Why not? Oversimplified cartoon neurons. 'AI' has reinforced the notion of the brain as a complex computer of simple, empty, ‘cartoon’ neurons based on 1950s physiology, processing solely by surface membranes, synaptic transmissions and firings as “bit-like' units in frequencies up to 100 hertz. But deeper, faster, coherent and quantum non-local information processes in cytoskeletal microtubules inside neurons regulate neuronal-level functions. Over the past 10 years, Anirban Bandyopadhyay has discovered coherent kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz and terahertz resonance vibrations in microtubules, with megahertz and gigahertz detectable from human scalp. Aarat Kalra, Jack Tuszynski, Travis Craddock and others have shown quantum optical effects in microtubules are inhibited by anesthetics which selectively block consciousness.  The Penrose-Hameroff ‘Orch OR’ theory proposes consciousness depends on ‘orchestrated’ (‘Orch’) quantum superpositions leading to Penrose ‘objective reductions’ (‘OR’, wavefunction self-collapses) in brain microtubules, connecting to fundamental spacetime geometry. Orch OR has more explanatory power, connection to biology, and experimental validation than all ‘neuroscientific’ theories based on low frequency, oversimplified cartoon neurons combined. Neuroscience needs a revolution inward, to deeper, faster quantum processes in microtubules to understand consciousness and treat its disorders.

Thomas Brophy, CIHS          
Stuart Hameroff, CCS

Sponsors Mani Bhaumik, Google Quantum AI, Eugene Jhong, Center for Consciousness Studies, California Institute for Human Science, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vimal Research Society 

Exhibitors - Interchange Labs Inc., Valis Corp, Cosmointel Research, USD MePMoS Lab   

Special Thanks - Encinitas Chamber of Commerce - Minuteman Press Encinitas - Encinitas Ballet Academy - Boochcraft Hard Kombucha - G's Ginger Beer

AV - Daniel Barre, Realist Films 

Venue - California Institute for Human Science - 701 Garden View Court - Encinitas, CA 92024

PST Aug 18, 2023 - 1:00p-6:30p - Aug 19, 9:00a-7:15p  - Aug 20 - 8:30a-6:00p 

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