Stuart Hameroff’s research pursued microtubule information processing and anesthetic action. In the mid-1990s he teamed with eminent British physicist and Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose to develop a controversial quantum theory of consciousness (‘orchestrated objective reduction’, ‘Orch OR’) based on microtubule quantum computing. Harshly criticized initially, Orch OR is now supported by experimental results including anesthetic action. In 2017, with Sir Roger Penrose, James Tagg, Ivette Fuentes and Erik Viierre, Hameroff co-founded the Penrose Institute, intended to support research based on the various works of Sir Roger (cosmology, quantum mechanics, general relativity, black holes, geometry and consciousness).
PUBLICATIONS - NEW
Hameroff, Stuart. Consciousness, Cognition and the Neuronal Cytoskeleton – A New Paradigm Needed in Neuroscience. Front. Mol. Neurosci., 16 June 2022 https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2022.869935
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Andrea Morris, Forbes Nov 4, 2021
An Experiment For Consciousness? Scientists And Philosophers Across Three Countries Debate ItAlthough smaller than a neuron, microtubules may be large enough to host proto-conscious events (quantum collapses) of a particular scale or quantity necessary to give rise to conscious experience. |
Stuart Hameroff MD and Sir Roger Penrose
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August 2021 - Program Outline:
Day 1 – Tuesday - August 3, 2021 9:00 am – 12:30 pm MST -AZ
Welcome - Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona
9:00 am–10:30 am - Overview, Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate, Oxford U - Consciousness, Quantum State Reduction, Black holes, and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology— Connecting Threads
BLACK HOLES
Session Chair, Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate, Oxford U
10:30 am–11:15 am - Reinhard Genzel, Nobel Laureate, Max Planck Institute/UC Berkeley - A 40-Year Journey
11:15 am–12:00 noon - Roger Blandford, Stanford University - Black Holes - Nature or Nurture?: The Roles of Rotation and Accretion in Powering Cosmic Sources
12:00 noon–12:30 pm Discussion
Day 2 – Wednesday - August 4, 2021 9:00 am – 12:30 pm MST - AZ
QUANTUM MEASUREMENT – OBJECTIVE REDUCTION (OR)
Session Chair, Roger Blandford, Stanford University
9:00 am–9:45 am - Ivette Fuentes-Guridi, University of Southampton - Exploring the unification of quantum theory and general relativity with a Bose-Einstein condensate”
9:45 am–10:30 am - Hendrik Ulbricht, University of Southampton - Probing new physics by levitated mechanical systems
10:30 am–11:15 am - Dirk Bouwmeester, UC Santa Barbara | Leiden University - An experimental investigation of the reduction of the quantum wavefunction
11:15 am–12:00 noon - Philip C.E. Stamp, University of British Columbia - The correlated worldline (CWL) theory of quantum gravity
12:00 noon–12:30 pm Discussion
Day 3 – Thursday - August 5, 2021 9:00 am – 12:30 pm MST - AZ
CONSCIOUSNESS – ORCH OR
Session Chair - Justin Riddle, University of North Carolina
9:00 am–9:45 am - Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona - The Orch OR theory of consciousness
9:45 am–10:30 am - Greg Scholes, Princeton University - Biological quantum phenomena and the brain
10:30 am–11:15 am - Alysson Muotri, UC San Diego - Complex neural networks spontaneously emerge from human brain organoids
PANEL – QUANTUM BIOLOGY OF MICROTUBULES
11:15 am-11:25 am - Panel Chair - Jack Tuszyński, University of Alberta - Opening Remarks
11:25 am-11:35 am - Aarat Kalra, Princeton University - Light at the end of the tunnel: Optical signaling through microtubules
11:35 am–11:45 am - Travis Craddock, Nova Southeastern U - Fano resonances in the resonance Raman spectra of tubulin and microtubules reveals active quantum effects
11:45 am–11:55 am - Aristide Dogariu, University of Central Florida - Experimental and computational insights into the remarkable electromagnetic properties of microtubules
11:55 am–12:05 pm - M. Bruce MacIver, Stanford University - Probing consciousness with anesthetics
12:05 pm–12:15 pm - Anirban Bandyopadhyay, National Institute of Material Sciences, Japan - Triplet of triplet fractal resonance band of tubulin, microtubule and neuron membrane: Quantum optics & microwave study
12:15 pm–12:45 pm Discussion
Day 4 – Friday - August 6, 2021 9:00 am – 12:30 pm MST - AZ
A PRE-BIG BANG UNIVERSE: CONFORMAL CYCLIC COSMOLOGY
Session Chair - Sir Roger Penrose, Nobel Laureate, Oxford University
9:00 am–9:45 am - Paul Tod, Oxford University - The mathematics behind Penrose’s Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
9:45 am–10:30 am - Brian Keating, UC San Diego - Was there a Big Bang?
10:30 am–11:15 am - Krzysztof Meissner, University of Warsaw, Poland - Black holes and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology
11:15 am–12:00 noon - Vahe Gurzadyan, Yerevan Physics Institute, Armenia - Cosmological Constant, CCC, observations
12:00 noon–12:30 pm Discussion
Publications
Hameroff, Stuart. Consciousness, Cognition and the Neuronal Cytoskeleton – A New Paradigm Needed in Neuroscience. Front. Mol. Neurosci., 16 June 2022 https://doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2022.869935 Front Mol Neurosci. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/molecular-neuroscience/articles/10…
M Bruce MacIver 1 Consciousness and inward electromagnetic field interactions, Front Hum Neurosci, 2022 Nov 17:16:1032339. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.1032339. eCollection 2022. PMID: 36466618 PMCID: PMC9714613 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2022.1032339
Aarat P. Kalra, Alfy Benny, Sophie M. Travis, Eric A. Zizzi, Austin Morales-Sanchez, Daniel G. Oblinsky, Travis J. A. Craddock, Stuart R. Hameroff, M. Bruce MacIver, Jack A. Tuszynski, Sabine Petry, Roger Penrose, Gregory D. Scholes. Electronic Energy Migration in Microtubules, Aug 22, 2022. arXiv:2208.10628 https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.10628 - PDF
Kalra, A. P., Hameroff, S., Tuszynski, J., Dogariu, A., Nicolas, Sachin, & Gross, P. J. 2022, August 14. Anesthetic gas effects on quantum vibrations in microtubules – Testing the Orch OR theory of consciousness. https://osf.io/zqnjd/ Date created: 2020-04-01 Last Updated: 2022-08-14
Kalra, Aarat P, Hameroff, S, Tuszynski, J, Dogariu, A. “Anesthetic Gas Effects on Quantum Vibrations in Microtubules – Testing the Orch OR Theory of Consciousness.” 2020, OSF August 21.
‘Orch OR’ is the most complete, and most easily falsifiable theory of consciousness. Hameroff, Stuart. 2020. Cognitive Neuroscience, Published online: 24 Nov 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2020.1839037
Hameroff, Stuart, ‘Orch OR’ is the most complete, and most easily falsifiable theory of consciousness, (2020) Cognitive Neuroscience, DOI: 10.1080/17588928.2020.1839037 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2020.1839037 - Published online: 24 Nov 2020.
Kalra, Aarat P, Stuart Hameroff, Jack Tuszynski, and Aristide Dogariu. (2020) “Anesthetic Gas Effects on Quantum Vibrations in Microtubules – Testing the Orch OR Theory of Consciousness.” OSF. August 21. 2020 osf.io/zqnjd
The finer scale of consciousness: quantum theory - Ann Transl Med. 2019 Oct; 7(20): 585. Tianwen Li,1,# Hailiang Tang,1,# Jianhong Zhu,1 and John H. Zhang doi: 10.21037/atm.2019.09.09 - PMCID: PMC6861790 PMID: 31807566