There are suggestions involving microtubuli.

But as far as I know quantum states decay

rapidly at high temperatures and on contact

with the environment.

http://arxiv.org/abs/quantph/0204021

Also, there is a quantum version of

'spreading activation' of words.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.4375

My personal opinion is: there is nothing mysterious

about consciousness. All phenomena can be

explained by classical information processing.

Regards,

Joachim

I think the temperature is not a problem.

They have found local superconductivity in DNA at room temperature

Here is the answer David Hammeroff

You can also google my papers on Quantum DNA ccode and EMF interaction with living organisms from URSI conference i 1979 and Collage Park Workshop on Nonthermal Effects of Microwaves on Living systems.

key words are:

high temperature superconductivity

supramolecular biology

DNA code and works by Frohlich, Litle, Deviatkov and

by no means the most important Josephson Effect.

See the web page of Brian Josephson and will understand why new ideas are so difficult to receive public acceptance

Jerzy

Great Review

Another great science

and all is combined with VLF EMF field of Gaia

just one more on Schuman Resonances under which Human Brain eveolved from single cell life of bacteria

Microtubules thats it by Hameroff

Quantum mechanics is very hard to understand. Consciousness is not a bit understood. To think QM and its phantastical effects could constitute consciousness is not the best idea. QM is located in micro objects and consciousness is the result of data processing in the brain where hundreds or thousands of impulses were analyzed in a statistical manner. In this case QM will fail.

What about Josephson Effect or laser where micro becomes macro !

No doubt cosciousness generation, as most of brain activity, involves various processes/mechanisms on various levels of processing. We usually analyze levels: molecular, neuron, neural areas activation and interactions, whole functions, and even psychology and behavior. Complex interaction among layers of such processing not exclude lower levels, including QM. But joining theses various theories needs for additional interdisciplinary research.

Jerzy,

why are you looking for such physical effects? Why are you not looking for a complex system theory of information processing?

Consciousness is not "an singular physical effect" which results in subjective experience but an complex interaction of stored data, anticipated data, sensor data, body states and much more.

Realy great answer but i have two cats who understand language ans show higher emotions like we do so this jump is not dramatic , rathe lack of developed language and speech center are responsible for the fact that the cats do not read the booka and dicuss the content.

Emotionally they are the same as human beings

I disagree in many respects

just give some time to formalate this

one comments

the reality does not depend on semiotics or meaning

the language and sefinitions and logic are reflection of the

real physical world including animals

so we have just to say

do we have souls ???

if yes also animals have souls as well ?

it has nothing to do with consciousness which is just the resuly of biofeedback on our inner percepts

Jerzy

I have an intuition based on hundreds of experimantal facts which proove

that consciousness or your brain state related to it is a physical electromagnetic phenomemon

let me give you one example

If i record EEG in two human beings beind 5 meters apart

and i had found episodes of coherence between these two

signal so what >>>

how you can interpret that .... simply our brain are powerful generators of EM field

If you read my review paper from URSI conference in Helsinki on

quantum mechanism of biological effects of EM fields I hope you will be convinced

Jerzy

just search

Achimowicz DNA

on Google

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/RS017i05Sp0023S/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false

Peer review is a mojor mechanism slowing down the progress of science as people do not like the hypothesis or facts which do not fit their e.g. 30 years of well funded research

Brian Johnos is giving the example of cold fusion paper

there was some new efect discovered but nobody has made serious efford to

verify that.

Also I am afraid that there me an effect that if there is one sceptical persn in the lab the experiment can fails as possibly

our mind (soul) whatever you name it can effect the physical world ???

so experimenting and teking measurements is the only way to go ahed not just

shuffling words and disputing over and over on the definitions and meaning of words (notetion, denotation and all that stuff)

most of the papers is discovering the same over and over and just using different semantics to publish it !

Every 10 or 20 years the same ideas and hence science feshions repeat over and over ???

Jerzy

PS. I suspect that some conspiracy theories are true and maybe someone has a stargate machine in the basement

Amrit, if consciousness is functioning as the observer, then the observer observes itself, so consciousness is both the observer and the observed, therefore consciousness is fundamental. Input from the brain enters consciousness. Little by little consciousness synthetizes what is most essencial getting rid of noise.