The "Fractal Catalytic Model" of living systems implicates a robust macroscopic quantum coherent state in the form of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) as the neural correlate of consciousness. Furthermore, analysis of the phenomenology associated with time perception identifies a macroscopic coherent state as being the only way that the philosophical problems associated with time perception can be solved.

It has been tirelessly argued by Prof. Tegmark and others that the brain is to warm,wet and noisy for robust macroscopic coherent states to occur. However, researchers at the AALTO University in Finland have recently created a room temperature BEC that utilizes a phenomenon termed a Surface Plasmon Polariton.

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In short the process involves entangling a charge with a photon utilising a wave that propagates along a precisely engineered lattice.

Thanks to the work of Professor Stuart Hameroff, we now know that waves (solitons) that propagate along microtubules are associated with a tunneling electron (a charge) charge consequent upon evenly spaced energywells within the microtubule structure.

Could Surface Plasmon Polaritons and Bose-Eistein Condensate formation be providing a model for coherence in biological systems.

The research team in Finland utilize a photon to entangle with a charge. Could the ame effect occur using Phonons?

Davia, C.J (June 2006), "Life, Catalysis and Excitable Media: A Dynamic Systems Approach to Metabolism and Cognition", in Tuszynski, J.A (ed.), The Emerging Physics of Consciousness (The Frontiers Collection), Springer, pp. 255–292, ISBN 978-3540238904

Vimal, R. L. P., & Davia, C. J. (2008). How Long is a Piece of Time? - Phenomenal Time and Quantum Coherence - Toward a Solution. Quantum Biosystems, 2, 102-151, available at http://www.quantumbionet.org/admin/files/QBS2%20102-20151.pdf.

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