Fröhlich proposed that when proteins absorb a terahertz photon the added energy forces the oscillating molecules into a single, lowest-frequency mode which supports the Orch-OR theory of consciousness by Hameroff and Penrose. In contrast, other models predict that the protein will quickly dissipate the energy from the photon in the form of heat. This was challenged by Reimers and group in 2009, where the group demonstrated that no amount of mechanical energy can produce a coherent Fröhlich condensate. But in a recent 2015 study, Katona and his colleagues concluded that the long-lasting structural changes that were observed in the helical structure of the lysosome crystal could only be explained by Fröhlich condensation, a quantum-like collective state in which the molecules in a protein behave as one.
I am afraid this topic is beyond my so-called "expertise". I may add I met Dr.Fröhlich more than 30 yrs ago in Bhopal India at a conference attended by a varied spectrum of scientists, dominated however by Biophysicists as it was organised by the late Prof. R.K.Mishra of AIIMS. The only person with whom I could communicate at this conference was Prof. Jayant Narlikar.
My take would be that if an area of study is reductionistic, or radically reductionistic, it will not be able to explain or 'find' consciousness because it is an emergent field where the sum of the parts do not equal the whole and cannot be reduced back to their parts. This is why it is hard to imagine classical science as able to find things like ghosts, ESP NDE etc, including consciousness. Therefore, Frohlich is on the right track because he allows for an emergent field. Where is gets complicated, though in that presupposes a giant, universal collective field of fields.
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