The Quantum Nature Of Consciousness

There is a current view that consciousness is something which arises from some complicated computation. So we have our computers, and people think that because they can do things amazingly fast, and they can calculate very quickly, and they can play chess extremely well, that they are superior to us even, and it is only some complicated aspect of this computational activity that somehow consciousness arises from that. Now my view is quite different from this. I think there is a lot of computational activity going on in the brain, but this is basically unconscious. So consciousness seems to me to be something quite different.

Sir Roger Penrose. Quantum Consciousness Theorist — Co-creator of the Orch OR model of the quantum nature of consciousness and memory. Knighted in 1994 for his contributions to science, Sir Roger Penrose OM FRS, is an English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher. The extraordinary scope of his work ranges from quantum physics and theories of human consciousness to relativity theory and observations on the structure of the universe. Penrose is internationally renowned for his scientific work in mathematical physics, in particular for his contributions to general relativity and cosmology. Among numerous prizes and awards, he received the 1988 Wolf Prize for physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for their contribution to our understanding of the universe.

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Quantum Biology

Researchers at Johns Hopkins APL are applying quantum mechanics to biology to better understand of one of nature's biggest mysteries — magneto sensitivity, an organism's ability to sense Earth's magnetic field and use it as a tool to adjust some biological processes. And they've found some surprising results. In a recent study, researchers found that an enzyme that plays a central role in human metabolism has some of the same key features as a magnetically sensitive protein found in birds.

“This rese​arch is game-changing," said Martino. “For the first time ever, we've opened up the possibility that an external magnetic field could have an influence on the underlying chemistry of a protein found in humans."

The human protein look-alike is the electron transfer flavoprotein (ETF), a well-known enzyme in mitochondria that is responsible for transferring electrons to generate the energy that keeps us alive. ETF isn't known to be magnetically sensitive in humans, but its structure and oxygen binding behavior are remarkably similar to certain cryptochrome proteins that are known to be magneto sensitive in other species like birds.

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