Evidence of massive global synchronization and the consciousness Comment on 'Consciousness in the universe: A review of the 'Orch OR' theory' by Hameroff and Penrose

摘要

The blind faith that Hodgkin-Huxley type neuron bursts explain the neural information processing completely would collapse soon, and then the brain building projects [1] all over the world will face the danger of banking on an incomplete picture of a neuron. In the last decade, a series of discoveries were made in the logical processing of arguments in the thousands of dendritic and synaptic channels [2-6], which are mathematically massively complex computations. One input and one output type Hodgkin-Huxley neuron bursts neglect every part of meticulously designed local logical processes and lead us to an absolute simplistic world, which brain builders manipulate further to fit their needs. Ample arguments would trigger the collapse of HH model [7] and the vacuum created thereafter needs to find a material inside the neuron that would give rise to the synchronous firing of neurons and consequent computations. The recent finding of microtubule's resonant oscillation [8,9] that could vibrate axon brings Orch-OR into the picture as an extremely essential concept to fill the vacuum.