Consciousness, the brain, and spacetime geometry

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 929, Issue , 2001, Pages 74-104

  Hameroff, Stuart ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Starlab NV   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Cajal; Consciousness; Cytoskeleton; Decoherence; Dendrites; Gap junctions; General relativity; London forces; Microtubule associated proteins (MAPs); Microtubules; Objective reduction; Orch OR; Protein conformation; Quantum computation; Quantum theory; Spacetime geometry; Tubulin; Van der Waals forces

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN SUBUNIT; TUBULIN;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL INTERACTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONSCIOUSNESS; GEOMETRY; GRAVITY; MICROTUBULE ASSEMBLY; NERVE CELL; OBJECTIVE REDUCTION; OSCILLATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; QUANTUM THEORY; REDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ENICOSTEMA;

EID: 0035029370     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb05709.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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