<story><title>New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240905120923.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n4r9</author><text>This looks like it&amp;#x27;s related to the &amp;quot;Orchestrated objective reduction&amp;quot; theory of consciousness [0], which is a brainchild of physicist Roger Penrose and an anesthesiologist named Stuart Hameroff. After 30 years it continues to have very serious problems and is generally rejected by physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Orchestrated_objective_reduction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Orchestrated_objective_reducti...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mensetmanusman</author><text>Rejected by other experts who also have no idea how to explain consciousness.</text></comment>
<story><title>New research on anesthesia and microtubules gives new clues about consciousness</title><url>https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/09/240905120923.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>n4r9</author><text>This looks like it&amp;#x27;s related to the &amp;quot;Orchestrated objective reduction&amp;quot; theory of consciousness [0], which is a brainchild of physicist Roger Penrose and an anesthesiologist named Stuart Hameroff. After 30 years it continues to have very serious problems and is generally rejected by physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and philosophers.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Orchestrated_objective_reduction&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Orchestrated_objective_reducti...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PaulHoule</author><text>If it wasn&amp;#x27;t too old to be the case I&amp;#x27;d think that article was just A.I. Slop or charitably something like technobabble from the Sternbach and Okuda era of &lt;i&gt;Star Trek&lt;/i&gt;.  &amp;quot;I can do math because I&amp;#x27;m a thetan&amp;quot; shows that emotionally true stories can beat out factually true stories in science as well as politics.</text></comment>