By: William Brown, scientist at the Resonance Science Foundation

The brain is a fractal massively parallel processor generating complex spatiotemporal electromagnetic field patterns that correlate with cognition and perception. A key property of a fractal system is scale-free complexity, which means that the degree of complexity of the system is invariant under scaling— for example, using a power-law quantification, it can be shown that the degree of complexity within the human brain is approximately invariant from the tissue, to the cellular, to the molecular levels. The electrical field potentials and magnetic resonance responses of the brain all exhibit scale-free dynamics [1], and these scale-invariant brain dynamics contain complex spatiotemporal structures that are modulated by task performance. Previous studies have shown that scale-free temporal correlations connect the vibrational modes of single neurons to the fractal-antenna-like biopolymers (dielectric...

^{By Dr. Inés Urdaneta / Physicist at Resonance Science Foundation}

Experimental evidence of quantum behavior in neural microtubules could support Penrose and Hameroff’s hypothesis that consciousness originates in the microtubules of the neurons, as described by their theory called Orchestrated objective reduction (Orch -OR). 

In former RSF articles [1,2,3], biophysicist William Brown had addressed the Orchestrated objective reduction theory (Orch OR), originally proposed by physicist Roger Penrose and anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, in the 1990.

As William Brown brilliantly explains [1]:

“One of the key features of Hameroff’s and Penrose’ theory is called Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR), in which it is theorized that the state vector (the wavefunction that describes a particle) of delocalized free electrons within tubulin undergoes an observer-independent reduction (an objective versus subjective collapse of the wavefunction). As the...