Stuart Hameroff is an American anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona known for his studies of consciousness and contention that consciousness originates from quantum states in neural microtubules, partnering with Roger Penrose to explicate on the physics involved.

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00:00:00 Introduction
00:02:18 For 73, how does Hameroff stay fast and adroit?
00:02:58 On Hameroff's personal beliefs of God
00:03:44 How did Stuart come to the idea that consciousness arises in microtubules?
00:08:55 The non-computational nature of consciousness and the hard-problem
00:11:56 Gödel's theorem and quantum gravity / superposition
00:16:54 Quantum computers and Frolich resonances
00:19:25 Roger Penrose enters in the picture where / when / how?
00:23:45 David Chalmer's legendary talk was at the conference Hameroff organized
00:26:33 Penrose modified Hameroff's ideas
00:28:04 The vibrations of consciousness (Gamma)
00:32:00 Details on the calculations of the collapse time of tubulin and microtubules
00:38:07 The myth of the 1% of the brain
00:41:33 Firing rates of neurons during psychedelics and how the brain seemingly "decreases"
00:46:42 Which comes first, cognition or consciousness?
00:48:27 Anesthesia and "truth serums" (disinhibition revealing inner truths?)
00:50:04 What's it like to work with Penrose? What's an example of a problem you're working on?
00:57:00 Free-will as travelling backward in time (Libett's experiments)
01:01:36 Dennett won't comment on his theories
01:02:33 Agreements / disagreements with Penrose
01:06:16 Explaining terms: Isolated systems, phases of quantum computing, gamma synchrony
01:11:40 Explaining terms: Benzine rings, non-polar, and hydrophobic
01:13:08 Structure of the microtubules
01:17:33 Tau proteins and Alzheimer's
01:17:00 Fractals / self-similarity and its relation to consciousness
01:20:06 Quantifying consciousness with anesthesia
01:21:42 Glial cells vs neurons for consciousness / computation
01:24:08 Can quantum computers be consciousness?
01:28:55 Is periodicity required or is aperiodicity a prius?
01:29:41 IIT vs Global Neuronal vs Orch OR
01:33:57 Falsifying Hameroff's and Penrose's theory (Orch OR)
01:37:00 Koch's thought experiment on the ridiculousness of Schrödinger's cat being alive and dead
01:38:01 How do Platonic Forms come into this?
01:40:12 What Curt likes most about Orch OR
01:42:52 Experiencing "nothing"
01:43:55 Comparing Wolfram's theory
01:45:00 How does Penrose's theory solve the Hard problem of consciousness
01:47:07 Does there exist free will
01:48:15 Strong vs Weak anthropic principle and and an explanation for the ratios of nature
01:52:06 Consciousness drives the evolution of the universe
01:53:46 Vibrating the microtubules at home
01:59:07 Is the Universe conscious? Are humans so far the most conscious agents?
02:01:18 On Deepak Chopra
02:02:31 ESP and other Paranormal phenomenon in Hameroff's model
02:03:12 Audience Q: Is the depressed person more, or less, conscious?
02:05:17 Pre-cognition effects are real but don't get published
02:08:47 On Jung and Hameroff's model
02:09:24 Audience Q: Is the Sun conscious?

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