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Orchestrated Objective Reduction of Quantum Coherence in Brain Microtubules: The "Orch OR" Model for Consciousness
Found : Orchestrated Objective Reduction of Quantum Coherence in Brain Microtubules: The "Orch OR" Model for Consciousness Current neurophysiological explanations of consciousness suggest that it is a manifestation of emergent firing patterns of neuronal groups involved in either a) specific … Continue reading
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Tagged brain, consciousness, Found, mechanics, mind, penrose, quantum
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John Lilly, Ketamine and the Entities from ECCO
Found : John Lilly, Ketamine and the Entities from ECCO Later on, as the frequency of his use on K increased, Dr. Lilly began having contact with another alien intelligence agency, which he called (SSI), short for Solid State Intelligence. … Continue reading
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Tagged drugs, Found, ketamine, Lilly, mind, people, PKD, science, transhumanism, weird
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Baboons
"Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful." – Aldous Huxley "What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is a liberation. … Continue reading
Bad Dreams
"Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams." – Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence "The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in … Continue reading
Belief
"Man is what he believes." – Anton Chekhov "Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind." – John C. Lilly "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. … Continue reading
Body
"Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs." – Edmond and Jules De Goncourt, 1822-1896 "Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although … Continue reading
Chaos
"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds." – George Santayana "For life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual suspects this, but he is frightened of finding himself … Continue reading
Consistency
"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent.'" – Oliver Wendell Holmes "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." – R.W. Emerson
Contradictions
"Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived … Continue reading
Discovery
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." – James Joyce "A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." – Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
