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someone 7 months ago
What do you think about Penrose and Hameroff's consciousness being in the microtubules?

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pam 7 months ago
Interesting too. I took a cursory glance and it seems like both are trying to connect quantum physics to consciousness, but different ways. Faggin proposes what consciousness is (quantum information as a field), whereas Penrose and Hameroff propose where it could operate (within neurons in the brain). But neurons exist all over your body not just the brain. The brain acts as a command center full of neurons, the heart has about 40,000 neurons, and the gut contains around 500 million neurons, which explains "gut instincts". I am deeply fascinated by this idea of where you feel a sensation on your body if you are attuned to it, and maybe microtubules explains it. You "feel" love, sadness, and intuition as bodily and field-based experiences, not just in the mind. I also like David Hawkins' Map of Consciousness for linking emotional energy to self-awareness. It works like a manual for tuning your personal field to higher or lower frequencies, and naturally ties to energy field concepts like Faggin's and panpsychism. I do wonder how these theories explain energy flow across distances, and whether you can release unconditional love and other states through thoughts. If consciousness is truly a field and not just isolated inside brains, then this idea of “invisible energy line” might be real and thoughts, emotions, and intentions could ripple outward, affecting distant people, places, and even physical outcomes. There are many theories that hint at this. Quantum entanglement connects two souls across any distance. The noosphere describes a collective field of human thought. It feels similar to how you can "sense" when someone is thinking of you, or how certain places seem to hold "vibes" even after people have left. This might also explain why practices like prayer, meditation, and intention-setting seem to have effects that go beyond psychology.
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someone 7 months ago
There is also healing through tapping where you tap certain parts of body and forget things and associated feelings that were bothering you completely! I think we are choosing matter from the wave when our consciousness collapses the wave. We are choosing our destinies every second from the quantum. Our destiny is usually mirror of our past. Actively focusing on better things/feelings through meditation and prayer though we can slowly change our past and also in turn, our future. As a faithful person I should also add, those happen of course if God allows. But religion almost always comforts and gives hope, effectively removing worries in a person and effectively helping with the process.