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Title: Does water activity inside neurons generate consciousness?
Post by: smart on 03/07/2016 11:40:33
Any thoughts? Could intraneuronal water activity stimulate synaptic exocytosis in endocrine cells of the hypothalamus?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12080110
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1501762
Title: Re: Does water activity inside neurons generate consciousness?
Post by: chiralSPO on 03/07/2016 15:01:55
There is no question that water is necessary for proper brain function, and these articles point to some specific mechanisms that require water. But nowhere do I see any hint that the water itself is the "source" of consciousness...
Title: Re: Does water activity inside neurons generate consciousness?
Post by: smart on 03/07/2016 16:31:42
Quote from: chiralSPO on 03/07/2016 15:01:55
There is no question that water is necessary for proper brain function, and these articles point to some specific mechanisms that require water. But nowhere do I see any hint that the water itself is the "source" of consciousness...

I was thinking the vibrational spectrum of water activity may induce electromagnetic resonance in microtubules.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23567633
Title: Re: Does water activity inside neurons generate consciousness?
Post by: chiralSPO on 03/07/2016 16:37:26
The very first phrase in the abstract of the paper liked in your last post is:

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Microtubule nanotubes are found in every living eukaryotic cells (sic)

If these microtubules are found in every cell in our body, and every cell in every multicellular organism (including plants and fungi) how likely is it that these structures are responsible for consciousness?
Title: Re: Does water activity inside neurons generate consciousness?
Post by: smart on 03/07/2016 17:10:52
Quote from: chiralSPO on 03/07/2016 16:37:26
If these microtubules are found in every cell in our body, and every cell in every multicellular organism (including plants and fungi) how likely is it that these structures are responsible for consciousness?

I believe it is possible that water and microtubules interactions have evolved in living organisms as what we call "protoconsciousness". Thus the self-organization of microtubules dynamics may require an atomic water channel to induce synaptic exocytosis and orchestrate coherent quantum oscillations of synaptic and neural activity.