FW: [Fis] Closing Out the Molecular Bionetworks Session

FW: [Fis] Closing Out the Molecular Bionetworks Session

From: John Holgate <[email protected]>
Date: Thu 23 Feb 2006 - 11:16:20 CET

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From: John Holgate

Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2006 14:13
To: 'Jerry LR Chandler'; fis@listas.unizar.es
Subject: RE: [Fis] Closing Out the Molecular Bionetworks Session

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for your excellent moderation.

<we lack a consistent means of quantitatively expressing the

<information content of molecular bionetworks.

Do you have any comments on the function of 'information' at the level of
microtubule networks in the brain?

We might consider Michael Conrad's hierarchical approach and more recently
the Stuart Hameroff/Ronald Penrose quantum view of 'information' as an
entity 'leaking'
from microtubules (and in a sense more primary than consciousness particularly
in Near Death Experiences - can a brain-dead person still have information?).

http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/penrose-hameroff/quantumcomputation.html

But what is actually 'leaked' and how do we measure it? Perhaps information
itself is in

a perpetual state of superposition with present progressive mean-ing but no
perfect sense.

It seems that information at the chemical level is not only transferred
but also 'flows in' from the environment - molecules (and individuals) don't

just actively 'recognise' - they are continually bombarded by thermal noise.

Maybe Pedro or John Collier could comment too since it is an important
debate within consciousness studies and neurobiology.

I don't wish to extend the session so possibly we could chat privately
during the
virtual postconference drinks...

John H

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