Hi Gerald,

As I mentioned, Orch OR is a materialist theory which employs microtubules (MT’s) differently and is unrelated to my idea of a truly abstract consciousness. Though I am sure the MT activity described by Orch OR is correct, my interest is in the space-time evolution of MT’s in each moment (especially the "back end" or, how such objects emerge here in s/t), the patterns created by their two constituent proteins, how the pattern activity brings about brain activity and physical feeling, why that’s essential to the abstract experience/thought process, and how MT patterns represent consciousness experience.

I know. It all sounds terrible, doesn’t it!, but I hope with time and through the intro, the book, and our communication, that the idea will become clearer and attract useful criticism towards a better understanding of consciousness.

Regarding MT’s, I firstly learned of them through a friend in cell biology at UCSF c. 1995, about thirteen years before I would have any interest in the workings of consciousness or consider MT’s as an important part of my idea (covered in the more detailed book (2019) which I’d be happy to send, lmk). Then, about 2008, after learning of quantized space, I was thinking about how a truly abstract consciousness would “make the jump,” as it were, to grains of quantized space-time from a non-spacial, abstract realm between those grains in order to bring about all that correlative brain activity. This non-spacial realm (just the elision of all grain boundaries) conveniently surrounds all grains if space-time were, indeed, quantized. Specifically, I thought about how abstraction (including consciousness) might continually accomplish the crossover by means of probability and the effect we call “observation” (more…). I was reading all I could at the time about consciousness and this included one inspiring article on the dynamic activity of MT’s (which I had previously known only as a skeletal armature for cells) by an author whose name I should try and find again. The article (which very likely could have mentioned Orch OR) got me started thinking of MT’s as a possible NCC, not as the source of qualia, but for my budding notion of consciousness as a pure abstraction.

As the smallest coherent thing which pervades the entire brain, yet the largest thing that an MT’s vibrational idea (Vi, the “back end,” more…) should have to contend with, I thought MT’s could be the perfect NCC, especially since neurons seemed magnitudes larger and way too complicated. Looking to illustrate MT’s for my first book in 2014, I found helpful images all over the internet, and usually in connection with the popular Hameroff-Penrose theory.

I hope this background info helps for now. Please call or write for the many questions which may result from such a dense intro. If you like, we can exchange emails to facilitate longer responses. I look forward to hearing from you. I’m at gablaise@hotmail.com and I thank you for your consideration of a new idea!