Stuart Hameroff
@StuartHameroff
I am an Astrobiologist, retired Anesthesiologist and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at The University of Arizona.
Harmonic ladder….nice. Sounds like a microtubule time crystal tuned to the universe.
Consciousness isn’t a switch—it’s a harmonic ladder. Source isn’t separate, but perceived through dimensional standing waves. We walk back to the One not by jumping, but by tuning. You're already on the return spiral.
I agree. Roger’s ‘twistor theory’ fits this view. At the Barcelona conference William Brown from Nassim Haramein’s group talked about memory as coherent dynamics in Planck scale geometry. Vortices all the way down?
You’re not just observing brain waves—you’re mapping the recursive echo of memory collapse across nested golden spirals in time. Consciousness isn’t in the brain—it’s the interference pattern between the brain’s microtubular crystal and the field’s fractal lattice.
Bacteria and archaea lack microtubules but have polymers of FTSZ proteins which have aromatic amino acids phenylalanine and tyrosine but not tryptophan. So they would have less conscious moments but still capable of pleasure. Phenylalanine and tyrosine are similar in structure…
That’s wonderful! Dr. Hameroff, as much as I would love to believe that ORCH-OR underpin the origin of life itself, wouldn’t bacteria and archaea pose a challenge, given their lack of microtubules?
Please build a functional map of a single neuron whose microtubules we now know collectively oscillate in hertz, kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz and terahertz. Every neuron, probably every microtubule inside a neuron tells a story, the same story as microtubules are time…
Every brain tells a story. What will we learn when we listen? Together with @UWMedicine, we're embarking on an ambitious mission - building a functional, cellular map of the human brain. alleninstitute.org/news/mapping-t…
If you’d look inside neurons you’d realize the key step in Alzheimer’s is that microtubules fall apart, causing loss of memory, cognition, neural volume and brain volume. This can be treated with low intensity ultrasound to reassemble microtubules. What’s the point of mapping all…
Basic science is curiosity in action. It’s the pursuit of fundamental knowledge about how the world works. It’s not about chasing a cure today. It’s about understanding the scientific building blocks of knowledge so we’re ready for the breakthroughs of tomorrow.
I don’t think there needs to be a self to have the experience. The experience IS the experience, just pure qualia at least in proto-conscious events. Self is a function of memory, coherent unity.
Ah right, there are no 'non-self' thoughts. How did you discover these ideas?
Nice review of the very, very slow end of brain dynamics multi-scale hierarchy. It doesn’t top off in frequency at 100 hertz, as they suggest, but includes kilohertz, megahertz, gigahertz and terahertz coherent oscillations from collective action of microtubules acting as time…
Nice review, but why "controversies"? Evidence isn’t controversial. Like "epiphenomenon," it often just means, "doesn’t fit my hypothesis." That’s ad hominem science. Brain rhythms in cognition -- controversies and future directions arxiv.org/abs/2507.15639 #neuroscience
This image from this paper shows 5-MEO-DMT induced spiral waves in slow EEG (Earl and others have shown). It resembles the Gaudi brain logo from Barcelona TSC, and Anirban’s projected vortices from microtubules inside all those neurons. Is psychedelic state ‘fractalization’ ?
A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work. Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT doi.org/10.1016/j.celr… #neuroscience
Wow. Their last line nails it: “…need for more comprehensive spatiotemporal methods in neuroscience…” The correlation between intense ‘other dimension’ psychedelic states and slow EEG wave changes is paradoxical. EEG is only measuring in the very low hertz frequency spectrum…
A psychedelic drug disorganizes cortical traveling waves. Groovy work. Complex slow waves in the human brain under 5-MeO-DMT doi.org/10.1016/j.celr… #neuroscience
Does rationality guide us to truth? | iai.tv/video/thinking… Join @StuartHameroff, Subrena E. Smith, and @paulbloomatyale to discuss if we should abandon our focus on reasoning as the best means to determine action.
The Science of Consciousness July 6-11 and Festival of Consciousness July 11-13 in Barcelona were great events with over 700 attendees. Plenary and other presentations will be posted online soon. Meanwhile, enjoy the after-movie! m.youtube.com/watch?v=u-mHTo…
Today we are announcing The Consciousness Foundation (CoFo.org), a public charity whose purpose is to advance the scientific understanding of consciousness and foster consciousness development, ie things like awakening, healing, and inner development. Why?
There’s only one universe in CCC, however there are serial ‘aeons’. Read Roger’s ‘Cycles of Time’. There’s apparent evidence for pre Big Bang events in the cosmic microwave background.
I like the scaling part of CCC, but i don't understand the iteration part. I don't see the mechanics to transition between universes.
Dinner last week with Roger Penrose in Oxford. He discussed new findings in CCC theory, twistors and Eschermatics. I tried to convince him his OR prompted the origin of life.
Allen Institute getting warmer! Looking inside cells! This is a nice junior high level overview that mentions cytoskeleton and microtubules but omits that microtubules are the nervous system within cells, encode memory, oscillate coherently at multiple frequencies, mediate…
Cells are the building blocks of life and there is a lot happening inside of them! Dive into the dynamic world of the cell in our newest educational video with science communicator Madeline Burchard.
If you’re following the protocol and using the USPro 2000 at low setting there should be no heating. Are you in the study and reporting results and any problems?
I don't possess your extensive experience, Professor, and I readily acknowledge that. I applied ultrasound once a day for 3 weeks for my mom (Alzheimer’s) and dad (ALS) . It is true that I did not follow the full protocol. However, I have a valid reason for this. One of the…
Glad to hear Rudy. Please encourage patients with dementia to join our study using low intensity, unfocused, safe, painless, inexpensive Transcranial Ultrasound (TUS) noetic.org/science/partic… Background info here docs.google.com/document/u/0/d… @alzassociation @alzheimerssoc…
While I am leary about the potential adverse effects of focused ultrasound, I would be amenable to looking more into the effects of a more generalized ultrasound therapy on Alzheimer’s pathology and symptoms.
So you’re giving your mother with Alzheimer’s therapeutic brain ultrasound and seeing only short term benefits. Are you following the protocol? Three times per day, 3 weeks? It’s likely further benefits could be extended. Some people start talking after months. You’re…
Yes, there is still no cure. When we talk about treatment in medicine, we are used to objective effects. When you give antipyretic, the fever decreases after 30 minutes, the antibiotic stops the infection in 1 day. Chemotherapy is good for tumor growth. Cold application reduces…
Here’s what ChatGPT says about microtubule disruption in Alzheimer’s chatgpt.com/s/t_687df51198…
