Research Overview
The nature of consciousness remains deeply mysterious and profoundly important, with existential, medical and spiritual implications. We know what it is like to be conscious — to have awareness, a conscious ‘mind’ — but who, or what, are ‘we’ who know such things? How is the subjective nature of phenomenal experience — our ‘inner life’ — to be explained in scientific terms? What consciousness actually is, and how it comes about, remain unknown.
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Orch OR
Orchestrated Objective Reduction — the theory, developed with Sir Roger Penrose, that consciousness arises from quantum processes in microtubules inside brain neurons.
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Anesthetic Action
How anesthetic gases selectively erase consciousness — and what that reveals about its mechanism. Hameroff's work on quantum effects in protein conformational dynamics.
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Transcranial Ultrasound
Non-invasive megahertz brain stimulation (TUS) — stimulating microtubule resonance through the scalp to improve mood and cognition, with trials planned for TBI, Alzheimer's and more.
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