The "zero power and selflessness" paper

I published this some years ago; it has been referenced a lot, and cited a few times. Its publishers have failed to make it available on the web, and the contract I signed with them allows me to post the following selected pages;



















Seán O Nualláin Ph.D. Stanford
Stanford University 11-12u Eanair 2012
































































PS 15 u Eanair 2012

Much ink and indeed many petabytes have been consumed in an attempt to work out physical mechanisms for quantum coherent states in biology. Ironically, this reached a crescendo in consciousness studies in the 1990's - as if we didn't have enough problems of our own! It was hypothesised that consciousness involved microtubules, or perhaps laying down of dendritic spines in a way reminiscent of quasiperiodic crystals - even before Steinhardt found the first attested quasiperiodic crystal in nature in 2011. Clearly, phase-synchronized gamma would be conducive to coherence

Maybe it's simpler. Maybe all we need is coherence due to entanglement as is hpothesised for birds' magnetic navigation - and entanglement has been demonstrated for relatively macroscopic objects. The framework of the paper above still remains intact. I will give a paper on this and other issues Feb 1 2012 at UC Berkeley


Seán O Nualláin Ph.D. Stanford
Stanford University 15u Eanair 2012