The Brain Microbiota as It Relates to the Orch OR Theory of Consciousness
preprint DOI: 10.20944/preprints202106.0562.v1 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Proposes that the Orch OR theory of consciousness could be extended to include microbial consciousness from brain microbiota, thereby increasing its explanatory and predictive powers. |
Abstract
I propose to incorporate the concepts of brain microbiota and microbial consciousness in the Orch OR theory of human consciousness with the goal of increasing its explanatory and predictive powers. If consciousness arises from quantum computations in cytoskeletal structures inside human neurons, there is no theoretical impediment at hypothesizing that it might also occur in the cytoskeletal structures of the microbes resident in our brains. If the concept of the brain microbiota could be integrated in a general Orch OR theory, its explanatory and predictive powers would be vastly increased.
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