Consciousness, Microtubules, and the Axon Initial Segment
摘要
This paper presents an explanation for the neural basis of consciousness from the perspective of the QBIT theory. It is hypothesized that consciousness is substrate-dependent, and the substrate of consciousness is tubulin. Consciousness depends on the spontaneous emergence of coherence in a population of microtubules located at the axon initial segments of cortical neurons. When quantum coherence spontaneously emerges in a system consisting of many microtubules, the resultant entity is a kind of matter-field. Different configurations of this field correspond to different conscious experiences.