"Wow!" was a comet
 

[url]http://planetary-science.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Paris_WAS_103_02.pdf[/url]

[url]https://phys.org/news/2017-06-wow-mystery-space.html[/url]

[QUOTE=retina;460719][url]http://planetary-science.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Paris_WAS_103_02.pdf[/url]

[url]https://phys.org/news/2017-06-wow-mystery-space.html[/url][/QUOTE]
:fusion:
I saw the clickbait version of that on Yahoo and avoided clicking on it because it was very clickbaity and I thought it was going to be a nutjob explanation.

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[url]http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/roger-penrose-on-why-consciousness-does-not-compute[/url]
``It was Hameroff’s idea that quantum coherence happens in microtubules, protein structures inside the brain’s neurons. And what are microtubules, you ask? ``

Weird or What? Personality Transplant Documentary | Episode aired 2 June 2010
Interesting episode with a possible tie-in to the first link. The following link is a popular press expositon of this behaviour.
[url]http://people.com/archive/organ-transplants-can-a-new-heart-change-your-life-and-your-taste-in-music-vol-63-no-13/[/url]

Microtubules..
Are there any specialists (M.D`s, bio-informaticians, geneticists..) with an educated opinion on these possibly connected phenomena and their causal link.

[QUOTE=jwaltos;464002][url]http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness/roger-penrose-on-why-consciousness-does-not-compute[/url]
``It was Hameroff’s idea that quantum coherence happens in microtubules, protein structures inside the brain’s neurons. And what are microtubules, you ask? ``

Weird or What? Personality Transplant Documentary | Episode aired 2 June 2010
Interesting episode with a possible tie-in to the first link. The following link is a popular press expositon of this behaviour.
[url]http://people.com/archive/organ-transplants-can-a-new-heart-change-your-life-and-your-taste-in-music-vol-63-no-13/[/url]

Microtubules..
Are there any specialists (M.D`s, bio-informaticians, geneticists..) with an educated opinion on these possibly connected phenomena and their causal link.[/QUOTE]I only skimmed the article, so I may have missed it, but there's an obvious, but remarkable, fact about human consciousness that "quantum coherence" doesn't seem to address: when we sleep, our consciousness [i]goes away[/i]. And when we wake up, it comes back.

I did see an objection to the idea based on the temperature of the human brain, and that made sense. The term "quantum coherence" may perhaps apply to superconductivity, superfluidity, and Bose-Einstein condensates. These phenomena depend (as best I can make out) on there being a small enough amount of energy in the system, that there are many fewer quantum states available than the number of particles, so that huge collections of the particles are in the same state.

Sardonicus, rather than skim the opposite is required. There are some within this forum that have read (and understood) a vast amount of literature on a wide variety of topics. Synthesis of outliers, re-framing contextual perspectives and connecting seemingly disparate concepts in a unique and meaningful way requires experience and exposure. Professional longevity within evolving fields requires agile minds whose valued opinions I`m trying to elicit. My question involves sentience which parallels Penrose`s view and its origin from an initial state from some confluence of ``forces and fields`` to its present possible expression as a microtubule whose function may be modelled mathematically and virtually (slight pun).

As an addendum please read David Bohm`s works which are equally instructive.

[QUOTE=ewmayer;463996][URL="http://www.nature.com/news/the-strange-topology-that-is-reshaping-physics-1.22316"]The strange topology that is reshaping physics[/URL] | Nature News & Comment[/QUOTE]

The idea of a topology of biology dates back to 1940 (Conrad Waddington).
At last, the physicists are catching up!

[QUOTE=jwaltos;464016]Synthesis of outliers, re-framing contextual perspectives and connecting seemingly disparate concepts in a unique and meaningful way requires experience and exposure.[/QUOTE]

As Christopher Zeeman used to say:
[QUOTE]Good scholars tend to compartmentalise knowledge, while researchers try to synthesise it.[/QUOTE]

@rogue Those are two amazing collections! Many thanks. :tu: