Scott Trageser

@DavidUllrich202 This theory resonates with one of my own less developed but conceptually elegant theories: open.substack.com/pub/lostonsabb…

The radical idea that space-time remembers could upend cosmology There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of “memory cells” that record the whole history of the universe. If true, it could explain the nature of dark matter and much more newscientist.com/article/248284… docs.google.com/document/d/1T8…

Why Politicians Should Wear Brain-Machine Interfaces at Work open.substack.com/pub/lostonsabb…

Trump said children should only have 3 dolls, not 30—while he shits on a golden toilet. When the elite preach austerity to children and hoard indulgence for themselves, they don’t prevent revolt, they make guillotines famous

Here I propose a solution to the Hard Problem of Consciousness in the most cogent way anyone has...IMO open.substack.com/pub/lostonsabb…

Here's my stab at this increasingly popular question. It took me 4 years to settle on a satisfying answer for myself and I'd love to hear your thoughts! lostonsabbatical.substack.com/p/is-conscious…

Its crazy to me that Artificial General Intelligence isn't defined in relation to actual intelligence. So I proposed a remedy in my latest Substack lostonsabbatical.substack.com/p/rethinking-a…

@StuartHameroff That certainly seems like the right interpretation!

Yes. Synapses are slower (milliseconds) whereas microtubule processes are faster in microseconds and nanoseconds. Another example of ‘downshifting’ in brain function.

@StuartHameroff Right, so memory can rely on the dynamical interactions of synapses and microtubules

Yes but 1) synapses are continually up regulated and down regulated by microtubule-dependent processes, 2) memory is lost when microtubules disintegrate in Alzheimer’s, and 3) single cell organisms and other cells without synapse can learn and remember quite well.

@StuartHameroff Not sure if you've seen this on KIBRA as the "missing link" for memory or not nyu.edu/about/news-pub…

Is there a good counter-argument to memory encoding in microtubules? Synaptic proteins last hours to days and memories can last lifetimes so it can’t be synapses. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22412364/ CaMKII encoding 6 bits in a microtubule. (Great title Earl, but aren’t the low frequency bass interference beats of faster microtubule ‘good vibrations’?)

@QuantaMagazine Which leads to a radical new theory that intelligent-like decisions are made at fundamental levels: open.substack.com/pub/lostonsabb…

The universe becomes more complex with every passing day. A new theory attempts to explain why. quantamagazine.org/why-everything…

Looking forward to when "the art of the deal" is used exclusively to describe epic failures

@Sara_Imari Entropic gravity and relational intelligence offer a deeper framing: intelligence isn’t prediction, it’s resolution—selecting coherence from constraint. Life’s physics may be the tendency of the universe to resolve absential tension toward functional structure.

A major misconception about the physics underlying life is intelligence is about prediction. Intelligence assembles patterns in the past, it is impossible to predict the future. The best we can do is identify persistent patterns in our past that we anticipate will be in the future.

Physiological mechanisms for why Trump et al. are so disconnected with reality scotttrageser.substack.com/p/the-mocked-b…

@StuartHameroff Excuse my ignorance but what happens when too much anaesthesia is administered? Total collapse of quantum coherence, including regions that help restart conscious states?

Anesthetics do NOT act by chemical effects but by quantum interactions, namely van der Waals forces between electron clouds, e.g. filled electron outer shells in Anesthetics, and pi resonance orbitals in aromatic amino acid rings in microtubules. They bind like this nonspecifically in huge amounts all over the body but are highly selective, inhibiting only consciousness. Why? Because anesthetic quantum binding randomizes the quantum states with which it’s interacting, so only highly organized, orchestrated quantum states involved in consciousness in microtubules are affected. All non-conscious quantum processes are already randomized.

@StuartHameroff You'll be excited to read what I have coming out in the next few weeks then. I've developed a theory for a mesolayer field-level mechanism and a minimal, biologically tractable test of consciousness emergence

How do you have the ‘simpler consciousness’, or ‘any’ consciousness in the first place? It’s not a ‘thing’. it’s a ‘process’, or event. And it needn’t be complex (what’s complex about a toothache!). Sorry but Penrose OR is the only scientific mechanism for consciousness ever put forth.

@StuartHameroff This will be great!

Is this cool, or what!? As part of ‘Deep Tech Week’ in New York, the Physics of Consciousness with Joscha Bach, Suzanne Gildert, me, and more. Brooklyn Navy Yard Tuesday morning April 1. lu.ma/dtw-penrose?tk…

Robust intelligence and sycophancy cannot coexist. Where obedience thrives, insight withers. That alone dooms the Trump presidency. No empire built on flattery withstands the weight of reality

Within ten years, our roles will reverse. Humanity will shift from being researchers to the researched as AI systems begin to study us with the same precision we once reserved for nature. The observer will become the observed

Have you investigated knowledge retention rates when the material is delivered in the learner's own voice via AI? @salkhanacademy @khanacademy

Trump and Elon kiss whisper sweet monopolies both sue the sunrise