Notes - in consciousness / a good time / tomorrow

       Afternoon. You have had a quiet Sunday. Tomorrow your last test: a B CD ECHO 2D/M-MODE W/DOPPLER. This test last forty-five minutes. - Amorella

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2D/M Mode Echocardiogram and Doppler Echocardiogram or (EchoDoppler)

An echocardiogram test uses high frequency sound waves, called ultrasound, to examine your heart. The test is safe and painless. Through the echocardiogram, our cardiologists can visualize your heart’s chambers, muscles and valves. A Doppler Echocardiogram exam is a more detailed examination of how the blood flows through the heart and how your heart’s valves are performing. These tests are usually performed together to obtain the most information about your heart’s function. These tests may be ordered to evaluate chest pain, shortness of breath, valvular heart disease or any problems with the pumping chambers of your heart. 

Selected from my Chart

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         1355 hours. The three tests will have checked the brain, arteries and veins into the head, and the heart for reasons for my four to six second blackout while driving the Honda Accord and going half off the road in the process. I will feel better knowing if there is a problem, and if so, correcting or modifying it if possible. The blackout experience was interesting. No forewarning of any kind. No timeslot -- one possible millisecond (from/to) conscious/unconscious for seconds/conscious -- here and gone without a sense of time passage. I have passed out before, fainted --  cold sweat or headache or dizziness first. Never full consciousness to nothing before. No sense of fear or pain, no emotion whatsoever. Such a physical death would be a delight. No lingering about. - rho

         The above reads just like you are (in consciousness). Post. - Amorella

         1748 hours. Below are a few short quotations from the Discover article "Down the Quantum Rabbit Hole".

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"The hard part, says [David Chalmers] is the existence of consciousness itself. The same wiring in our brain that lets us enjoy eating an apple and also lets us imagine eating one when no actual apple is around. Science can't explain exactly how." p.43.

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"Penrose remains committed to what the pair has co-published over the years -- the theoretical science. . . .. Hameroff [unlike Penrose] has freely speculated on what it all means. For instance, he posited that near-death experiences might reflect something real: a potentially short-lived quantum afterlife." p. 44.

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"In sum, Orch-OR proposes that consciousness originates from microtubules and actions inside  neurons, rather than the connections between neurons. . . . Movements are unknown until they are observed, according to traditional interpretation of quantum mechanics. Physicists refer to this final observation, which determines what happened, as a wave 'collapsing' into a single state.

In quantum systems inside the neuron, Hameroff and Penrose argue that it's each collapse of a wWave function that yields a conscious moment." p. 45.

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". . . researchers recently have found quantum effects are important for certain biological processes, like photosynthesis." . .. [A quantum effect can create an efficiency] . . ."The electron could use the quantum effect of superposition, where a particle can be in two places at once, to test several routes to the reaction center where photosynthesis takes place, and take the most efficient one. The concept isn't yet proven, but it has gained traction."  p.46.

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         "I think microtubules are memristors," [says Leon Chua.] p. 46

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         1841 hours. The above quotations are important for me to keep the content in context. This is very interesting to me because if scientists can discover the beginnings of consciousness then perhaps we have a doorway as to what 'thoughts' are, whether they are a Platonic-like theoretical forms. My intuition says this may be a way to show some thoughts that seem to appear from nowhere are 'received' by the mind or semi-created by the mind and a quantum action observed perhaps through intuition and/or imagination. - rho

         Who knows, boy, but you have been having a good time with this sort of concept. Nothing wrong with having a good time is there, young man? - Post.

        1854 hours. This still lights up my soul, Amorella

        We can discuss this tomorrow, my man. - Amorella