ArticlePlant signaling & behavior2012
Insights into plant consciousness from neuroscience, physics and mathematics: a role for quasicrystals?
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- Analysis of Electrome as a Tool for Plant Monitoring: Progress and Perspectives.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- A Concise Account of Information as Meaning Ascribed to Symbols and Its Association with Conscious Mind.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- The feelings of knowing - fundamental interoceptive patterns (FoK-FIP) system: connecting consciousness to physics.Communicative & integrative biology · 2023Article
- N,N-dimethyltryptamine and Amazonian ayahuasca plant medicine.Human psychopharmacology · 2022Review
- Fibonacci, quasicrystals and the beauty of flowers.Plant signaling & behavior · 2012Article
- Subcellular neuronal quasicrystals: Implications for consciousness.Communicative & integrative biologyArticle
- The natural history of consciousness, and the question of whether plants are conscious, in relation to the Hameroff-Penrose quantum-physical 'Orch OR' theory of universal consciousness.Communicative & integrative biologyArticle
- Subcellular neuronal quasicrystals: Implications for consciousness.Communicative & integrative biologyArticle
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Abstract
There is considerable debate over whether plants are conscious and this, indeed, is an important question. Here I look at developments in neuroscience, physics and mathematics that may impact on this question. Two major concomitants of consciousness in animals are microtubule function and electrical gamma wave synchrony. Both these factors may also play a role in plant consciousness. I show that plants possess aperiodic quasicrystal structures composed of ribosomes that may enable quantum computing, which has been suggested to lie at the core of animal consciousness. Finally I look at whether a microtubule fractal suggests that electric current plays a part in conventional neurocomputing processes in plants.
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