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ArticleIntegrative psychological & behavioral science2025

Consciousness, Microtubules, and the Axon Initial Segment.

Majid Beshkar

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Article in Integrative psychological & behavioral science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Consciousness and spintronic coherence in microtubules.Communicative & integrative biology · 2025
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Majid BeshkarTehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. majid.beshkar@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6603-4332

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Abstract

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.

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Axon Initial SegmentAxonsConsciousnessMicrotubulesModels, NeurologicalNeuronsAnimalsHumansAxon initial segmentCoherenceConsciousnessMicrotubule

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