ULTIMATE COMPUTING - Quantum Consciousness Studies

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Figure 5.21: “Soluble” intracellular enzymes (circles) governed by the
microtrabecular lattice (MTL: solid dark) and bordering region of ordered and
vicinal water (within thin line). The dark circle is part of a cross sectional view.
Clegg (1981) has proposed that dynamic activity within the MTL can regulate the
enzymatic activity. By Paul Jablonka.
Is the MTL/cytomatrix the final microfrontier of biological organization
Current imaging techniques would not reveal smaller levels of organization, just
as it took advances in electron microscopy to discover first the MT cytoskeleton
and then later the MTL. Perhaps smaller, more intricate networks ranging down to
the level of single peptide filaments might be present. With layers of ordered
water and charged ions, such a solid state “infoplasm” could occupy nearly the
entire volume of biological material.
5.5 Cytoskeletal Motility
Albrecht-Buehler (1985):
Cell movement ... appears to be determined by some kind of
chemical computer, the nature of which is beyond our present
understanding.
Cell motility was discovered by van Leeuwenhoek who observed flagella
propelled sperm cells swimming in the 17th century. A variety of cytoplasmic
movements include “amoeboid” creeping over a surface, internal streaming,
axoplasmic transport, muscle contraction, ciliary and flagellar bending, and cell
shape changes. These maneuverings are all engineered by a relatively small group
of proteins whose net collective effects can be quite spectacular. For example,