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Where did Sullydog get these screwy ideas? Here's some related links: Quantum Consciousness--Homepage of QC Guru Stuart Hameroff, who thinks that your microtubules are cellular automata running computations with quantum gravity. Links to papers, abstracts, tutorials and other fun stuff relating to his whacked-out theory. The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. On this view, every quantum event creates an entirely new cosmos. The resultant multiverse contains infinitely many worlds. Still controversial; still fun. Tons of links. David Deutsch's Many Worlds. Provocative article by a pioner of Quantum Computation. Follow the link to his home page; he's an interesting dude. Protein Folding Without a Syncytium! Turns out you might not need interlinked brains to run protein folding solutions...a screen saver may do the trick. The User Illusion. Capsule synopsis of Tor Norretranders' fascinating treatise on the limitations of consciousness. The ideas in this book, while unorthodox and controversial, lie at the core of So Runs the World Away. Is the Universe a Program? Is it buggy? Efficient? Object-oriented or procedural? What is the clock rate of the processor? Who wrote it? Most importantly: does it belong to Microsoft? Meditations from Michael Swaine. Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation. Magnetic fields set up corresponding electrical currents in brain tissue, resulting in neuronal discharge. Basic info, lots of links. TMS Abstract from NeuroImage Human Brain Mapping Conference--Timmies at work in 2002! The Astral Gland? A look at the growing interest in astrocytes. These are brain cells that outnumber neurons ten-to-one, regulate and modify synapses, communicate with neurons and each other--and may be involved in memory, learning and consciousness. The End of Neuronocentrism. For another look at how astrocytes may help create the mind, check out this brief but informative review of Glial Cells: Their Role in Behavior (Peter R. Laming et al, Eds). It's Not the Matrix, Neo, It's the Unvierse. Are we all just a subroutines in a cosmic computer? If so, what are we computing? Tarot, Jung, Chaos Theory and the Unconscious. Flakey fringe stuff, with too much mumbo and too much jumbo. Kinda fun, though. Hamlet. An in-depth analysis of " the perfect play." Fascinating. Macbeth. A penetrating analysis of Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy. Hamlet. The story of a noble brain caught in a hellish superposition. Full text. Macbeth. Is it fate, or free will? Does the question make sense? Full text.