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From: merkle@parc.xerox.com (Ralph Merkle)
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Subject: Hameroff's book
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Date: 22 Sep 90 21:33:19 GMT
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"Ultimate Computing" was reviewed in Foresight Update a while
ago.  The review was unfavorable.  Hameroff's central thesis,
that the cytoskeleton of the cell (in particular the microtubules)
play a central role in consciousness is unsupported by the evidence.