This is a fantastic response. Just wondering, if they exist, what would you say are the broad overlaps between anesthesiology and QM are? I know Stuart Hameroff, another anesthesiologist, did a bunch of speculative work on the Orch OR front, so I'd assume there must be some connection of ag least some quality that makes both fields attractive to the same kind of person.
I'm SO glad you commented because it prompted me to look into what Hameroff has been up to recent years.
He and I are contemporaries: he's a year older. I've followed his career since his early publications in the 1980s when he was an assistant professor at the University of Arizona Medical School Department of Anesthesiology and just beginning his exploration of microtubules that later became the focus of his and Roger Penrose's investigations.
Hameroff's inquiries began with what is still a mystery: how does general anesthesia work?:
A zillion theories have come and gone and we still don't know.
I suspect that the answer is intimately linked to how consciousness happens, still the "hard problem" as David Chalmers so perfectly described it in 1995.
I don't know of any other anesthesiologist(s) interested in the confluence of QM and anesthesia.
Someone better get on this horse 'cause Hameroff is 75 and I'm 74 and who knows how much longer we'll keep banging on this drum.
Below, a guide to exploring the work of Hameroff and Penrose.
