[sci.nanotech] Hameroff's book

borg%wintermute@ucselx.sdsu.edu (T Borg) (09/18/90)

           MATERIAL:  Book
        CALL NUMBER:  QH603.C96 H36 1987

             AUTHOR: Hameroff, Stuart R.

              TITLE: Ultimate computing : biomolecular consciousness and
                      nanotechnology / Stuart R. Hameroff.

        PUBLICATION: Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New York, N.Y.,
                      U.S.A. : Sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada,
                      Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1987.
        DESCRIPTION: xxi, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
              NOTES: Bibliography: p. 279-320.
              NOTES: Includes index.
            SUBJECT: Cytoskeleton.
            SUBJECT: Cellular control mechanisms.
            SUBJECT: Consciousness.
            SUBJECT: Electronic data processing.
            SUBJECT: Molecular biology.
            SUBJECT: Computers.
            SUBJECT: Consciousness.
            SUBJECT: Cytoskeleton--ultrastructure.
            SUBJECT: Models, Molecular.
        ADDED ENTR: Nanotechnology.

           MATERIAL:  Serial


              TITLE: Nanotechnology & microengineering progress.
              TITLE: Nanotechnology and microengineering progress

        PUBLICATION: [Houston, TX] : STICS, [1988-
        PUBLICATION: Vol. 1, no. 1 (4th quarter 1988)-
        DESCRIPTION: v.
              NOTES: Description based on surrogate; title from cover.

merkle@parc.xerox.com (Ralph Merkle) (09/23/90)

"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.