Once we calculate the maximum distance from the center of the dominant
resonance frequency to its edges, and thus establish the boundary of the
PCC in each direction, we can drop the “P” in PCC and describe the
newly bounded resonance structure as a CC. There will generally be far
more than one CC present, however, in any PCC, as discussed above, due
to the nested hierarchy nature of most CCs.
As a second example, we consider the tubulin dimers and microtubules
that are the focus of Penrose and Hameroff’s Orchestrated Objective
Reduction theory of consciousness (Orch OR) and recently probed in
Craddock et al. 2017. At the terahertz-level resonance cycles measured
in tubulin dimers, the maximum boundary of the CC at that scale would
be, if we assume a not-instantaneous but still extremely fast velocity
for quantum collapse of 10,000 x the speed of light (Salart, et al.
2008):
(10,000 x 300,000,000 m/s)/613,000,000,000,000 c/s
= 3,000,000,000,000/613,000,000,000,000
= 0.0049 meters per cycle
This example, while obviously quite speculative and debatable,
demonstrates how higher frequency (rather than lower) resonance chains
could in some cases be the most relevant for calculating boundaries of
PCCs if the velocity of the information flow is also very fast. It may
not be biologically meaningful to discuss causal velocities of
10,000c , but this example nevertheless shows how we cannot focus
solely on frequencies and ignore the velocity of causal influences in
calculating PCC boundaries.