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2025–2026 Orch-OR Literature Review: No New Mathematical Evidence Found — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew Stewart Caldin

Published Oct 22, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

FINDING: Search results are dominated by popular YouTube expositions of Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR, with no new 2025–2026 peer-reviewed mathematical evidence; one irrelevant clinical QA paper (arXiv:2608.27467v1) is a false positive. No novel equations, constants, or experimental data are presented in the accessible abstracts/titles. | MATH: None extracted — no new formalism, no revised collapse rate (e.g., Orch-OR's standard \( E_\Delta \approx 10^{-17} \) J threshold or \( \tau \approx \hbar/E_\Delta \approx 10^{-1} \) s), no updated decoherence timescales, no microtubule lattice symmetry parameters. | CONNECTION: Orch-OR's core geometry — microtubule tubulin dimers arranged in a hexagonal lattice with 13 protofilaments — implies a 6-fold rotational symmetry (crystallographic point group \( p6 \)), but no new ratio (0.382, 0.618, 0.786, 1.618, 2.618) or base-60 link is evidenced in these results. | DEPTH: 1 — the finding is a media echo, not a mathematical advance. The only concrete it Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com

DOI
10.5281/zenodo.23553641

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