Ok guys...I looked up 'tubulae' at Google, and found some really cool stuff:

#1: some flowers that grow in scandinavia....

#2: The names Hammeroff and Penrose came up a lot. I did A LOT more digging, and found these two pages:

http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/emmet/qm2.html

and

http://www.ceptualinstitute.com/uiu_plus/turingdemon.htm

It's really high level thinking and gets into quantum theory and such, but the REALLY INTERESTING thing is that they deal with ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and conciousness!

*cough CORTANA, DURANDAL, LEELA, TYCHO cough*

ahem....sorry