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.