  Recent developments/efforts to understand aspects of the brain function at
the {\em sub-neural} level are discussed. MicroTubules (MTs) participate in a
wide variety of dynamical processes in the cell, especially in bioinformation
processes such as learning and memory, by possessing a well-known binary
error-correcting code with 64 words. In fact, MTs and DNA/RNA are unique cell
structures that possess a code system. It seems that the MTs' code system is
strongly related to a kind of ``Mental Code" in the following sense. The MTs'
periodic paracrystalline structure make them able to support a superposition of
coherent quantum states, as it has been recently conjectured by Hameroff and
Penrose, representing an external or mental order, for sufficient time needed
for efficient quantum computing. Then the quantum superposition collapses
spontaneously/dynamically through a new, string-derived mechanism for collapse
proposed recently by Ellis, Mavromatos, and myself. At the moment of collapse,
organized quantum exocytosis occurs, and this is how a ``{\em mental order}"
may be translated into a ``{\em physiological action}". Our equation for
quantum collapse, tailored to the MT system, predicts that it takes 10,000
neurons ${\cal O}(1\,{\rm sec})$ to dynamically collapse (process and imprint
information). Different observations/experiments and various schools of thought
are in agreement with the above numbers concerning ``{\em conscious events}".
If indeed MTs, may be considered as the {\em microsites of consciousness}, then
several unexplained properties of consciousness/awareness, get easily
explained, including ``{\em backward masking}", ``{\em referal backwards in
time}". The {\em non-locality} in the cerebral cortex of neurons related to
particular missions, and the related {\em unitary sense of self} as well as
