Orchestrated objective reduction is a controversial theory postulating that consciousness originates at the quantum level inside neurons. The mechanism is held to be a quantum process called objective
A: An axon terminal releases neurotransmitters through a synapse, which are received by microtubules in a neuron's dendritic spine. B: Simulated microtubule tubulins switch states.
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Sir Roger Penrose is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, and philosopher of science. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of
Orchestrated objective reduction
…the theory may answer the hard problem of consciousness and provide a mechanism for free will. The hypothesis was put forward in the 1990s by physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff; it combines molecular biology, neuroscience, pharmacology, philosophy, quantum information theory, and quantum…
Penrose in 2011
Predicted view from outside the event horizon of a black hole lit by a thin accretion disc
Penrose in 1978