Quantum consciousness revisited: a review of Orch OR and an introduction to the Quantum Cognition Gradient
Journal of High School Science July 12, 2026 Logan Piñeiro, Lily Read
Despite centuries of scientific inquiry, the origin of human consciousness, characterized by self-awareness and the presence of qualia, remains one of the deepest mysteries in neuroscience. Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR), as proposed by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff, posits that consciousness arises from the objective reduction of quantum superpositions within entangled neural...