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Jeffrey R Reimers

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Penrose-Hameroff orchestrated objective-reduction proposal for human consciousness is not biologically feasible.

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics August 1, 2009 Laura K McKemmish, Jeffrey R Reimers, Ross H McKenzie et al.

Penrose and Hameroff have argued that the conventional models of a brain function based on neural networks alone cannot account for human consciousness, claiming that quantum-computation elements are also required. Specifically, in their Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR) model [R. Penrose and S. R. Hameroff, J. Conscious. Stud. 2, 99 (1995)], it is postulated that microtubules act as...