Funda-mental Geometry: the Penrose-Hameroff ‘Orch OR’ Model of Consciousness
The Geometric Universe April 30, 1998 Stuart Hameroff
Abstract In The Emperor’s New Mind and Shadows of the Mind, Roger Penrose followed a delicate thread to begin to unravel the problem of consciousness. He concluded that conscious thought is more than computation—our minds utilize some type of non-algorithmic processing unavailable in computers. Regarding the identity of the proposed processing, the intrepid sleuth also searched for a ‘subtle...