Could there be an experimental way to link consciousness and quantum computations of brain microtubules?
Jesús Àvila, Jesús Marco, Germán Plascencia‐Villa, Vladan Bajic, George L. Perry
Frontiers in Neuroscience June 24, 2024 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2024.1430432 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Discusses the Orch OR hypothesis that conscious moments relate to quantum computations in brain microtubules involving entangled delocalized π electrons, and proposes that a future experimental approach could be designed to test it. No empirical results are reported. |
Abstract
By doing mathematical analyses, Penrose proposed a relation between consciousness moments and quantum computations of the brain of microtubules. It was suggested that there is a link between brain microtubules and consciousness via the entangled stage of delocalized π electrons present in the brain microtubules (Hameroff and Penrose, 2014). Then, we will try to comment on this hypothesis step by step looking for a possible future experimental approach that probes the hypothesis.
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