>From Stuart Hameroff, the collaborator on many of Penrose's papers
on quantum consciousness:
"Roger Penrose (1989; 1994; 1996) has proposed that isolated quantum
systems which avoid environmental decoherence will eventually reduce
nonetheless due to an objective threshold ("objective reduction" -
OR) related to an intrinsic feature of fundamental spacetime
geometry (see below). Unlike the situation following environmental
decoherence, outcome states which reduce due to Penrose's objective
reduction are selected by a non-computable influence on the
deterministic, pre-reduction quantum computation. Noncomputability
implies a non-algorithmic process which is neither deterministic nor
random, a property which Penrose (e.g. 1997) also attributes to
conscious thought and understanding. This clue suggests that quantum
computation with objective reduction may be somehow involved in
consciousness."...
"According to the proposals put forth in the Orch OR model,
microtubules seem to be well designed (perhaps ideally designed)
quantum computers."
http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/penrose-
hameroff/quantumcomputation.html
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