Dr. Stuart Hameroff Talks About the Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR Quantum Mind Theory

VIDEO: Dr. Stuart Hameroff explains the latest revisions to his theory of quantum effects in the human mind-brain system.

STUART HAMEROFF is Professor Emeritus, Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies, at the University of Arizona, Tucson.

01/21/2012 04:33 AM CDT

Following an interest in the computational capacity of microtubules inside neurons, Hameroff teamed up with the eminent British mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose in the early 90s to develop a highly controversial theory of consciousness called Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR).

[ Audio and slide show of Sir Roger Penrose lecture on Orch OR ]

In 1994, he began the Toward a Science of Consciousness conference as Director of CCS. He has lectured around the world and organized many international conferences.

The Penrose-Hameroff orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR) theory postulates quantum computation in microtubules (MTs) inside brain neurons as an explanation for consciousness.

MTs are cylindrical lattices of peanut-shaped tubulin proteins. The basic Orch OR idea is that discrete MT tubulin states act as information bits and quantum bits (qubits) in MT computers inside brain neurons. Orch OR suggests MT tubulin qubits switch coherently and compute by entanglement with other tubulins, performing quantum computations which self-collapse by Penrose objective reduction of the quantum wave function.

A recent update on the Penrose-Hameroff quantum mind theory, Consciousness in the Universe: Neuroscience, Quantum Space-Time Geometry and Orch OR Theory, is available to read on-line.

The following video is reproduced at STARpod.org by permission of Dr. Stuart Hameroff.

Stuart Hameroff, M.D.
Department of Anesthesiology
Arizona Health Sciences Center
Tucson, AZ 85724
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