A POSSIBLE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ORCH-OR THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS AND COMPACTIFIED DIMENSIONS IN STRING THEORY.
Consciousness remains a central enigma at the intersection of science and philosophy. The Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theory of Penrose and Hameroff locates conscious episodes in gravity-driven quantum state reductions of coherent tubulin states inside neuronal microtubules, while str...
| Publicado en: | Cosmos & History Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 397 - 414 |
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Ashton & Rafferty
2025
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