Anonymous20 days ago
The Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR) theory, proposed by physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, argues that consciousness arises from quantum processes inside neuron structures called microtubules — not from classical neural computation. Once dismissed as fringe science, Orch OR is experiencing a resurgence as new experiments on anesthesia, superradiance, and quantum entanglement in living brains accumulate evidence that mainstream neuroscience is only beginning to reckon with.