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Stuart R. Hameroff is a primary researcher who has proposed that the brain functions as a quantum computer [1], specifically theorizing that quantum processes within the brain underlie subjective experience [2], quantum coherence [3], and quantum state reductions occurring in microtubuli [4].
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Quantum Mechanics And Consciousness: The Physics Of Mind quantumzeitgeist.com 1 fact
claimThe Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) model, proposed by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff, posits that quantum processes within the brain could provide a physical basis for subjective experience.
Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information ... arxiv.org 1 fact
referenceStuart Hameroff proposed that the brain functions as both a neurocomputer and a quantum computer in his 2007 paper 'The brain is both neurocomputer and quantum computer'.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimRoger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff have argued that microtubuli are the potential location for quantum state reductions in the brain.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org 1 fact
claimFriedrich Beck and John Eccles (1992) and Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose (2016) have proposed concrete mechanisms for how quantum coherence might occur in the brain despite environmental noise.