Stuart Hameroff: Quantum Consciousness

Orch-OR, the contested idea of Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose: consciousness as quantum processes in microtubules inside neurons.

Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose proposed the Orch-OR theory, explaining consciousness as a quantum process.

• Consciousness is not just a byproduct of neurons.
• Inside neurons are microtubules—the site of quantum effects.
• Subjective experience (qualia) is quantum information.

If consciousness is quantum, then intuition and creativity have a fundamental physical basis.