Orch-OR/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Orch-OR.

A theory of consciousness, put forth in the mid-1990s by British theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and American anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, postulating a specific form of quantum computation underlying neuronal synaptic activities occurring in cytoskeletal structures of neurons called microtubules.

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