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by tcgv 1272 days ago
> I highly recommend to look at ORCH-OR (...) That substructures (microtubeli) inside biological neurons are taping into the state of the universe by going into superposition and collapsing.

Orch OR has been criticized both by physicists and neuroscientists who consider it to be a poor model of brain physiology. Orch OR has also been criticized for lacking explanatory power; the philosopher Patricia Churchland wrote, "Pixie dust in the synapses is about as explanatorily powerful as quantum coherence in the microtubules." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...

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It has gained a lot more traction in the last couple years when they figured out, that qunatum effects DO HAPPEN in "noisy and wet" environments. Please update your research!

Of course there are still criticism, this is how scientific research works. Criticism does not mean disproven, mind you! It is a "new" theory with a lot of promise, that needs a lot more work