While comparing neurons and transistors is a convenient metaphor (and not completely out of left field), the brain is ...

According to Penrose and Hameroff, consciousness and free will arise in the imagining of these many future states, and the 'choice' of which to collapse the superposition into, in a way that's ...

A controversial theory suggests that brain microtubules could contain quantum phenomena, linking your consciousness to the ...

Roger Penrose proposes a conscious observer doesn’t cause wave function collapse. A conscious observer is caused by wave function collapse.

Physicists propose a theory connecting the brain to the quantum realm, involving Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff's collaboration.

In 1989, British mathematician and Nobel Prize in Physics winner Roger Penrose did just that, suggesting that quantum entanglement is involved in consciousness.

Could consciousness emerge from quantum processes in tiny tubes inside brain cells? Research suggests these microscopic structures might hold the key to awareness itself.

The Penrose-Hameroff Orch OR model places the essential aspect of consciousness at the level of quantum computation in microtubules within the brain's neurons. "Tubulin" proteins comprising ...

In the vast world of geometry and art, there are figures that challenge our perception and understanding of space. One of these figures is the Penrose Triangle, also known as the Tribar. This object, ...

Penrose’s colleagues in theoretical physics and cosmology aren’t impressed either. Commenting on Penrose’s The Emperor’s New Mind (1989), Hawking said that it was an example of the bad things that can ...

A recent experiment suggests the brain is not too warm or wet for consciousness to exist as a quantum wave that connects with the rest of the universe.

Learn about Nobel laureate Roger Penrose's idea of how consciousness is caused by quantum processes.