🧠 Quantum Consciousness Explorer
Visualize the Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR theory — quantum processes in brain microtubules generating conscious moments
🤔 What Is Quantum Consciousness?
Quantum consciousness theories propose that quantum mechanical phenomena — superposition, entanglement, and wave function collapse — play a fundamental role in generating conscious experience. The Penrose-Hameroff Orch-OR (Orchestrated Objective Reduction) theory suggests that microtubules inside brain neurons perform quantum computations, and that each moment of awareness emerges when a quantum superposition reaches a gravitational threshold and collapses.
Why does this matter? Classical neuroscience treats the brain as a biological computer of on/off neurons, but cannot explain WHY we have subjective experience (the "hard problem"). Orch-OR proposes that consciousness is a quantum phenomenon — tubulin proteins exist in superposition, and when enough of them collapse together (orchestrated by neural activity), a discrete "moment of consciousness" flashes into existence. Each moment lasts ~25 ms, creating the stream of awareness we experience.