Paper: Consciousness in the Universe: A Review of the Theory of Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR)

The innovative theory of Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) introduces a revolutionary biophysical model to explain the genesis of phenomenal consciousness. In radical contrast to the classical computational model, it postulates that human thought does not emerge as an epiphenomenon of simple synaptic connections functioning as binary switches. On the contrary, the authors propose that consciousness originates in quantum computing processes sustained in the delicate microtubule structures of the neuronal cytoskeleton. Relying on Gödel's implacable logical incompleteness theorem, the treatise argues with mathematical severity that the human intellect's capacity for understanding possesses strictly 'non-algorithmic' properties. This makes it ontologically and physically impossible for the brain to operate as a traditional computer, requiring the intervention of principles of quantum gravity to orchestrate the collapse of the wave function and thus produce a unified conscious moment.