Stuart Hameroff, a neurobiologist, proposed that microtubules could serve as the specific location where quantum effects sufficient for consciousness arise, suggesting that microtubules can synchronize due to quantum effects, thereby allowing quantum effects to persist long enough to play a role in conscious thought.
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“Penrose originally didn't say anything about specifically how these quantum effects should come about in the human brain, but he later teamed up with Stuart Hameroff, a neurobiologist who had this idea that it would be microtubules.”
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