Yes, going back and reading the relevant articles on Wikipedia [1][2], my original post is a bit of a simplistic summary of his argument. I agree that there co

Yes, going back and reading the relevant articles on Wikipedia [1][2], my original post is a bit of a simplistic summary of his argument. I agree that there could be quantum effects that are involved in the operation of the brain somehow. (I gather that some enzymes have been observed using quantum tunneling). But it seems to go on to state that conciousness arises as a result of collapsing waveforms and some sort of special space-time that has the ability to perform/enable "super" computational feats. So really I'm just not comfortable that we've tried to explain away conciousness by delegating it away to another ... plane. Who can say. Certainly at the moment, opinion seems to be against this theory as the quantum effects suggested can't sustain long enough for the time period the theory requires. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orch-OR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orch-OR [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind#Roger_Penrose http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind#Roger_Penrose