Emergent Consciousness: From the Early Universe to Our Mind
arXiv Preprint Archive July 5, 2000 P. A. Zizzi
During inflation, the early universe can be described as a superposed state of quantum registers. The self-reduction of this superposed quantum state is consistent with Penrose's Objective Reduction (OR) model. The quantum gravity threshold is reached at the end of inflation, corresponding to a superposed state of 10^9 quantum registers. This number matches the number of superposed tubulin qubits in the human brain that undergo Penrose-Hameroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR), leading to a conscious event. An analogy thus arises between the early quantum computing universe and the human mind.