Conscious events as orchestrated space-time selections

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 36-53

  Hameroff, Stuart ^a,c   Penrose, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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