How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEPTEMBER, 2012, Pages

  Hameroff, Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CONSCIOUSNESS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; GRAVITY SENSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORCHESTRATED OBJECTIVE REDUCTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PREDICTION; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; THEORY;

EID: 84867042328     PISSN: 16625145     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnint.2012.00093     Document Type: Article

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