Low-level quantum effects are uncomputable

The biological phenomena that underlie consciousness operate at a level which quantum effects could exert an influence. Because quantum effects are not computable, the brain and consciousness may be noncomputational and nonalgorithmic.

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Roger Penrose, 1990.

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