At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory

Maaneli Derakhshani; Lajos Diósi; Matthias Laubenstein; Kristian Piscicchia; Catalina Curceanu

doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2022.05.004

At the crossroad of the search for spontaneous radiation and the Orch OR consciousness theory

Phys Life Rev. 2022 Sep:42:8-14. doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2022.05.004. Epub 2022 May 17.

Authors

Maaneli Derakhshani¹, Lajos Diósi², Matthias Laubenstein³, Kristian Piscicchia⁴, Catalina Curceanu⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
² Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary.
³ INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, L'Aquila, Italy.
⁴ Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Richerche "Enrico Fermi", Rome, Italy; INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy. Electronic address: [email protected].
⁵ INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy.

PMID: 35617922
DOI: 10.1016/j.plrev.2022.05.004

Abstract

In this paper we perform a critical analysis of the Orch OR consciousness theory at the crossroad with the newest experimental results coming from the search for spontaneous radiation predicted by the simplest version of gravity-related dynamical collapse models. We conclude that Orch OR theory, when based on the simplest version of gravity-related dynamical collapse, is highly implausible in all the cases analyzed. We discuss the implications of our findings, the limitations, and future plans toward the development of more realistic gravity-related collapse models.

Keywords: Collapse models; Consciousness; Germanium detector; Orch OR theory; Spontaneous radiation.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Consciousness*
Quantum Theory*