Conduction pathways in microtubules, biological quantum computation, and consciousness.
@article{Hameroff2002ConductionPI,
title={Conduction pathways in microtubules, biological quantum computation, and consciousness.},
author={Stuart R. Hameroff and Alex M. Nip and Mitchell Porter and Jack Adam Tuszynski},
journal={Bio Systems},
year={2002},
volume={64 1-3},
pages={
149-68
}
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