Emergent Consciousness: From the Early Universe to Our Mind

In a previous paper (gr-qc/9907063) we described the early inflationaryuniverse in terms of quantum information. In this paper, we analize thoseresults in more detail, and we stress the fact that, during inflation, theuniverse can be described as a superposed state of quantum registers. Theself-reduction of the superposed quantum state is consistent with the Penrose'sObjective Reduction (OR) model. The quantum gravity threshold is reached at theend of inflation, and corresponds to a superposed state of 10^9 quantumregisters. This is also the number of superposed tubulins-qubits in our brain,which undergo the Penrose-Hameroff's Orchestrated Objective Reduction, (OrchOR), leading to a conscious event. Then, an analogy naturally arises betweenthe very early quantum computing universe,and our mind.