It requires math which I have put in the footnotes. But try anyway since I have tried to keep the non-math parts on a popular level . Jeff Tollaksen of the Boston University Physics Department has a good preprint that agrees, more or less , with my independent ideas.
Cognitive scientists believe that mind can be explained entirely in terms of classical physics.
We do not. In the Copenhagen interpretation of orthodox quantum mechanics, the measurement of a previously isolated quantum system causes an unpredictable and random change in the state of the system. In contrast, a living system is never isolated. It is not only continuously measured by the external environment, but, essential to our current investigation, it is continuously measuring itself in what Douglas Hofstadter has called a strange loop . For this reason we need a new unorthodox quantum mechanics in which the intentional self-induced collapse of the macroscopic wave function of key parts of the living brain is not random.