Orchestrated Objective Reduction is viewed as the deposit on a full theory of nature and experience at fundamental scales; and subsequently, is elaborated into the context of a process ontology whilst retaining the key insights of objective reduction. This reframing also comes with consistent philosophical and physical layers provided by the actual entities/occasions of Whitehead, and Verlinde’s approach to strings and gravity. Originally this chapter is intended to appear in a book. This article is part one of a two-part series. The field of consciousness studies is due for another breakthrough. The first gauntlet was arguably thrown five years before the new millennium by David Chalmers with the "hard problem" and "easy problems" of consciousness, thereby providing the field with an initial structure and set of challenges. The easy problems involve “mechanistic analysis of the neural processes that accompany behaviour” e.g. binding problem; language and the mind (Mills, 1998), whereas the hard problem involves the nature of subjective experience and includes an appeal to the domain of quantum mechanics. While the “easy problems” have variously made considerable headway in recent years, the “hard problem” remains elusive. What is missing in consciousness studies and foundational physics is a formal theory of ontology that links nature and experience at fundamental scales. As Nobel laureate, Sir Roger Penrose proscribes, "in order to explain how we perceive the world to be within the framework of quantum mechanics, we shall need to have one (or both) of the following: A. A theory of experience B. A theory of real physical behavior" (NST, 128) This chapter addresses the first of the two prompts by way of the process model of ontology—introduced and applied in chapters 5-7 in terms of philosophy, mathematical physics and cosmology (e.g. spacetime; string theory; black holes; gravity; QCD). With these layers, this process model is now applied to “the most specific scientific proposal for phenomenal experience (‘the hard problem’) yet put forth” (Hameroff & Penrose, 1996); namely, the Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theory of subjective experience. Orch-OR refers to a pioneering proposal by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff that provides one of the strongest avenues to a testable theory of consciousness. Hameroff originally approached Penrose with the idea that microtubules could preserve quantum coherence and "might be able to function as quantum computers at the molecular level, which might be linked to Penrose’s reduction process. This led to the orchestrated objective reduction view of consciousness” (Hameroff, 1997). The position advanced in this chapter, like the previous two, is that similar to Whitehead’s description of actual entities/occasions, plus Verlinde’s approach to modeling strings, spacetime, inertia and gravity, Orch-OR has pieces to a puzzle that stand to be reconfigured in a process logic. Also…like the other topics, this link is not entirely unexpected, given Penrose drafts his model in an effort to gravitize quantization (2014); plus, Hameroff explicitly nominates a Whiteheadian interpretation of “proto-conscious events” as exemplifying in microtubules. Reframing Orch-OR into the geomodal process foremost involves a transposition of OR into the role of an “event-generator” or sampling mechanism (“snapshot”→“polaroid”) based on some criteria of information-geometry/curvature begetting each new generative sequence of the process—and as variably rendered in microtubules. To the latter, research involving microtubules affirms: a) the ability to process quantum information; b) a link to consciousness; c) coherence and dissipative entanglement in the brain. Redressing these, microtubules can be interpreted as the receivers and distributors of quantum information representing/orchestrating “qualia” into a stream of subjective experience. While similar, the ontological process also triangulates the philosophical model of Whitehead’s actual occasions in tandem with the physical/cosmological milieu of Verlinde’s emergent gravity.

1. OrchOR is the right kind of concept in an incomplete context that can be elaborated. 2. OrchOR is reframed into a generative ontology; yet, OR still involves gravity/XT akin to general relativity. 3. Einstein's general relativity describes gravity from the p.o.v. of an intrinsic model (ch7). In “modified OR,” a tacit information-geometry threshold/range linked to curvature might involve certain properties of neural networks like information flow through the brain and characteristics of functional connectivity in neurons. 4. Phonons may influence dimer growth/catastrophe and induce dissipative synchrony in MTs, neurons, etc. 5. Application of fast/slow quantum processes in microtubules. Fast processes signify proto-conscious events that during slower processes refine structural/functional longevity & maintenance of quantum states. 6. In addition to events transpiring fast/slow in neuronal microtubules in situ, de novo nucleation might also be influenced by stable/refined products of the slower-processes. Tw