-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 14/11/14 07:54 AM, James Morris wrote: > http://www.kurzweilai.net/discovery-of-quantum-vibrations-in-microtubules-inside-brain-neurons-corroborates-controversial-20-year-old-theory-of-consciousness
"“The > origin of consciousness reflects our place in the universe, the nature of our existence. Did consciousness evolve from complex computations among brain neurons, as most scientists assert? Or has consciousness, in some sense, been here all along, as spiritual approaches maintain?” ask Hameroff and Penrose in the current review." Quantum consciousness as testibly defined by Hameroff and Penrose has been falsified on numerous occasions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction#Criticism This research is interesting but the presence of quantum effects in photosynthesis or in our sense of smell doesn't make them supernatural, or give them something as poorly defined as "free will". - - Rob. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUZnuwAAoJECciMUAZd2dZZpkIALvyXNY2jwKkJqhiKE8LTwCd hsZSGN9E1EiscDVCJS0hVBtMoaBn964gd7hPXuJil/loFc0LWYZMys2fxEk+xB5O SBJzo1a3lPWZZBUBs0wTPaZBlCG5AZpQx+Hswo/mHPn2ZwvHzQf6tdrge3dqRARY A5YLcTO9fFH6EVAtvgcotgimM/l4O468h2eQBq2u3npQ7OhtAWF4JDDCi7cvWtgV MZikjhYq0uIQFZsW3IUXJLTWqyAeIOQo41c6awam9gw5hd2mem9nELcvZNhHAZIw wHKwW8d4qDNUY6kM2s0WC+8h/qsaJVCD44Rplke79r0ZNvlzntCjlxGgBrcfycg= =2e69 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
