Re: New laws of physics will not help us understand consciousness or how the brain works

2023-05-22 Thread John Clark
On Sun, May 21, 2023 at 9:18 PM wrote: >*I can name 3 for ya. * > *1. Roger Penrose. Oxford, right?* > Wrong. About 25 years ago Roger Penrose suggested that microtubules inside of neurons might be involved in quantum computing (he didn't say how) which helped to tell the neuron when to fire,

Re: New laws of physics will not help us understand consciousness or how the brain works

2023-05-21 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
I can name 3 for ya.  1. Roger Penrose. Oxford, right? 2. Christianne Mornais Smith Christiane de Morais Smith Lehner is a Brazilian theoretical physicist and professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Utrecht, where she leads a research group studying condensed

Re: New laws of physics will not help us understand consciousness or how the brain works

2023-05-21 Thread John Clark
On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 9:25 PM wrote: *> Carroll is drawing a magical imaginary line across physical, material, > reality. * > > *He is doing Cartesian Dualism starting with pure physics. * > *Rene' DesCarte, Two kind of matter. * > What on earth are you talking about?! Carroll specifically

Re: New laws of physics will not help us understand consciousness or how the brain works

2023-05-20 Thread spudboy100 via Everything List
Carroll is drawing a magical imaginary line across physical, material, reality.  He is doing Cartesian Dualism starting with pure physics.  Rene' DesCarte, Two kind of matter.  He hasn't proven this in any sense.  Other physicists and scientists have opined that maybe "mind" does "influence"