I like Penrose. IMO he is the most philosophically sophosticated physicist in academia today. I wonder ...did Penrose ever say anthing about CF?
Harry On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Giovanni Santostasi <gsantost...@gmail.com> wrote: > I love Roger Penrose great thinker. Hameroff is too out there. I think > Penrose has dissociated from Hameroff because he went too far. > Orch-OR is not the best theory of consciousness. It has been debunked in > many different ways. > Giovanni > > > On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:37 AM, ChemE Stewart <cheme...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> If Neurons can sense Neutrinos it makes sense to me we could "synch up" >> >> Stewart >> darkmattersalot.com >> >> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> I think Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff have the best explanation of >>> consciousness to date. It's called Orchestrated Objective Reduction, >>> or Orch-OR. The two actually developed the idea separately, Sir >>> Penrose being a physicist and Hameroff being a physician who >>> specialized in anesthesia and cancer research. Roger was seeking a >>> model of the brain that did not require computation. Hameroff wanted >>> to know how anesthesia worked and where the conscious went when under. >>> Penrose theorizes that spacetime is granular at the size of the >>> Planck length and that quantum superposition is linked to the >>> curvature. Orchestrated Reduction is the collapse of the >>> superposition. >>> >>> Hameroff brought in the neuron microtubles which provide the >>> structure. He sees a synchronous oscillation in neural MT can >>> influence other neurons. Together they see these electrons as a sea >>> embedded in the geometry of spacetime. >>> >>> Needless to say, they have many critics. :-) >>> >> >