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. :-) >> >> >