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News Briefs 16-10-2009

“Twas brillig…”

Merci Beaucoup a Greg et Kat

Quote of the Day:

“Only human beings have come to a point where they no longer know why they exist…”

Lame Deer, Lakota Shaman

  1. Penrose’s New Mind
    The Discover interview says “He even moonlighted as a brain researcher, coming up with a provocative theory that consciousness arises from quantum-mechanical processes.” While he did develop the “ORCH/OR” theory of consciousness via quantum gravity with Stuart Hammeroff, he did so only speculatively, and would speculate only from physics to the halfway point, where his hypotheses lived. He neither acted as a brain “researcher” nor would specify any such research as being relevant or appropriate.

    After giving a talk on his theory at one of the “Appalachian Conferences”, a series of colloquia put on by Karl Pribram while at Radford University, he, Karl and I sat down to dinner. We’d hardly sat when Karl couldn’t prevent busting out with “So what does all this have to do with brain science?”. Penrose replied easily “How should I know? You guys are the psychologists.”

    But to be clear, it wasn’t he that made the ‘brain researcher’ claim, it was Discover. Penrose probably wouldn’t even admit to physics researcher, since he’s a theorist.

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