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> why not Because free time is finite. If they read it three times and still decided it verbosely failed to make its case, why not read it two or three times m
by tasty_freeze 6y ago
> why not
Because free time is finite. If they read it three times and still decided it verbosely failed to make its case, why not read it two or three times more?
Can you cite a point or two where you think Penrose makes a strong case above and beyond "consciousness and quantum theory are both mysterious and are therefore probably connected?"
- pegasus 6y agoOf course. He talks about research on quantum effects in microtubules, for example. Of how the concepts of computability and consciousness relate, how quantum physics drags in this concept of consciousness into science hitherto imagined purely objective. There are so many interesting connections, which might well be directions science will investigate in the years to come. That's a big part of what the whole book is about. The other part is where he describes how quantum physics, logic and consciousness are weird. That's basically just science popularization, coming from a top mind in both math and physics. To me, that's already enough to justify the price of admission: the time and mental effort of going through the book at a pace that assures comprehension, which does take some patience.