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Maybe don't tar Penrose with the same brush ?
by BlueTemplar 5y ago
Maybe don't tar Penrose with the same brush ?
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoMaybe be more specific in what you're referring to?
- BlueTemplar 5y ago> consciousness is generated by quantum effects in neurons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...
- astrange 5y agoI can and I will. “Quantum effects” doesn’t mean magic - things like paint color come from “quantum effects” - but he is using it to mean brains are magic.
- fourtrees 5y agoPenrose, who's probably my favorite living physicist, is far from the only person who's attempted to connect QM to everything mental from consciousness, free will, qualia to telepathy or the efficacy of prayer. QM is a god-of-the-gaps for mental things we don't understand or don't really exist. And it plays that role in plenty of other places. One good reason for not lumping ORR in with crystal healing (beyond the rigor and erudition applied to the theories) is that ORR addresses what most would consider a real mystery in our understanding of the mind (however you define that), while crystal healing addresses something demonstrably false. I'll still contend there's some quantum woo to ORR, but for that reason it's been a brave attempt to further scientific knowledge.