A quantum physicist and a neuroscientist walk into the bar. What would they do? They’d come up with a quantum consciousness theory! This is almost exactly what happened when physicist Roger Penrose published his book “The Emperor’s New Mind” (1989) suggesting that human consciousness is non-algorythmical and cannot be modeled by the conventional Turing-type digital computer [1]. In other […]
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“Time Exists Only In Our Consciousness”: Quantum Consciousness Theory by Hameroff & Penrose
A quantum physicist and a neuroscientist walk into the bar. What would they do? They’d come up with a quantum consciousness theory! This is almost exactly what happened when physicist Roger Penrose published his book “The Emperor’s New Mind” (1989) suggesting that human consciousness is non-algorythmical and cannot be modeled by the conventional Turing-type digital computer [1]. In other […]
Top 10 Pop Philosophers in 2015? You Will Be Shocked!
Who influences our thinking? Donald Trump? Caitlyn Jenner? J.K. Rowling? Jesus? No, No and No. According to The Telegraph (2015), these 10 spectacular personalities. Apparently, the criteria for the selection was “based on social media followers, number of books published, media appearances, catch phrase creation, amount of viral memes and fan base nicknames”. If you, like myself, […]
Strictly Sci Fi: 2015 Novels
To stargazers and techies, To book grazers and skimmers, To starship and AI dreamers, To E.T. chasers and time travelers, To warp engineers and string theorists, To black hole and Higgs Bozon scholars, To dark matter and dark energy ponderers, And to all of us, awe struck with the science and poetry of the universe, […]