[extropy-chat] The Penrose Conjecture, was Re: A Quantum Computer...

[Damien Broderick]

At 03:29 PM 6/27/2005 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:

> > Of course, some maverick theorists have already
> > suggested that mind and
> > choice arise from quantum tunnelling in the brain.
>
>Do you have something more recent--links please, if
>you've got 'em-- than the basic "Penrose Conjecture",
>the idea of some kind of quantum coherence thing slash
>entanglement thing slash other weird quantum thing
>taking place in the vicinity of the actin filaments
>and/or microtubules?

I was thinking especially of, e.g.:

"QUANTUM THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS" by EVAN HARRIS WALKER

http://users.erols.com/wcri/CONSCIOUSNESS.html

I think he's probably talking bollocks, however.

Damien Broderick