Tag: Stuart Hameroff

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 13, 2024

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Philosophy of Mind, Physics

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Bennu (asteroid), Orch OR theory, Origin of life, Stuart Hameroff}

Science Team Argues, Consciousness Came Before Life

_{Can the authors take issue with Darwinian evolution claims while maintaining a materialist stance?} _{Denyse O'Leary
May 13, 2024

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Philosophy of Mind, Physics}

Apart from demoting evolution, “consciousness first” is yet another attempt to naturalize consciousness by making it a basic origin of life process.

The Theory That Consciousness Is a Quantum System Gains Support

_{Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function} _{Denyse O'Leary
January 23, 2024

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind, Physics}

How a quantum theory of consciousness will work out is anyone’s guess but here’s a prediction: It won’t help the cause of materialism much.

Human Consciousness May Not Be Computable

_{One model of consciousness would mean that conscious computers are a physical impossibility} _{Robert J. Marks
November 27, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience}

As long as computers simply get faster and use more memory, there is no reason to worry about a self-aware Skynet.