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The Mind of God
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The thesis of Roger Penrose's books, including "The Emperor's New Mind" and "The Large, the Small and the Human Mind" rely heavily on Godel's theorem(?s). If they can't speak to physical reality, is his argument in your opinion shot to hell?
Old man Kensey's right on the money! Hell, if it weren't for jolt-crazed iconoclasts who keep doing their addleheaded best to whack the naysayers, we wouldn't be logging onto slashdot from our laptops, let alone embracing GR and QM. IMHO *the* successful GUT will have to include consciousness, as all evidence points to it not being an emergent phenomenon. Consciousness underlies all - see Alfred North Whitehead. There's a nifty article in a recent (I don't recall which issue) Journal of Scientific Exploration on zero-point energy and propulsion by someone from Ames Research Ctr. Yes, Virginia, there IS a ghost in the machine.
I've met the anesthesiologist who collaborated with Penrose and, quite frankly, their theory is stuck in the intellectual mud which fills the abyss betwixt theory and experiment. How many angels can dance on the head of my zit???? As an anesthesiologist myself, and as an avid consumer of consciousness lit, the QM schtick is seductive, but inherently elusive (pleeeeze prove me wrong). For an exposition of Umezawa's application of QFT to neurophysiology, read Jibu and Yasue's "Quantum Brain Dynamics". Hee hee! ={)
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The thesis of Roger Penrose's books, including "The Emperor's New Mind" and "The Large, the Small and the Human Mind" rely heavily on Godel's theorem(?s). If they can't speak to physical reality, is his argument in your opinion shot to hell?
Old man Kensey's right on the money! Hell, if it weren't for jolt-crazed iconoclasts who keep doing their addleheaded best to whack the naysayers, we wouldn't be logging onto slashdot from our laptops, let alone embracing GR and QM. IMHO *the* successful GUT will have to include consciousness, as all evidence points to it not being an emergent phenomenon. Consciousness underlies all - see Alfred North Whitehead. There's a nifty article in a recent (I don't recall which issue) Journal of Scientific Exploration on zero-point energy and propulsion by someone from Ames Research Ctr. Yes, Virginia, there IS a ghost in the machine.
I've met the anesthesiologist who collaborated with Penrose and, quite frankly, their theory is stuck in the intellectual mud which fills the abyss betwixt theory and experiment. How many angels can dance on the head of my zit???? As an anesthesiologist myself, and as an avid consumer of consciousness lit, the QM schtick is seductive, but inherently elusive (pleeeeze prove me wrong). For an exposition of Umezawa's application of QFT to neurophysiology, read Jibu and Yasue's "Quantum Brain Dynamics". Hee hee! ={)