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Roger Penrose – Quantum Physics of Consciousness



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Congratulations to Sir Roger Penrose for winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Are quantum events required for consciousness in a very special sense, far beyond the general sense that quantum events are part of all physical systems? What would it take for quantum events, on such a micro-scale, to be relevant for brain function, which operates at the much higher level of neurons and brain circuits? What would it mean?

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Sir Roger Penrose is a mathematical physicist, mathematician, philosopher of science, and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford, an emeritus fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge, and of University College London (UCL). Penrose has made contributions to the mathematical physics of general relativity and cosmology. He has received several prizes and awards, including the 1988 Wolf Prize in Physics, which he shared with Stephen Hawking for the Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems, and one half of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics “for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity”. The other half was awarded to Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez.

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25 thoughts on “Roger Penrose – Quantum Physics of Consciousness
  1. i think emotions started the way early humans evolving a consciousness then later words in thoughts leading to talking philosophy, quantum physics…
    signed: the egg came first

  2. So even if that's the way consciousness works, what's the problem with AI? Quantum computer is the coherent quantum system, so consciousness still could be created artificially.

  3. Basically he is saying quantum signals are sent by consciousness which triggers multiple neurons and networks, then collapse. I think this worms for many problems right now keep on goin smarti pants 🙂

  4. questions :

    Does this help me get myself to be reborn on February 10, 1990, live with my same parents, and stay there on my new birthdate for real physically?

    Does this help me travel back to the past physically for real?

    Does this give me the ability to shift myself to the past date 2/11/1993, change my birthdate to 02/10/1990, live with my same parents, and stay on that designated date for real physically?

    Can I also create my desired past or reality like changing my appearance, what life I want, what family do I want, what nationality/ethnicity I want, etc with this?

    How do I state my destination while doing this?

    Does this allow me to give myself the ability to time travel, and/or to create alternate timelines and time portals so I get myself to be reborn on February 10, 1990, while changing my appearance, what life I want, what family do I want, and what nationality/ethnicity I want, and stay on that new birthdate for real and physically?

  5. La conscience ABSORBE tout ce qui appartient à n'importe quelle nature raison pour laquelle elle est la mère de l'énergie présente partout…la conscience est la plus petite unité qui existe dans l'univers elle est indivisible DONC la conscience devrait être présente dans toutes les formules de physique ! merci 16.03.2021

    Consciousness ABSORBS everything that belongs to any nature, which is why it is the mother of energy that is present everywhere… consciousness is the smallest unit that exists in the universe, it is indivisible, therefore consciousness should be present in all physics formulas! thank you 16.03.2021

  6. La coscienza assorbe tutto ogni cosa appartenente a qualsiasi natura ragione per cui e' la madre dell'energia presente ovunque…forse quando mettera' giudizio la coscienza ci dira' chi e'…! cordialmente 16.03.2021

    La conscience absorbe tout ce qui appartient à n'importe quelle nature ; c'est pourquoi elle est la mère de l'énergie présente partout…peut-être que lorsqu'elle aura enfin fini de se juger elle-même…elle nous dira qui elle est… ! cordialement 16.03.2021

    Consciousness absorbs everything belonging to any kind of nature and for this reason it is the mother of energy present everywhere…perhaps when it has finally finished judging itself…it will tell us who it is…! cordially 16.03.2021

  7. If you think, as most modern scientists do, that consciousness is somehow byproduct of random patricles which evolves through laws of quantum mechanics and natural selection and there is not much more to it,i would ask how it is possible that if fundamental reallity,which in view of quantum mechanics say that there is only wave of probabilities,how can something which is only posibilty give rise to something real as atoms and mater neverthless consciousness itself?could it be that it is other way around? it seems to me that if you really believe in quantum mechanic you would need to admit that there are no atoms at all,it is all mathematical construct we use.when you come down to it,atoms are made of nucleus and electrons and those of smaller and smaller particles,but last step they say so far is way of probability,so there are no atoms as little things or points of mater at all. But probability is mathematical construct and abstraction which can be used for calculation but it is not real thing as such.and without conscious observer that probability would never be realized. so it must be that consciousnes is much more important then they would love to admit.

  8. Maybe treat consciousness as a dimension of space time and then feed it back through the model? Also, what if we treated unobserved waves as information that remains within its trackable changing states? The information would be able to maintain object permanence without being observed, and the act of observation would be less about collapsing the wave into particles, and more about projecting the the information into visible data during observation. Though the information may account for hypotheticals, it could have an absolute state during projection due to the optimal choice of data which would exist before any observation. The chosen data would be optimal because it best preserves its existence as it is being perceived by consciousness in the 4 remaining dimensions of space time. If the universe is “evolving” in a sense (as it expands into infinite variation), it could be using this method to prevent an overload of the existing system, and to self regulate object permanence. This self regulation could be a feature of consciousness as it acts upon the existing dimensions of space time. If the brain exists in all dimensions, individuality could very well be an illusion produced by the interactions between these dimensions as the brain attempts to make its calculations, consciousness would precede the brain, turning the brain into a focal lens that acts as a secondary clock, to which there may be more of across numerous layers of scale and complexity throughout reality. At the risk of anthropomorphism, the reason we might intuitively sense that the universe is alive is because we came from it, and we don’t exactly live in a vacuum. Awareness and intelligence may not be contingent on one another, and awareness may be measurable and a unitary dimension on its own.

  9. Energy and matter have to be consciousness itself, or there would be no consciousness at all. Life is the will of the Universe manifesting itself, there is order and existence, because the Universe itself is willing it to be, by consciousness.

  10. Roger Penrose's delve into consciousness is a parallel descent into insanity with Linus Pauling's descent into insanity with Vitamin C. Orch-OR hypothesis was ruled out ages ago. Not only does tubulin not have the properties he requires of them, but alternate entanglement approaches using potassium fail to produce the properties Orch-OR requires.

    He is a brilliant man, who absolutely earned the acclaim he is accorded, but who is is now a pseudo-science quack.

  11. So let’s say that consciousness is a quantum-level activity occurring as a wave collapses within microtubules, producing this so-called conscious moment. Quantum mechanics, correct me if I’m wrong, suggests that all potential states exist before coming together upon a single moment. For example, Shroedinger’s cat is both alive and dead UNTIL the box is open. One of the key principles of nearly all major religions teaches us that life is full of potential opportunities and that we interact with it by choosing a path – discernment. Have these religions unwittingly – allegorically – described consciousness? It’s the quantum potential of an array of possibilities, brought to reality by a discernment – a choice?

  12. We exist by direct reference inside the story that the ecosystem tells itself, that is why we know of the plants and animals. Your particular person emerged from its original fertilized egg cell, but the vivid knowledge of exactly how you look, or equally, the awareness of your particular person emerged over billions of years within the story of our ecosystem, so awareness of your particular person did not emerge within its brain. That implies I am the earth or universe, not one of its animals. My human mind is a creation of the mechanical world, its winds and waters. Intellect means to survive using available tools, which are only the winds and waters. If I can refer to myself then I exist briefly in a form. Later I will continually refer to myself and be aware or know from the constraint of continual reference to myself. Yet I remain the winds and waters which I now know do exist, and to which I now refer!

  13. A poem about Panpsychism:

    I am the earth or universe, not one of its animals. My human mind is a creation of the mechanical world, its winds and waters. Intellect means to survive using available tools, which are only the winds and waters. If I can refer to myself then I exist briefly in a form. Later I will continually refer to myself and be aware or know from the constraint of continual reference to myself. Yet I remain the winds and waters which I now know do exist, and to which I now refer!

  14. Consciousness. Amazing!

    Amazing is the emergence of the biggest ideas in the universe, from a mindscape of quantum fields, in a functioning brain, self-assembled from the standard model of reality.

    Emergent complexity that strives to understand the complexity of self… and others… and all else!

    Such beauty when used wisely. CERN fMRI

    Yet such destructiveness when bathed in ignorance…

    “There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain.
    Our entire view of the universe depends on it.”

    ― Francis Crick

  15. in universe main power is  conciousness of unconciousness
    knowledge captived by conciousness of conciousness  is very limited in universe
    because universe is dominated and fonctioned  by the language of conciousness of unconciousness  that  conciousness of conciousness  is yet doesnt know this language
    the solution is to invent the  physics of metaphysics

  16. Ah but he's assuming these axioms. Crossed over from science 5o pseudoscience…this is like God of the gap.

    "We haven't figured out how and 2hy were here and conscious, therefore God"

    " We haven't figured out how we are here and conscious..therefore quantum physics"

    Where is the data and impericism sir Penrose?

  17. Evolutionary we just evolved from apes, with almost countless steps in between. Some how one step made it that one ancestor had a special kind of consciousness? It's just a very natural thing that comes in degrees. Problem being, we can't comprehend having the consciousness of lets say an ant or a cell even. But even within humans we have people with severe brain damage only able to eat and blink, do they have consciousness? It is wrongly used as another word for intelligence.

    When you look at the small time humans evolved from the most simple forms of life, relative to the age of the universe, we are a very limited life form, trying to survive and not die. This said, when you look at the complexity of quantum theory, with rules we can't comprehend like superposition and time not being singular, we are too simple to ever understand. This is literally the reason we have 'created' gods, when something arises we can't understand, we have to just give it a name so we don't have to further investigate, and accept it.

    Whatever quantum theory entails and the other rules of the universe, I would not find it unlikely that the current human life form will never be able to understand. However, I do know that we are able to comprehend more and more to a certain degree, just like we know understand gravity and relativity of time.

  18. I don't see that there is a clash. You can explain how consciousness is classically expressed, but what is the ground by which that happens? It seems that perceiving consciousness as a priori is still not negated. Consciousness is that by which this happens.

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