Roger Penrose

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Can Machines Be Conscious? The Substrate Problem

The question of whether machines can be conscious is not a parlor trick for philosophers. It is the most consequential engineering question of the 21st century.

14 min · 6 researchers · 11 concepts
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Biophoton Detection Technology: Measuring the Light Your Body Emits

At this very moment, as you read these words, your body is emitting light. Not metaphorical light.

16 min · 5 researchers · 8 concepts
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Penrose, Gravity, and Consciousness: Why the Mind Is Not a Computer

Roger Penrose is one of the most decorated scientists alive. He shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving that black holes are a necessary consequence of general relativity.

15 min · 2 researchers · 9 concepts
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Orchestrated Objective Reduction Gets Its Strongest Experimental Backing

For three decades, the Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR) theory of consciousness has occupied a peculiar position in science: simultaneously the most ambitious and most ridiculed theory in the field. Proposed by Nobel laureate physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff...

17 min · 2 researchers · 18 concepts
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Consciousness and Physics: Nassim Haramein's Framework for Understanding Awareness as Fundamental

The greatest unsolved problem in science is not the unification of forces, the nature of dark matter, or the origin of the universe. It is consciousness.

11 min · 6 researchers · 11 concepts
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Quantum Effects in DNA and Consciousness: The Deepest Layer

We have traced quantum biology from photosynthesis to bird navigation, from enzyme tunneling to the theory of smell. Each of these discoveries is remarkable on its own.

13 min · 2 researchers · 6 concepts
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Quantum Consciousness Heart Fields Vagal Tone

Welcome to the Deep Dive, the place where we don't just scratch the surface, we take your sources, we go deep, and we give you that essential shortcut to being, well, profoundly well-informed. And today, wow, we are plunging right into the biggest question of them all.

33 min · 2 researchers · 29 concepts
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Quantum Biology: The Field That Should Not Exist

There is a quiet revolution happening at the intersection of physics and biology, and it is rewriting the rules of what we thought possible inside living systems.

9 min · 2 researchers · 4 concepts
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McFadden's CEMI Field Theory: Consciousness IS the Brain's Electromagnetic Field

In 2002, Johnjoe McFadden — a Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey, a specialist in quantum biology and tuberculosis, and decidedly not a New Age mystic — published a paper in the Journal of Consciousness Studies that proposed one of the most radical and testable theories...

13 min · 3 researchers · 11 concepts
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Vedic Cosmology and Modern Physics: How Ancient India Mapped the Architecture of Reality

In 1935, Erwin Schrodinger — the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who formulated the wave equation that describes quantum mechanical behavior — gave a lecture at the University of Cambridge in which he described his intellectual debt to Vedantic philosophy. "This life of yours which you are living...

16 min · 6 researchers · 14 concepts
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Heavy Metals and Neurotoxicity: The Static in Your Consciousness Signal

Every signal processing engineer knows that the quality of a communication system depends not just on the strength of the signal, but on the noise floor — the background interference that obscures the information you are trying to receive. You can have the most sensitive antenna in the world,...

16 min · 2 researchers · 19 concepts