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Re:Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness? One Scientist ... by fjfaase on Thursday October 01, 2020 @05:33AM (#24649060)
Does he have a method (or proposed one) to verify his claim? If not, he is not speaking as a scientist and could be abusing his status as a scientist to promote unscientific ideas.
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Re:Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness? One Scientist ... by chewbaxxa on Thursday October 01, 2020 @08:40AM (#24650202)
One example:

> Two decades ago, neurophilosopher Patricia Churchland and physicist Max Tegmark were among those who launched outright broadsides. Hameroff and Penrose responded, and Hameroff published a list of 20 testable predictions yielded by Orch-OR.

Anyway, it seems that his research has also inspired better equipped scientists to delve deeper.

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