A physics postdoc friend was very interested in Penrose's theories. We held what we'd call Stoned Science Club, a weekly dude walk, and he'd debate his theories with his skeptic-of-everything physics grad student roommate. He married it with eastern philosophy and was very fond of Sheldrake's ideas about the laws of physics being a "habit" and consciousness being able to change matter.[1] I never fully grokked it, but it was fun to think about.
Until we have artificial consciousness lacking in quantum features, which would disprove stuff like this, it's plausible to me quantum biology plays some role in producing consciousness and our interpretation of the universe. But I haven't spent much time understanding quantum physics or biology. So I don't have an opinion one way or another.
As an intactivist, he believed that through meditation he could regrow his foreskin. Later he started to believe that people were trying to poison him, because of his intactivism. Then he disappeared and started living in his car. A few years later we get news that he died of an overdose while homeless in Berkeley. ↩
A physics postdoc friend was very interested in Penrose's theories. We held what we'd call Stoned Science Club, a weekly dude walk, and he'd debate his theories with his skeptic-of-everything physics grad student roommate. He married it with eastern philosophy and was very fond of Sheldrake's ideas about the laws of physics being a "habit" and consciousness being able to change matter.[1] I never fully grokked it, but it was fun to think about.
Until we have artificial consciousness lacking in quantum features, which would disprove stuff like this, it's plausible to me quantum biology plays some role in producing consciousness and our interpretation of the universe. But I haven't spent much time understanding quantum physics or biology. So I don't have an opinion one way or another.
As an intactivist, he believed that through meditation he could regrow his foreskin. Later he started to believe that people were trying to poison him, because of his intactivism. Then he disappeared and started living in his car. A few years later we get news that he died of an overdose while homeless in Berkeley. ↩