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4gravitons.com
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| | | | | The 2022 Nobel Prize was announced this week, awarded to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science. I've complained in the past about the Nobel prize awarding to "baskets" of loosely related topics. This year, though, the three... | |
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blog.rongarret.info
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| | | | | A number of people have asked me to weigh in on this story in Quanta Magazine (based on this paper [ PDF version ] and also reported in t... | |
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www.interaliamag.org
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| | | | | Stuart Hameroff's research involves a theory of consciousness developed over the past 20 years with eminent British physicist Sir Roger Penrose. Called 'orchestrated objective reduction' ('Orch OR'), it suggests consciousness arises from quantum vibrations in protein polymers called microtubules inside the brain's neurons, vibrations which interfere, 'collapse' and resonate across scale, control neuronal firings, generate consciousness, and connect ultimately to 'deeper order' ripples in spacetime geometry. Consciousness is more like music than computation. | |
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metarationality.com
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| | | A dramatic perspective shift: understanding rationality as dependent on mere reasonableness to connect it with reality. | ||
