28 | Roger Penrose on Spacetime, Consciousness, and the Universe
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Emperor's New Mind
The collapse of the wave function is not random, but there's something deeper going on. The idea was that when I wrote a book about neurobiology it would show how you could have quantum coherence at the level needed. Stuart Hammeroff told me these structures might be more relevant to your concerns than just neuro-on nerve propagation. And so he came off to Oxford and we got together and tried to make sense of what each other was talking about.
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