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Sir Roger Penrose | The Emperor’s New Mind: Consciousness & Computer | INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast (#311)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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Shadows of the Mind

Theory we have at the moment is a combination of two things which mutually contradict each other and people sort of live with that. But they don't normally take the view there's something wrong which was the view I took and which I still hold. And it's really the second book which was Shadows of the Mind where I more or less introduced the microtubules as an item to fix up quantum mechanics. It seemed to me these were structured far far far more probable plausible things which could preserve quantum coherence. The fact that there were tubes and the fact that they were symmetrical in various ways and it looked to me there was a much much better chance there. There are a few things

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