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Part 1: Sir Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff: What is Consciousness? (#247)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

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The Proton Consciousness

The idea that stuart and i have been trying to develop is that in the brain, or primarily in things like microtubials or big collections of microtubes, probably that it's that's where one thing or the other thing happens. And as i set's the building block out of which actual consciousness, whichs involves many, many processes, actual consciousness comes about. The bigger the superposition is, the shorter the lifetime is. So whether if it was a cat, dead or alive, it would be virtually instantaneous. But you could have something much, much smaller than that, and it becomes one or the other in a time that you can calculate.

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