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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 Modification of Conventional Quantum Mechanics

A Hungarian physicist called Diosi had a very similar model before me. He didn't have this particular motivation. So it was more, or here's a suggestion that you might have for how a super post state might become one or the other by itself spontaneously. The point is that it's not something coming and looking at it, you see. Nothing to do with observers. Or if it's anything, it's observing itself or something. But do you think of this as a modification of conventional quantum mechanics or a completion of it? It's not there in the textbooks, right? I think it's a modification. Yeah, okay. Now that's your proposal. That's my proposal

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