The Modification of Conventional Quantum Mechanics

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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

Sir Roger Penrose has had a remarkable life. He has contributed an enormous amount to our understanding of general relativity, perhaps more than anyone since Einstein himself -- Penrose diagrams, singularity theorems, the Penrose process, cosmic censorship, and the list goes on. He has made important contributions to mathematics, including such fun ideas as the Penrose triangle and aperiodic tilings. He has also made bold conjectures in the notoriously contentious areas of quantum mechanics and the study of consciousness. In his spare time he's managed to become an extremely successful author, writing such books as The Emperor's New Mind and The Road to Reality. With far too much that we could have talked about, we decided to concentrate in this discussion on spacetime, black holes, and cosmology, but we made sure to reserve some time to dig into quantum mechanics and the brain by the end. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.