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dvt • yesterday at 6:07 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Penrose and Hameroff have been arguing this for decades (see Orch OR[1]). Their arguments are interesting, but certainly not open and shut.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti...


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jibalt • yesterday at 10:38 AM

They are widely considered by neuroscientists to be shut. P&H keep showing up at the [Towards a] Science of Consciousness conferences which long ago devolved into a gathering of crackpots, but no one else takes them seriously.