Physicist Chad Orzel, who knows a lot more than I do about the mysterious world of quantum mechanics, criticizes the new model of quantum consciousness proposed by Efstratios Manousakis, which I described recently.
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According to Efstratios Manousakis, a professor of condensed matter physics at Florida State University in Tallahassee, the key to consciousness could be lie in the quantum effects that occur in the brain when one is viewing ambiguous figures like the spinning silhouette (or Rubin's vase or the…
Over at Neurophilosophy, Mo links to an article by a physicist, posted on the arxiv, that claims to explain visual perceptions using quantum mechanics:
A theory of the process of perception is presented based on von Neumann's quantum theory of measurement and conscious observation. Conscious events…
A bunch of smallish items that have been failing to resolve into full-fledged blog posts for a little while now, thrown together here because I don't have anything better to post this morning:
-- When is doubt, start with self-promotion: Physics World includes How to Teach Physics to Your Dog in…
A cosmologist, a science writer, three best-selling science fiction authors, a best-selling mystery novelist, and a Nobel laureate walk into a bar--
Oh, wait, that's not the opening to a joke. That's the list of people who have provided blurbs for my book... Kind of an eclectic bunch, but I'm…
"Particle physicist Chad Orzel"?
Since he periodically makes comments about particle physics getting more attention than subfields like his own, I'm sure he'll be amused to see that one ;)
Oops! Thanks Colst. I've deleted the amusing "particle". But I'm certain that Chad told me about his particle physics research when we met in New York earlier this year. Maybe that was his Ph.D. he told me about.
Well, atoms are particles, sort of...
My current research project has some connections to efforts to detect dark matter and neutrinos, which is probably what we talked about. I don't work with those myself, though-- I stick to whole atoms.
Or maybe nobody remembers anything coherent from NYC ;-)
I don't hate to be an, "I told you so ..."
Leaping and flying ...
"All right now students, compare and contrast ..."
And millions of innocent young people are bamboozled and brain damaged by pompous paid academics.
No, not law school ...