From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 22:54:35 MST
Certainly a bit new-agey, but most on the list are familiar with his
speculations he and physicist, Roger Penrose have done. Hey, we need to think
unconventionally, now and again. Not that intense an article, and good for a
brief read.
http://www.metanexus.net/archives/message_fs.asp?listtype=Magazine&
ARCHIVEID=7736
<<Assume consciousness is indeed occurring at the level of fundamental
spacetime geometry at the Planck scale," says Stuart Hameroff, Professor in
the Departments of Anesthesiology and of Psychology at the University of
Arizona, "connected to our brains by quantum processes in microtubules. Then
if the brain stops working the quantum information at the Planck scale could
persist and remain coherent because of quantum entanglement, leaking out into
spacetime geometry outside the head. It's possible that the soul could be a
particular distributed pattern in fundamental spacetime geometry at the
Planck scale."
Now, this, if true, could create interesting problems and possibilities.
Consider a future debate in medical ethics about brain death occurring at the
quantum level, for instance. Or the notions of personal responsibility, as
Hameroff notes:
"Either evil is implicit at the Planck scale along with good, or evil people
are wired differently biologically for whatever reason and are influenced in
an aberrant way. But even so-called good people must allow themselves to be
influenced by Platonic values rather than ignoring or over-riding them due to
some needs or gratification.">>
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