Scientists & Researchers

Roger Penrose

1989

Nobel Prize-winning mathematical physicist who argued in The Emperor's New Mind that consciousness is non-computational, and with Stuart Hameroff proposed the Orch-OR quantum theory of consciousness - lending a physics heavyweight to the idea that mind is not reducible to ordinary computation.

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confirmedThe Science of Consciousness

a keynote figure on quantum consciousness there

Source: The Science of Consciousness / U. Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies

confirmedStuart Hameroff

co-developed the Orch-OR quantum theory of consciousness

Source: Penrose & Hameroff, Orchestrated Objective Reduction

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