"Tal vez la pregunta no sea si estamos sólos. Tal vez la pregunta más urgente sea, ¿qué vamos hacer con nuestra razón --e inteligencia--, vamos a desperdiciarla en guerras estúpidas, fanatismos, destrucción ecológica, distracción infinita, o vamos a cuidarla como lo que quizás sea la única llama encendida en un inmenso océano de oscuridad?
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Algo Sobre Roger Penrose
"Roger Penrose is a professor of mathemjatics at the University of Oxford. Before he developed a quantum theory of the mind, he published in the areas of linear algebra, geometry and topology. He has also done seminal work in the fields of physics and cosmology. Together with Stephen Hawking, Penrose in the 1960s and 1970s formulated global general relativity, which allows scientists to form a mathematical picture pf general features of space and time throughout the entire universe. It was, then, only after these several research careers were behind him, that he turned in the late 1980s to the development of a quantum theory of mind; he is still working on his theory in the 1990s. His work is controversial—he himself admits that his conclusions are tentative—and some of his ideas may in the future be shown to be wrong. But one thing cannot be wrong—if the highly successful quantum theory is right: the brain has to be a quantum object. This is true because every physical object in the universe is a quantum object, if, I repeat, the quantum theory is correct...."
"...Penrose is not, by the way, the first person to have proposed that the mind is basically a quantum phenomenon. David Bohm, was toying with the idea back in the 1950s. But Penrose has presented the most comppletely treory developed so far. I should also state that Penrose's theory is not completely all his doing: he freely admits that he has borrowed some of the features of his account of the mind from the work of other scientists, as the pages that follow will show. (I remind the reader again that, although Penrose and other scientists support his basic view that the human mind is a quantum, certain others reject this view. However, I have to say that we have yet to hear from the vast majority of the scientific community, one way or another, on this issue.)
Penrose develops his theory as a part of a larger theory of quantum gravity. To go to the level of quantum gravity analysis is to probe"is to probe far deeper than traditional science has gone. Traditional neuroscience has been satisfied with studying the extremely slow discharge of electrical voltage along wire-like appendages from the nerve cells called axons. Where axons reach other nerve cells chemical transmitters are released across tiny microscopic gaps called synapses. Then the next nerve cel release energy down its axons and so the process continues. Penrose of course recognizes that such transmission of electrical and chemical energy takes place in the brain, but to him this activity is just a side show. In Penrose's view, the real action of the brain - the main show as it were- take place deep at the quantum level at the point where quantum gravity comes into play. Penrose is intrigued by the quantum pop (q. p.)... He believes tha the q. p. plays a crucial role in the operation of the brain and mind... Before the quantum pop, the electron was both a ghostly wave and ghostly particle..."
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"...Penrose is not, by the way, the first person to have proposed that the mind is basically a quantum phenomenon. David Bohm, was toying with the idea back in the 1950s. But Penrose has presented the most comppletely treory developed so far. I should also state that Penrose's theory is not completely all his doing: he freely admits that he has borrowed some of the features of his account of the mind from the work of other scientists, as the pages that follow will show. (I remind the reader again that, although Penrose and other scientists support his basic view that the human mind is a quantum, certain others reject this view. However, I have to say that we have yet to hear from the vast majority of the scientific community, one way or another, on this issue.)
Penrose develops his theory as a part of a larger theory of quantum gravity. To go to the level of quantum gravity analysis is to probe"is to probe far deeper than traditional science has gone. Traditional neuroscience has been satisfied with studying the extremely slow discharge of electrical voltage along wire-like appendages from the nerve cells called axons. Where axons reach other nerve cells chemical transmitters are released across tiny microscopic gaps called synapses. Then the next nerve cel release energy down its axons and so the process continues. Penrose of course recognizes that such transmission of electrical and chemical energy takes place in the brain, but to him this activity is just a side show. In Penrose's view, the real action of the brain - the main show as it were- take place deep at the quantum level at the point where quantum gravity comes into play. Penrose is intrigued by the quantum pop (q. p.)... He believes tha the q. p. plays a crucial role in the operation of the brain and mind... Before the quantum pop, the electron was both a ghostly wave and ghostly particle..."
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