TEDx Brussels 2010 - Stuart Hameroff - Do we have a quantum Soul?

Dr. Hameroff's research for 35 years has involved consciousness - how the pinkish gray meat between our ears produces the richness of experiential awareness. A clinical anesthesiologist, Hameroff has studied how anesthetic gas molecules selectively erase consciousness via delicate quantum effects on protein dynamics. Following a longstanding interest in the computational capacity of microtubules inside neurons, Hameroff teamed with the eminent British physicist Sir Roger Penrose to develop a controversial quantum theory of consciousness called orchestrated objective reduction (Orch OR) which connects brain processes to fundamental spacetime geometry. Recently Hameroff has explored the theoretical implications of Orch OR for consciousness to exist independent of the body, distributed in deeper, lower, faster scales in non-local, holographic spacetime, raising possible scientific approaches to the soul and spirituality.
@TEDxBrussels 2010

[@Taiceratops]

“The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.” -Nikola Tesla

[@Taiceratops]

***** Well that is true. But taking into account that Tesla created phenomena that current scientists cannot even begin to understand might lend some weight to these words.

[@M6Alex6961992]

***** For Some closed minded People there will never be enough evidence for it , This includes some closed minded Scientists who are also Atheists .

[@TheErik150x]

And how does one precisely study non-physical phenomenon?

[@M6Alex6961992]

TheErik150x i guess with non physical instruments like the consciousness itself . Good question.

[@M6Alex6961992]

TheErik150x And another good idea would be * Consciousness connected Technologys * with this we could study non - physical phenomena.

[@thinkingspirit6258]

"Its NOT science!" Translation: "Its NOT materialism!"

[@01assassinscreed63]

Rather it's physics

[@mrtwister9002]

I'm paraphrasing here but, Penrose stated, I don't like saying that I am a materialist. Or rather, I may say I am a materialist yet, we don't know what that material is.

[@TruthDissident]

What is material?

[@1111Tactical]

The angry, close minded materialist thinker's response to this, pointing and saying it is new age nonsense, it reminds me of how Galileo was received.

[@timeastwoodbagpiper]

***** Gallileo had a Roman catholic audience, but he wrote a paper that included observations and evidence, and when people actually looked at what he was saying, they saw he was making a real case and people began to agree with him. If Hameroff has actual evidence and can make accurate predicitions, his argument will get heard and his claims accepted. I think he is trying to rewrite quantum science though without the evidence he needs.

[@pc98scout71]

***** Seriously, the only reason that he has the word "Soul" on there is because it captures people's interest because it is a topic so many people are interested in as opposed to saying "Quantum Mind" which is not something that too many people would care about.

[@roudys]

+Athanasios K Catholics need little help with that.

[@floyd3276]

Sceptical scientists are making great contributions as well

[@Sbhh1999]

as a PhD in engineering woman, I am SO SICK of these MENSA wanna be engineering MEN who cannot even TOLERATE anything new age. All rude, anti science, condescending and ANTI ALL SCHOLARS throughout humanity. Including many great names

[@BentleyMulsanneII]

Like it or not, we are not in our brains. This man's theory is supported by an ample amassment of evidence and it has stood up to scrutiny. It is scientifically valid and research-based. This is scientific progress. Our consciousness is eternal. This could bring comfort and reassurance to the many atheists out there to know that we don't just disappear into nothingness.

[@1111Tactical]

Bentley Mulsanne No, they want to believe they fade into nothing, or are too cynical to latch onto ideas that debunk it. They have become the new close-minded, cynical groups, like literal Theologians of the fire and brimstone variety. Oh the irony. I guess that silly superhero movie was true, you either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain. Naturalistic atheism has become the progress-blocking villain.

[@darkpalm1242]

@@1111Tactical so true

[@naturalisted1714]

*The fact that anesthesia works debunks the supernatural soul. If we are our souls (the common belief of what the soul is) and the soul survives death, then it'd be impossible to ever go unconscious at all*, because the soul (as understood by the common meaning) is always conscious. But we can go unconscious, so obviously there is not a constantly-conscious supernatural soul ("true Self"). However, we never experience "nothing" after death, or at any point, because "nothing" is only a word and nothing else. Unconsciousness is always simply skipped over; it is a proverbial time machine. So after death there will not be Nothing, but instead a new organism will be born; just like what occurred at the beginning of your consciousness. This will continue as long as there are new sentient organisms born into the universe.

[@scotturley4003]

But we are our brain. There is no reason to think otherwise.

[@naturalisted1714]

@@scotturley4003 Yes. As Christopher Hitchens put it, "I do not have a body, I am a body".

[@Old299dfk]

The fact that Sir Roger Penrose (one of the greatest minds of this era) rates this man, should tell you what you need to know. When clever people pay attention, you should too.

[@amusiclover1982]

Wrong approach

[@duongkstn]

Nice catch 😊🎉 @Old299dfk

[@adeworks]

This guy is onto something big. Possibly the biggest leap ever in our understanding of the universe.

[@roadtoperfection1120]

Thank you. This lifted me from a bad time. This gave me so much trust and comfort. It just feels good in my heart/soul. I can’t explain this feeling

[@cinefilos2692]

why you feel better?

[@logans.butler285]

Not to me. The idea of living former ver of being immortal doesn't let me sleep. Honestly, I'll never understand people who like the idea of an eternal soul or an everlasting life. I just wanna die peacefully, in a dreamless sleep and nothingness. What's so scary about it??? But well, I guess science is not on my side. I hate you. And I hope you are happy to know that you'll never die 😣

[@Dnationgangstandup]

Bruh so u don't want to see ur family

[@vladirstrauss]

@@logans.butler285 There is one thing I fail to understand. So many people desiring eternal life after this and others who wish to be in nothingness. It's weird.

[@jessegandy4510]

Materialist : we know nothing about the nature of consciousness Nondualists : everyone shares the same consciousness Materialists : you have no evidence of that Nondualists : and you have no evidence that it is local to each living being

[@antonychouffot7753]

Yes, correct exactly. So no one knows

[@Lilcrunkgy]

we r all die, so same experience

[@bxmully]

But the burden of proof lies on those who make the claim. That's why spaghetti monster god...u cant prove he doesnt exist.....just piggybacking on something you dont understand doesnt mean you have any idea what you're talking about

[@student99bg]

You made the hypothesis, it is on you to provide evidence for it. Also, I don't know your thoughts, you don't know mine.

[@thinkingspirit6258]

There are some sad people in the comments. They refuse to accept anything outside their materialist belief system.

[@tomasalvim1022]

They accept when they are shown enough evidence, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

[@andresandres859]

A door closed by all occidental history might be hard to open sometimes... Door, mind, sight...

[@Cloud-wl8lp]

Tomás Alvim yeah, so now I want evidence for a multiverse. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

[@clowntim1]

@@tomasalvim1022 Plenty of statistical and veridical evidence of parapsychological phenomena and other conscious states that cannot be explained by materialism. The evidence is there, people just don't look enough for it; and those who do find it think of ways to explain it away under their materialist spectrum. Reminds me of how Galileo was shunned because his evidence did not align with the views at the time.

[@johnnastrom9400]

@@tomasalvim1022 "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" -- Plagiarizing a quote from Carl Sagan does not make you Carl Sagan.

[@Pasovineyard]

I know this is hard to understand. The questions raised by Quantum Mechanics are hard to fathom. All we thought we understood was wrong. Life maybe ever lasting. No real death.

[@searcher619]

This is why Einstein disliked Quatum Mechanics.

[@Pasovineyard]

Yes! He liked physics to fit into a nice definable box. We have been building electronics for decades based on quantum probability. Astounding stuff.

[@advocate1563]

It is. We are spiritual beings having a human experience to quote Chopra. I died and was resuscitated and remember what happens next very well.

[@amernassar3466]

@@advocate1563 what happens?

[@01assassinscreed63]

@@amernassar3466 AP

[@TheRodeoX]

I have studied and taught biology my whole life. And I still can't tell my students where life comes from or what it is. This could become the greatest finding in all of biology, maybe even science.

[@mattlovesjiyu]

Materialism is much like the abrahamic faiths of the past for the materialistic-based scientist: It's comforting. Materialism is being discarded everyday as quantum revelations annihilate it. It's time to think outside the box and consider what was once impossible as possible.

[@TheLastAbacus]

Yeah I don't understand Matthew's comment. Christianity makes more sense under Idealism, and in fact can only be explained through immaterialism, hence why we see the religion dying in the dualistic West

[@naturalisted1714]

If we have a soul that survives death, then that same soul would make it impossible to ever go unconscious - anesthesia wouldn't work.

[@wwtapsable]

as long as it can be properly recorded and studied without subjective interpretation then it's all good. quantum mechanics isn't magic it's just more complex math and can be observed and studied. if these quantum effects in microtubules give rise to macro-scale behavioral changes not much is different from that to neurons with classical chemistry and physics giving rise to it, other than we now know to include these phenomena in future studies and theories. seeing quantum phenomena give rise to neurological events and extrapolating that there must be an afterlife is tantamount to seeing an unidentified flying object and assuming its not a weirdly shaped plane but instead a non-terrestrial intelligent alien's flying craft. its a false dichotomy proof that it's not a plane is, therefore, proof that it is an alien spacecraft as if those are the only two possible scenarios. when in reality there are more than two possible scenarios. similarly, in this situation, proof that all neurological phenomena aren't solely brought about by classical physics and chemistry is, therefore, proof that there is an afterlife. when those aren't the only two possible scenarios.

[@student99bg]

Wrong. Materialism isn't comforting. People are materialists because non materialists have only ever produced nonsense and caused science to enter dark ages.

[@SharonBhara]

Im so happy tht finally ppl worked out the link between neurobiology and spirituality. These things have been written bout in bhudhist thinking, the shri guru granth sahib, the vedic system many decades ago. :)

[@MrBrj]

this man definitely is the first jedi.

[@dougwainwright1434]

Yeah and he looks like one too!

[@kenniclown3103]

TEDx needs to start including the graphic materials in the videos, perhaps we would be better served by not just showing a closeup of the speaker's face for the whole presentation.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

Trueee. xD

[@shoegaze_bitch1506]

It is a theory that I like a lot, knowing that the soul is something more than the human mind, it is something a product of the forces of the universe is incredible and quantum physics is a very impressive subject and something that will make you see the world of another form, many congratulations to Mr. Hameroff for this great contribution

[@KhaosOdensland]

i like to watch all of dr hameroffs interviews and lectures, I just happen to live in tucson and ive been trying to figure out a good excuse to go to the U of A consciousness research department to check it out. I totally think hes onto something. when I first heard of the observer effect and human effects on quantum states i immediately thought there had to be some kind of quantum mechanism in our brains that would allow for the copenhagen interpretation. theres no doubt human consciousness is effecting quantum experiments and such states. even the makers of D wave quantum computer say in their official videos that they try not to look at the machine because it will cause things to happen to the information coming out. Materialist arent ready for microtubials, they are still stuck on neurons. Theyre not quite ready to accept the outcome of such experiments as the double slit, wheelers delayed choice, and delayed choice quantum eraser experiments. Dr. hameroff is definitley ahead of the game.

[@floyd3276]

There has to be something that allows consciousness after death. Hameroff and Penrose might be right or they might be wrong but there has to be some way or I wouldn't have had the memory between lives from from my death in 1960 to birth in 1962. How would I know about supermasive blackholes, Tibetan phowa practice and the circumstances of my death which match historical events as well as current issues in science.

[@kichu912]

I have heard roger penrose on this subject and that was fascinating

[@11lvr11]

Thank you. It's very interesting.

[@omlove3206]

I wish I could put he and Candace Pert together in a room and hear them speak to one another about their work and how it correlates. I also wish he spent a bit more time and in depth about the soul and ear death experiences in his works findings. etc. I also wish that Ted showed his slide show along with his talk . They often leave out this valuable piece of their talks here online.

[@dr.satishsharma9794]

Excellent..... thanks 🙏.

[@pyrrho314]

@tatsumakisempyukaku : it has to have an "objective" component insofar as it's easy to reproduce (procreation)... so there is a state in the shared material reality that can lead to consciousness. It can be a relativist or indeterminate world, but it exists as something that recreates consciousness. Thus the recreation of consciousness is a study of consciousness.

[@MrLisarn2]

We have known forever that energy changes but cannot be destroyed. That’s a scientific fact. Beyond that, we don’t know, but this resonates with me.

[@suzannew1723]

Thank you!!!!

[@craigbrownell1667]

@[2:43]: I am extremely open minded. Less than a handful of days ago, I heard of this, electron quantum tunneling across microtubules ... +what I was reading online was from late in the prior century ... +I thought it was quite a stretch. Possible, though ... +today I hear of this. A connection across spacetime, small on my end, large on the other.

[@eywa5]

STEWART HAMEROFF, LIKE A BOSS

[@jzzy107]

Science owes all of it's accomplishments to mathematics for without it science would be nothing but soothsaying(Think hard about this sentence). One of the most important task is to define what mathematics is ontologically. When one talks about a soul I think it would be better to call it "mind". Mind, just like mathematics and the religious concept of a soul is not physical, It has no sensory components, you can't see math. Mathematics/mind/soul should be considered the same substance. When we get into these kinds of topics outside the realm of science evidence based philosophy or metaphysics only mathematics will suffice. The frequency domain of Fourier mathematics is the key to probing the mental/spiritual/non-physical/non-local side of the universe as of now it's wholly ignored as having any thing to do with reality. Mr. Hameroff is acquainted with Roger Penrose who is very close to sharing this view and he knows better than these dogmatic materialist posting here. What sufficient reason should this universe be physical rather than non-physical? Mathematical Idealism will hold up far better regarding the big philosophical questions than scientific materialism.

[@jonbrown7962]

+Jon Tate I would argue that the soul and the mind are two different entities, and that the soul exists within the mind. After all, there are parts of your mind that you acknowledge as something other than you. For example, you have your beliefs that make you who you are, but you are not exactly just your beliefs. There is a part of your mind that encompasses everything that you considered "You", and that construct is the soul. As a disclaimer, I don't believe that the soul would continue to exist after death.

[@jzzy107]

+Jon Brown what you should be referring to is the conscious and unconscious aspects of mind.

[@jonbrown7962]

I agree that the line between consciousness and unconsciousness provides a better sense of definition then the boundaries of the soul, but it doesn't acknowledge that the unconscious aspect serves as the consciousness's environment (or that one exists inside of the other), rather than just implying that they are both just properties, or aspects, of the mind.

[@jzzy107]

+Jon Brown these are just ways for people to avoid the mono substance to avoid truth. People would rather have the incoherent notion that the universe has many totally different substances miraculously interacting coherentntly rather than different phases of one substance.

[@jonbrown7962]

I don't see any reason as to why two entirely different substances would be unable to affect each other, react to one another, or simply influence each other in any way. It sounds like you don't believe in the possibility in a physical system occurring naturally in our universe.

[@swayam.]

I believe science gives a functional description of reality and not just our experience. Since ontology is a part of reality, from my definition, it does follow that science should be able to describe ontological context of reality.

[@MW-cx3sb]

Amazing how far things came with his theory less than 10 years after this presentation. Though a soul without ego pretty much sounds like eternal death anyway as we won't know ourselves as ourself.

[@537monster]

I’m not totally bought into this, I just need to see more hard evidence and applications first. However, a soul without ego, would likely just have to attach itself somehow to a new body, or perhaps even somehow be captured by a growing brain. So… reincarnation. That’s my best guess of what would happen to a soul in the event that all of this is true.

[@student99bg]

​@@537monster In near death out of body experiences people usually do have their ego, they don't lose their ego.

[@student99bg]

Well, now there are even more evidence behind what Hameroff is saying.

[@Sloth7d]

@MrRobotoToo Thanks for the lesson, MrRobotoToo. That helped. =) I'll look up the Nature of Reality debate in a bit. I've been putting off educating myself on quantum mechanics for quite a bit, and I guess this is a wake up call.

[@coult_g]

This is brilliant. Brings up those big uncomfortable questions of simulation type theories. Love it.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

My BIG T.O.E.

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

Dr. Robert Lanza with biocentrism. Dr. Donald Hoffman with holographic principle. Dr. Rupert Sheldrake with panpsychism.

[@squamish4244]

This is the only testable theory of mind and it has stood up to 20 years of criticism.

[@FlawedFabrications]

I truly hope there's a soul, or at least SOMETHING. The idea that there is absolutely nothing after death, that there is such an utter LACK of consciousness that we won't even be here to care about that lack of consciousness, is the most terrifying thought in existence.

[@j.hateshisjob5137]

@Eduardo Candeias you think so?

[@Sloth7d]

@MrRobotoToo Is it? I know I was lost just a bit when trying to follow him, but I'm not completely knwledgeable on the subject of quantum mechanics. Can you explain.

[@jas672]

Rewiring reality with quantum technologies gives me hope for the future but they potentially step on some pretty big toes namely big pharma, oil and gas, and gmo industries.

[@hadara69]

I just heard about Orch-OR on one of the "through the wormhole w/Morgan Freeman" episodes about the afterlife. This guy was on "what the bleep do we know?" too. Reading what wiki says on "Orchestrated Objective Reduction" of consciousness confused me a little, but this is a REALLY fascinating theory! What if we really are LITERALLY the means by which the universe experiences itself?! Like on a quantum level!!! It would explain god(s) AND esp, ghosts, love, spiritual feelings...etc, etc, ETC!!!!

[@jackchorn]

How does he know that there aren't intelligent beings from light years away already downloading in creatures like you and me? And what if downloading in the end of life is limiting what naturally happens when you die?

[@daultonbaird6314]

+jackchorn OMG please don't load me up or down.

[@MIKEHUNT7531]

I agree, I think its good to believe a certain thing. But I think we should be a little more loose with our beliefs

[@souvickch]

That's the exact same thing u'd do well to keep in mind.....nothinf about Hamerhoff's theory is "disproven". And when the best defence offered against one side turns out to be some argument in that side's favor, u have to revaluate ur tance. Stuart is extending what Penrose, a distingushed physicist, is saying , to what he knows about the brain's neurochemistry, a feild he knows a lot a bout. What he's saying is backed by evidence that's growing, and its fortifying an already pretty solid idea.

[@wyattbottorff2473]

Wait, what was the name of his theory at 2:48? I am too interested.

[@jonesgerard]

I think you're both right.

[@kspangsege]

No hard evidense, but it really makes a lot of sense.

[@squamish4244]

In what way?

[@Aodhansdaddy]

@MrRobotoToo Considering the majority of Hameroffs knowledge comes from Sir Roger Penrose i would say the QP in his hypothesis is sound. You can also look at Hameroff destroying Krauss and his cronies on here at the Beyond Belief conference. The simple fact is, none of us know he real answer. Alternative explanations for things are how we learn, if we accepted materialism as absolute fact we'd never have discovered QP because it would never have fit within the scientific framework

[@staceymcr13]

The Einstein‐Podolsky‐Rosen Paradox in the Brain: The Transferred Potential by Gowsami and Co, Persinger later studies which, granted utilize specialised a equipment to help facilitate states in which the brain appears to communicate in a non local fashion. there are many more articles suggesting quantum non locality within the brain between neuronal networks and even hemispheres.

[@aligalal8095]

he is one of the world's most elite physicists -he's in the same level of hawking-

[@tdiddle8950]

I love what this guy is saying, and I already am familiar with much of what he is saying, but he speaks too fast for me to process, and that's saying a lot. I am not actually saying this guy is a charleton, but really fast talking sets my triggers off that someone is trying to get over on me. Speak in a way that allows your audience to process what you're saying.

[@PavelSTL]

@Philosophier121 the reason why I don't take you guys seriously is because I've already been where you are, and I was saying exactly the same things. Searle (viz. chinese room) was my favorite philosopher and I was all about Chalmers' "fundamental property of the universe". It's only through studying and reflecting on these matters further did I realize that my head was up my ass, thanks to the gentlemen aforementioned. Again, this is a comments section, not forum, but just suggestion: READ UP

[@andrestorres5306]

how come this guy always gets cut off in all the youtube videos uploaded ????????

[@LamNguyen-zc8xs]

What ever, materialism or non-materialism, I just want to know what is consciousness and how is it created.

[@stxrryd]

“Creation” was not invented before consciousness. Nothing is real without consciousness.

[@kichu912]

Everybody wants

[@stxrryd]

@Raccy The idea of something being "made" is something that living things invented. There's no actual tangible "start" to anything. It's a made up concept. It's like the number zero. The number zero doesn't exist. It's a word we give to the concept of nothing. You can't have "nothing" without something. It's like the concept of "infinity". It's a concept, not something that you can observe.

[@theworkethic]

@@stxrryd We are in a simulation.

[@rozbmsoh7001]

Look into NDEs listen to experiences from people who've been to the other side.. very fascinating and insightful. Might answer your question on consciousness

[@amanbytheway]

He sure knows some words.

[@craigbrownell1667]

@[3:43]: "Quantum Coherence occurs in warm biological systems routinely."

[@student99bg]

It does. Photosynthesis would be impossible without quantum effects and quantum effects are proven to exist in his microtubules too.

[@thejollysatan]

I feel the same way about Deepak Chopra, how ever we have Roger Penrose weighing on this stuff. Ignore the spiritual fluff, the implications are still astounding.

[@raziele92]

Biology being conducted by quantum computation makes complete sense.

[@staceymcr13]

won't let me post any web links on here but the most recent study that comes to mind can be found under the scientific papers section of nature, published Feb 2013, article number 1319, carried out by Miguel Paid-Vieira and co. an experiment involving two rats seperated by many miles demonstrating direct communication between brains.

[@zeagle1979]

I was watching a documentary on Amazon Prime about the soul where Hameroff said something like, "...quantum information in the fundamental layer of the universe. I am commenting even before I truly know if he believes in the idea of, "the soul." My comment is based on the deep kinship I found in my own way of thinking and explaining consciousness and/or/or not, 'a soul.' It just so happens I am for no real reason, visiting that documentary and this youtube. Honestly? Sometimes I feel a little freakish de-constructing, the soul. Coming from a wonderful, colorful fundamentalist region, it simply felt great to sit among like minds that I honestly really did not even know existed. Also as a musician, as well as sure, a romantic even, I found my own answer (and even peace I think), in looking at the question, from the universe up through life. For instance, I really do not care if ghosts and ufos exist, life exists on the blue-green whereas we to date have yet to find a parallel for questions that can only come from conscious experiences like that.. And when we look at earth from space, her atmosphere is almost like the film surrounding a baby in the womb--any mammal really? Sure. All that life is sharing the living planet at any given moment. The planet itself is a metaphor for everything that happens far far beyond in the universe. Elements colliding, combining, transforming, disappearing in seemingly nothingness, suns born, dying, along with their planets..... The earth itself in this broad metaphor is living as well, not even considering what we experience as life. Oceans, climate, earthquakes, volcanoes, storms, ice ages, land becoming deserts, aging, renewing, changing--always changing. So how might we rationalize this 'soul thing' for ordinary folks, beyond our efforts through world religions and myths? If a thought or experience happened, our brains respond. Energy only changes form. Those forms collectively, become the person during this stage of earths process of continuous living change. Though we cannot see it, those forms of our own energy, like everything else in the universe persist for if no other reasons, than their function in having lived. Certainly, our religions, myths, storytelling, music, art and culture in general say that somehow inside we know, that life persists. And as a microcosm of a living planet, in a living universe really, perhaps it could be important for a person's soul to hang around for awhile and nurture species of their kind. Do our experiences, thoughts and all that is about our energy dissipate over time? I personally think so, but that is just my opinion in this. Could it be like the wake of a wave, becoming more and more, a part of the larger body of water? Again, I think so. Maybe we can even ask, if energy that has become life is indeed impersonal like an ocean as it dissipates and simply feed back as the life of the planet in it's collective memory--we might even call the soul of the planet. Again, I 'feel' yes. The quantum biology of the soul, is the unseen beauty, of biology itself. Beauty, like in our religions, myths, storytelling, music, art and culture in general? Yes.

[@Steve-uq7np]

How about the virus and cell maintenance...

[@jamiegoldenseal3826]

the guy from saw is really cool

[@schinaro]

Still waiting for him to sing Sledgehammer...

[@Jester123ish]

Not exactly sure what he's talking about but basically it can do everything and cure cancer?

[@jonesgerard]

I wish Hameroff could put it as clearly as you do.

[@arthurdossantos6826]

Well, that's basically saying "we don't know who this works so it's probably quantum magic"

[@TruthDissident]

I mean because that's kinda what it is. Putting total faith that "Science" will just figure everything out seems unlikely to me especially considering they thought that in the 18th/19th centuries.

[@arthurdossantos6826]

@@TruthDissident If you need faith, then it ain't science.

[@TruthDissident]

@@arthurdossantos6826 Science will never figure out everything is my point. You'd have to have extreme faith that it will.

[@gigsmithgoo]

Waw amazing 🤩

[@giorgiv18]

Is it just me, or does the video seem a bit choppy?

[@TheWPelser]

On your Electrical and Philosophical point - I agree lol ... what I'm saying is that there is no deference between the microscopic and macroscopic reality and that scientists are noticing this ... on the topic of classical computer (Turing machine) - it's not analog so your wrong.

[@aligalal8095]

It's in the realm of "Hypothesis" not "Pseudoscience". There are many versions of the Quantum mind model, like david bohm's version, but orch or is by far the most famous because of it's co-creator SIR Roger Penrose, who is one of the most important physicist in academia. Well, it's not empirically proven, but it made predictions and it passed.

[@xyz123928]

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[@jamma246]

Materialists haven't hijacked science. The ideas and discoveries of quantum theory are way more non-materialist than any of the common religious or philosophic ideas at the time. If certain ideas ACTUALLY CAN give us "a functional description of our experience" then science will pay close attention to them.

[@sitemountain]

@HadeanAgent Well even if he worked 'with' him knowing what I do about Sir Roger Penrose & his attitudes towards unsubstantiated hypothesizes I really doubt he would say anything remotely like what is being said here. There are plenty of Penroses clips on this website. Can you find even ONE which espouses anything about 'souls' (whatever they are)? I'll save you the time: No. He only speaks about consciousness & that IS observable in the universe -it can be imaged inside brains. Where is a soul?

[@ahmadthoha5616]

I know this man after quoted by Sir Roger Penrose.

[@cky727]

34 people don't understand big words.

[@hughJ]

From quickly skimming the articles it seems they used electrodes to pick up the signals of the brain, and then transferred them with electrical signals via the internet to another lab. Using the term "non-local" in that circumstance is a bit misleading, especially in the context of this video where Hameroff is talking about quantum non-locality.

[@TheKoelnKalk]

He never turns his hammer off!

[@pldean]

I've heard that in the OR they call him The Hammer. To the patient: "We're just about ready to start, we're just waiting for The Hammer".

[@aligalal8095]

Not only the brain, everything is an emergent of quantum information processing.

[@TheWPelser]

It cannot be applied to a single event which this argument requires. What the argument shows is that classical physics is nonlocal. Consider a spherical shell which explodes into two objects spinning in (of course) opposite directions (which cannot be known until measured). When the spin direction of one is measured that of the other is forced into the opposite direction, even though it is now in a different galaxy. Hence classical physics is nonlocal [5]...

[@amrit5516]

For anyone wondering, there’s some physical proof of this. I recommend Anton Petrov’s recent video on it (link to it in the reply comment below)

[@duongkstn]

Yes. There is proof related to coherence in brain

[@duongkstn]

I saw his video too

[@Bak3dB3an]

8:00 technology in the wrong hands ain't great.

[@jonesgerard]

I've only got 2 brain cells left, one wandered off last nite, the last one went looking for it this morning.

[@snakeeyes3883]

but how does the hypno toad fit in to all this?

[@SonuRaiLab]

6:28 Messi is writing something there in...

[@TheWPelser]

Here is something I read recently:"There is much other fascinating work in modern "physics". There is a general belief about the Bohm version of the EPR experiment that quantum mechanics gives that spatially separated objects exhibit correlations, so that quantum mechanics is nonlocal. But that would violate an uncertainty principle (number-phase). This argument has nothing to do quantum mechanics which is a statistical theory...

[@chancerobinson5112]

Dr Hameroff speaks real fast and doesn't define many of his terms, like he is selling something. Anybody want to by some microtubules?

[@andresandres859]

Well... maybe you'll need "buy" some for your brain, after misunderstanding the point.

[@vincelupo8419]

he shouldn't be confined to talking in 10 minute chunks. I've seen hour long videos of him and those are much better.

[@AnjaliSingh-cv5wj]

You need to buy a dictionary to learn how to spell "buy"

[@phoenyx555]

Yeah. I can't watch him. I totally dig what he and Roger Penrose came up but he just can't present the idea in a clear way. That said i'll defitinely buy his book.

[@DarkAngelEU]

Even Schrödinger wrote a book bout it and he's a genius. Educate yourself and don't judge over others until you have the knowledge to do so. Peace.

[@koekons]

True that. true that.

[@MultiAdamowski]

what he says is contrary to Eastern Philosophy. Buddhism and Advaita say that the working consciosness that a person has IS acutally an epiphenomenon of "lower sonsciousnesses" like senses. Deconstruction of ego is at the very heart of Buddhist teachings. The view presented by dr Hemeroff is really idealistic and romantic. I understand he doesn't want to part with "soul" or anything that will propell the existence of human after death. I don't think its this simple.

[@TheWPelser]

Sorry, I can't - it's part of a disertation I'm writing...

[@salvadorg.garcia9995]

Vaya pedazo de gazpacho entre conciencia, biología, física cuántica, grafeno, sexo....tiene el Dr. Hameroff. Si no fuese por que Prof. Penrose apoya esto, yo ni intentaría entender esta palabrería vacía sobre lo que él llama quantum biology...and so on and so forth. Firmado: un Prof. en Física

[@adaptiveagile]

An appealing psychological component to a theory does not weigh on its veracity. Personally, I have no answers to the mysteries of life; only questions. However, tens of thousands of ostensibly lucid NDE accounts that are cross cultural with common non-traditional themes and events, Action at a Distance; and other theories and phenomena keep me open minded to myriad possibilities. Must be nice having it all figured out. My own two copies of Beyond Freedom & Dignity are acquiring a lot of dust.

[@tdiddle8950]

I know all about (potential) quantum microtubual communication. I would love to hear someone talk about this in a way that would allow someone to have time to think about it. I personally have done much work about the mind/brain being a space-time transmitter.

[@TruthDissident]

"I personally have done much work about the mind/brain being a space-time transmitter." - Expand on this please.

[@smithmeister]

I'm waiting for the materialist's answer to The Hard Problem.

[@abhinavrao8698]

Lol materialist will not agree with him thats all

[@jonesgerard]

"David Deutsch of the University of Oxford, UK, is not convinced that the experiment has told us anything new about how the universe works. He says that although "it's quite cool to see strange predictions verified", the results could have been obtained simply by "calculating them using a computer and the equations of quantum mechanics"." Weak measurement. Imprecise. Inexact.

[@TheWPelser]

Yeah! you almost got it ... except it's more like, all matter originates and exists by virtue of motion(key word) ... [rythmodynamics com]

[@trickster3361]

There's a problem here, Hameroff is a doctor, a anesthesiologist, Why is he talking about quantum physics? Where is the Sir Roger Penrose?

[@auriuman78]

Science is the fosheezee with its peer review and strictest of objective measurement methods... but... What happens when science discovers that there really is "spirit" or "soul" or "ether"? We're just supposed to call it a "life particle" now so as to not offend the delicate sensibilities of those who've chosen to believe there was no such thing?

[@Atheist603]

What do you mean by materialism? I hate when people use these word. I mean aren't things like forces, electrons, quarks, energy etc.. all material? I don't get why some people try hard to decide the universe in two because of a so called soul. Even if consciousness was on the quantum level, it'll still physics because physics deal with nature. There's no such thing as supernatural thing..

[@chr1stianben1tez52]

So if his theory is right, eventually we may be able to alter perceivable reality through our consciousness like psychedelics but manually, scary.

[@deveryhenderson8335]

We already do that’s his point. Lol

[@jonesgerard]

" quantum physics is 100% solid." As far as it goes, up to now Penrose says its incomplete ( as everything is in science) , it doesn't account for the effect gravity has as quantum systems become larger, atoms making up molecules etc , at some point gravity collapses the wave function if left unobserved.

[@raghuveerrgipt]

what happened at 6:37?! we are ripples in the structure of space time geometry... resonate consciousness... Planc's scale... bottom level in the UNIVERSE?! like this is not enough, he says 'eastern philosophy' Call the hot ginger from the other TEDx video... she asked, 'is life really complex?'

[@patriciamcevallos2175]

Very, very disturbing! Great!

[@RafaelHA2010]

trying to translate to science lenguaje thinks that people from old cultures have figure out... have u read "las enseñanzas de donjuán" ? , something like that.... to complex subject to be explained in just one ted talk... hope this will be the conection between psichology and fisics....