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On consciousness, Tegmark gets one thing right, says Rob Sheldon

So what did Tegmark just say when he said “Consciousness is a state of matter”? He just said, “Consciousness is something people are consciously conscious of.” As Dufflepuds would say, “So true, so true, Boss.” But this is not what Penrose was saying about his microtubules. Read More ›

Re Jerry Coyne and buddy vs. Deepak Chopra: If rocks can be conscious, why can’t photons be?

Why pick on Chopra? Quite apart from the fact that great physicist have had some similarly forbidden thoughts about consciousness, where were Coyne and Salzberg when the latest new theory of consciousness whistled into town, announcing that humans, worms, and the Internet are all conscious? Read More ›