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Was Penrose Right? New Evidence For Quantum Effects In The Brain

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Was Penrose Right? New Evidence For Quantum Effects In The Brain

Season 10 Episode 16 | 18m 26s | CC

Nobel laureate Roger Penrose is widely held to be one of the most brilliant living physicists for his wide-ranging work from black holes to cosmology. And then there’s his idea about how consciousness is caused by quantum processes. Most scientists have dismissed this as a cute eccentricity—a guy like Roger gets to have at least one crazy theory without being demoted from the smartypants club.

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