Ep110 "Is consciousness related to quantum physics?" (with Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff)
Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman
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4.6 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Can we explain consciousness as emerging from classical neuroscience, or do we require deeper principles? Could quantum physics have something to do with it? Is it possible that consciousness predates biology, and biology evolved to take advantage of it? What are the right ways to build new theories in neuroscience when we don’t know the answers? Join Eagleman with Nobel laureate Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to explore the controversial idea that there could be, even possibly, any connection between quantum theory and our awareness of the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Why do we have the experience of being conscious? |
| 0:08.9 | Can you build consciousness just by putting together lots of neurons in the right way? |
| 0:14.2 | Or might there be deeper principles at work? |
| 0:18.5 | Could quantum physics have something to do with the brain and specifically |
| 0:22.2 | with consciousness? Is it possible that consciousness is actually something that predates biology? |
| 0:29.7 | And there's a sense in which biology evolved to take advantage of it? And what are the right |
| 0:35.1 | ways to make new theories in neuroscience when we don't |
| 0:38.4 | know the answers? |
| 0:42.4 | Welcome to Inner Cosmos with me, David Eagleman. I'm a neuroscientist and author at Stanford, |
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