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Anirban Bandyopadhyay - Quantum Physics of Consciousness

2023-11-23 Education
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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Register for free today to get subscriber-only exclusives: https://bit.ly/3He94Ns Are quantum events required for consciousness in a very special sense, far beyond the general sense that quantum events are part of all physical systems? What would it take for quantum events, on such a micro-scale, to be relevant for brain function, which operates at the much higher level of neurons and brain circuits? What would it mean? Watch more videos on the topic of consciousness: https://bit.ly/3q3VWoF Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Anirban Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Scientist in the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan. Get free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

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@karlyohe6379 2023-11-23

Very exciting work by this scientist. I agree with him that it is a bad idea to focus only on the membrane in trying to understand how the brain works or in trying to mimic it. Proponents of this are treating the nerve cell as if it were a black box whose inner-workings are fixed and, therefore, whose outputs can be predicted with 100% certainty given certain inputs. But the neuron is not a C++ object, and I believe it is extremely likely that the same input can lead to different outputs depending on what happens inside the neuron. Also, anyone betting against Sir Penrose had better be getting really good odds.

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@beatsntoons 2023-11-24

This is a mind-blowing interview. What a unique take on neuroscience.

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@ximono 2023-11-27

I like how both Roger Penrose and Anirban Bandyopadhyay use music as a metaphor for what goes on at the quantum level in the brain. Symphony, harmony, singing, rhythm.

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@professoromp 2024-01-18

Lucky to have worked with Dr. Bandyopadhyay on a small project. I learned so much from him.

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@bretnetherton9273 2023-11-24

Awareness is known by awareness alone.

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@sugatasenmazumdar7704 2023-12-24

This man is stupendous. His eyes light up when he explains so passionately ❤❤❤👏👏👏👏

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@OfficialGOD 2023-11-23

love Anirban's work! hope he gets some recognition for his artificial brain

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@sonarbangla8711 2023-11-24

Anirban's work seems interesting, but he admits microtubules' role in consciousness is long way down the track. How microtubules achieve coherence in its function as QC function, is the key to unlocking the mysteries of consciousness. His knowledge of everything vibrating like strings in the entire universe is enlightening.

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@eksffa 2023-11-23

“Orch-OR theory is taking the whole world of neuroscience 100 years ahead of its current system” 👍

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@Forever._.curious.. 2023-11-28

That enthusiasm is priceless

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