In Great Britain it is customary to give outstanding compatriots the knight title and the title of sir. One of the lucky owners of these regalia is the largest mathematician and theoretical physicist Roger Penrose.
For more than ten years now, he fearlessly, openly and honestly, like a real knight, has been attacking one of the greatest mysteries of nature - the mystery of reason. His latest developments in the field of quantum theory of consciousness suggest the existence of life after death.
UMA CHAMBER
By the power of thought and giftedness, many people compare Roger Penrose not with anyone, but with Einstein himself: what he does in physics and mathematics is just as incredible and brilliant. And it's not so much about theories or discoveries. Penrose suggests something like a new way of knowing - not from the particular to the whole, as science has been operating for several centuries in a row. And vice versa - from the whole to the particular. Perhaps this approach allowed Penrose to make a huge revolution in science.
For true fans of telepathy, teleportation, clairvoyance, life after death and other "paranormalities", Professor Roger Penrose is almost an icon.
However, Roger Penrose is not just an icon for scientists. For true fans of telepathy, teleportation, clairvoyance, life after death and other "paranormal" people, Penrose is the ultimate truth, magnitude, guru. No, he himself does not work in these areas, but his discoveries have allowed other scientists to look beyond the horizon - where human thought has not yet reached.
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Scientists nowadays tend to think that consciousness arises from the multitude of calculations that the brain does. And if this is so, then they naturally compare our brain with a computer - the same as traditional computers, machines, though significantly inferior to them in power. Penrose has his own point of view on this matter. He proves that there are certain areas, tasks, issues that no one of the most powerful supercomputers can ever cope with. But the brain can handle any tasks.
That is, our brain is much more powerful than any computer. Penrose calls this amazing quality non-computational brain activity. Remember how in the famous Soviet film "Teens in the Universe" the guys, faced with representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization - robots, ask them a simple childish riddle-joke: A and B sat on a pipe, A fell, B disappeared, what was left on the pipe? A simple question that requires non-programmed knowledge, but ordinary human ingenuity, plunges robots into bewilderment. They cannot withstand stress, begin to smoke like stoves, and eventually burn out to the ground.
This example, of course, is a little far-fetched, but it reflects the position that Roger Penrose insists on: the human brain can cope with any task, even one that will baffle the most powerful supercomputer.
WHAT IS THE SOUL?
Before coming to this conclusion, the scientist had to rely on something. Its pillar was the quantum theory of consciousness. How he came to it is the tenth thing, interesting, perhaps, only to very narrow specialists in the field of theoretical physics. The starting point was the fundamental contradictions between Einstein's theory of relativity and some of the provisions of quantum physics. As a result of complex inferences, this conflict between the two greatest achievements in the history of science brought the scientist … to the principles of the brain, more precisely, to its quantum nature.
No, Penrose never spoke of telepathy, or what the soul is, or the universal mind, or life after death. Others did it for him, in particular his colleague Stuart Hameroff - professor of anesthesiology and psychology at the University of Arizona, as well as director of the Center for the Study of Consciousness.
Hameroff developed Penrose's ideas in his own way. In his opinion, the human brain is a natural quantum computer, our consciousness is its software, and our soul is information accumulated at the quantum level. And now - to the delight of the "paranormal" - great news: quantum information is not destroyed.
If so, after the death of the body, information merges with the Universe, where it can exist for an infinitely long time. According to the theory of the American anesthesiologist, the human soul is immortal, and the afterlife exists. He calls people "quantum computers", the main program of which is consciousness. After death, the quantum particles that make up the soul leave the body and go into space, forever becoming a part of the Universe, according to Stuart Hameroff.
“I think that consciousness, or what preceded it, has always existed in the universe. Perhaps since the Big Bang,”says Hameroff.
The phenomenon of life after death, according to Hameroff, is quite explainable from the point of view of science. If the patient is resurrected, then the soul returns from space with corresponding memories. Therefore, a person who has experienced clinical death talks about the tunnel, bright light and how he left his body.
How Roger Penrose himself relates to such revelations of Hameroff is unknown. In any case, he never commented on Hameroff's conclusions. But the fact that one scientist continued the thoughts of another is beyond doubt. One crucial detail was missing from Penrose's theory: the bearer of quantum consciousness. The one that should be the basis of a quantum computer. Hameroff made up for the missing link, taking as a basis microtubules located inside neurons - intracellular protein structures.
Back in 1987, in one of his books, he suggested that microtubules were clearly underestimated by science. That microtubules in a cell are used not only as "rails" for transporting particles - they, and not neurons, accumulate and process information.
TALENTS AND FANS
A quantum computer, microtubules, quantum consciousness have long become the trump card of clairvoyants, psychics, sorcerers - in a word, all those who in one way or another work with information from space. They claim that their abilities are scientifically based on the work of an outstanding British scientist. This means that there can be no doubts about this.
Does he himself know that he has a lot of fans on the other side of the barricades - in the field of paranormal science? It is unlikely that he, as a serious scientist, is in any way interested in this, but this does not prevent all his "children-phenomena" from comfortably settling in the shadow of his genius. As for the scientific community, the overwhelming majority of scientists perceive Penrose's constructions very skeptically.
Some even recall the scandalous books of the Russian Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Anatoly Fomenko, who, without a moment's hesitation, decided to apply his mathematical knowledge in history, radically revised its entire course, which deeply shocked all specialists in this area of knowledge. But, despite all the ambiguity of the theory of Hameroff and Penrose, so far no one has been able to refute it.
Vlad DRUGOV