Talk:Stuart Hameroff

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130.39.223.46 seems to think Hameroff, not Roger Penrose, should get the credit for inventing the concept of quantum consciosness or quantum mind. Is this true? I haven't heard of this Hameroff fellow before -- have the media just been ignoring him due to the proximity of a vastly more famous scientist? -- Tim Starling 12:31, Aug 17, 2003 (UTC)

A quick google search suggests Hameroff is an MD and a professor at the University of Arizona who has proposed ideas of quantum consciousness. They seem to be an extension of Penrose's work. I believe that the idea that consciousness is related to quantum phenomena is still very controversial, but you probably know much more about that than I do. --Robert Merkel 12:58, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)

The most intelligent comments on the subject I've heard were someone on Usenet commenting that sometimes really smart scientists go a bit crazy and start dabbling in things they don't really understand. First Linus Pauling and vitamin C, now Roger Penrose and consciousness. Anyway, I haven't read much about it. I guess I'll have to now that we have a proponent hanging around. -- Tim Starling 13:22, Aug 17, 2003 (UTC)

Roger Penrose gives credit to Stuart Hameroff for the part in which processes on a lower level than neurons, i.e. processes within the microtubules and interaction with the neurons, which Penrose refers to as 'Hameroff Process' in the lecture 'Science and the mind', which can be found here: http://online.kitp.ucsb.edu/online/plecture/penrose/ (rdegraaf[at]boojum.hut.fi)

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This article looks to have been stuck in start class for quite a time. Hameroff is mainly known for the theory of consciousness he developed jointly with Roger Penrose. This suggests that the relevant parts of the article on Penrose provide something of a guide to how this article might develop. The Penrose article gives a fuller description of the theory proposed and of the criticisms of the theory. I propose leaving it like that for a couple of weeks to allow for discussion or anyone who wants to have a go at the article. Persephone19 (talk) 17:03, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I have belatedly got back to this article. I have tried to leave as much as possible of the original. I have slightly enlarged the career part of the article and put more on Penrose's theory and the various attacks on it. I imagine others may wish to enlarge further. Persephone19 (talk) 21:03, 29 February 2008 (UTC)