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Study Rules Out Fröhlich Condensates in Quantum Consciousness Model

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists don't fully understand how consciousness works, and, so far, no classical theories can explain consciousness in the brain. In light of this lack of understanding, some researchers ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (36) | comments 17 feature




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The future cometh: Science, technology and humanity at Singularity Summit 2011 (Part II)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In its essence, technology can be seen as our perpetually evolving attempt to extend our sensorimotor cortex into physical reality: From the earliest spears and boomerangs augmenting our arms, horses and ...

Technology / Other

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (23) | comments 42 | with audio podcast feature

The age of quantum information

Today’s computers, which are based on classical mechanics, process information coded in long streams of 1s and 0s.

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 7

WUSTL physicist debates 'quantum mind' at New York roundtable

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mark Alford, PhD, professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, spent Saturday, Jan. 29, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side discussing the nature of reality ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 07, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Wikipedia, if it were run by academic experts, would look like this

(PhysOrg.com) -- Students, here's an Internet site you can footnote. The entries in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy are written by leading experts and vetted by others before they appear. From quantum mechanics ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists weigh in on Stephen Hawking's alien warning

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking set off chatter in late April when he posited the existence of intelligent aliens on his new TV series, "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking" -- adding that it would be best for human beings ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 11, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 15

Can we detect quantum behaviour in viruses?

(PhysOrg.com) -- The weird world of quantum mechanics describes the strange, often contradictory, behaviour of small inanimate objects such as atoms. Researchers have now started looking for ways to detect quantum properties ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Quantum Mysticism: Gone but Not Forgotten

Does mysticism have a place in quantum mechanics today, or is the idea that the mind plays a role in creating reality best left to philosophical meditations? Harvard historian Juan Miguel Marin argues the ...

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created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (53) | comments 43 feature

Remote Brainwaves Predict Future Eureka Moment

Real-world problems come in two broad flavors: those requiring sequential reasoning and those requiring transformative reasoning: a break from past thinking and restructuring followed by an insight (also known as Eureka or ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

UCSC physicists explore a boundary of their discipline in new book, Quantum Enigma

Quantum mechanics, one of the most successful theories in all of science, says some strange things about the fundamental nature of the world. For all practical purposes, physicists can and do ignore the bizarre implications ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 19, 2006 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 1


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