An underground experiment at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory casts doubt on Roger Penrose’s ideas on the role of coherent superpositions in the brain, as Edwin Cartlidge reports
Physics WorldMarch 1, 2021Betony Adams, Francesco Petruccione2 citations
Do quantum effects play a role in consciousness? Or are the two areas being linked simply because they are both difficult to understand? Betony Adams and Francesco Petruccione explore this developing, and contentious, field of quantum biophysics
In the years following his hugely successful book The Emperor's New Mind , in which he argued that there is a quantum aspect to human consciousness, Roger Penrose has acquired a reputation among his peers for writing beautiful books that advocate controversial ideas.