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Reeve wrote:It's fascinating to me that people just dismiss Penrose's ideas without even understanding what it is that they're dismissing. Such as on the so-called "RationalWiki"

Edit: Also the rational wiki is not up to date with the science of Penrose's idea. Tegmark has not conclusively dealt the hypothesis a finishing blow yet.

http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/Cosmology160.html

For a start, that hasn't happened here. I also doubt that RW dismisses it 'without understanding it' - more like it has a single paragraph on it then 2 citations about falsifications of the Orch OR model

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum_co ... er_Penrose

http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/3049/

http://www.pnas.org/content/106/11/4219.full.pdf+html


If people are not understanding it - there's the very real possibility that it's incomprehensible because it's wrong. When the authors still haven't addressed dozens of criticisms of their claims decades later, one has to wonder whether they understand it either.