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Roger Penrose On Why Consciousness Does Not Compute<\/h1>\n

The emperor of physics defends his controversial theory of mind.<\/h2>\n

BY STEVE PAULSON<\/p>\n

\"Penrose-BR-2\"EMERGENT BEAUTY:<\/strong> Roger Penrose has always been in search of deep structures of the universe, reflected in the tiling he created, where basic shapes\u2014in this case the rhombus\u2014give rise to extraordinary patterns.<\/em><\/p>\n

Once you start poking around in the muck of consciousness studies, you will soon encounter the specter of Sir Roger Penrose, the renowned Oxford physicist with an audacious\u2014and quite possibly crackpot\u2014theory about the quantum origins of consciousness. He believes we must go beyond neuroscience and into the mysterious world of quantum mechanics to explain our rich mental life. No one quite knows what to make of this theory, developed with the American anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, but conventional wisdom goes something like this: Their theory is almost certainly wrong, but since Penrose is so brilliant (\u201cOne of the very few people I\u2019ve met in my life who, without reservation, I call a genius,\u201d physicist Lee Smolin has said), we\u2019d be foolish to dismiss their theory out of hand.<\/p>\n

Penrose, 85, is a mathematical physicist who made his name decades ago with groundbreaking work in general relativity and then, working with Stephen Hawking, helped conceptualize black holes and gravitational singularities, a point of infinite density out of which the universe may have formed. He also invented \u201ctwistor theory,\u201d a new way to connect quantum mechanics with the structure of spacetime. His discovery of certain geometric forms known as \u201cPenrose tiles\u201d\u2014an ingenious design of non-repeating patterns\u2014led to new directions of study in mathematics and crystallography.<\/p>\n

The breadth of Penrose\u2019s interests is extraordinary, which is evident in his recent book Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe<\/i>\u2014a dense 500-page tome that challenges some of the trendiest but still unproven theories in physics, from the multiple dimensions of string theory to cosmic inflation in the first moment of the Big Bang. He considers these theories to be fanciful and implausible.<\/p>\n

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