{"id":194965,"date":"2024-08-22T15:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/can-quantum-physics-explain-consciousness-after-all"},"modified":"2024-08-22T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:26:43","slug":"can-quantum-physics-explain-consciousness-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/can-quantum-physics-explain-consciousness-after-all","title":{"rendered":"Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness After All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iX7kOrYRoSU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out my own course on Brilliant! First 30 days are free and 20% off the annual premium subscription when you use our link \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine\">https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nobel Prize winner Roger Penrose famously believes that the collapse of the wave-function in quantum mechanics causes consciousness. A group of physicists now tries to improve on Penroses idea in a new paper. I have some comments\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Paper: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1099-4300\/26\/6\/460\">https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1099-4300\/26\/6\/460<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd13 Check out my new quiz app \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/\">http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc8c Support me on Donorbox \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg\">https:\/\/donorbox.org\/swtg<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\udcdd Transcripts and written news on Substack \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/\">https:\/\/sciencewtg.substack.com\/<\/a><br \/> \ud83d\udc49 Transcript with links to references on Patreon \u279c \/ sabine.<br \/> \ud83d\udce9 Free weekly science newsletter \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle\">https:\/\/sabinehossenfelder.com\/newsle<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udc42 Audio only podcast \u279c <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0MkNfXl<\/a>\u2026<br \/> \ud83d\udd17 Join this channel to get access to perks \u279c<br \/> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sabinehossenfelder\">@sabinehossenfelder<\/a>.<br \/> \ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f On instagram \u279c \/ sciencewtg.<\/p>\n<p>#science #sciencenews #physics #consciousness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out my own course on Brilliant! First 30 days are free and 20% off the annual premium subscription when you use our link \u279c https:\/\/brilliant.org\/sabine. Nobel Prize winner Roger Penrose famously believes that the collapse of the wave-function in quantum mechanics causes consciousness. A group of physicists now tries to improve on Penroses idea [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,13,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-open-access","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}