{"id":237311,"date":"2026-05-17T10:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/dr-stuart-hameroff-consciousness-is-more-than-computation"},"modified":"2026-05-17T10:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:04:16","slug":"dr-stuart-hameroff-consciousness-is-more-than-computation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/dr-stuart-hameroff-consciousness-is-more-than-computation","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Stuart Hameroff: Consciousness is More than Computation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dr-stuart-hameroff-consciousness-is-more-than-computation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><audio controls style=\"width:625px;\"><source src=\"https:\/\/feeds.soundcloud.com\/stream\/204186823-singularity1on1-stuart-hameroff-on-consciousness.mp3?_=1\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>13 years ago, I walked into Dr. Stuart Hameroff\u2019s operating room with a camera, a microphone, and a single stubborn question:<\/p>\n<p>Is consciousness computation?<\/p>\n<p>Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona, and co-author with Sir Roger Penrose of the Orch OR theory, said no.<\/p>\n<p>Emphatically. Unfashionably. Against the entire weight of mainstream neuroscience and Silicon Valley orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p>At the GF2045 conference, where I first met him, Ray Kurzweil went out of his way to declare Orch OR \u201ctotally wrong.\u201d Others called it speculative. Untestable. Unscientific.<\/p>\n<p>Today, in the age of large language models, that argument is no longer a niche dispute among philosophers and physicists. It is the decisive question of our century.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/dr-stuart-hameroff-consciousness-is-more-than-computation\">Continue reading \u201cDr. Stuart Hameroff: Consciousness is More than Computation!\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 years ago, I walked into Dr. Stuart Hameroff\u2019s operating room with a camera, a microphone, and a single stubborn question: Is consciousness computation? Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona, and co-author with Sir Roger Penrose of the Orch OR theory, said no. Emphatically. Unfashionably. Against the entire weight of mainstream [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,42,47,1617,2018,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-media-arts","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237311","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\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}