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>From: martinm@garond.cray.com (Martin Maiers)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Making sense out of Penrose
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Date: 11 Nov 92 04:56:44 GMT
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> > In article <1992Oct26.200146.967@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>, zazen@hwperform (East Coker) writes:
> > The only way I know of to make sense of Penrose is as follows, as direct
> > belief in quantum gravity consciousness is completely unsupportable, and
> > will remain so for a long long time.
> > [...]
>
>FYI, I am vaguely away of some work by Donah Zohar (spelling?), which
>barks up the same alley.
>
>Any pointers?
>
>Gordon,
                      
I found this book by Danah Zohar in Oxford.
                      ^
Danah Zohar, _The Quantum Self: A Revolutionary View of Human Nature and 
Consciousness Rooted in the New Physics_, 1990, Bloomsbury, London.

Here's a brief synopsis:
	In The Quantum Self, Danah Zohar argues that the insights of modern
	physics can illuminate our understanding of everyday life - our
	relationships to ourselves, to others and to the world at large.  The
	upshot is a whole new quantum psychology.  Drawing on the strange and
	fascinating workings of the subatomic realm to give us a new model of
	human consciousness, she addresses enduring philosophical questions.
	Does the new physics provide a basis by which our consciousness might
	continue beyond death?  How does the material world (for instance very
	ugly inner cities) impinge upon our sense of self?  Is there a
	subatomic wellspring from which our creativity, our empathy with others,
	and our feelings of unity with the inanimate world originate?  More
	importantly, Danah Zohar shows how the vitality of the new physics
	combats the alienation and fragmentation of twentieth-century life, and
	replaces it with a model of reality in which the universe itself may
	possess a type of consciousness, of which human consciousness is one
	expression.

Hmmm.  "Karma Explained" 8^)
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