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Article 7614 of comp.ai.philosophy:
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>From: cam@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Malcolm)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Making sense out of Penrose
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Date: 12 Nov 92 04:31:00 GMT
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In article <1992Nov10.225645.6418@walter.cray.com> martinm@garond.cray.com (Martin Maiers) writes:

>Danah Zohar, _The Quantum Self: A Revolutionary View of Human Nature and 
>Consciousness Rooted in the New Physics_, 1990, Bloomsbury, London.

Zohar is very proud of being the inventor of this notion. Yet there
have been several books published on this notion before hers. The
earliest reference to this notion I know of is a series of
speculations by Haldane many decades ago, derived from the observation
that the EEG potentials on the surface of the brain are about the same
size as one would expect of an electron of the size of the brain,
which led him to develop the idea that perhaps the brain was an organ
(in part) constructed to host peculiarly large scale weak subatomic
effects.  But I can't remember where Haldane said this -- can anyone
help?
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Chris Malcolm    cam@uk.ac.ed.aifh          +44 (0)31 650 3085
Department of Artificial Intelligence,    Edinburgh University
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