Greatest science books: Gödel, Escher, Bach: a daunting but captivating look at consciousness - New Scientist

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:For nearly 40 years, scientists have debated whether some aspects of consciousness are non-computational, and therefore, quantum in nature. While regarded as controversial and fringe for decades, evidence hasn’t entirely refuted the theory, and its core ideas are generating more and more attention. Recent studies have provided compelling evidence that quantum processes, with microtubules in neurons serving as a substrate, play a role in human consciousness. The rise of consciousness in humans and all living beings is arguably the greatest wonder of the natural world—and it’s also one of its biggest mysteries. Over millennia, theologians, natural philosophers, and neuroscientists have put forward their own ideas about how this phenomenon arises within our minds, and by the tail end of the 20th century, one of these new theories raised more than a few eyebrows. This interest was warranted for a couple of reasons. First, the person proposing the idea was Roger Penrose, English mathematician and Nobel Laureate. And the second? Well, it involved the most devilishly complex of all scientific fields: Quantum theory.

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