From: Dejan Vucinic (dejan@mit.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 30 1996 - 11:10:54 MST
Damien Broderick wrote:
> I just read a bizarre experimental report, `Collapse of a Quantum Field
> May Affect Brain Function', Nunn, Clarke and Blott (in a new book edited
> by Hameroff, Kaszniak and Scott - TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: THE
> FIRST TUCSON DISCUSSIONS AND DEBATES, MIT Press, 1996). A couple of
> years back these bozos decided that if Penrose was right, a QT-controlled
> brainstate should be `collapsed' when it reaches the suitable one
> graviton mass. So if you couple up an `observing' EEG machine to the
> relevant part of the brain,
> the ensemble will be heavier quicker (as it were), so the response should
> be better or faster. It wasn't faster, but error rates on the
> experimental task were indeed lower.
Oooh, this is worthy of an IgNobel prize! Thanks for a good laugh. :)
--dv
P.S. I've been wondering what the acronym in "CP violation" means.
Perhaps it's really a Cognitive Parity violation? Always turn
your left cheek *away* from the exam... Albatros! (nope, wrong
list)
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