Sir Roger Penrose - Effective Quantum Retroactivity in Rapid Conscious Decisions

Описание: It is often claimed that rapid actions, such as in games like tennis or ping-pong, or in improvised musical performance, or perhaps even in ordinary conversation, occur too rapidly to be under conscious control, and that a person’s belief that the control is conscious is consequently illusory. It will be argued here that although the details of the various possible successions of muscle actions that might be rapidly implemented are indeed individually unconscious, the actual choice of which action is selected can nevertheless be conscious, according to the Orch-OR proposal of conscious experience. The OR part ( “collapse of the quantum wave-function “) requires the selection of one out of the various initiations of alternative actions, several being maintained in quantum superposition. Orch-OR involves the interface between current quantum theory and Einstein’s general theory of relativity. The interplay between the basic principles of these two great theories leads to two slightly different concepts of physical reality, the “quantum “ and “classical “ realities, which are not quite identical, and provide the needed retro-active relation in the choice between quantum alternatives.

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