Roger Penrose & Stuart Hameroff
Join the Penrose Institute for an intimate lecture with renowned mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Dr. Stuart Hameroff, followed by a Q&A with The Science Network co-founder Roger Bingham. Co-organized with the UC San Diego Institute for Neural Computation. Sir Roger Penrose and Dr. Stuart Hameroff will discuss one of the leading theories of consciousness recently selected by the Templeton Foundation for study.
Is the brain a sophisticated computer or an intuitive thinking device? Following on from their recent conference in Tucson which pitted Integrated Information Theory (IIT) against Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) Sir Roger Penrose OM and Stuart Hameroff will discuss the current state of theories that might explain human consciousness.