Consciousness & Cosmology - Roundtable Discussion

Exploring the Origins of Consciousness, the Asteroid Bennu, & Artificial Brains - Roundtable discussion April 30, 2024
Thomas Bever, Moderator
Stuart Hameroff: “Which Came First, Life or Consciousness”
Anirban Bandyopadhyay: “Body External Consciousness: What Artificial Brains Can Tell Us”
Dante Lauretta: “Of Life & Consciousness from the Asteroid Bennu”
This event was part of SBS 395C “Spiritual and Scientific Approaches to Consciousness,” a core course in the new SBS Consciousness Minor Program. The Roundtable discussion followed the 2024 Science of Consciousness Conference in Tucson (30th Anniversary) hosted by the Center for Consciousness Studies, U Arizona
Biographical Information:
Stuart Hameroff, Director, Center for Consciousness Studies and Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona.
Dante Lauretta, Regents Professor of Planetary Science, Director of the Arizona Astrobiology Center, and principal investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission at the University of Arizona.
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Senior Scientist in the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan.
The event was moderated by Tom Bever - Co-director of the Center for Consciousness Studies and Director of the program in Consciousness Studies. He is also Regents Professor of Linguistics. Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, SLAT and BIO5 at the University of Arizona.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Dante Lauretta: “Of Life & Consciousness from the Asteroid Bennu”
super fascinating!!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

meanwhile commutative geometry science by trying to decrease the entropy of matter is accelerating "biological annihilation" on Earth as the increase of gravitational entropy, as explained by Sir Roger Penrose (and Basil J. Hiley).

[@Albeit_Jordan]

12:01 Hameroff: These are polyaromatic hydrocarbons.
My brain: These are polyamorous carbohydrates.

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

I am very happy for Stuart's hard work paying off so he can kick back to enjoy his collaborators picking up the slack. hahaha.

[@HouseJawn]

Love this

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Wow Stuart's comment about the orchestrated reduction as the opposite of anesthesia thereby implying consciousness not being random - "at the get go" - strikes to the core message of this research!

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

Fun Fact - the Tilt-A-Whirl was invented in Minnesota.

[@mingto7753]

Excellent overview of some of the frontiers of Science!
Thanks for sharing.

[@Albeit_Jordan]

42:01 Hameroff: so did feelings drive evolution?
Shapiro:

[@maryjones5710]

Our 'feeling', of rightness or wrongness is probably evolutionary, what will help us maintain coherence or what will destroy equilibrium. I can see that correlating with a kind of geometry.
Everything has a wave function, wheels within, wheels, all resonating and the kinds of geometries that creates. Healers seem to be able to manipulate this resonance field, to fix slipped discs, bones and disease.
I must say I am so grateful for Stewart and his tenacity in studying Microtubules.
I find it the most exciting and compelling research about consciousness. Thank you Dr Hameroff.

[@simsimmons8884]

It seems that we are trying to fit the most complicated model imaginable to consciousness. In leading research efforts, when things got more complicated, we knew we were headed in the wrong direction.
There must be a much simpler answer to consciousness that we are very far away from at this point.

[@PetraKann]

No Chalmers?
I’ll skip this one - maybe next year

[@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885]

skip to the loo!

[@Albeit_Jordan]

skinNEEEEERRRR