31. Stuart Hameroff Hammered By Questions (2 of 2) - Beyond Belief 2006

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[goathead2000]

Nobody can phase Hameroff, step-to Hameroff and he is going to smack you down hard, just as he did here to every single question. This clip should have been titled "Hameroff Shuts Everyone Down"

[rlustemberg]

Hameroff's challengers most popular debating method is to smile, look to their inside crowd of followers, and then blurt some vague uninformed statement which actually equates to : 'ha, ha, this is so ridiculous, ha ha, this cannot be, we all know, it's not in the books...'. They pretend to be skeptics, and they are just firm believers in some other inmutable truths. They make science look ugly...

[neilmcintosh5150]

I just love it at 4:30 into the video when Roger Bingham says 'Ok this is getting a little bit too sophisticated for me' He's dead on though, at this point theres probably nobody else in the room that knows what hameroff and the stupidly fast talking girl is talking about. I mean come on; gap junctions that knocks out connection connects at forty three!!...I love it, even though I havn't the faintist idea what there on about, and neither have 99.9% of the people at this conference.

[hitchinslives]

@goathead2000 I completely agree. Hameroff is a powerful debater and is way too intelligent for this crowd of people. He even shuts Krauss down, who is one of my favorite scientists! Although I can't explain it, I do think theres some truth when Stuart talks about there being platonic information embeded in the planc scale..

[a3th3r]

@ReligiousZombie finally someone who isn't riding Hameroff's nuts for being "brave" and "thinking outside the box." The guy was clearly talking nonsense. He's saying that ethics are physically coded into the material that structures everything in the universe. It's a ridiculous statement with absolutely no evidence to back it up.

[stratocaster1986able]

The second woman talks stupidly fast

"hsdkjchbacxbajkcxbchajchhbchj­asjabcaghcaehcuhadkuhcahbhjhac­hja consciousness"

[tim3746]

Freak's and geek's.

[Murkyyy]

The problem with a lot of people, not just scientists is not being able to think out of the box, and if you try to show that things might not be as they learned them in books you become a heretic and instantly try to smack you down with that professor like attitude..... Hameroff has gigantic balls. Respect.

[ReligiousZombie]

"Platonic values exist... in the structure of the universe"--a perfect example of how one can sound convincing if he speaks fast and self-confidently, even if what he is saying is total horseshit.

[GodTheHypothesis]

@goathead2000

Science isn't about debating skills, it's about doing the work to convince your peers. This model that he promotes has convinced a very small minority of scientists so far, and that's what determines where the future work is done.

[Titus420ful]

"did consciousness CAUSE the cambrian explosion?..."

wow. just wow........

[Titus420ful]

@rlustemberg

Yeah those ugly rules and parameters....why should anything be peer-reviewed and challenged? What a waste of time, just believe every piece of nonsense you hear

Hey you, pathetic poetic...If you think having standards is ugly than I guess science is just going to be ugly to you...

And apparently, based on your ad hominem comment, you didn't hear the questions raised in this video, especially by the neuro-physiologist (anything but 'vague and uniformed')....ahem

You're an asshat