Last Updated on February 2, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Neuroscientist’s Christof Koch’s failure to find God:
But for Deepak Chopra, Indian-American author and alternative medicine advocate God is not difficult to find:
For Deepak Chopra (M.D.) God is equivalent to pure conciousness.
For Peter Gamma, and we suppose also for Christof Koch,
pure conciousness is equivalent to gamma wave oscillations in the brain.
Deepak Chopra is the son of a cardiologist studied medicine and became an internist and endocrinologist. But he was also always interested in alternative healing methods and in 1996, together with the neurologist David Simon, he founded the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, a wellness center in San Diego (later relocated to Carlsbad, California). His medical understanding is strongly influenced by his religion, Hinduism, and in particular by the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita.
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine has a collaboration with Chopra to study and explain how meditation, yoga and food affect human health. He holds a full but unpaid professorship at UCSD. His books sell millions of copies worldwide and have been translated into more than two dozen languages.
Chopra often uses terms from quantum physics (“quantum healing”) in his books, for which he received the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners
The Ig Nobel Prize (/ˌɪɡnoʊˈbɛl/ IG-noh-BEL) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to “honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think.” The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word ignoble.
Some of his theses are sometimes counted as “quantum mysticism” and described as “pseudo-scientific”.