Not sure where the linked abstract actually was from (it's hosted with the Turing Centenary Conference, but I couldn't find a link in their public pages) - but here's the author's blog that may shed some more light:
Yep, standard "Gawd in the gaps" stuff, complete with a helping of quantum woo. Also, the originally linked abstract is full of howlers like this:
"I believe Trans-Turing Systems are constructable, go beyond Turing, and may have powerful implications for the Mind-Brain system."
I believe you believe that too, d00d - but absent something resembling even an outline of a proof or an existence argument you're just tossing quantum word-salad.
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And then some more digging turns up reviews of his 2008 book:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sacred-scie...
Yep, standard "Gawd in the gaps" stuff, complete with a helping of quantum woo. Also, the originally linked abstract is full of howlers like this:
"I believe Trans-Turing Systems are constructable, go beyond Turing, and may have powerful implications for the Mind-Brain system."
I believe you believe that too, d00d - but absent something resembling even an outline of a proof or an existence argument you're just tossing quantum word-salad.