News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Myth of a Superhuman AI. Parent comment

Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by jacquesm on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @11:13PM (#14208922)
>An article I read at one point supposed that our brains could have, as a way of example, a linking to quantum mechanics that we are not aware of due to not having yet discovered it that causes self-awareness.

That's not an article but a whole book:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Mind

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Myth of a Superhuman AI by deathanatos on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:04PM (#14266568)
Extremely close! It was actually posted on today's thread about consciousness[1], and what I was thinking of was [2].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14263842

[2]: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=2756

[ Parent | on HN ]