Re:Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics?
by simonh on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:14PM
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> This emergent quantum phenomena view implies there are a set of basic models transmitted or generated at conception.
Why do you say that?
The brain and it’s cells certainly have a lot of structure that’s baked in from inherited genetic and epigenetic information. I don’t see what that has to do with whether conciseness is dependent on quantum effects.
Re:Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics?
by mistermann on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:49PM
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The "basic models transmitted or generated at conception" part seems self-evident (is this even controversial?), but as evidence for quantum implementation I also don't see a connection.
Re:Can consciousness be explained by quantum physics?
by motohagiography on Saturday July 24, 2021 @04:54PM
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Indeed, I'm suggesting the brain may do a kind of quantum computation, but the intrinsic knowledge a given brain has of models of biases toward risk/reward that resemble a father's behavior originate as genomic information modules from his genetic material, which the brain loads as models to do runtime computation about sensory stimuli on.
e.g. Consciousness is not some higher dimensional super or substrate, it's code, compressed into and transmitted by dna, running on a quantum computer in a brain, learning and processing according to initial weights in the dna model.
If you have bred animals for ability, the folk wisdom is the sire throws certain traits, the dam attenuates them, and then develops others through socialization. This qualitative unscientific view obviously overlooks the dam genome, but through the lens of DNA molecules encoding models to run on a consciousness via quantum operations, the metaphor I would use is DNA encodes compressed model data.
In this view, the consciousness evolves over its runtime until it ceases to cohere information, but anything past the basic "lift head, solve for food, security, reproduction" models that run on a consciousness may originate at conception via genes.