Re:Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected
by SubiculumCode on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @09:56PM
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There may be that layer, but is there evidence for that layer, and I'm not talking about that certain physicists hypothesis about microtubules and free will.
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Re:Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected
by zone411 on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @11:46PM
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There is evidence that each neuron performs calculations equivalent to a small neural net: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08966....
Re:Mental phenomena don’t map into the brain as expected
by Zuider on Friday August 27, 2021 @03:42PM
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Sir Roger Penrose was investigating non-computability versus computability in brain behavior. I am not sure he even mentions free will.
This highlights some of the unfortunate tensions in this debate, where people may feel obliged to hold to a literal materialism along with a computational theory of mind, and vigorously shoot down anything that threatens to unsettle that somewhat dogmatic position, for fear of strengthening the position of fundamentalist religious believers. In short, it is primarily a political sentiment, not a scientific one.
We should be able to follow where evidence and rational argument leads without being held hostage to such concerns which are strictly irrelevant to the debate.