Re:Decades-long bet on consciousness ends – it’s philosopher...
by imtringued on Saturday June 24, 2023 @07:49AM
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You don't know how much biological consciousness relies on quantum effects we don't understand. We don't have large scale quantum computers so our computational models are too weak to approach it from that angle.
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Re:Decades-long bet on consciousness ends – it’s philosopher...
by Kim_Bruning on Saturday June 24, 2023 @08:21AM
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The first day of my first course in Biology was about Quantum Chemistry. (The last course of that year was on global ecology. Biology is a rather wide field!)
Quantum effects really do have something to do with it, (and from there on organic chemistry, organelles, and cell biology) but it seems to me that describing human behavior in terms of quantum interactions might be somewhat tedious, to say the least.
Probably looking at the level of neural networks would be more pragmatic, especially seeing the advances we're now making with artificial neural networks.