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Re:Stephen Hawking: AI, Potentially the Worst Thing to Happe... by sampo on Saturday May 03, 2014 @09:36AM (#7690686)
Then again, most people don't think that quantum level phenomena have anything to do with human intelligence.
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Re:Stephen Hawking: AI, Potentially the Worst Thing to Happe... by yohanatan on Saturday May 03, 2014 @03:11PM (#7692007)
Not sure it's clear that most people don't think that. There has been a lot of articles on quantum effects in the human brain lately. e.g., http://goo.gl/Ff0elU
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Re:Stephen Hawking: AI, Potentially the Worst Thing to Happe... by sampo on Sunday May 04, 2014 @02:01PM (#7695098)
Those theories (also in your link) have only one source: Roger Penrose.

If you open any Neuroscience textbook, there will be no mentions of quantum phenomena as related to consciousness.

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Re:Stephen Hawking: AI, Potentially the Worst Thing to Happe... by yohanatan on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @04:18PM (#7712416)
I was referring to the "recent discovery of quantum vibrations in microtubules inside brain neurons" which is a fact independent of any particular theory or interpretation thereof.
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