Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-1.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:03:08 +0000 From: Joe Gwinn Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:03:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <0s9bej1bhklummnn5iduadn94uvvne5k26@4ax.com> User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 19 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-pQBy8imLjdtlSjSxG3oPxVt0n75w/3oXj/I/jDvJTvx7y0mkACBs1OhAR3lDo282vy735rSmESPl00R!CVvT8uS3/W3DreYUBmgVDGgIvjv3p7Xiyp+p8uQtda2+mhnzfpMRrwhZuFLKSgNVBhGanJ8= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 1919 On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:13:10 -0700, john larkin wrote: > >https://scitechdaily.com/groundbreaking-study-affirms-quantum-basis-for-consciousness-a-paradigm-shift-in-understanding-human-nature/ > >Interesting way to define consciousness, the thing that goes away when >an a general anesthetic is applied. That can be quantified. I wouldn't get too fired up. The researchers are undergrads, and the bit about microtubles originally came from Penrose, back before the Neurocomputation field had found plausible mechanisms in vector algebra over hyperdimensional parameter spaces. Given that microtubules are very widely employed in all cells for all manner of purposes, blocking microtubules does not imply that quantum mechanics are or are not involved, as blocking anything that fundamental is likely to affect very many things. Joe Gwinn