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On 15/08/2024 00:55, john larkin wrote:
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> https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a61854962/quantum-entanglement-consciousness/

Popular Mechanics is *such* a reputable source of cutting edge QM theory.

When they publish it in Nature or somewhere reputable I'll take note.
They already seem to have grumbled to New Scientist about being dissed.

A hypothesis has to survive experimental testing to be at all credible. 
If they are right then you should be able to alter consciousness by 
flooding the interior of the brain with incoherent IR photons. Somehow I 
can't see that working at all.

Quantum entanglement may be all the rage now but it is likely to be just 
another variant of the "action at a distance" in Newtonian gravity that 
will disappear once we have a complete grand unified theory of physics.

So far it looks like consciousness is an emergent property of any 
sufficiently complex computational network. The big super computer 
networks are now getting close to the threshold where that might happen.

Human brains and octopus distributed leg processing are wired entirely
differently but both show high intelligence and self awareness.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/octopuses-keep-surprising-us-here-are-eight-examples-how.html

Some octopuses in research captivity also have a wicked sense of humour 
throwing slightly dodgy fish back at their keepers and/or escaping with 
monotonous regularity. A bit like parrots except they can't mimic talk 
(or bite through mains cables, windscreen wipers and paint tin lids).

-- 
Martin Brown