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Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: yes! Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 16:01:33 -0400 Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) Lines: 39 Message-ID: <v9ob6u$sph$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> References: <2ugqbjhvlh9vrlmqhciaubcf64dbooph0o@4ax.com> <v9lp74$13417$1@dont-email.me> Injection-Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 20:01:34 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com; logging-data="29489"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blueworldhosting.com" Cancel-Lock: sha1:qvpeafBcbPueAtOLPLYFBuaOjMo= sha256:wOdsmecSYtjNNT1rC2ZXcxMrxnOfsnlRg6GXihqu6Fc= sha1:RTaNBqOrnwBiu81MorQu9X7m5HU= sha256:omG6ch5Jin2d9djQtuLhQMkRgkB0P6QNwnbUopiFVBU= X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Bytes: 3077 "Martin Brown" <'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote in message news:v9lp74$13417$1@dont-email.me... > On 15/08/2024 00:55, john larkin wrote: >> >> 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. I can remember when this guy told us why we couldn't do it back then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE4QZ1PYiGk Jump to 49:12 But that was then. > > 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 >