On Mon, Jul 24, 2023, 6:31 AM John Rose <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sunday, July 23, 2023, at
> I’m not convinced though the brain isn’t performing quantum computation…
> we don’t know enough to say that do we? And I’m not in the camp that says
> one human brain is a general intelligence. The graph of human brains is IMO
>

Penrose seems to think so. He observed quantum superposition in the
structure of microtubule proteins in neurons (like molecules in all of
chemistry) and makes the giant leap to explaining consciousness, because he
has no other good explanation for why the brain does stuff that he believes
can't ever be done by computers. It would help if he defined consciousness,
but of course you can't because the definition of a p-zombie is logically
inconsistent.

Consciousness is what thinking feels like, the positive reinforcement that
you want to preserve by not dying.

The evidence that the brain is not a quantum computer is the success of AI
using neural networks.

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