On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 11:11:57PM -0800, Chris de Morsella wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Standish > Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 9:42 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Discovery of quantum vibrations in brain microtubules confirms > Hameroff/Penrose consciousness theory basis > > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 05:56:23PM +1300, LizR wrote: > > On 18 January 2014 13:33, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 04:08:08PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > > > Russell, > > > > > > > > PS: On second thought maybe we don't agree completely. Though free > > > > will > > > is > > > > quantum random based (we agree on that), it doesn't mean that it > > > > is "irrational". > > > > > > > > If human actions and the actions of other biological organisms > > > > weren't basically rational they couldn't function or survive in > > > > the real actual world they live in.... > > > > > > That is not true. Read up on the concept of Machiavellian > > > Intelligence. A modicum of irrationality is just what it takes to > > > get ahead in the world, it makes one less predictable to one's > competitors. > > > > > > > Russell, what you are saying here is that unpredictability is > > rational, not that "irrationality is what it takes to get ahead" ! > > >>No, I'm not. Rational agents are entirely predictable. They always choose > the best course of action, or fail to make a choice at all ("it does not > compute!"). They cannot behave unpredictably. > > This definition pretty much eliminates the 7 billion plus naked (clothed) > apes mucking this place up from the running... oh well. > >
Exactly! Humans are sometimes rational, but much less so than economists presume. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
