On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > Of course no one *knows* but it's not just pulled out of the air. I read > a paper several years ago that showed that what we generally regard as > "classical" randomness, e.g. coin flips, dice rolls, ... are really > strongly influenced by quantum randomness via the timing of nerve impluses. >
I don't see how on earth such a paper could exist because if it involved biological nerves the experiment would have to be conducted at body temperature and brownian motion would swamp any quantum effect you were looking for, things would be just too damn hot; you need liquid helium temperatures to separate out classical randomness from quantum randomness, and nerves don't work at all when they get that cold. And if the brain really was "strongly influenced by quantum randomness" then there is no way a coherent thought could form at all with all that noise. > You're talking about parallel processing, > > > No I'm not. Then I don't know what you're talking about. John K Clark John K Clark -- 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/d/optout.
