Finally getting to dive into those topics I've longed to examine up close.
Quantum mechanics is one & my mind is in a painful twist over it.
May I ask you QM experts - @gmusser maybe? - to tell me if this article is wildly brilliant or dead on arrival?https://bit.ly/2wCk7yO
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I am still fascinated that Turing (1950) discusses telepathy as possibly real. If it is, it would require changes to foundational physics (superdeterminism is probably not enough), but not to computationalism. Transistor based computers can be conscious but not telepathic.
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When there is a (sender, receiver, message, code) telepathy is ordinary communication. Turing's belief is equivalent to thinking different humans can have fundamentally different hardware. And that was before biology and genetics were scientifically grounded.
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Depends what you mean by explanation! Penrose and Hameroff don’t “explain” consciousness any more, or less, than IIT does. Each theory has an axiom -- a brute fact that you accept, provisionally, and see what comes out of it. Namely, collapse is a flash of consciousness. (1/3)
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Collapse, in this model, is spontaneous and not the product of evolving the laws of physics, so in that sense the model evades the hard problem. It’s basically a form of panpsychism. The nice thing is that entanglement provides a natural answer to the combination problem. (2/3)
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As often in early-stage research, you don’t need to buy a theory in its entirety. You can cherrypick. In addition to intracellular structure, Hameroff has usefully stressed the need to consider the mechanism of general anesthesia, which is still poorly understood. (3/3)
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