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Re: Quantum Brain Hypothesis is Bunk

Lars — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 09:12:33 -0000

Your point is well taken that quantum processes don't provide a plausible explanation for brain functions, including consciousness. But neither do electrical signals explain consciousness. The fact that "controlling electrical signals artificially seems to influence animal behavior in a predictable fashion" doesn't support the claim that these signals explain anything, and certainly not consciousness, which we have not manipulated in animals. Electric signals and radio waves can be used to influence the sound coming out of a radio, yet this doesn't help us explain how the symphony on my local classical radio station was composed or performed.

Re: Quantum Brain Hypothesis is Bunk

Jory — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:58:53 -0000

Beautifully said.

Re: The Measure of Mind

dk190 — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:26:03 -0000

Sorry, but the math in your article doesn't seem to display effectively, I only see tex source equations.

Re: Who Would Survey the Library of Babel?

rainwala — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 06:41:12 -0000

I loved that story. Nice analysis.

Re: http://ontologicalwarfare.com/blog/quantumbrain.html

Anselm Levskaya — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:15:48 -0000

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Re: Who Would Survey the Library of Babel?

anselm — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:00:10 -0000

@Mike:
It is of course infinite if one allows for arbitrarily large books and shelves. But that is less the point than the sheer size of the potentiality manifold of a simple book, which contains quite a modest amount of static information.

Re: The Measure of a Mind

watson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:46:34 -0000

crazy ... i just gave a series of talks to middle schoolers and high schoolers on "brains, information and mathematics". we counted # of neurons and # synaptic connections etc. and used information theory (although in a different way ... looking at information in spikes instead...).

see: http://www.math.ucdavis.edu...

Re: Who Would Survey the Library of Babel?

Mike Kayton — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:30:21 -0000

... So the size of the meta universe is infinite because we can always add more shelves to the galleries, and devise alphabets with more than 25 letters, etc.