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You say it makes you 'cringe', yet you offer no substantial argument to why you are fearful of their hypothesis. Saying things like "BS" and "WTF" is a weak att
by kordless 11y ago
You say it makes you 'cringe', yet you offer no substantial argument to why you are fearful of their hypothesis. Saying things like "BS" and "WTF" is a weak attempt at hacking biases, and usually attributed to dissonance. I don't accept biased arguments as truths. Quite the contrary, I see them as indicators of an unresolved argument.
I'm not afraid of their hypothesis and I welcome the truth, however weird it may be.
- wpietri 11y agoI didn't read that as fear of their hypothesis. I read it as irritation with the enormous amount of quantum waffle offered by loons, quacks, and frauds. Evolutionary biology has also had to deal with pseudoscientific intrusion from the get-go. This paper may be totally legit, and quantum magic may really be how biology works. But I can totally see why someone would whip out Occam's Razor and start slashing after reading that paragraph.
- titzer 11y agoThere are countless examples of mutations that are single letter transcription errors, insertions, duplications, recombinations. Quantum effects and superpositions aren't necessary to explain those. I wonder what extra explanatory power this theory adds over more conventional chemical models of DNA and what evidence exists that quantum effects are anything more than negligible.
- kordless 11y agoIf we're simulated, this would be a spectacularly good way to get a bit of us out of this reality and into another one. It would also allow only a singleton instantiation of you, which is important if you care about those things. Over 70 percent of us believe we have a soul. That number is dropping.