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What is your opinion on how advances in QC may advance our understanding of human consciousness? I remember that in your QCSD book you make few remarks about Pe
by smikhanov 8y ago
What is your opinion on how advances in QC may advance our understanding of human consciousness? I remember that in your QCSD book you make few remarks about Penrose's microtubules theory, the one that tries addressing two questions about human mind:
1. Are mind processes Turing-computable?
2. If yes, at which level in the brain does the consciousness emerge?
Penrose's answers to that (as far as I know) are not generally accepted by the scientific community. What is your intuition about these two questions?
- ttctciyf 8y agoI don't want to prejudice an actual answer here, but it's worth noting Mr Aaronson has produced a fantastic paper, almost uniquely substantive in its field, commenting on several aspects of possible relations between quantum physics and the mind, see https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1438 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1438 See also his blog posts on IIT, etc., such as: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799