It may not be needed for consciousness, but even if it is, we can simulate quantum mechanics on traditional hardware, just slowly compared to real life. This i

It may not be needed for consciousness, but even if it is, we can simulate quantum mechanics on traditional hardware, just slowly compared to real life. This is why I brought up possible optimizations to the real world. If it takes us 100 years to simulate 1 second of consciousness with quantum effects, the consciousness will just experience time differently than we do. Personally, I think we don’t need to take quantum effects into account to achieve consciousness.