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Sentience is most likely some kind of emergent quantum phenomenon IMO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
by candiddevmike 4y ago
Sentience is most likely some kind of emergent quantum phenomenon IMO: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
If it is, we have a long, long way to go before we start to understand it.
- whimsicalism 4y ago"most likely"? Absolutely not - most quantum effects would decohere in the brain and there is little evidence to suggest that it is not a largely classical machine. People are only attracted to this idea because it rescues the concept of "true consciousness" but I am not even convinced that is the case either - it still is deriving from a deterministic evolution of a wave function.
- notfed 4y agoTo rephrase: sentience is most likely a kind of emergent phenomenon of physics. Most likely true yet completely hand waving and inane.
- bee_rider 4y agoWhat does an 'emergent quantum phenomenon' get us beyond... appealing to a branch of physics that most of us don't understand very well?