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There are remarkably few things in the macroscopic world (I seem to recall that photosynthesis may use it?) that depend on quantum effects, and the ever growing
by HarHarVeryFunny 4y ago
There are remarkably few things in the macroscopic world (I seem to recall that photosynthesis may use it?) that depend on quantum effects, and the ever growing extraordinary successes of ANNs proves the power of neural nets even in the most simple of classical functional approximations.
It seems to me that trying to find macroscopic quantum effects in the brain is driven more by an illogical top down desire for them to be there, rather than a bottom up evidence-driven investigation of effects that can't be explained by classical physics/chemistry, of which none have been found in the brain.
- aikinai 4y agoFlash memory—something we use everyday now—relies on quantum tunnelling. I’m not sure if you consider that “macro,” but it affects our lives everyday and it blew me away when I first learned that it was an everyday application of effectively teleportation.
- colordrops 4y agoAre any of these AI neural nets working on computer equipment that doesn't use any quantum effects at all? Don't transistors also use quantum effects? It's not quantum computation, but we wouldn't be able to build at this scale if not for taking advantage of these phenomena.
- amelius 4y agoWithout QM, molecules would behave completely differently and the chair you're sitting on would probably fall apart into a pile of atoms. Everything depends on QM.