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Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement
- breck 4y agoMan this sounds really interesting but just pains me to read ad filled junk. Is there a Scroll version?
- gardenfelder 4y agoIf you are in firefox, use ReaderView. or Chrome-based browsers, there's a plugin (forgot which) which silences that junk.
- yarg 4y agoThose "the secret" people are going to have a lot of fun misinterpreting this.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoIf that's true, does it mean that AI (AGI) which really understand what is it doing is basically impossible without quantum computer or network of quantum computers?
- thro1 4y agoConsider first that every neuron in the brain has unique DNA and ancestorship (comparing brain to some simulation). No, it doesn't mean that, I believe consciousnes can emerge in some other way which doesn't care about computations, neither need quantum entanglement.
- rolenthedeep 4y agoTerrible headline. The experiment suggests that certain brain functions use quantum effects. Extrapolating this to mean consciousness is quantum is just shitty journalism
- v0idzer0 4y agoOr good journalism if you consider engagement a measure of success like journalists do…
- pulvinar 4y agoI believe this is the relevant paper: "Experimental evidence of non-classical brain functions" by Christian Kerskens and David López Pérez, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.07998.pdf https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.07998.pdf I'll wait for this to be properly critiqued, but to me it looks like a chain of very dubious connections.
- ngrilly 4y agoThanks for the link. And the paper is not particularly well structured and written either. I'd also like to see it reviewed by other experts in this field.