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This isn't pop science woo-woo, it's a journal article that examines scientific evidence of and posits a theory. I don't see how you can say that using quantum
by wasabi991011 1y ago
This isn't pop science woo-woo, it's a journal article that examines scientific evidence of and posits a theory.
I don't see how you can say that using quantum chemistry (the best description we have of the physical world at the scale of molecules) to analyze brain processes (something that happens using molecules) to using a "monads" to understand the brain is at all similar.
Furthermore, I reject your entire premise. Of course we should be using the most recent scientific concepts to study difficult questions in science! What's the alternative, we study consciousness only by using concepts from ancient Greek philosophy?
- kelseyfrog 1y ago[dead]
- AIPedant 1y agoThis is a bad faith reading of the comment. They meant that “theories” of consciousness often rely on semi-mystical woo-woo with very little actual evidence and no plausible causal explanation. And that is exactly what has happened here - some intriguing results about anesthesia buried under a pile of pseudoscientific nonsense about quantum computing, and making unfalsifiable claims that this solves “problems of consciousness” which are themselves too vague to be scientific. I don’t think the author is dishonest - lots of smart and honest people get misled by ideology or aesthetics - but I am confident this paper is 95% bullshit.