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This has been discredited (along with Penrose's incompleteness theorem based "AI is impossible" conjecture before it) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
by dlss 12y ago
This has been discredited (along with Penrose's incompleteness theorem based "AI is impossible" conjecture before it)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind#Roger_Penrose_and_Stuart_Hameroff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind#Roger_Penrose_and_...
- ronaldx 12y agoAlthough specific claims might have been discredited, quantum processes are relevant to biology, e.g. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7137/abs/nature05678.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v446/n7137/abs/nature05...
- dlss 12y agoThis is true, and it's also true that such quantum processes exist in the brain. Penrose's claim was that those quantum processes are a significant part of the computation that is consciousness. It was discredited by getting better upper bounds on how much quantum computation the brain is capable of (ie very little).