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finmin
8y ago
the 2 examples given of epigenetic inheritence are due to malnutrition and stress - but what about timing ? What if a person was malnurished and/or stressed in the past but is now happy and eating well - what does the epigenetic imprin
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finmin
8y ago
you have to read the actual paper not the article
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finmin
8y ago
a) Penrose' claim is about something completely different, namely the non-algorithmic computational abilities of the brain by quantum-gravity effects b) intuition is irrelevant - this is a proof of the physics of free-will, it doesn&#x
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finmin
8y ago
Conway proves the existence of free will not by nebulous philosophical arguments but by a combination of quantum mechanics and relativity. Note the definition of 'free will' here is specific: fundamental particles future states ca