• dat_math [they/them]@hexbear.net
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        7 hours ago

        if any of his or penrose’s ideas about human consciousness primarily arising from a quantum mechanical computational substrate (rather than emerging from the electrophysiology/chemistry, a hypothesis that seems to dominate most of mainstream neuroscience’s hunches on the matter) I’m going to be so salty (I will feel compelled to apologize to a pro-woo family member who insists that they ``understand qm conceptually’')

        • Philosoraptor [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          4 hours ago

          I’ve never heard a satisfactory answer to the decoherence time scale mismatch problem from the Penrose people. Until they have a really plausible solution to that issue, I have a really hard time considering it a live option.