RE: Quantum consciousness...
August 16, 2017 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2017 at 2:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 16, 2017 at 2:46 pm)Whateverist Wrote: There. Finished it. Consciousness is more than computation. Couldn't agree more. That just misidentifies a physical manifestation of consciousness, one of its effects really, for the thing itself. Otherwise we might suppose that a flicker of consciousness must arise from the operation of the laptop my hands are resting on right now. I don't think so.That would be a non-sequitur, theres no reason to suppose that your laptop is conscious even if consciousness is "just computation". The computation in your laptop is "just" electrical current...but you don't go to your lightbulb when you want to access this site, right?
Quote:I wouldn't be so sure. I'm immediately put off by any use of the word "quantum", part of why I ignored this thread to begin with. But given his credentials I'm intrigued.
His credentials are incapable of altering the fact that his hypothesis was falsified. It's not exactly a mark of shame, he wouldn't be the first person with a pedigree to get it wrong. I hope, someday, he gets back at it. Until such a day, he's a loon with a degree whose ideas were not discarded out of hand...and who's credentials were not ignored...but who plainly and demonstrably got it wrong -end of.
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