RE: The Category Error of Scientism
January 25, 2014 at 11:02 am
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2014 at 11:04 am by Neo-Scholastic.)
(January 25, 2014 at 3:45 am)Odysseus Wrote:You should be aware that quantum brain processes would generally solve the interaction problem of dualism. IMHO that is why materialism advocates work so hard to find reasons to reject them.(January 24, 2014 at 10:50 am)MindForgedManacle Wrote: I'm sorry, but the article you site is referring to a long-since discredited hypothesis whose opposing evidence is too massive to take it (Orch-OR) seriously.
Did you read the date? I have not read the paper in full as of yet, but quantum processes were measured recently thus the update on Penrose's original theory. Integrated information theory might help develop the concept further especially since this seems to physically explain a portion of the mechanism by which brain regions that separated in can generate a totality of experience collectively
Also I see no incompatibility of information theory with dualist theories of mind although I have only a cursory understanding of information theory.