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by phkahler 2398 days ago
>> which no article or neuroscience education has yet demonstrated.

True, but there are some pretty interesting ideas out there. I'm going have to start putting together a list of articles. From the proof that if we have free will, so do particles to some extent. To the notion that quantum computation may happen in the brain. Not saying I believe these things, but the people behind them are pretty smart.
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Fishysoup 2398 days ago
There is no real evidence that we have free will, and the general "suspicion" in the field is that we don't. Yes the brain is made of particles, but their arrangement is very particular and very complex, leaving cognition and all other things the brain does to almost certainly be emergent phenomena. Boiling down to single particles is like trying to reverse engineer a Tesla by focusing on the fact that it has iron atoms in it.
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tux1968 2398 days ago
> From the proof that if we have free will, so do particles to some extent. To the notion that quantum computation may happen in the brain.

The question remains, what reason do we have to believe that only a living brain, and not a silicon analogue, can tap into those features of reality?

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