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by pulvinar
630 days ago
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I'll bite. This paper doesn't show anything beyond an anesthetic's possible effect on microtubules, assuming it's reproducible. I see nothing about ruling out other pathways that may also affect consciousness. That big leap from MT to consciousness is still there, for which there are plenty of solid criticisms [0] by other respected scientists. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti... |
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Especially given how many things are simply not understood about the neuron and other cells in the brain.
The discovered complexity continues to expand every year and each new discovery (e.g. dynamic tunneling nanotubes in vivo) takes a lot of effort to try to figure out the impact on computation.