[bob1029]

> Are brains imbued with special brain-magic that makes them more than, at rock bottom, a bunch of bog-standard chemical and electrical and thermal reactions?

Some have made this argument (quantum effects, external fields, etc.).

If any of these are proven to be true then we are looking at a completely different roadmap.

[llamaimperative]

Uh yeah, but we have no evidence for any of them (aside from quantum effects, which are "engineerable" to the extent they exist in brains anyway).

[threeseed]

> "engineerable" to the extent they exist in brains anyway

Can you please enlighten us then since you clearly know to what extent quantum effects exist in the brain.

[llamaimperative]

I’m saying to whatever extent they occur, they are just quantum interactions. There’s a path to reproducing them with engineering.

It’s odd to say “reproduce quantum interactions” but remember to the extent they exist in the brain, they also behave as finicky/noisy quantum interactions. They’re not special brain quantum things.