[ExI] quantum brains

[Damien Broderick]

On 1/5/2010 5:11 AM, Stefano Vaj wrote:

>> >  In order to do so, it would have to consider a superposition of every possible response and collapse the ouput "wavefunction" on the most appropriate response.
>
> *If*  organic brains actually do some quantum computing. Now, I still
> have to see any human being solving a typical quantum computing
> problem with a pencil and a piece of paper... ;-)

I suppose it's possible that some autistic lightning calculators do 
that. But I've read arxiv papers recently arguing that photosynthesis 
functions via entanglement, so something that basic might be operating 
in other bio systems.

And of course since I'm persuaded that some psi phenomena are real, 
*something* weird as shit is needed to account for them, something that 
can either do stupendous simulations in multiple worlds/superposed 
states, or can modify its state according to outcomes in the future. If 
that's not QM, it's something equally hair-raising that electronic 
computers aren't built to do.

Damien Broderick