[extropy-chat] Qualia Bet

[Damien Broderick]

At 08:21 AM 12/9/2005 -0500, gts wrote:

>The bit about
>microtubules and so forth strikes me as way too convoluted. I would expect
>the truth of something so basic to be more elegant.
>
>"Quantum gravity, or something similar, via microtubules, must play a key
>role in consciousness and cognition."
>
>Bleh.

Basic? Insufficiently elegant? How do you feel about vision? Digestion? Far 
too basic to be complicated by all those rods and cones and preprocessors 
and enzymes and gut-roiling and all? Bleh?

Damien Broderick