On 6/22/2012 4:49 PM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Hameroff is a crackpot. If microtubles were the source of consciousness my finger
would be conscious; microtubles are in almost all cells.
OK, that solves it, just call him a crackpot and sit back and wonder why no progress
occurs. I think that the sensitivity might be set too high on your crackpot meter. ;-)
Or yours is set too low. What difference would it make if one found quantum computation
in microtubles? and for some reason only in the microtubles in brain cells. Would that
show that computation done by classical computers couldn't be conscious? Would it show
that any computation by microtubles was conscious. Has Hashameroff et al show how
microtubles in cells could compute something?
Do you suppose that high level intelligence can exist without consciouness? Do you
suppose computers (without quantum computation) cannot achieve high level intelligence?
Brent
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