Re: another hint of quantum consciousness

From	Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please>
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Subject	Re: another hint of quantum consciousness
Date	2024-09-14 21:28 +0200
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On 9/14/24 21:02, john larkin wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:38:14 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 10:33:37 -0700, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 13:03:07 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat, 14 Sep 2024 08:13:10 -0700, john larkin <JL@gct.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://scitechdaily.com/groundbreaking-study-affirms-quantum-basis-for-consciousness-a-paradigm-shift-in-understanding-human-nature/
>>>>>
>>>>> Interesting way to define consciousness, the thing that goes away when
>>>>> an a general anesthetic is applied. That can be quantified.
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't get too fired up.  The researchers are undergrads, and the
>>>> bit about microtubles originally came from Penrose, back before the
>>>> Neurocomputation field had found plausible mechanisms in vector
>>>> algebra over hyperdimensional parameter spaces.
>>>
>>> Undergrads and amateurs often shake up scientific dogma.
>>
>> Uncommon, but certainly not unheard of.
>>
>>
>>>> Given that microtubules are very widely employed in all cells for all
>>>> manner of purposes, blocking microtubules does not imply that quantum
>>>> mechanics are or are not involved, as blocking anything that
>>>> fundamental is likely to affect very many things.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Evolution seems to use anything that works, even if scientists
>>> disapprove.
>>
>> True, but unhelpful.  It's not enough to observe that if A is blocked,
>> B stops working, and therefore the mechanism is X.  There are many
>> mechanisms simultaneously in action.  One must methodically rule out
>> all but a single X to claim causality.
>>
>> Joe Gwinn
> 
> I didn't claim causality, but it is possible.
> 
> Discoveries usually happen through accident and speculation. Slapping
> down speculation leaves only accident, which is unlikely in this case.
> 
> Designing electronics also benefits from being friendly to new ideas.
> 

Discoveries happen by diddling with the problem, trying out different
things to see what happens. Once you have a collection of observations,
some theory will form of how it all fits together. You test the theory
by doing more experiments. If these experiments keep confirming your
theory, then, and only then, can you claim to have discovered something.

Just throwing harebrained ideas around leads nowhere.

Jeroen Belleman

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another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 08:13 -0700
  Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-14 16:20 +0000
    Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 10:29 -0700
    Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-14 19:48 +0000
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-15 05:48 +0000
  Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2024-09-14 13:03 -0400
    Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 10:33 -0700
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2024-09-14 14:38 -0400
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 12:02 -0700
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-14 21:28 +0200
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-14 14:35 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 19:26 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:31 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 08:17 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 16:40 +1000
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 19:18 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:41 +1000
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-15 11:24 +0200
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 21:37 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 08:45 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 12:00 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 16:45 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 08:42 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 16:57 +1000
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2024-09-15 18:54 -0400
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:03 +1000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:28 +1000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> - 2024-09-15 18:46 -0400
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 16:41 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:06 +1000
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:25 +1000
  Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-14 19:36 +0200
    Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 11:08 -0700
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-14 21:18 +0200
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 19:39 -0700
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 20:03 -0700
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:56 +1000
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-15 10:53 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 21:27 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-15 16:44 +0200
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 01:03 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 08:48 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-15 17:03 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:19 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-16 07:59 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-17 02:14 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-18 17:07 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-19 14:16 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-19 14:17 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:08 +1000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-14 23:42 -0400
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 15:53 +1000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jeroen Belleman <jeroen@nospam.please> - 2024-09-15 11:32 +0200
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 09:02 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:25 +1000
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-14 20:19 -0700
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-14 23:44 -0400
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-14 21:00 -0700
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-15 05:30 +0000
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-15 17:07 +1000
      Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-14 17:04 -0400
        Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-14 19:43 -0700
          Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-14 23:28 -0400
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-14 20:53 -0700
            Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 09:08 -0700
              Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-15 13:19 -0400
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 11:47 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2024-09-15 15:00 -0400
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> - 2024-09-16 01:21 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-16 08:14 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-17 02:06 +1000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid> - 2024-09-17 04:57 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-17 07:25 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-15 23:48 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness john larkin <JL@gct.com> - 2024-09-15 18:06 -0700
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Cursitor Doom <cd999666@notformail.com> - 2024-09-16 13:02 +0000
                Re: another hint of quantum consciousness Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> - 2024-09-16 17:39 +1000

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