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Penrose for the win!

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[โ€“] qnfo@futurology.today 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You should be. Is there a particular reason why?

I'm not a neuroscientist so there's a lot about human biology and cognition I still don't understand (and apparently neither do some neuroscientists), but still have great confidence in my own related research without ever having dissected a human brain.

Quantum coherence does not generally extend beyond the scale of an atom or a molecule, which is why building a quantum computer is so hard. It is not impossible that biological systems have evolved a mechanism for quantum coherence on the scale claimed at the relatively high temperatures at which living systems operate, but there is a high burden of proof to demonstrating that the barriers to achieving this have indeed been breached.