Yakk: Like I said, the machine empirically works. So if quantum entanglement is required for cognition, then the machine will replicate it.
If quantum entanglement is not required for cognition, then I assume the machine will have no need to replicate it, as it will make no empirical difference. (We want to make our data transmissions as efficient as possible: no need for redundant information).
E.g. if the
Penrose and Hameroff theory of mind is correct, then the machine would have to replicate these quantum states.
If quantum mechanics has no functional role to play in the operation of the brain, the machine will ignore them.
Now how do you feel anout using thse machines?
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Originally posted by noahfor
If they are exactly the same then why is your consciousness lost? I don't know. All atoms are the same anyway so it really wouldn't matter if it was your atoms or new atoms, so I think you'd be lost if you used the mark 1 also. My theory is that once consciousness is lost, when it goes back online it is a different consciousness, so everytime a person goes to sleep and wakes up they are a different consciousness with the illusion that they have been alive a whole life. I don't really know how to back this up.
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In that case then how is using this machine any different to taking a nap on a long flight?