If you come up with a test, people develop something that does exactly what the test needs, and ignores everything else.
But we can’t even say what human consciousness is yet.
Like, legitimately, we don’t know what causes it and we don’t know how anaesthesia interferes either.
One of the guys who finished up Einstein’s work (Roger Penrose) thinks it has to do with quantum collapse. But there’s a weird twilight zone where anesthesia has stopped consciousness but hasn’t stopped that quantum process yet.
So we’re still missing something, and dudes like in his 90s. He’s been working on this for decades, but he’ll probably never live to see it finished. Someone else will have to finish later like him and Hawking did for Einstein
If you come up with a test, people develop something that does exactly what the test needs, and ignores everything else.
But we can’t even say what human consciousness is yet.
Like, legitimately, we don’t know what causes it and we don’t know how anaesthesia interferes either.
One of the guys who finished up Einstein’s work (Roger Penrose) thinks it has to do with quantum collapse. But there’s a weird twilight zone where anesthesia has stopped consciousness but hasn’t stopped that quantum process yet.
So we’re still missing something, and dudes like in his 90s. He’s been working on this for decades, but he’ll probably never live to see it finished. Someone else will have to finish later like him and Hawking did for Einstein
“Because quantum” always feels like new-age woo-woo bullshit.
It’s more likely just too vague to define.
It’s good to be skeptical of people who throw the word quantum around, but in this case you’d be wrong. Penrose is the real deal.
No, it’s literally a physical observable quantum collapse…
Like, I know techbros just randomly yell quantum…
But that doesn’t mean it’s not real, it was vague because trying to explain would be a lot of effort and most people wouldn’t understand
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-consciousness/
Knock yourself out