X-Message-Number: 5386
From:  (Isak Sebastian Lytting)
Newsgroups: sci.cryonics
Subject: Uploading, quantum effects and speed of cognition
Date: 10 Dec 1995 00:41:44 +0100
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If the basis for cognition actually turns out to be quantum
effects in microtubules inside neurons (as has been suggested by
Penrose, amongst others), why would substituting electronic
switches for neurons actually lead to any significant increase
in speed of cognition? I should think that the quantum effects
would already be about as fast as they were going to get in a
biological brain.

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Isak Lytting

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