But since we know that most neural computation is not conscious, I find it remarkably natural to suppose that it’s entanglement that makes the difference.
This really sounds to me like a perfect fit for Robin’s grandparent post. If, say, nonlocality is important, why achieve it through quantum means?
This is meant to be ontological nonlocality and not just causal coordination of activities throughout a spatial region. That is, we would be talking about entities which do not reduce to a sum of spatially localized parts possessing localized (encapsulated) states. An entangled EPR pair is a paradigm example of such ontological nonlocality, if you think the global quantum state is the actual state, because the wavefunction cannot be factorized into a tensor product of quantum states possessed by the individual particles in the pair. You are left with the impression of a single entity which interfaces with the rest of the universe in two places. (There are other, more esoteric indications that reality has ontological nonlocality.)
These complex unities glued together by quantum entanglement are of interest (to me) as a way to obtain physical entities which are complex and yet have objective boundaries; see my comment to RobinZ.
This really sounds to me like a perfect fit for Robin’s grandparent post. If, say, nonlocality is important, why achieve it through quantum means?
This is meant to be ontological nonlocality and not just causal coordination of activities throughout a spatial region. That is, we would be talking about entities which do not reduce to a sum of spatially localized parts possessing localized (encapsulated) states. An entangled EPR pair is a paradigm example of such ontological nonlocality, if you think the global quantum state is the actual state, because the wavefunction cannot be factorized into a tensor product of quantum states possessed by the individual particles in the pair. You are left with the impression of a single entity which interfaces with the rest of the universe in two places. (There are other, more esoteric indications that reality has ontological nonlocality.)
These complex unities glued together by quantum entanglement are of interest (to me) as a way to obtain physical entities which are complex and yet have objective boundaries; see my comment to RobinZ.