“New insight shows that the human mind is fundamentally nondeterministic and this somehow involves quantum mechanics”
When you say “nondeterministic” do you mean the human brain works akin to a Nondeterministic Turing Machine (and thereby can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time), or simply that there is some randomness in the brain, or something else?
I don’t have a specific mental image for what I mean when I say ‘non-deterministic’, I was placing a bet on the assumption that YimbyGeorge was hypothesizing that conscious was somehow fundamentally mysterious and therefore couldn’t be ‘merely’ deterministic, based on pattern-matching this view rather than any specific mental image of what it would mean for consciousness to only be possible in non-deterministic systems.
When you say “nondeterministic” do you mean the human brain works akin to a Nondeterministic Turing Machine (and thereby can solve NP-complete problems in polynomial time), or simply that there is some randomness in the brain, or something else?
I don’t have a specific mental image for what I mean when I say ‘non-deterministic’, I was placing a bet on the assumption that YimbyGeorge was hypothesizing that conscious was somehow fundamentally mysterious and therefore couldn’t be ‘merely’ deterministic, based on pattern-matching this view rather than any specific mental image of what it would mean for consciousness to only be possible in non-deterministic systems.