Any neuroscientists care to weigh in? I’m interested in neuroscience on an amateurish level, and my priors on this are minuscule. I’ll also admit to a certain moderately irrational bias towards the quantum consciousness crowd. I have little respect for their objectivity and reason, since they appear, to me, to be pushing scientific ideas almost entirely because they are comforting.
Also, the listed argument doesn’t sit right with me. Synaptic connections are impermanent, but there’s strong clinical and experimental evidence that memories are explicitly rewritten into new synapses every time they are remembered. This provides an explanation for why they are so fragile and unreliable. I’m not at all sure that the problem they’re claiming to solve is actually a problem.
Any neuroscientists care to weigh in? I’m interested in neuroscience on an amateurish level, and my priors on this are minuscule. I’ll also admit to a certain moderately irrational bias towards the quantum consciousness crowd. I have little respect for their objectivity and reason, since they appear, to me, to be pushing scientific ideas almost entirely because they are comforting.
Also, the listed argument doesn’t sit right with me. Synaptic connections are impermanent, but there’s strong clinical and experimental evidence that memories are explicitly rewritten into new synapses every time they are remembered. This provides an explanation for why they are so fragile and unreliable. I’m not at all sure that the problem they’re claiming to solve is actually a problem.