When I was younger, I picked up ‘The Emperor’s New Mind’ in a used bookstore for about a dollar, because I was interested in AI, and it looked like an exciting, iconoclastic take on the idea. I was gravely disappointing when it took a sharp right turn into nonsense right out of the starting gate.
It’s the quantum syllogism:
I don’t understand quantum.
I don’t understand consciousness
Therefore, consciousness involves quantum.
(1. need not apply e.g. if you are Roger Penrose, but it’s still logically fallacious.)
Penrose would claim not to understand how ‘collapse’ occurs.
When I was younger, I picked up ‘The Emperor’s New Mind’ in a used bookstore for about a dollar, because I was interested in AI, and it looked like an exciting, iconoclastic take on the idea. I was gravely disappointing when it took a sharp right turn into nonsense right out of the starting gate.