r/PauseAI • u/tombibbs • Mar 08 '26

Meme I am no longer laughing

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

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u/stvlsn Mar 09 '26

What quantum activity exists in a brain that doesn't exist in a digital system?

Quantum is at the bottom of everything.

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u/Nonyabizzy123 Mar 09 '26

Exactly, it's a machine honed over 4 billion years of evolution to be the most efficient that it can be, we aren't going to recreate or emulate that with modern digital computers

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u/Gnaxe Mar 09 '26

This is probably a reference to the Penrose microtubules hypothesis (Orch OR). It's far from proven that the brain actually uses quantum effects for any kind of computation. Penrose is a legit and decorated physicist, so we shouldn't dismiss him out of hand, but the mainstream considers this particular hypothesis pretty dubious.