Re: [nanotech] the core issue

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2000 - 20:20:37 MST


Zero Powers wrote:
> Seems to me, layman that I am, that the relevant contours of your
> consciousness would depend on a scale much larger than the quantum level.
> >From what little I know, a synapse is either formed or it is not. Therefore
> it seems to me that anything going on below the molecular level would have
> no relevant effect upon your consciousness.

The quantum level controls exactly when the synapse forms and fires -
frequency, pattern, etc. - which is an aspect of what forms your
consciousness.



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