From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 02:21:43 MST
At 12:33 AM 3/4/03 +0100, Anders wrote:
>The uploading process will likely cause the entanglement to be lost;
>while I doubt anybody will ever try to measure every electron in a brain
>during an upload, such a process is very likely to cause a lot of
>decoherence and hence have roughly the same effect as a random
>disturbance of the electron.
This tangentially invokes once more the question whether there's a special
relationship between consciousness and QT, which has been discussed in a
provocative and perhaps preposterously over-concrete way by physicist Evan
Harris Walker:
http://users.rcn.com/wcri/wcri/Consciousness%20Intro.htm
Damien Broderick
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