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points by Frost1x 9 hours ago | 0 comments

Unless quantum effects do infact play a role in consciousness. It’s not clear they do by any means, but if it did that could shift the understanding of our own minds and consciousness drastically. Otherwise we are just a dense complex network we can reproduce with enough money.

I mean we literally do this every few seconds already with natural birth processes.

[–] qlte 9 hours ago

I don't think you even need to go to hypothesized quantum stuff. A single biological neuron in isolation is a surprisingly complex system that resembles a small artificial neural net more than an artificial neuron in many ways. On top of an entire feedback system from diffusion of neurotransmitters which doesn't cleanly map to ANNs.

Trying to estimate equivalent "parameter size" of the brain when we only superficially understand behavior of individual neurons let alone how intelligence emerges from the connectome seems too speculative to be a particularly useful metric.