Re: 2001 Foresight Gathering and theories of the mind

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2001 - 13:49:33 MDT

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I don't see how quantum mechanical mechanisms would introduce anything
ontologically new in a description of mind. Entanglement is very neat,
but such correlations could just as well be implemented in a contrived
classical way, so why would quantum mechanics add any new here?

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