Roger Penrose on Why Consciousness Does Not Compute
I'm honestly not sure why artificial intelligence comes up every time Penrose's hypothesis is mentioned. The point of artificial intelligence is not ( at least in my and several other prominent AI scientist's such as Andrew Ng's opinion) to create a <i>conscious</i> intelligence, but to create intelligence that can do many of the useful tasks that we can do. Whether or not it's conscious along the way is largely irrelevant.<p>That being said, I'm not sure why there's quite so much vitriol towards Penrose and his hypothesis, the leveraging of quantum effects in photosynthesis and enzymes have been demonstrated and recent studies show that the sense of smell may also be based upon quantum phenomena. So it's not all too unreasonable that there might be <i>something</i> quantum going on, even if it's not Penrose and Hameroff's microtubules.<p>Another interesting quantum hypothesis in neuroscience is Fisher's: <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161102-quantum-neuroscience/" rel="nofollow">https://www.quantamagazine.org/20161102-quantum-neuroscience...</a>