Re: Quantum Probability and Decision Theory

From: Joao Leao <jleao.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 14:47:37 -0500

I am sorry but I have to ask: why would "minds" be quantum
mechanical but "bat minds" be classical in your suspicions?
I am not sure I am being "batocentric" here but I can anticipate
a lot of bats waving their wings in disagreament...

-Joao


Stephen Paul King wrote:

> [SPK]
>
> Yes. I strongly suspect that "minds" are quantum mechanical. My
> arguement is at this point very hand waving, but it seems to me that if
> minds are purely classical when it would not be difficult for us to imagine,
> i.e. compute, what it is like to "be a bat" or any other classical mind.

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