• intensely_human
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    2 months ago

    I’d say the details matter, based on the PEAR laboratory’s findings that consciousness can affect the outcomes of chaotic systems.

    Perhaps the reason evolution selected for enormous brains is that’s the minimum necessary complexity to get a system chaotic enough to be sensitive to and hence swayed by conscious will.

    • ƬΉΣӨЯΣƬIKΣЯ@feddit.de
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      2 months ago

      PEAR? Where staff participated in trials, rather than doing double blind experiments? Whose results could not be reproduced by independent research groups? Who were found to employ p-hacking and data cherry picking?

      You might as well argue that simulating a human mind is not possible because it wouldn’t have a zodiac sign.