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@ Karnage
2025-03-01 03:55:03
It’s definitely happening in the brain. When you go under anesthesia, you’re unconscious. So some sort of receptors are shut off in the process. Some believe it’s the microtubules in the neurons - particularly in the neurons because all cells contain microtubules. And one of the hypotheses is that there is a collapse of wave function happening in microtubules in neurons and that is what gives rise to consciousness. I happen to agree with this theory as it has made the most sense to me so far out of all others. It also coincidentally ties together many other phenomena that seem to suggest there are quantum processes happening in our brain.
So, given this theory, I find it very difficult to believe that any consciousness will arise in AI any time soon. The process that happens in the brain is beyond anything possible with current quantum computers by an order of many magnitudes. I suspect we are 100-400 years away from replicating this process in the brain that would give rise to an actually conscious AGI. Until then, it’s a good mimic at best.