From newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!gumby!yale!yale.edu!jvnc.net!rutgers!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!nlc Tue Jun  9 10:07:22 EDT 1992
Article 6113 of comp.ai.philosophy:
Path: newshub.ccs.yorku.ca!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!gumby!yale!yale.edu!jvnc.net!rutgers!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!news.media.mit.edu!nlc
>From: nlc@media.mit.edu (Nick Cassimatis)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: QM as a path of inquiry for AI
Message-ID: <1992Jun5.193846.5837@news.media.mit.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 92 19:38:46 GMT
References: <1992Jun5.045522.19139@news.media.mit.edu> <1992Jun5.130022.26367@cs.ucf.edu> <1992Jun5.162012.24944@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com>
Sender: news@news.media.mit.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: MIT Media Laboratory
Lines: 18

In article <1992Jun5.162012.24944@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> shanks@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Mark Shanks) writes:
>In article <1992Jun5.130022.26367@cs.ucf.edu> clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke) writes:
>>In article <1992Jun5.045522.19139@news.media.mit.edu> nlc@media.mit.edu (Nick  
>>Cassimatis) writes:
>>> DID ANYONE EVER WONDER WHY YOU RARELY SEE DISCUSSIONS ON
>>> THE RELEVENCE OF QM TO MOTOR CONTROL OR LANGUAGE OR ANY OTHER ASPECT
>>> OF COGNITION?  Why focus only on consciousness?  This phenomena
>>> convinces me even more that that QM is just a wild card that makes
>>> people glassy eyed enough to accept mysticism.
>
>I don`t see the connection between QM and mysticism, "A spiritual discipline
>aiming at direct union or communion with God or with ultimate reality through
>trancelike contemplation or deep meditation." Are there aspects of quantum
>theory that suggest to you something less than (or maybe "other than" is 
>better) an attempt at objective scientific investigation? Why is QM a "wild
>card"? Is QM an ideology? 

I have not quarrel with QM itself.  What bothers me is that it is


