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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: Experimental evidence of quantum effects in consciousness
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In article <BILL.94Oct21154212@cortex.nsma.arizona.edu> bill@nsma.arizona.edu (Bill Skaggs) writes:
>zlsiida@fs1.mcc.ac.uk (Dave Budd) writes:
>
>   I read a report in my newspaper yesterday of some experiments at a UK 
>   university which appear to support the theory that quantum effects are 
>   involved in consciousness.  [ . . . ] A paper is forthcoming, but I 
>   negelected to note which journal, though it's one I'm sure several 
>   readers of comp.ai.philosophy will read.
>
>
>Okay, flame on. 
>
>If you're going to talk about "experimental evidence" and expect to be
>taken seriously, you *must* give some kind of citation that can be
>followed up, a journal reference, the name of one of the
>investigators, or even just the name of the newspaper and the day the
>article appeared.  Otherwise for all practical purposes you're just
>babbling.
>
>Flame off.

Why do we always get this kind of flame whenever someone even
mentions something that might cast doubt on AI?

Anyway, I can give a better ref: Guardian (newspaper), On Line,
20 Oct 94, pp 12-13, paper to be published in the Journal of
Consciousness Studies "this month".

-- jd



