finmin · HackerTrans

the 2 examples given of epigenetic inheritence are due to malnutrition and stress - but what about timing ? What if a person was malnurished and/or stressed in the past but is now happy and eating well - what does the epigenetic imprinting fade or will his kids suffer due to his past ?

finmin

8 anni fadiscuss

you have to read the actual paper not the article

finmin

8 anni fadiscuss

a) Penrose' claim is about something completely different, namely the non-algorithmic computational abilities of the brain by quantum-gravity effects

b) intuition is irrelevant - this is a proof of the physics of free-will, it doesn't matter how 'plausible' it sounds. Quantum mechanics isn't intuitive either - why should it be ?

finmin

8 anni fadiscuss

Conway proves the existence of free will not by nebulous philosophical arguments but by a combination of quantum mechanics and relativity.

Note the definition of 'free will' here is specific: fundamental particles future states cannot be purely a function of the information in their past light cones and so only 'they' can fully determine their future state, and this is not the same thing as them having random number generators; they truly are free

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