T.N. Palmer is proposing the physics of how the mind works, that's why the paper title ends with a question mark. His assertion on free will seems reasonable but I'm unclear on his model of "awareness of conterfactual worlds" related to state-space trajectories. I understand the "ability to project the consequences" of counterfactual worlds.
"Again, the presence of the quantum potential implies that one cannot isolate a single state-space trajectory when defining dynamical evolution. Rather, quantum dynamical evolution in the physical world is in some sense "aware" of the existence of alternative state-space trajectories in state space. Indeed the fact that quantum computers can outperform classical computers for certain problems can be viewed in terms of an ability of a quantum computer to exploit the parallelism implied by such neighbourhoods of state-space trajectories, in a manner impossible by a classical computer. If the physics which determines our cognition is "aware" of these neighbourhood trajectories, could our cognition itself be similarly aware?" Due to the 20W he's suggesting... ------------------------------------------ Artificial General Intelligence List: AGI Permalink: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/T117bc2d94b89dd03-M2ea9e3d51aad2a62c5ccd6cc Delivery options: https://agi.topicbox.com/groups/agi/subscription
