David_Gerard comments on Who thinks quantum computing will be necessary for AI? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 29 May 2013 03:11:06PM 10 points [-]

It's the quantum syllogism:

  1. I don't understand quantum.
  2. I don't understand consciousness
  3. Therefore, consciousness involves quantum.

(1. need not apply e.g. if you are Roger Penrose, but it's still logically fallacious.)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 May 2013 06:15:34PM 3 points [-]

Penrose would claim not to understand how 'collapse' occurs.

Comment author: nigerweiss 30 May 2013 01:21:05AM 1 point [-]

When I was younger, I picked up 'The Emperor's New Mind' in a used bookstore for about a dollar, because I was interested in AI, and it looked like an exciting, iconoclastic take on the idea. I was gravely disappointing when it took a sharp right turn into nonsense right out of the starting gate.