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Comment author: ChristianKl 14 January 2013 12:01:49AM 5 points [-]

I don't think there was ever a time where people considered the human brain doing quantum-gravity-based hypercomputation to be a credible thesis.

The idea was always fringe and doesn't fit into the class of ideas that were once credible but later incredible.