2018-12-12, 09:23 AM
From Robert Marks, at https://mindmatters.ai/2018/12/quantum-r...free-will/:
Despite the Penrose/Hameroff theory, the mystery of creativity still applies both in human experience and in biology with its fantastic innovations. It seems to me only freely acting, designing agent(s) can be responsible. Only such agents can create complex specified information out of nothing. Of course this only resolves the issue partially - there is still the perhaps humanly unsolvable problem of understanding the ultimate nature of a free conscious agent.
Quote:"Sir Roger Penrose believes that human nonalgorithmic (noncomputable) characteristics such as creativity are due to quantum collapse in the brain’s microtubules. If he is correct, truly fresh new information is being created in our brains. But there’s a problem. The bits of information generated by quantum collapse are merely random. That is, they are uselessly random. Randomness alone is incapable of generating the specified complexity evident in creative thinking. A random buzz generated in our neurons will not solve a stubborn math problem or write a great novel. New bits must be formulated or organized for a general purpose. We are still left with the question of how that creativity happens."
Despite the Penrose/Hameroff theory, the mystery of creativity still applies both in human experience and in biology with its fantastic innovations. It seems to me only freely acting, designing agent(s) can be responsible. Only such agents can create complex specified information out of nothing. Of course this only resolves the issue partially - there is still the perhaps humanly unsolvable problem of understanding the ultimate nature of a free conscious agent.