Explain quantum thinking and it's relationship to intelligence?

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Clarification of Question by glenda7147-ga on 27 Nov 2002 18:12 PST

If there is someone that can help me with this question I would
appreciate it.  I'm not sure exactly how to answer such a complex
question?
What is quantum thinking?  Is is the way someone thinks that they will
fail in their mind and then over rationalize the reasoning why they
will fail, such as in public speaking???

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Request for Question Clarification by easterangel-ga on 27 Nov 2002 18:16 PST

I have found reference to quantum thinking in terms of the business
and corporate aspect? Would this be ok? Just let me know. :)

Hello glenda7147,

Coming from a background in philosophy I have pretty good idea what
quantum thinking could mean in this context.

To start with a little background. It all relates to the brain and the
mind and how they interact or relate to each other.  The most
immediate thought that comes to my mind when looking at this question
of the relationship to intelligence comes from a book by Roger Penrose
called the 'Emperors new mind'. Here the author examines the idea that
the concept of how mind is related to quantum mechanics.

In particular one of the chapters looks at how the human mind can do
certain mathematical tilings patterns.  The idea here is that a
computer , as designed today, can't quite do these sorts of things
because there is 'something going on in the brain' that is quantum
mechanical that can solve certain kinds of problems.

Checking a review of his book on the internet revealed the following
good evidence for this

" Penrose doesn't believe that computers constructed according to
presently known physical principles can be intelligent and conjectures
that modifying
quantum mechanics may be needed to explain intelligence"

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/reviews/penrose1/penrose1.html

There is not very much on the web that reviews this work but it all
relates to the idea that some principles of quantum mechanics are
needed to help explain certain levels of intelligence, especially
mathematical problem solving.

There is from a Dictionary of philosophy that highlights a little more
of Penrose's work at
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~philos/MindDict/quantum.html

Because of the philosophical and technical depth of these issues I
could describe things in more detail , but for the moment I will allow
you to have a look at the links and get a little sense of what this is
all about.

If you would like more specific details on either quantum mechanics or
intelligence please feel free to submit a clarification. This is one
of my pet topics, I have a copy of the book mentioned and could get
you more information.

kind regards

rcd-ga

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