be a one man island

but you live in the middle of the soviet union

you're on your own man

You're tresspassing on the government's territory

its their land, you better gtfo and do it on your own if you are a one man island

if as a single individual you don't have the power to conquer and secure land well tough shit

Yes this is the end of both extremes in reality.

because both end here

but the truth is "anarcho capitalism" is never and will never be the road taken.

it's just completely antithetical to human beings.

not in the way anarcho capitalists hope it will be taken

exactly

never as it is

thus it is not

I just thought of something.

I wonder if the human brain does any form of quantum computing

since it has evolved over hundreds of millions of years, with the laws of quantum physics being there the whole time

I wonder if there are some quantum shennanigans that out brains take advantage of

the brain is an analogue computer, it operates on differences in potential.

@Boniface

Sure but from the little but of neurology I know I think there is still quite a bit we don't understand. Obviously quantum computing wouldn't be the only thing going on in the brain but can we absolutely rule out some sort of quantum phenomenon getting involved in human cognition?

well, it's probabalistic and not deterministic, so it can be considered *quantum*

consider each neuron to be a simple core with a small cache

it's unknown wether there is an upper limit to the number of states, one would presume at minimum, there would be three (high, low, median, in terms of voltage or *potential*)

these can be seen as analogous to yes, no and maybe

but seeing as the whole brain is very plastic, I see no reason to assume that only 3 states would arise. It's also possible different areas use different numbers of states

it is unclear as to how much signal processing happens in either the axons or the neurons

I mean, the way I look at it, our body has been "using" chemical processes long before we understood it.

So it makes me wonder if our body still uses some stuff we haven't discovered yet.

Like some laws of physics are still being used in ways we haven't understood yet. You know what I mean?

yes, I find the distinction between probabalistic and deterministic systems to very helpful

Maybe our understanding of our brain will get kicked up a notch if we make some major advancements in physics some day

probably not but maybe

lol

would be interesting

that I'm unsure of, because of the probabalistic nature of it

all quantum mechanics really says is that you can never really be sure

but the transistor shows that it is useful

I mean, the human brain would likely not be a good place to host a quantum computer as we understand them currently

but if humans can use them for certain calculations maybe the brain can to a certain extent?

given enough millions of years of evolution?