superluminary t1_it3bmhq wrote on October 20, 2022 at 5:01 PM

Reply to comment by red75prime in New research suggests our brains use quantum computation by Dr_Singularity

The brain is obviously neither a quantum computer or a digital computer, but it would be surprising if evolution was not taking advantage of every property of the substrate, including things like entanglement and maybe various other properties that we don’t know about.

Evolution will make use of the material it has available

red75prime t1_it3c9ku wrote on October 20, 2022 at 5:05 PM

Yes, if there's a way to utilize it in a biological system. Evolution hadn't invented macroscopic wheels after all.

dangerousamal t1_it3gjt5 wrote on October 20, 2022 at 5:33 PM

It just depends on where you want to draw the line.. did evolution invent macroscopic wheels or not? One could argue it did, because all products of life are a result of evolution.. including our own inventions. Human beings are just a product of evolution.. a fact we so often forget.

Prayers4Wuhan t1_it4ku2j wrote on October 20, 2022 at 9:55 PM

Right. That is what happened. Wheels are ways humans conserve energy when transporting goods. How does nature transport goods? It doesn’t. It either consumes the goods on the spot or transports the life form toward the good instead of building systems that transport the good to the life form. There’s imply was no need for a wheel. There was a need for a pump to move nutrients to other cells and so the heart was formed. Wheels that transported oxygenated blood and sugars would be a terrible invention.

dangerousamal t1_it4llfh wrote on October 20, 2022 at 10:01 PM

You've kind of made my point though. You said "Wheels are ways humans conserve energy when transporting goods. How does nature transport goods? It doesn't." .. from your point of view, humans are something outside of nature.. something supernatural.. paranormal even. You seem to misunderstand the simple truth that we are a product of nature, and our inventions are also natural. We do not exist outside nature. There are also other tool using species like apes, birds, and even insects.. would you say these animals and their inventions are outside of nature also? Not to toss further rain on this parade, but actually wheels did evolve "natrually" as well - https://www.nature.com/articles/am200915

Prayers4Wuhan t1_it4n0fe wrote on October 20, 2022 at 10:11 PM

Not kind of. I did exactly that. I was agreeing with you.

It seems you’re looking to be argumentative

dangerousamal t1_ita4et4 wrote on October 22, 2022 at 1:34 AM

Possibly :) as someone said above.. welcome to Reddit hahah .. It's hard to get clarity on here sometimes, particularly when multiple comment threads at the same time.

superluminary t1_it3l0ja wrote on October 20, 2022 at 6:02 PM

There’s no good way to provide blood flow or muscle attachment to a rotating element though.

All mammals are quadrupeds, although some have specialised forelimbs or vestigial legs. This is a local maxima, it would be hard for evolution to produce a hexapedal biped because the extra legs would take multiple generations to become useful.