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[By prior agreement, this post will be cross-posted on Microsoft's Q# blog, even though it has nothing to do with the Q# programming language. It does, however, contain many examples that might be fun to implement in Q#!] Why should Nature have been quantum-mechanical? It's totally unclear what would count as an answer to such…
Posted in brainz, Open problems by Scott Locklin on February 3, 2021 There’s an old theory that memory is actually encoded in part in RNA. The argument is pretty simple: there’s no obvious way for all that sensory data to be captured in synapses as long term memories, yet long term memories obviously exist and are fairly reliable. RNA, unlike synapses, is energy efficient, redundant and persistent and consistent with what we observe about brains from day to day life. You’d think with all the neuroscientists running around these days, this would have been eliminated from serious consi...