On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 07:39:44PM +0100, Bruno Marchal wrote: > Hi Roger, > > On 18 Mar 2013, at 12:48, Roger Clough wrote: > > > > >Since mind is an MQS or Multiple Quantum Superposition, it can > >process information at the rate of a quantum computer. > > > Since you seem to talk philosophy, let me translate what you say > for our friends the scientists. > > If we assume that mind is a Multiple Quantum Superposition, and if > we assume that mind can exploit those quantum superpositions to > process information, then the mind can process information at the > rate of a quantum computer. > > That implication seems to me quite reasonable. > > Test of the theory according to which a human mind is a Multiple > Quantum Superposition: > > > 1) show me a human as good as a quantum computer for finding a > needle in a haystack. > > 2) Factorize 11111311111911111111511111111111121212111111111 > >
Demonstrating these sorts of exponential speedups only falsifies the proposition that a human mind is an ordinary classical computer (but not COMP). It does not confirm in any way that a human mind operates as a quantum computer, since random oracles are another way of bridging computational complexity classes. We only need one idiot-savant to demonstrate this. By contrast, being unable to demonstrate this scaling means - well nothing at all, actually. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
