> On 29 Apr 2018, at 19:50, Brent Meeker <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > > > > On 4/29/2018 8:35 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> All computations can be done in a reversible way. The basic idea is that we >> can discard memories instead of erasing them, and that idea is coherent with >> physics and mechanism. > > Because it is theoretically possible to do computations reversibly, doesn't > mean that they are done that way. It is very difficult in practice, as the > developers quantum computers have found. And even computations that are done > reversibly in a quantum computer then do not come to definite results. We > are not conscious of superpositions. So I stand by my point that > consciousness is a classical phenomenon.
No problem with this. I tend to believe that consciousness is classical too. My point was just that computation can be made in a reversible way. That has been proved by Hao Wang (a logician expert on Gödel) well before quantum computations. And, no one doubt that it is very hard to do in practice, despite quantum topology and condensed matter physics is, imo, paving the way to it, but that might still take a long time. Electrons does not let themselves to be squeezed easily. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
