On 8/2/2019 1:00 PM, Jason Resch wrote:
On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 1:35 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On 8/2/2019 10:42 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > Do you agree that: > > 1. There are 2^10,000 possible results from reading the 10,000 qubits? > 2. The execution of the neural net on the quantum computer processes > each of these 2^10,000 possible images? > 3. Before reading the output register, those output bits are in a > superposition of every possible word the neural net is trained to > identify? Yes, but the possible words the neural net is trained to identify is more like 2^10. Yes. > 4. If "protoconsciousness" can be ascribed to this neural net, then > this consciousness perceived each of the 2^10,000 possible images? Just consider the same problem given to a classical computer as 1e4 bits. Then it easily can return 2^1e4 different words/images it recognizes. Did it "perceive" each of them? Not when the input bits are classical.
Aren't we assuming 1e4 bits or qubits?
The point of my thought experiment is to show there is an incongruity between "consciousness causes collapse" and the maintenance of a superposition throughout the operation of a quantum computer. If the superposition is maintained throughout the course of the computation, then one must confront the fact that the mind executed within the quantum computer processes each possible input.That's an example of my critique of Bruno's idea that by finding some computational analogy to a feature of consciousness, we have shown that the computation realizes consciousness. Consciousness is a lot more than just distinguishing images or proving meta-theorems.Whatever consciousness may be, if it is something computers can achieve, then you are led to the conclusion that an appropriately programmed quantum computer may realize a huge number of minds.
But "minds" i.e. conscious thoughts are famously unitary. You can't think a linear superposition of sentences.
Another example of the fallacy of latching onto one similarity to claim identity, while ignoring all dissimilarities.
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