On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 11:29 AM Jason Resch <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021, 4:07 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 7/6/2021 10:34 AM, Jason Resch wrote: >> >> On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:27 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> And you're never going to find a being that behaves intelligently based >>> on information that can be quantum erased. >>> >> You need only a quantum computer with enough qubits. >> >> Can you prove that? How does this quantum intelligence ever arrive at a >> definite decision? >> > > Prove? No. But I think I can justify it: > > 1. Quantum computers are Turing equivalent, they can compute anything a > classical computer can. > > 2. Human brains are believed to operate according to physical laws, all > known of which are computable. > > 3. Humans are conscious. > > 4. By any of: Chalmers's principle of "Organizational invariance", or > "multiple realizability", or the "Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle", or > the "computational theory of mind", a functionally equivalent computation > to that of a conscious human brain will be equivalently conscious to that > brain. > > 5. Quantum computers are reversible. > > By 1 & 2, a quantum computer can simulate a human brain. By 3 & 4, such an > emulation will be conscious. By 5 any computation performed by a quantum > computer can be quantum erased by reversing the circuit back to its > starting state. > > It reaches a definite decision by virtue of completing its processing > before ultimately being reversed. This prevents an outside observer from > learning the decision, but it's made nonetheless during the course of the > processing. > How do you know that it has reached a definite decision? Without having it print out some irreversible record? If it prints out a (pseudo-)classical record, the initial state is not recoverable. Bruce -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAFxXSLTjgefz%2Bgs1zMyOtdKVzAeFVJ55Ffoskw3z%3DBMT7pNOFw%40mail.gmail.com.
