Re: Is functionalism/computationalism unfalsifiable?

2020-07-09 Thread 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List
On 7/9/2020 3:36 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: On 9 Jun 2020, at 19:24, John Clark > wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:08 PM Jason Resch > wrote: /> How can we know if a robot is conscious?/ The exact same way we know that one of

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-09 Thread Lawrence Crowell
Quantum annealing is a quantum form of neural net. The Lagrangian form used in neural networks is quantized. The minimal configuration a neural network enters into as the "solution" is simply the attractor point or set for a quantum system. This is not quite the same as quantum computing with

Re: Maxwell's Equations and Black Body radiation

2020-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 8 Jun 2020, at 15:56, John Clark wrote: > > Alan Grayson aka Mr.Carl Sagan co-author wrote: > > > you seem to deliberately ignore the fact that in physics we use idealized > > cases to reach important insights. > > Far from ignoring it for years I've been trying to convince Bruno that

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-09 Thread John Clark
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 6:49 AM Bruno Marchal wrote: *> I am not sure that adiabatic computation is “real” quantum computation. > I have the same problem with quantum annealing, * That is a valid point. I'm not sure it's real quantum computing either, but whatever it is it's doing some

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-09 Thread Lawrence Crowell
On Thursday, July 9, 2020 at 5:59:04 AM UTC-5, Bruno Marchal wrote: > > > On 7 Jul 2020, at 20:05, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < > everyth...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > > I thought the big application of QC after encryption, was going to be > protein folding and similar biomolecular

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 7 Jul 2020, at 20:05, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > wrote: > > I thought the big application of QC after encryption, was going to be protein > folding and similar biomolecular interactions. That is how Feynman discovered quantum computation, in a more informal way than Deutsch

Re: Quantum computing is like QAnon?

2020-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal

Re: Is functionalism/computationalism unfalsifiable?

2020-07-09 Thread Bruno Marchal
> On 9 Jun 2020, at 19:24, John Clark wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:08 PM Jason Resch > wrote: > > > How can we know if a robot is conscious? > > The exact same way we know that one of our fellow human beings is conscious > when he's not sleeping or