Roger Penrose
wrote a book with the premise that human minds are grounded in the quantum
realm. Hence human thought has an element of quantum computing to it
implicitly. Thus one gets to what Roderick Chisholm might have called the
problem of the criterion. As the quantum realm and quantum effects such as
super-positioning transcend the material, steady state entanglement of atoms in
the Universe at a deeper level, that is as in some ways it can be regarded as
more 'real' or better as noumenal realm of being in-itself, one must just
accept things on faith that this contingent reality is good.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/03/14/can-solve-chess-problem-holds-key-human-consciousness/
Probably it
isn't presently possible to design a computer or even a quantum computer
entirely in the quantum realm as if it evolved and had an essential, primary
function from-the-ground-up. Instead quantum computers will be designed from
the contingent reality of this Universe (top down) to interact or compute a little
in the instantaneous quantum realm. That is an essential difference between
human consciousness if it has a quantum, innate element and quantum computers.
I watched a
video of the physicist Roger Penrose named: 'The Emperor's New Mind, Quantum
Mind, Quantum Consciousness, The Laws of Physics' at Youtube. In the video he
relates the reasons why he thinks a computer cannot be given an actual mind
with lines of programmatic logic. Essentially he thinks that the cyto-skeleton,
or the infrastructure that make up the brain neurons and synapses functions at
the quantum level (with all of the issues of quantum super-positioning, quantum
uncertainty and so forth) and thus cannot be modeled in programmatic logic.
Of course it
might be possible to design an automatic operating quantum computer one day
with its own brand of artificial intelligence with real-world integration able
to randomly reconfigure material reality according to its own inscrutable will
without any sort of moral reservations-yet I think that wouldn't be a very good
idea. That would be something like designing an robotic arsonist with its own
will to set as a security guard in a fireworks factory. At any rate it would
take quite a long time for the clever writers of computer code and physical designers
of quantum computers to evolve that sort of technology... a century or two at
least. So it isn't much of a clear and present danger.
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