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What happens when you train a deep recurrent neural network on a quantum computer. I wonder if you get consciousness

• tamana 10y ago
  You are getting downvoted, but no less than Sir Roger Penrose had the same idea for the origin of human intelligence.
  • spacehome 10y ago
    And it was a bad idea when he said it, too.
    • yarou 10y ago
      Eh, the jury's still out. I sort of agree with Scott Aaronson on why he thinks consciousness is finite[0]. The problem, IMO, that Penrose has is that his theories border closely on mysticism - there's some quantum "magical" process whereby consciousness arises. Both pictures are incomplete, but Aaronson's is the most plausible. [0]http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/finite.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/finite.html
      • tamana 10y ago
        Does finite imply non-quantum?
        • spacehome 10y ago
          No, of course not.
        • yarou 10y ago
          No, but there is no evidence that biological neural networks exhibit quantum effects. Classical (Newtonian) mechanics seem sufficient enough to explain how neurons work.
      • j1vms 10y ago
        "This rule implies that 2, 17, and the number of possible human life experiences are all equally distant from infinity." [0] Thanks for the link. I do have trouble with the above statement, and what follows it, as I would think that the number of states of the human body (or even just the brain & nervous system) would be infinite (that is, in the sense of the infinite cardinality of real numbers) and not countably infinite (as in the set of whole numbers). This would follow from the entire system operating as a biochemical process, and neuronal stimulus being an analog signal between a finite number of neuron cells. Thoughts? [0] http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/finite.html http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/finite.html
        • yarou 10y ago
          Just so I understand you correctly, you're saying that the cardinality of the set of all possible states of neurons in one's brain is aleph-null?
          • j1vms 10y ago
            Had to look that up again to be sure - no, instead what I'm suggesting is the number of possible states of neurons is infinite, and not countably infinite (implied by a cardinality of aleph-null). I suggest the number of possible states is infinite since the signals between neurons are analog (though I acknowledge this one-word categorization is a major simplification of the actual process of neuronal stimulation).