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We don’t have to assume it’s like a modern computer, it may well not be in important ways, but modern computers aren’t the only possible computers. If it’s a ph
by simonh 2y ago
We don’t have to assume it’s like a modern computer, it may well not be in important ways, but modern computers aren’t the only possible computers. If it’s a physical information processing phenomenon, there’s no theoretical obstacle to replicating it.
- threeseed 2y ago> there’s no theoretical obstacle to replicating it Quantum theory states that there are no passive interactions. So there are real obstacles to replicating complex objects.
- simonh 2y agoThat's only a problem if the relevant functional activity is a quantum effect. We have no problem mass producing complex macroscopic functional objects, and in the ways that are relevant human brains are all examples of the same basic system. Quantum theory doesn't seem to have been an obstacle to mass producing those.