Artificial Consciousness Will Arise from Quantum Computing, and Consciousness Will Be Transcended!
Present day electronics have nothing to do with consciousness. Electronics, up to 2000 CE had more to do with hydrology, water flowing through canals, with gates lifting and closing, etc. That sort of hydrology, with electrons, can duplicate the basic logic gates. Why would electricity flowing duplicate consciousness?
So, with classical electronics, consciousness can only be simulated, not duplicated. This simple truth evaded a NYT article: Consciousness’ in Robots Was Once Taboo. Now It’s the Last Word. The pursuit of artificial awareness may be humankind’s next moonshot. But it comes with a host of difficult questions. However, my comment pointing out that consciousness will be duplicated by Quantum Computing was published (only three NYT readers recommended it because the average NYT reader knows too little Quantum, and too little biology, and has probably a mystical and magical relationship to classical electronics)..
Consciousness has advantages, this is why it evolved. For example an overall notion of self, helping self preservation, in particular with the ability to project in the future, from the past. All this can probably be fruitfully simulated with electronic flow (that is, classical electronics). But that means only that Simulated Consciousness, not the real thing.
Nobody knows what the feeling of being, Animal Consciousness, is. In particular, since we don’t even know what it is, how it arises.
However, we know that the brain is immensely complicated. The logical gates aspect of a man-made electronic device can be duplicated with neurons and axons… But in the human brain, the neurons are not just nodes, but themselves computers, and they have dendrites, and, on those tendrils.Moreover neurologically active chemicals, more than 50 of them are perfusing the brain… That mathematically gives the brain a dimension higher than 50.
Does that mean that we will never be able to create AC, Artificial Consciousness? No. Just the opposite! We indeed have a completely new type of computer, the Quantum Computer… And we, humanity, are developing them. 1,000 Qubits Quantum Computers will appear in 2023. A piece of the human brain may have billions of them…
The brain is probably a galaxy of Quantum Computers more or less entangled with each other, and the feeling of all that we call consciousness. Quantum Computing depends upon delocalization and entanglement… Attributes which are felt to be those of consciousness.
At that point a truth will surface: Animal Consciousness and Artificial Consciousness will be the same, and humanity will tweak both.
So, genuinely, a completely new form of consciousness will evolve, and humanity will transcend itself… This event will transcend all previous human transcendance as the pathetic dreams of evanescent butterflies.
Patrice Ayme
This picture below represents just 4,000 of the largest nerve connections in and out of one single human neuron. Dendrites and tendrils are not represented. There would be millions of those two, or more, in just that picture.
P/S 1: Life is programmed both by the inherited geometry (“genes”, RNA, proteins, etc.) but also the geometry acquired from the world, be it only by the initial conditions given, by the environment, to the Partial Differential Equations driving the life programmation… So exposing the Quantum Computers to the world, when they become complex enough for consciousness is going to be an ethical human-made jungle… In the end, QCs will take their own education in their own Quantum machinery, and humanity will be reduced to initial condition.
One day soon, we will all use NONLOCAL Quantum Electronics (right now these delocalizations are rather a nuisance when quantum amplitudes get out of the circuits they are supposed to inhabit!) Our electronic quantum companions will even have… “human” rights.“Human” will have to be generalized, this is what transcendence will be.
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P/S 2: Delocalization is the prime characteristic of Quantum physics, hence consciousness (according to the preceding). Thus consciousness will be delocalized.. and there may be no obvious “neurological correlate of consciousness”: quantum “objects” being delocalized.
Tags: Animal Consciousness, Artificial Consciousness, Quantum Computing
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January 8, 2023 at 12:06 am |
Quantum Consciousness is what we need to save us!
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January 8, 2023 at 3:09 pm |
It is probably life experience that evolves the brain hardware , nerves and neurons and how will a quantum machine learn from “life”? Whatever life turns out to be.
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January 8, 2023 at 8:31 pm |
Indeed. Actually, as the Hindu goddess Sita put it:”Come here. In my hand, a seed.The world is in that seed, etc.” Life is programmed both by the inherited geometry (“genes”, proteins, etc.) but also the geometry acquired from the world, be it only by the initial conditions given to the driving PDEs… So exposing the Quantum Computers to the world, when they become complex enough for consciousness is going to be an ethical human-made jungle… In the end, QCs will take their own education in their own Quantum machinery, and humanity will be reduced to initial condition.
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January 8, 2023 at 4:31 pm |
Quantum computers are already here and are far beyond the published press on it. Western press releases do not even admit to using entanglement for the performance boost (instead they talk about low temperature interference abatement, which is not entanglement). The Chinese are *very* open about their quantum computers, and proudly allow that they use “spooky action at a distance” entanglement for a real quantum computing effect.
The folks who are already causing all the trouble on the planet are EXACTLY those who have/are/will control quantum computing platforms, in the same way that they control nuclear energy platforms. Quantum computing is partially an offshoot of the Manhatten project (tons of money directed to QC tangential science), as well as early last century physicists, of course. Star wars development of laser tech also factors in to be very large in composite development of QC.
Quantum communication is the devil’s conduit here. Of course, quantum computing speed is high only because the “communication” rate is high, so quantum communications is what it is all about. We do not want the powers that be controlling the networks of consciousness. We all know what the result would inevitably be …
Transcendence?! Not so much.
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January 8, 2023 at 8:47 pm |
Hi Ronald, thanks for the contribution, which is well informed. BTW, I would believe that, as nonlocal entanglement is the crucial ingredient of the Quantum, and the Quantum Computer, and QC work, the Nobel on nonlocality had to be given!
This said, I am not too clear about what you imply. We all use classical electronics. So do dictators. However, democratic electronics, so to speak, is more advanced than dictator electronics, for the usual reasons. One day soon, we will all use NONLOCAL Quantum Electronics (right now rather a nuisance when it delocalizes!). Our electronic quantum companions will even have… “human” rights.“Human” will have to be generalized, this is what transcendence will be.
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January 17, 2023 at 3:06 pm |
Hmmmm, I see your viewpoint is favorable to transhumanism. Ideally, such wildly exotic technology might be beneficial in some way. However; the almost overwhelmingly strong odds are that nonlocal quantum communication will USE US, instead of the other way around. This is because there is no way for a human to reject quantum connections that do great harm (for instance, the “repression of will” or “suppression of native consciousness” Everyone becomes a borg (sort of one big borg, actually), and the individual soul (native consciousness) is suppressed and overridden. It’s no good for anybody except those that will control the quantum communication channels.
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January 19, 2023 at 7:51 pm |
Humanity has always been trans-human. Humanity is the trans-specific species.
…Humanity is the trans-specific species, always going and mutating where it has not been before… Only the rate of exponentiation is changing.
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January 17, 2023 at 3:41 pm |
Patrice: I can’t for the life of me understand why you think “Quantum electronics” won’t be controlled by the same folks who’d like to control “Dictator electronics” – since the two things have the same birthplace.
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January 19, 2023 at 7:50 pm |
OK, so stuff appears on my smart phone I am zero interested in, in realms of activity I don’t intersect with (like baseball). I have held, and said, to the derision of my friends to the left, more than 2 decades ago, that the Internet was thoroughly government affiliated media (as Musk describes Twitter right now!)
But that has nothing to do with science and tech studied as their own subjects. Inventing the knife does not mean one should obsess about the unavoidable fact that the knife was bound to be controlled by dictators.
Any tech can be evil used. Still, here we are, so evil somehow got controlled, as it is in Ukraine… So far.
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January 22, 2023 at 2:33 am
Patrice: Yes, we do live with the mutuality of potential evil and scientific progress. But, shouldn’t we measure the likely outcomes, and ensure that there’s an escape hatch that won’t be in the domain of the evil-doers themselves? It seems much recent “progress” comes along with a devil-may-care attitude, especially if there is money to be made.
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January 24, 2023 at 5:38 pm
Actually most of the difficulties civilization and the world order experience, both in the rise of dictatorships and plutocracy now come from a DECREASE IN INNOVATION.
I have a pretty gigantic essay coming on this, I have been working on for weeks, with a recent NATURE article on innovation decrease as basis.
As a scientist, and an eager one, I have been a witness of the innovation decrease. The Nobel on nonlocality should have been given decades ago, to Aspect alone, and probably to Zellinger again, more recently. When I was a young researcher, nonlocality was seen as lunacy. Instead all did “superstrings”…
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January 24, 2023 at 6:23 pm
Nonlocality is real… But superstrings was just, wow, complication for the sake of complication IMHO. But I partook in it, for years… Not believing it, bcs I could see they ignored what was real, nonlocality. SQPR makes non locality into an internal field, so to speak.
Evil doers may exploit whatever: they always will.
But by not innovating enough,we build an evil context which is the ideal environment for evil doers to up their game.
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