Finally getting to dive into those topics I've longed to examine up close.
Quantum mechanics is one & my mind is in a painful twist over it.
May I ask you QM experts - @gmusser maybe? - to tell me if this article is wildly brilliant or dead on arrival?https://bit.ly/2wCk7yO
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When there is a (sender, receiver, message, code) telepathy is ordinary communication. Turing's belief is equivalent to thinking different humans can have fundamentally different hardware. And that was before biology and genetics were scientifically grounded.
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If telepathy were possible, in the sense that the exchange of mental representations is not restricted to local electromagnetic interactions in the usual photonic space, could you be fully certain that minds can be realized independently from each other, in an individual brain?
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Is there a leading historical theory on why he discussed it in the article? I remember reading it - in my memory he just dropped it outta nowhere at some point. Leaving me amused but clueless.
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In Turing's time, telepathy was not yet seen as totally outlandish, and most people outside of science will still tell you that telepathy is unreliable but real. I have a strong prior against telepathy, but only because it is very hard to make it compatible with known physics.
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What about quantum computers?
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The idea of a quantum computer is basically that the particle universe is inefficiently implemented on the quantum substrate universe, and by directly interfacing with the quantum world we can perform some operations much more efficiently. But it is still just computation.
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