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Re:Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018) by deepnotderp on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:31PM (#23431225)
Isn't the recent Google quantum "supremacy" experiment evidence against the extended Church-Turing thesis?
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Re:Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018) by anchpop on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:24PM (#23434156)
No, quantum computers as we understand them can be simulated by a turing machine
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Re:Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018) by deepnotderp on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:45AM (#23444824)
The extended Church-Turing thesis which I specifically referred to concerns efficient simulation, not just whether it can be simulated.
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Re:Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018) by The_rationalist on Friday June 05, 2020 @07:30PM (#23435196)
Google has not proved quantum supremacy, it is a scam. They have proved the truism that running a physical system is faster than running a simulation of a physical system...
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Re:Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient? (2018) by lawrenceyan on Saturday June 06, 2020 @03:48PM (#23441756)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5

What part of the experiment in the paper released did you feel like was inadequate?

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