Re:Is Consciousness Computable?
by vinceguidry on Thursday May 08, 2014 @09:50PM
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Consciousness is very probably a computing process directly reliant on quantum effects. As such it wouldn't be directly computable any more than any quantum system is.
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Turing machines can simulate quantum computers. They just take longer to compute the same function.
Re:Is Consciousness Computable?
by vinceguidry on Thursday May 08, 2014 @11:53PM
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The question, "is consciousness computable?" appears to me to be asking something different than "can computation done by consciousness be simulated?" The former seems to be asking if you can compute the state of consciousness given some starting conditions.
As an entangled quantum state is impossible to compute, it would seem that trying to compute the state of consciousness would be similarly impossible.