Do you think it will ever be possible to simulate a human mind (or analagous conscious mind) on a deterministic computer?
Do you think it possible in principle that a ‘non-deterministic’ human mind can be simulated on a non-deterministic substrate analagous to our current flesh substrate, such as a quantum computer?
If yes to either, do you think that it is necessary to simulate the mind on the lowest level of physics (e.g. on a true simulated spacetime indistinguishable from the original) or are higer-level abstractions (like building a mathematical model of one neuron and then using this simple equation as a building block) permissible?
(Also, are you just asking about Robert Roger Penrose’s view or is this also your view?)
My intuitive view is that human minds cannot be simulated by turing machines because Qualia are not explained by computation. I beleive Roger Penrose’s views are similar.
However useful Philosophical Zombie like AI can be created by turing computation. I Think the Blindsight novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) describes a world where conscious and non consious intelligences both exist.
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Do you think it will ever be possible to simulate a human mind (or analagous conscious mind) on a deterministic computer?
Do you think it possible in principle that a ‘non-deterministic’ human mind can be simulated on a non-deterministic substrate analagous to our current flesh substrate, such as a quantum computer?
If yes to either, do you think that it is necessary to simulate the mind on the lowest level of physics (e.g. on a true simulated spacetime indistinguishable from the original) or are higer-level abstractions (like building a mathematical model of one neuron and then using this simple equation as a building block) permissible?
(Also, are you just asking about
RobertRoger Penrose’s view or is this also your view?)My intuitive view is that human minds cannot be simulated by turing machines because Qualia are not explained by computation. I beleive Roger Penrose’s views are similar.
However useful Philosophical Zombie like AI can be created by turing computation. I Think the Blindsight novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) describes a world where conscious and non consious intelligences both exist.