Is the mind a quantum computer?

Journal title EPISTEMOLOGIA
Author/s Claudio Calosi
Publishing Year 2014 Issue 2013/2 Language English
Pages 13 P. 194-206 File size 620 KB
DOI 10.3280/EPIS2013-002002
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The paper provides a critical assessment of Quantum Artificial Intelligence, roughly the view that the human mind can be effectively simulated by a quantum computer. In particular it raises several independent problems for such a view, namely a supervenience problem, a quantum measurement problem, a decoherence problem and an indiscernibility problem.

Keywords: Mechanicism, quantum computation, artificial intelligence, quantum measurement, decoherence, quantum indistinguishability

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Claudio Calosi, Is the mind a quantum computer? in "EPISTEMOLOGIA" 2/2013, pp 194-206, DOI: 10.3280/EPIS2013-002002