Scientists Plan to Link the Human Brain with a Quantum Computer

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-03 18:02:44 | Updated at 2025-01-09 15:05:37 5 days ago

Scientists Plan to Link the Human Brain with a Quantum Computer
Anomalien ^ | Jan 2, 2025

Posted on 01/03/2025 9:51:22 AM PST by BenLurkin

Consciousness defines what it means to be human, yet its mechanisms remain elusive. Scientists know that anesthetics can “turn off” consciousness, but how they achieve this is still unclear.

Two dominant theories attempt to explain consciousness: the Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which posits that consciousness arises from the integration of information, and the Global Workspace Theory (GWT), which suggests it emerges from the exchange of information across different parts of the brain.

In 1989, British mathematician and Nobel laureate Roger Penrose proposed an unconventional hypothesis linking consciousness to quantum entanglement. He argued that the human mind could solve problems that traditional computers cannot, hinting at underlying quantum processes.

For decades, his idea remained on the fringes of scientific inquiry—until evidence surfaced suggesting that microtubules in neurons might provide a stable environment for quantum entanglement.

Google’s Hartmut Neven has proposed an even more radical theory.

They suggest that consciousness may arise not from the collapse of a quantum superposition, as Penrose theorized, but at the moment of its formation. This opens the door to groundbreaking experiments that could potentially “extend” human consciousness by linking it to a quantum computer.

The researchers hypothesize that brain states interacting with a quantum computer would generate an extended quantum superposition, perceived as an enriched conscious experience.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: consciousness; humanbrain; quantum; quantumcomputer

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1 posted on 01/03/2025 9:51:22 AM PST by BenLurkin

To: BenLurkin

What could possibly go wrong.......go wrong......go wrong.......

2 posted on 01/03/2025 9:52:06 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)

To: BenLurkin

“We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”

3 posted on 01/03/2025 9:53:38 AM PST by kosciusko51

To: SunkenCiv

... interacting with a quantum computer would generate an extended quantum superposition, perceived as an enriched conscious experience....

4 posted on 01/03/2025 9:54:18 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)

To: BenLurkin

5 posted on 01/03/2025 9:57:17 AM PST by Skwor

To: Red Badger

Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 AM Eastern Time, August 29...

6 posted on 01/03/2025 9:57:41 AM PST by pburiak (You really think we can vote our way out of this? That’s so cute...)

To: BenLurkin

Just give me some additional RAM and I’d be good.

7 posted on 01/03/2025 10:01:24 AM PST by plain talk

To: BenLurkin

These scientists are dangerous kooks.

I prefer the old days of Witch Doctors.

8 posted on 01/03/2025 10:02:13 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)

To: BenLurkin

No computer can replicate the female aspect of consciousness. A machine cannot replicate compassion, empathy, and emotion.

While they can program a computer to imitate it, they cannot replicate it.

The human soul has both aspects of consciousness, no matter a person’s gender. While men tend to be dominant masculine and women dominate feminine, that is no longer true in all cases.

The ultimate goal in soul growth is for each of us to develop both equally and bind them together with Love. That is what leads to “Transcendence”, the ultimate goal that all religions are trying to teach.

This is why Paul explained that husband and wife become One in the eyes of God, but it is better to remain single.

The problem with masculine consciousness alone is that without compassion, empathy and emotion, the soul tends to take on a self centered narcissistic attributes.

9 posted on 01/03/2025 10:02:16 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )

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