The suggestion that the origin of consciousness is a quantum weirdness has long been considered a little, well, weird. Critics argue that the idea of quantum consciousness (most famously, that moments of experience arise when quantum superpositions in the brain collapse) merely merges one mystery with another. claim. Furthermore, where is the evidence? But there is also a vocal minority who say the idea should be taken seriously.
Hartmut Neven, who heads Google’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, is one of them. He originally trained as a physicist and computational neuroscientist and later pioneered computer vision, a type of AI that replicates the human ability to understand visual data. Neven then founded Google Quantum AI, which in 2019 became the first lab to claim that its quantum computer had solved calculations impossible on classical computers, a milestone known as quantum supremacy. I did. In December 2024, his team announced further progress with a new quantum processor, Willow, that it claims is more powerful and reliable than previous chips.
However, Naven is also interested in the relationship between mind and matter. Now, he thinks they could be deployed to test the idea of quantum consciousness in quantum computing use cases that no one expected would come to fruition. Neven spoke. new scientist About his belief that we live in a multiverse. Why Roger Penrose’s theory…
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