Re: Quantum entanglement as upload checksum?

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Mar 05 2003 - 02:21:43 MST

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    At 12:33 AM 3/4/03 +0100, Anders wrote:

    >The uploading process will likely cause the entanglement to be lost;
    >while I doubt anybody will ever try to measure every electron in a brain
    >during an upload, such a process is very likely to cause a lot of
    >decoherence and hence have roughly the same effect as a random
    >disturbance of the electron.

    This tangentially invokes once more the question whether there's a special
    relationship between consciousness and QT, which has been discussed in a
    provocative and perhaps preposterously over-concrete way by physicist Evan
    Harris Walker:

    http://users.rcn.com/wcri/wcri/Consciousness%20Intro.htm

    Damien Broderick



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