Are We Quantum Brains, or Merely Clever Robots?
Event Start:
2018-11-14T19:30:00
Event End:
2018-11-14T21:00:00
Event Information:
The effort to design and build quantum computers in the laboratory is now a billion dollar enterprise. But might we, ourselves, be quantum computers? Most scientists think that in the warm wet brain, this is highly unlikely; and certainly it would be at variance with what the medical profession believes. My strategy is one of reverse engineering, seeking to identify the biochemical substrate and mechanisms that could host such putative quantum processing.
Event Location:
Earth Sciences Building - RM 1013 (2207 Main Mall) UBC
Speaker:
Matthew Fisher - University of California, Santa Barbara
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Event Start:
2018-11-14T19:30:00
Event End:
2018-11-14T21:00:00
Are We Quantum Brains, or Merely Clever Robots?
Event Information:
The effort to design and build quantum computers in the laboratory is now a billion dollar enterprise. But might we, ourselves, be quantum computers? Most scientists think that in the warm wet brain, this is highly unlikely; and certainly it would be at variance with what the medical profession believes. My strategy is one of reverse engineering, seeking to identify the biochemical substrate and mechanisms that could host such putative quantum processing.
Event Location:
Earth Sciences Building - RM 1013 (2207 Main Mall) UBC