As AI improves, the mystery of consciousness interests more programmers and physicists.
Karla Lant explains:
This is probably in part because of the way that the "observer effect" challenged one of science's most basic tenets: that there is an objective, observable reality that exists whether we're looking at it or not. The revelation that observing and measuring quantum effects changes their behavior is troubling, but it also suggests to many people that consciousness itself is part of quantum theory. Moreover, as humans creating AI that, for all its achievements still can't master some of the things that come so easily to our own minds (at least not yet), we are bound to see a blurry reflection of ourselves in quantum computers, which promise to achieve so much more than ordinary computers ever could.
• Is Your Mind Quantum? (YouTube / metaRising via Futurism)
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