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arxiv: 0705.1617 · v1 · pith:2DEKLDVYnew · submitted 2007-05-11 · 🪐 quant-ph · astro-ph· cs.AI

Non-Computability of Consciousness

classification 🪐 quant-ph astro-phcs.AI
keywords computationalconsciousnessdiscussedquantumactivitiesanswerbeenbehaviors
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With the great success in simulating many intelligent behaviors using computing devices, there has been an ongoing debate whether all conscious activities are computational processes. In this paper, the answer to this question is shown to be no. A certain phenomenon of consciousness is demonstrated to be fully represented as a computational process using a quantum computer. Based on the computability criterion discussed with Turing machines, the model constructed is shown to necessarily involve a non-computable element. The concept that this is solely a quantum effect and does not work for a classical case is also discussed.

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