You have a box with 2 wires coming out of it. The wires are connected to a display in the box. Looking at the display is either 1) a live awake human, or 2) a dead spider. Can you tell which is which, without opening the box? Can you use the fact that the human observing something causes a quantum collapse, and the spider doesn’t to distinguish them. Can you build a quantum consciousness detector? No.
Suppose I write a simple computer program that takes in data from a quantum physics experiment, and tells me whether the data as a whole is consistent with quantum physics. I don’t know where the photon went on any particular run, all any conscious human sees is a single yes or no. Would you expect the same results. Yes.
I take an emulated human mind, and put the whole thing on an extremely powerful quantum computer. I simulate the mind in a superposition of states. Would you expect the quantum computer to go into a superposition correctly, despite the person being conscious.
Suppose Joe has opinions on the numbers 1 to 1000, he either thinks that they are all good, or all bad, or that some half are good and the other half are bad. If you tell him a number, it will take him 1 minute, to say if its good or bad. It would take a classical computer 501 min worst case to tell if he has the same opinion of all numbers. But a quantum computer can do it in just 2 min. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%E2%80%93Jozsa_algorithm
If you disagree with any of these, we have a factual disagreement about an experimental result. If you agree, then “consciousness” seems to be an invisible inaudible dragon to quantum mechanics. I would have to ask how you know that its consciousness that causes collapse, not DNA.
You have a box with 2 wires coming out of it. The wires are connected to a display in the box. Looking at the display is either 1) a live awake human, or 2) a dead spider. Can you tell which is which, without opening the box? Can you use the fact that the human observing something causes a quantum collapse, and the spider doesn’t to distinguish them. Can you build a quantum consciousness detector? No.
Suppose I write a simple computer program that takes in data from a quantum physics experiment, and tells me whether the data as a whole is consistent with quantum physics. I don’t know where the photon went on any particular run, all any conscious human sees is a single yes or no. Would you expect the same results. Yes.
I take an emulated human mind, and put the whole thing on an extremely powerful quantum computer. I simulate the mind in a superposition of states. Would you expect the quantum computer to go into a superposition correctly, despite the person being conscious.
Suppose Joe has opinions on the numbers 1 to 1000, he either thinks that they are all good, or all bad, or that some half are good and the other half are bad. If you tell him a number, it will take him 1 minute, to say if its good or bad. It would take a classical computer 501 min worst case to tell if he has the same opinion of all numbers. But a quantum computer can do it in just 2 min. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%E2%80%93Jozsa_algorithm
If you disagree with any of these, we have a factual disagreement about an experimental result. If you agree, then “consciousness” seems to be an invisible inaudible dragon to quantum mechanics. I would have to ask how you know that its consciousness that causes collapse, not DNA.