Neil Gershenfeld
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first heard May 2023
last heard May 2023
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not in the intelligence in the transistors or in the brain, but in the embodied intelligence, in the intelligence in our body.
Right, and there's a brain centrism that assumes our intelligence is centered in our brain.
In endless ways in this conversation, we've been talking about molecular intelligence.
Our molecular systems do a deep kind of artificial intelligence.
All the things you think of as artificial intelligence does in
Representing knowledge, storing knowledge, searching over knowledge, adapting to knowledge, our molecular systems do.
But the output isn't just a thought, it's us.
It's the evolution of us.
And that's, you know, the real horizon to come is now embodying AI, not just a processor and a robot, but, you know, building systems that really can grow and evolve.
Yeah.
I won't name names, but if you know who I'm talking about, it's probably clear.
I once did a drive, in fact, up to the Mussolini era villa outside Torino in the early days of what became quantum computing with a famous person who thinks about quantum mechanics and consciousness.
And we had the most infuriating conversation that went roughly along the lines of,
consciousness is weird, quantum mechanics is weird, therefore quantum mechanics explains consciousness.
That was roughly the logical process.
No, and I say that very precisely in the following sense.
I was a program manager, somewhat by accident, in a DARPA program on quantum biology.
And so biology...
trivially uses quantum mechanics and that were made out of atoms.
But the distinction is in quantum computing, quantum information, you need quantum coherence.
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