Lorraine Ford
You believe really that actual computing is complicated, it is generally very simple. It is more complicated with the qubits and quantum computing but not generally.You think really that you are special in understand these computer, there is no magic and difficulties with them . It is an electrical machine simply with inputs and outputs, wires and boxes. We have the inputs and so processings utilising rules for the informations and output results, nothing more, so indeed it does not think, understand or decide, it moves only electricity to make simple with on and off and follow programs , these programs are the instructions. All the things like internet , AI, games are buit in the same logic, we know this. No need to think you are the only one to understand, many understand the basis of actual computers , it is more difficult to explore the general possibilities about the quantum mechanics and the ontology of deep unknowns, a thing that you seem to not be able to explore .That is why probably you assert assumptions.
The ON OFF and binary system with 0 and 1 are very simple to understand, they are indeed represented by voltages , 0 or near 0 for the OFF and around 4 I think if my memory is correct for the computers for the ON, it has been improved in times, the CPUs I know utilise less now, the first computers utilised more voltages. The caluculations of these computers measure simply the levels of these voltages like signals, nothing of odd or difficult. They are simply analytical machine ,
We don t need lessons about the memory, the hardwares, softwares,transistors wich has imporved a lot the systems,inputs, outputs, logical gates .....so we don t need lessons about the if, or, and, not,this and that for the logical relationships. The consciousness has nothing to do with this reasoning and it is not computable and we need deeper parameters for our QFT, SM,quantum mechanics. Your numbers, categories, jumps and this and that are far of the truth with or without your approvement.
Gates, maths, numbers, transistors,circuits, inputs,outputs ,chips,silicon,logical relationships ....has nothing to do with our consciousness. And it is there that many thinkers explore ontological possibilities about this consciousness like Penrose.
The universe is far more complex that the arithmetic logic and the correlated processing system. That is why the quantum computing is different with the qubits. The actual computing is not complicated even with their speed, scales, abstraction, voltage, switch,logic, emory, timing. It is simply a voltage controlled machine, nothing more and it executes instructions,that is all.
Quantum computing is more complex because it does not use simple ON/OFF voltages like classical computers. Instead, it uses quantum states that can exist in superposition and entanglement and the states are more fragile and can be disturbebby noises or heat or others, so they must be very precise because it is about probabilities and interferences mainly .
Consciousness enters deeper ontological territory because, unlike computation, it is subjective and this you don t understand, we have not defined or proved the physical and ontological cause of the consciousness.To understand this you must forget the voltage and circuit abd focus on qualia and this qualia cannot be measured , thois consciousness has nothing to do with the actual classical computation , and the quantum computing is intriguing ontologically speaking , nobody here on the forum has told that the actual AI were conscious, we explore possibilities for thre future and the technology of this quantum computing. Quantum theories of consciousness arise not because quantum mechanics is required for computation, but because quantum physics challenges classical notions of reality (observer, measurement, non-locality), opening philosophical space to question whether mind, observation, and physical reality are more deeply linked than classical mechanics allows.
Classical computing is the complexity of engineering, but the quantum computing is the complexity of reality itself and the consciousness is the complexity of being and experience this reality. A thing that you don t understand.
