{"id":210,"date":"2007-03-15T11:53:44","date_gmt":"2007-03-15T19:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2007-03-15T11:53:44","modified_gmt":"2007-03-15T19:53:44","slug":"quantum-computing-since-democritus-lecture-105-penrose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Computing Since Democritus Lecture 10.5: Penrose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve eaten your polynomial-time meatloaf and your BQP brussels sprouts.   So now please enjoy a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/democritus\/lec10.5.html\">special dessert lecture<\/a>, which I didn&#8217;t even deliver in class except as a brief coda to Lecture 10.  Watch me squander any remaining credibility, as I pontificate about Roger Penrose&#8217;s G\u00f6del argument, strong AI, the No-Cloning Theorem, and whether or not the brain is a quantum computer.  So gravitationally collapse your microtubules to the basis state |fun\u232a, because even a Turing machine could assent to the proposition that you&#8217;re in for a wild ride!<\/p>\n<p>(<font color=\"red\"><strong>Important Note:<\/strong><\/font> If you belong to a computer science department hiring committee, there is <em>nothing whatsoever in this lecture that could possibly interest you<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve eaten your polynomial-time meatloaf and your BQP brussels sprouts. So now please enjoy a special dessert lecture, which I didn&#8217;t even deliver in class except as a brief coda to Lecture 10. Watch me squander any remaining credibility, as I pontificate about Roger Penrose&#8217;s G\u00f6del argument, strong AI, the No-Cloning Theorem, and whether or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democritus","category-metaphysical-spouting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}