You cannot necessarily solve the most profound problems right away. In 2011 I immersed myself in Deutsch’s worldview when The Wall Street Journal asked me to review his book The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World, which argues that the quest for knowledge is infinite. He has received the Paul Dirac Prize and Medal from the Institute of Physics for ‘outstanding contributions to theoretical physics’. In the case of consciousness I think that there are genuine problems, for instance the problem of what are qualia (such as the subjective experience of seeing red). "This prejudice against AGI ... it's very akin to people's fear of teenagers," says Deutsch. David has 7 jobs listed on their profile. That is the kind of relationship, I think, that consciousness has with physics; the explanation of consciousness again needs a different mode of explanation, except that for consciousness it has not yet been invented, that is the problem. That will happen with quantum computers I am sure. Expressing the theories of physics in the language and notation of quantum computation makes them clearer and gives us a deeper understanding of what they mean. Before quantum computation the prototype experiments which would demonstrate the existence of parallel universes were things like the two-slit experiment where the number of universes involved is small. How could such a thing ever happen? See also my 2011 Bloggingheads.tv interview with Deutsch. Later, he became one of the main exponents of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the multiverse. Horgan: Do you believe in what Steven Weinberg has called a “final theory” in physics? The Fabric of Reality is a clearly-written book, intelligible even for those of us who are not scientists. For that reason, it’s possible to argue that Shannon has had a bigger influence on 21st century technology than anybody in history. This among other exotic properties is what allows quantum computers to be so powerful and quantum cryptography to be perfectly secure. I also do not believe in insoluble problems, therefore I believe that this explanation is accessible in principle to reason, and that one day we will understand consciousness just as we today understand what life is, whereas once this was a deep mystery. Why do you think there is such a strong reaction to this theory in the scientific community? The analogy that he draws is with conservation laws such as the conservation of energy. Quantum theory explains all these phenomena to the limits of present day experiment perfectly, and it is, according to some measures anyway, the best corroborated theory in the history of science. If quantum computers can be built economically then they will have an impact because of Grover’s algorithm.
You also explain the ‘single particle interference’ experiment and argue that there are intangible shadow particles, and then that there are parallel universes each of which is similar to the tangible one. The big unanswered question about constructor theory is how useful it will turn out to be.
How will this theory help to explain man’s existence in the world? Deutsch is fascinated by the fundamental properties of reality and for him a deeper explanation is reason enough to explore further. Renowned physicist David Deutsch on the evolving question of what it means - and what it might one day mean - to be human. These people routinely manipulate individual atoms and individual photons, and engineer interactions between them and measure them with extraordinary precision, and they are very optimistic about the possibility of building working quantum computers. And in that respect, I thought that quantum theory was the more promising. David Deutsch, né le 18 mai 1953, est un physicien israélo-britannique, professeur de physique à l'université d'Oxford. Subscribers get more award-winning coverage of advances in science & technology. See Q&As with Steven Weinberg, George Ellis, Carlo Rovelli, Edward Witten, Scott Aaronson, Sabine Hossenfelder, Priyamvada Natarajan, Garrett Lisi, Paul Steinhardt, Lee Smolin, Robin Hanson, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Stuart Kauffman, Christof Koch, Rupert Sheldrake, Sheldon Solomon, and Stephen Wolfram.
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