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lesman wishing to find the shortest route between all the cities in which he had customers. The complexity of this problem rises much faster than the Rice and Chess Board problem. Try it for yourself. It doesn’t matter if you imagine you are visiting customers or shops. I have given you a grid to count

ents believe making a thinking machine is just a matter of building a really large, fast neural network and working out how to train it efficiently. Quantum Brains Conventional wisdom says each brain cell is a single processing unit making an on-off decision — fire, or don't fire - depending on the state

as logical problems. Where is the logic limit for life? We have no answer for this yet, but we do know the logic limit for computing; it is given by Rice’s Theorem. Named after Henry Rice, and proven in 1951 as part of his doctoral thesis at Syracuse University, Rice’s Theorem states: “No nontrivial f

itatively different to a traditional computer in order to break the Turing limit. The obvious place to turn is the quantum world. Quantum Computers Quantum computers have had an extraordinary run in the press recently. It has been variously claimed they offer limitless computing power and can break all k

SE_OVERSIGHT_016080 Bibliography 391 Reid, Constance. Julia: A Life in Mathematics. Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 1997. Rice, Henry Gordon. “Classes of Recursively Enumerable Sets and Their Decision Problems.” Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 74, no. 2 (195

of the philosophical argument. I also avoid a strongly historical narrative, but if you enjoy the history of science I recommend, The Missing 4%, and Quantum for a really clear exposé of the issues HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016087 398 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? around quantum mechanics, relativity and cosmolo

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ars. And we know that, lingering ahead of us now, as well, are a series of technological leaps that will breed still faster interaction and creation: Quantum computing, for instance, may yet push computer to speeds to 100 billion times faster than what is achievable with older technology. Self-taught, reas