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#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Boundary Between Bits and Atoms in Quantum Computing
The real horizon to come is now embodying AI of not just a processor in a robot but you know the building systems that really can grow and evolve. So we've been speaking about this boundary between bits and atoms so let me ask you about one of the big mysteries of consciousness do you think it comes from somewhere between that boundary? I once started a drive up to the Mussolini era villa outside Torino with a famous person who thinks about quantum mechanics and consciousness. 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, he says.
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