Mind, Brain, Quantum AI, and the Multiverse

Mind, Brain, Quantum AI, and the Multiverse
Author: Andreas Wichert
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2022-10-11
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000770737

There is a long-lasting controversy concerning our mind and consciousness. Mind, Brain, Quantum AI, and the Multiverse proposes a connection between the mind, the brain, and the multiverse. The author introduces the main philosophical ideas concerning mind and freedom, and explains the basic principles of computer science, artificial intelligence of brain research, quantum physics, and quantum artificial intelligence. He indicates how we can provide an answer to the problem of the mind and consciousness by describing the nature of the physical world. His proposed explanation includes the Everett Many-Worlds theory. This book tries to avoid any non-essential metaphysical speculations. The text is an essential compilation of knowledge in philosophy, computer science, biology, and quantum physics. It is written for readers without any requirements in mathematics, physics, or computer science.

Mind, Brain, Quantum AI, and the Multiverse

Mind, Brain, Quantum AI, and the Multiverse
Author: Andrzej Wichert
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781003244547

Mind, Brain, Quantum AI, and the Multiverse There is a long-lasting controversy concerning our mind and consciousness.This book proposes a connection between the mind, the brain, and the multiverse. The author introduces the main philosophical ideas concerning mind and freedom, and explains the basic principles of computer science, artificial intelligence of brain research, quantum physics, and quantum artificial intelligence. He indicates how we can provide an answer to the problem of the mind and consciousness by describing the nature of the physical world. His proposed explanation includes the Everett Many-Worlds theory. Mind, Brain, Quantum AI, and the Multiverse tries to avoid any non-essential metaphysical speculations. The book is an essential compilation of knowledge in philosophy, computer science, biology, and quantum physics. It is written for readers without any requirements in mathematics, physics, or computer science.

Quantum Artificial Intelligence with Qiskit

Quantum Artificial Intelligence with Qiskit
Author: Andreas Wichert
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2024-01-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1003828329

Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI) is a new interdisciplinary research field that combines quantum computing with Artificial Intelligence (AI), aiming to use the unique properties of quantum computers to enhance the capabilities of AI systems. Quantum Artificial Intelligence with Qiskit provides a cohesive overview of the field of QAI, providing the tools for readers to create and manipulate quantum programs on devices as accessible as a laptop computer. Introducing symbolical quantum algorithms, sub-symbolical quantum algorithms, and quantum Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, this book explains each process step by step with associated Qiskit listings. All examples are additionally available for download at https://github.com/andrzejwichert/qai. Allowing readers to learn the basic concepts of quantum computing on their home computers, this book is accessible to both the general readership as well as students and instructors of courses relating to computer science and AI.

The Future of Humanity

The Future of Humanity
Author: Michio Kaku
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0385542771

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The national bestselling author of The God Equation traverses the frontiers of astrophysics, artificial intelligence, and technology to offer a stunning vision of man's future in space, from settling Mars to traveling to distant galaxies. “Amazing … Kaku is in smooth perfect control of it the entire time.” —The Christian Science Monitor We are entering a new Golden Age of space exploration. With irrepressible enthusiasm and a deep understanding of the cutting-edge research in space travel, world-renowned physicist and futurist Dr. Michio Kaku presents a compelling vision of how humanity may develop a sustainable civilization in outer space. He reveals the developments in robotics, nanotechnology, and biotechnology that may allow us to terraform and build habitable cities on Mars and beyond. He then journeys out of our solar system and discusses how new technologies such as nanoships, laser sails, and fusion rockets may actually make interstellar travel a possibility. We travel beyond our galaxy, and even beyond our universe, as Kaku investigates some of the hottest topics in science today, including warp drive, wormholes, hyperspace, parallel universes, and the multiverse. Ultimately, he shows us how humans may someday achieve a form of immortality and be able to leave our bodies entirely, laser porting to new havens in space.

Mindful Universe

Mindful Universe
Author: Henry P. Stapp
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2007-07-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 3540724133

The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was essentially mindless: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with conscious experiences entering only passively. In the last century these classical concepts were found inadequate. In the new quantum mechanics theory, conscious experiences enter into the dynamics in specified ways not fixed by physically described aspects alone.

The Simulated Multiverse

The Simulated Multiverse
Author: Rizwan Virk
Publisher: Bayview Books, LLC
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2021-10-15
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1954872011

Do multiple versions of ourselves exist in parallel universes living out their lives in different timelines? In this follow up to his bestseller, The Simulation Hypothesis, MIT Computer Scientist and Silicon Valley Game Pioneer Rizwan Virk explores these topics from a new lens: that of simulation theory. If we are living in a digital universe, then many of the complexities and baffling characteristics of our reality start to make more sense. Quantum computing lets us simulate complex phenomena in parallel, allowing the simulation to explore many realities at once to find the most "optimum" path forward. Could this explain not only the enigmatic Mandela Effect but provide us with a new understanding of time and space? Bringing his unique trademark style of combining video games, computer science, quantum physics and computing with lots of philosophy and science fiction, Virk gives us a new way to think about not just our universe, but all possible realities!

Until the End of Time

Until the End of Time
Author: Brian Greene
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2020-02-18
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1524731684

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose, from the world-renowned physicist and best-selling author of The Elegant Universe. "Few humans share Greene’s mastery of both the latest cosmological science and English prose." —The New York Times Until the End of Time is Brian Greene's breathtaking new exploration of the cosmos and our quest to find meaning in the face of this vast expanse. Greene takes us on a journey from the big bang to the end of time, exploring how lasting structures formed, how life and mind emerged, and how we grapple with our existence through narrative, myth, religion, creative expression, science, the quest for truth, and a deep longing for the eternal. From particles to planets, consciousness to creativity, matter to meaning—Brian Greene allows us all to grasp and appreciate our fleeting but utterly exquisite moment in the cosmos.

Cycles of Time

Cycles of Time
Author: Roger Penrose
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2011-09-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307596745

From Nobel prize-winner Roger Penrose, this groundbreaking book is for anyone "who is interested in the world, how it works, and how it got here" (New York Journal of Books). Penrose presents a new perspective on three of cosmology’s essential questions: What came before the Big Bang? What is the source of order in our universe? And what cosmic future awaits us? He shows how the expected fate of our ever-accelerating and expanding universe—heat death or ultimate entropy—can actually be reinterpreted as the conditions that will begin a new “Big Bang.” He details the basic principles beneath our universe, explaining various standard and non-standard cosmological models, the fundamental role of the cosmic microwave background, the paramount significance of black holes, and other basic building blocks of contemporary physics. Intellectually thrilling and widely accessible, Cycles of Time is a welcome new contribution to our understanding of the universe from one of our greatest mathematicians and thinkers.

Our Mathematical Universe

Our Mathematical Universe
Author: Max Tegmark
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307744256

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist. Fascinating from first to last—this is a book that has already prompted the attention and admiration of some of the most prominent scientists and mathematicians.

Shadows of the Mind

Shadows of the Mind
Author: Roger Penrose
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1994
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780195106466

Presents the author's thesis that consciousness, in its manifestation in the human quality of understanding, is doing something that mere computation cannot; and attempts to understand how such non-computational action might arise within scientifically comprehensive physical laws.