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by unrealhoang 1465 days ago
> We have yet to find a single shred of evidence that the human brain makes use of quantum principles in aggregate to do its thing, and have even specifically excluded a few such explanations. And even if consciousness strictly requires quantum hardware...we'll get there eventually.

Isn't a random generator for a neural network act as its "inception"? If so, it's exactly quantum principles in aggregate.
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tsimionescu 1465 days ago
Why would a random generator be important for a neutral network?

Furthermore, not all sources of noise/randomness arise from quantum measurement (the only part of QM which can be interpreted to have randomness at all). Classical chaotic systems are also random if you were unable to measure the initial conditions to cosmic precision.

In fact, it's unclear at the moment how QM can actually give rise to randomness. In principle, in QM a perfectly isolated system of any complexity would behave entirely linearly with no randomness or even any chaos involved.

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mrshadowgoose 1465 days ago
One does not require true random number generation to perform SGD. And once trained, most neural networks in-use today are completely deterministic. So no.

You are also making a baseless assertion that consciousness requires randomness of any kind, let alone quantum-based true random number generation.

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