<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 4, 2015  Rafal Smigrodzki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>> What you [Mike Dougherty is] asking is, whether identity and consciousness  might possibly require *all* of the information processing that happens in our brain, i.e. there is no redundancy.</div><div>Maybe. We'll find out in the next 20 - 30 years.</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Maybe less if the current rate of development of Quantum Computers continues at its present rate. This was in today's issue of the journal Nature:<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nature.com/articles/nature14270.epdf?referrer_access_token=5eOcIrxJit57oQ9AbgUbcNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Nl3_SWJL2Yj5LBgXNo8IyXld_hUdCO7LMnjkzAUvEu1ETPBAMDGRQAzb51sv1KX3628izQUsDesAmmBuYpNfD3zJeEJgdakb-4n-9r6NfFMDcXMb7brdrg8GdxwCaK0AOtkOpERCNsLwWYs-_5SqvkD9LCpvhDijqiyzBWHOBtp9ZYlXdPGD3zqb5YUFaPXTlLU2-2-0C_A7cpb1g9xJzt&tracking_referrer=www.nytimes.com">http://www.nature.com/articles/nature14270.epdf?referrer_access_token=5eOcIrxJit57oQ9AbgUbcNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0Nl3_SWJL2Yj5LBgXNo8IyXld_hUdCO7LMnjkzAUvEu1ETPBAMDGRQAzb51sv1KX3628izQUsDesAmmBuYpNfD3zJeEJgdakb-4n-9r6NfFMDcXMb7brdrg8GdxwCaK0AOtkOpERCNsLwWYs-_5SqvkD9LCpvhDijqiyzBWHOBtp9ZYlXdPGD3zqb5YUFaPXTlLU2-2-0C_A7cpb1g9xJzt&tracking_referrer=www.nytimes.com</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The New York times also had a article about it:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/science/quantum-computing-nature-google-uc-santa-barbara.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/05/science/quantum-computing-nature-google-uc-santa-barbara.html?_r=0</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>  John K Clark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>New York Times:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></div>