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Google's Quantum Computer accurately simulates a molecule
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Can you imagine it takes that much computational power to simulate just one hydrogen molecule, one of the simplest molecules in the universe, and scientists think life itself is just an accident of time? Amazing.
(yes, I freely admit that is an argument from incredulity. But dang it. I am simply amazed at this universe that God created)
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostCan you imagine it takes that much computational power to simulate just one hydrogen molecule, one of the simplest molecules in the universe, and scientists think life itself is just an accident of time? Amazing.
(yes, I freely admit that is an argument from incredulity. But dang it. I am simply amazed at this universe that God created)"Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from trolling."
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Originally posted by TheLurch View PostI think that's the big area of common ground that frequently gets lost in the arguments. Regardless of what your faith is or whether you lack faith entirely, we all stand in awe at the astonishing things we've found out about the universe (or would, if more of us took the time to think about it). I think back on all that we've discovered since i've started paying attention, and then marvel at the fact that we're likely to discover just as much in the next 40 years.
I remember not so long ago that futurists were predicting that we would be able to model an entire human brain in a computer by now. Man they were wrong. I think we are still struggling to model something like an ant's brain.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostCan you imagine it takes that much computational power to simulate just one hydrogen molecule, one of the simplest molecules in the universe, and scientists think life itself is just an accident of time? Amazing.
(yes, I freely admit that is an argument from incredulity. But dang it. I am simply amazed at this universe that God created)
What the computer must do that is to simulate the very complicated Quantum Mechanics of the basic particles of matter which is the problem. Once that is done any of the elements and many molecules may be simulated.
Fortunately they cannot simulate God, actual Creation and Revelation. Neither can they package it in one book and take it home.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostYes it is unfortunately and argument from incredulity.
What the computer must do that is to simulate the very complicated Quantum Mechanics of the basic particles of matter which is the problem. Once that is done any of the elements and many molecules may be simulated.
Fortunately they cannot simulate God, actual Creation and Revelation. Neither can they package it in one book and take it home.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI never made any such claims. I am just awed how complex even the simplest of things are in this universe.
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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostOK! I am also awed at the nature of our existence, but that in and of itself does not offer the basis for the argument for the existence of God.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostYeah, less than a hundred years ago we didn't even know about DNA and thought life was so simple. Now we realize that a single molecule is so complex that it takes a quantum super computer to model just one hydrogen atom.
Originally posted by Sparko View PostI remember not so long ago that futurists were predicting that we would be able to model an entire human brain in a computer by now. Man they were wrong. I think we are still struggling to model something like an ant's brain."Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from trolling."
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostI remember not so long ago that futurists were predicting that we would be able to model an entire human brain in a computer by now. Man they were wrong. I think we are still struggling to model something like an ant's brain.
Last edited by shunyadragon; 07-27-2016, 07:46 PM.
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yep I have a degree in digital electronics and have been active in computer science since 1980. theoretically we might one day model a human brain, but that is a long way off. It might never be able to be done. they can model the "hardware" (neurons, various areas of the brain) but the mind might not be doable. we just dont know enough about the brain and mind to model it even if we had the computational power to do it. maybe if they develop a way to do a brain scan at the cellular level. but who knows.
But futurists like Kurtzweil love to predict such things are only 10 years away. they are generally overly optimistic on AI and such things
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