Scott Aaronson: Quantum Supremacy, Consciousness, Universe, Information | Hrvoje Kukina Podcast #17

I had a wonderful conversation with Professor Scott Aaronson, a brilliant computer scientist who specializes in computational complexity theory and quantum computing. Professor Aaronson and I discussed the biggest practical and theoretical challenges that need to be solved before we see widespread useful quantum computers, the significance of quantum supremacy, the nature of intelligence and creativity, Grover's algorithm, the nature of reality and its relation to quantum mechanics, computation, information, and consciousness, whether consciousness can be fully explained computationally, Roger Penrose's theory that consciousness could be linked with quantum effects, whether understanding quantum computation could offer insights into the computational limits or possibilities of biological systems, including the brain, the role of computation in our understanding of the universe, whether the universe itself is fundamentally computational, what the term 'computationally hard' tells us about the limits of human knowledge or the structure of reality itself, whether some problems are 'hard' to solve, whether the randomness of quantum phenomena suggests that there are limits to how much of the universe we can compute or predict, whether the future of linear algebra is random, given the rapidly growing area of randomized linear algebra, what the concept of 'information' means in a philosophical sense, especially in quantum mechanics, and whether quantum mechanics suggests a more fundamental understanding of what information is. Scott Aaronson LINKS: Blog: https://scottaaronson.blog/ Website: https://www.scottaaronson.com/ Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Aaronson Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EYv2BNQAAAAJ&hl=en Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-aaronson-829146251 Hrvoje Kukina LINKS: Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/HrvojeKukina Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hrvojekukina/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hrvojekukina/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kukinahrvoje/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@HarvKukina Support my work: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HrvojeKukina PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/HrvojeKukina Contact: info[at]hrvojekukina.com Recommended content: The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything (Michio Kaku): https://amzn.to/3LMVtj7 The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion (Sean Carroll): https://amzn.to/3JMqi4z A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking): https://amzn.to/42HDIaG Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe (Brian Greene): https://amzn.to/3THwEqu Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray (Sabine Hossenfelder): https://amzn.to/40ErDBz Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization (Neil deGrasse Tyson): https://amzn.to/3LN0LuL Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Carlo Rovelli): https://amzn.to/3z7eEMY Quantum Physics for Beginners (Bestseller): https://amzn.to/3z7dDo8 Quantum Physics and the Power of the Mind (Bestseller): https://amzn.to/3FQiz4o #QuantumComputer #QuantumInformation #Consciousness