{"id":2588,"date":"2021-01-26T23:45:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T23:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1335657"},"modified":"2021-01-26T23:45:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T23:45:40","slug":"how-quantum-computers-could-hack-our-brains-with-fake-memories-like-total-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"How quantum computers could hack our brains with fake memories like Total Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image\/neural?filter_last=1&amp;fit=1280%2C640&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F01%2Ftotalrecall.jpg&amp;signature=148b2a52f6db84336aca1e6531cc4799\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Quantum computers, according to experts, will one day be capable of performing incredible calculations and nearly unfathomable feats of logic. In the near future, we know they\u2019ll help us discover new drugs to fight disease and new materials to build with. But the far future potential for these enigmatic machines is as vast as the universe itself.<\/p>\n<p>The realm of classic science fiction is littered with ideas that today\u2019s experts believe lie within the realm of reality \u2013 if not today\u2019s reality, then perhaps tomorrow\u2019s quantum computer-laden one. One of those ideas comes straight out of a Paul Verhoeven film from over thirty years ago: <em>Total Recall<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness, the film (we\u2019re talking about the 1990 one starring the former governor of California not the 2012 remake) was based on a short story by Phillip K Dick. But for the purposes of this article we\u2019ll be discussing the movie\u2019s depiction of \u201cRekall,\u201d a mysterious company portrayed in the film.<\/p>\n<p>Rekall is a fictional company in the business of putting people to sleep and giving them artificial memories. The big idea there is that not everyone has the time or money for a fancy vacation to somewhere exotic like, for example, Mars, so Rekall has a machine that can give you the memories of a trip you never actually took.<\/p>\n<p>The protagonist in the film, played by Arnold Schwarzenegger at his campy, awesome, best, visits the Rekall facility and ends up sucked into a world of intrigue where he\u2019s never quite sure whether he\u2019s experiencing base reality or if he\u2019s merely stuck in a computer-generated memory.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RtoJBv-YHUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Join the club,&nbsp;Governor. Humans in general, it\u2019s often posited by quantum physicists, can\u2019t quite be sure whether we live in base reality or just some tunnel-vision version afforded by our limited perspective. Maybe we\u2019re in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">computer simulation<\/a>. Perhaps we only exist in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alwayssunny\/status\/1070034138822991872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">dreams of a turtle floating in space<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fact of the matter is that reality, one way or another, boils down to whatever our brains believe it is. And this makes the idea of altering our memories, and thus our realities, all the more appealing \u2013 or terrifying, depending on how you look at it.<\/p>\n<p>The movie doesn\u2019t quite explain how this is accomplished, but it stands to reason that the people at Rekall have managed to get themselves read\/write privileges to the human brain. I&nbsp;think we can assume how they accomplish this has to do with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/content\/113\/31\/8753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">quantum biophotons<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Current research on the brain indicates that biophotons play a huge role in how the brain communicates with itself and, potentially, all the cells in the human body. In fact, scientists ranging from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2010\/12\/17\/198375\/the-puzzling-role-of-biophotons-in-the-brain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Roger Penrose<\/a> (Stephen Hawking\u2019s long-time research partner) all the way to a pair of physicists published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/physicsworld.com\/a\/do-quantum-effects-play-a-role-in-consciousness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">current issue of Physics World<\/a> have postulated that <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.info\/light\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">light<\/a> is the language of quantum mechanics.<\/p>\n<p><span>In theory, this means the manipulation of light should be useful in sending and decoding signals to and from the human brain. If we can speak the brain\u2019s language by finding a way to get artificial biophotonics into the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S1571064513001188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">microtubules<\/a>\u201d that some scientists believe the quantum universe uses to exchange information, we might be able to hijack the signal and tell our brains to believe <em>whatever we want it to<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Maybe you write a light-based code that tells your brain you had a lovely vacation on Mars last month. Or maybe your brain is being fed the lie that you\u2019re a regular person on Earth reading a story about quantum mechanics on <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/\"><em>Neural<\/em><\/a> when in reality you\u2019re a prisoner on some far away space colony being used as a living battery.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Either way, it\u2019ll take more than a traditional supercomputer and a flashlight to pull it off. If we assume the human brain <em>recalls<\/em> memories rather than <em>stores<\/em> them (because <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/No-cloning_theorem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">quantum data cannot be copied<\/a>), then we can\u2019t simply copy\/paste data into it. We\u2019d have to give our brains the actual experience via light-based quantum manipulation. And that\u2019s something we\u2019d almost certainly need a quantum computing machine and some incredibly adaptive quantum&nbsp;algorithms for.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published January 26, 2021 \u2014 23:45 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2021\/01\/26\/how-quantum-computers-could-hack-our-brains-with-fake-memories-like-total-recall\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers, according to experts, will one day be capable of performing incredible calculations and nearly unfathomable feats of logic. In the near future, we know they\u2019ll help us discover new drugs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}