What are quantum Turing machines? In today’s Mind Matters News podcast, Dr. Robert J. Marks and Dr. Paul Werbos explore the mind-boggling science of the quantum realm. Tune in to discover Werbos’s thoughts on historical scientists such as Albert Einstein and David Deutsch, the multiverse theory, and Schrödinger’s cat.

Show Notes

• 01:48 | Introducing Dr. Paul Werbos
• 02:07 | David Deutsch’s multiverse model
• 06:39 | The hidden variable and Bell’s theorem
• 10:03 | Hardcore Einstein realism
• 14:01 | Deutsch’s theory of quantum Turing machines
• 21:46 | D-Wave and quantum annealing
• 24:50 | What is annealing?
• 27:07 | What’s the big deal about quantum annealing?

Additional Resources

• Dr. Paul Werbos at IEEE.org
• Paul Werbos’s website
• Paul Werbos’s PhD dissertation introducing error backpropagation used today to train artificial neural networks
• Paul Werbos’s 1972 Proposal to Harvard for Backpropagation and Intelligent Reinforcement System
• Alan Turing, British mathematician and philosopher
• David Deutsch, British physicist
• Hugh Everett, American physicist
• John Wheeler, professor of physics at Princeton University
• “Mind, Brain and Soul From the Viewpoint of Mathematical Realism” at www.werbos.com
• Norbert Wiener, American mathematician and philosopher
• “Analog quantum computing (AQC) and the need for time-symmetric physics” by Paul J. Werbos and Ludmilla Dolmatova at Werbos.com
• Werbos’s YouTube video on True Quantum Annealing
• David Deutsch’s model of reality on YouTube