• My first sense that the Evolution 2.0, Artificial Intelligence + Origin of Life, $10M Prize challenge was doable was when I ran across to the work of Natalia Ares, et al. on the subject of ultra-strong coupling in qubit systems.
• Qubits are chimeras of sorts; belonging to both the realms of quantum and classical physics at the same time. Thus, making them potentially useful as bridges between the worlds of quantum and classical physics.
• Is it possible to leverage this phenomenon of ultra-strong coupling to create the quantum gate equivalent of a Schmitt trigger? That is, a physical system that takes a quantum interaction as input with corresponding mechanical change in physical shape as output.
• If so, then a quantum gate Schmitt trigger could be used as an active element to construct a molecular version of a finite state machine. At which point, one could then show that the encoder and decoder elements required for the Evo 2.0 challenge would be, at least in principle, constructible.
Project Journal:
Discussions:
• Agency as a physics question,
• Computation by construction,
• Agency is a symphony of choices over time,
• Computation as dance,
• Information as defined relative to agency.
Simulations:
• Classical systems,
• Quantum systems.
Theory:
• Ultra strong coupling in qubit systems.
Conclusions.
• TBD