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Linking Biological and Synthetic Qubits - Hartmut Neven - 12/16/2025

CONSCIOUSNESS & REALITY 2025-26 SERIES Colloquium by Hartmut Neven, Vice President of Engineering at Google and the Founder of the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, delivered on 12/16/2025. DESCRIPTION In this talk, I will motivate the conjecture that conscious experience arises whenever a quantum mechanical superposition forms. I will explain why this conjecture aligns better with the theory of special relativity than one where consciousness is attributed to the collapse of a superposition (an earlier proposal by Roger Penrose). I will then outline an experimental program, that involves coherently linking biological qubits within a brain to synthetic qubits in a quantum computer, to test the conjecture. If our conjecture holds, then such a connection should enable us to expand a subject's experience and shape the qualia associated with that experience. ABOUT THE SERIES The Consciousness & Reality (C&R) colloquium series promotes interdisciplinary investigations on mind, cognition, consciousness, and the nature of reality. All recordings from this series are available at www.imics.org/seminars.