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Quantum Music, Quantum Arts and Their Perception

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Quantum Computing in the Arts and Humanities

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The expression of human art, and supposedly sentient art in general, is modulated by the available rendition, receiving and communication techniques. The components or instruments of these techniques ultimately exhibit a physical, in particular, quantum layer, which in turn translates into physical and technological capacities to comprehend and utilize what is possible in our universe. In this sense, we can apply a sort of Church-Turing thesis to art, or at least to its rendition.

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This research was funded in whole, or in part, by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), Project No. I 4579-N. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.

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Putz, V., Svozil, K. (2022). Quantum Music, Quantum Arts and Their Perception. In: Miranda, E.R. (eds) Quantum Computing in the Arts and Humanities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95538-0_5

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