On Sep 6, 2016, at 9:07 PM, Steve Kinney <admin@pilobilus.net> wrote:
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On 09/06/2016 01:43 PM, Xer0Dynamite wrote:
On 9/6/16, jim bell <jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-09-06/quantum-computers- are-coming-the-world-might-not-be-ready?cmpid=yhoo.headline&yptr=yahoo [partial quote] Quantum mechanics, Carl Sagan once observed, is so strange that "common sense is almost useless in approaching it." Scientists still don't understand exactly why matter behaves as it does at the quantum level. Yet they're getting better at exploiting its peculiar dynamics -- in ways that may soon upend the technology business.
Don't buy this line. People don't understand Quantum Mechanics because they believe in Chemistry. It's not at all hard to understand. The only thing that is somewhat difficult is understanding the metaphysics of the scale of things. Don't be fooled by all of the math because there isn't any, apart from the nomenclature developed with QC.
I'm inclined to agree. Both relativity and quantum mechanics are "counter intuitive" because they address events at scales and in contexts not encountered in everyday human sensory experience. But if we do not insist on understanding them through direct analogies with familiar Newtonian mechanics - which simply don't fit - they don't seem bizarre at all.
Robert Anton Wilson did a good job of cutting overblown beliefs about these concepts down to size, here and there through his various works. He also did a bang-up job of explaining how and why subjective human experience does not and can not very closely, or ever completely, mirror "subjective reality" - if any such thing actually exists.
For years my irc handle was hagbard (as in Hagbard Celine). Fucking illuminatus trilogy such a great read !! I feel like Umberto Eco really ripped RAW off with Focaults Pendelum... or maybe it's the other way around, I can't recall when Focaults first came out!! Pretty sure Illuminatus Trilogy was first. John