-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 <FNORD> 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
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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. A new Hilaritas Press print edition of RAW's Quantum Psychology just hit the nables. Those who are short of ready cash or just so inclined will find PDF copies of earlier editions floating around here and there. The folks who curate the Wilson cannon don't mind; Bob would have wanted it that way. http://www.hilaritaspress.com/portfolio-item/quantum-psychology/ </FNORD> :o) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJXz2hNAAoJEECU6c5XzmuqhykH/30JN1LqlBscQuncWNhMOUNf VB43ZgCiNLLTHhMD5H9vsewftabjPaddgq0qIJABglhzI9/ESXUvTR2hy/cw0Op8 IC2/H+MUGzyiRDk9ipR4yswUsM6dvnieFisi7MvESgu61oVVf659qgKlGevb3SBj U1gSAWbFvfy+n3FY7HnWGvnq/WHJeLs7hgrk8wiT+xqRm9FP03lb6g41LjwS0Gs9 ez0zrQ2ViqUv1VnfC9x5S93V/vmVLXY6hcq6goZRY38K3n+9Sj3a+BY9oOoVkesj 5tYFBWIgxuO7DqDCHgQHac3jmkc2azs5UZ/NcGGmesiYwl7McDg3P36EaTZaOd0= =u+zg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----