Quantum Computers

John Newman jnn at synfin.org
Wed Sep 7 10:58:20 PDT 2016


> On Sep 6, 2016, at 9:07 PM, Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:
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>> On 09/06/2016 01:43 PM, Xer0Dynamite wrote:
>>> On 9/6/16, jim bell <jdb10987 at 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.
> 


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




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