Quantum Computers

[Steve Kinney]

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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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>> 
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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/

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