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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:07 PM
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Quantum mechanic Seth Lloyd says we really are controlled by a computer
Life, the Universe, and Everything

If I have one new message to convey in my book, it's that the universe is a system where the very specific details and structures in it are created when quantum bits de-cohere - choose one path out of multiple possibilities - and that this process is identical to quantum computation. That is what I mean by programming the universe.


http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.03/play.html?pg=4
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 10:09 PM
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1. _
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:01 PM
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2. Dude! That's totally de-coherent
:rofl:
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qazplm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 02:24 AM
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4. There is no spoon!
(and I know Kung-Fu!)
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Skinner ADMIN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 09:54 AM
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6. LOL
:D
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 11:03 PM
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3. Cool. What's quantum computation?
:popcorn:
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 08:47 AM
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5. Apparently, the disambiguation or universal uncertainly.
Only nothing is omnipotential enough to give rise to everything.
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 11:43 AM
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7. You dropped a
Bohm :evilgrin:
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 11:46 AM
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8. LOL.
Playing with words in such fun.
:rofl:
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omega minimo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 12:09 PM
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9. It was implicated in your explication:
"Only nothing is omnipotential enough to give rise to everything."

:yoiks: :hi:
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 12:28 PM
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10. Certainly he would come to mind.
I actually think I stole if from "The Laws of Form" by G. Spencer Brown, and I would expect there would be quite a few others nowadays.
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