Dear Russell, I am soo happy, BTW, that you participate in this list!
On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 09:08:04PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: > > Dear Russell, > > > > I would agree with you IFF the substitution level is way above the > > micro-scale. Molecules do operate quantum mechanically and molecules are > > above the substitution level. So I am skeptical. > > Virtual reality in silico would have to have have a quantum level > > resolution do do what D.D. would like. I think that we should take his > > teleportation into the past = a VR of the past with a large dose of salt. > > What was it that Feynman said about simulating the quantum with classical > > machines? Something about exponential slow down. So I guess that we could > > run a VR of the past, but it would be freaking expensive and not last > long. > > > > Who said we had to use a classical machine? At this point in time, > large quantum computers appear to be feasible, and this would get > around the difficulty you mention. > > Ultimately, all that is required is to generate information at the > rate at which we perceive it - large, certainly, by today's > technology - but certainly finite and down to Earth. > > But would we not have to destructively scan the system to be able to implement in on the Q-computer. No cloning! It seems that QM demands a very strong form of FPI! I can not even know for sure by inspection of its states what computation it is. All I can gleam is a distribution of possible outputs given some prepared state. > > -- Kindest Regards, Stephen Paul King -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
