On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 1:00 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List <
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> On 8/6/2019 6:38 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> If the QC does its task effectively, the output basis qbits will be put
> into definite states,
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>
> Relatively to the observer, but in the global state, the observer will
> inherit the superposition state, by linearity of the tensor products and of
> the evolution.
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> In something like Shor's algorithm there is only one final state with
> non-vanishing probability.  Yet this is the kind of algorithm that Deutsch
> cites as proving there must be many worlds.
>

If you trace the causality of the computation backwards, is that not the
implication? (Short of the final answer materializing out of no where for
no reason)

Jason

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