> On 7 Aug 2019, at 20:09, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 8/7/2019 2:26 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> They inherit the many computations in arithmetic to make some sense of the >> counterfactual. Good insight! Yes, even classical computation entails the >> many computations in the background. A priori it is different from the >> interfering one in nature, but then we recover the one in nature by taking >> into account nuance on the selves imposed by incompleteness. > > Strictly speaking there is no classical computation. Classical computers > work with components that consists of atoms and molecules which all are > quantum systems. What makes them "classical" is that decoherence acts at > each step to make the state of components definite.
Definite in the relative way.The same happens in arithmetic. Computation is a classical notion at the start. Decoherence is only entanglement with the environnement. It is the contagion of the superposition of the observed with the observer. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/b2d4fc83-283e-83fd-5d5e-1c23cdbf16ef%40verizon.net. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/155121F2-EB88-4D23-A855-55C0298FFEE2%40ulb.ac.be.
