[MD] Quantum computing

[Magnus Berg]

Hi Platt

> Seems to me that physics at the quantum level is plenty fuzzy, beginning with the
> uncertainly principle, extending through waves of probability, and ending up with
> the mysterious role of consciousness in bringing particles into being. As Richard
> Feynmann is reported to have said, "I think it's safe to say no one understands
> quantum mechanics."

I can agree that no one understands quantum mechanics, but that's not the same 
thing as saying that it's fuzzy. The rules of QM must be extremely well defined 
since they, despite their "unnatural" behavior, support the inorganic level so 
rigidly. Perhaps this is the wrong time to mention this but this is why I think 
QM should be a level of its own beneath the inorganic level.

> What works for me is Pirsig's placing things tangible and objective in the
> inorganic and biological levels and things intangible and subjective in the 
> social and intellectual levels. Besides, I'm becoming more and more convinced
> that evolution has more to do with expanding consciousness than more complex
> societies of flesh and bones. 

But that doesn't work for me, because when we investigate the smallest objects, 
we see that they are not "objective". Photons can be both particles and waves, 
etc. I think Pirsig made that picture (of the four levels being almost like the 
S/O division) to make the MoQ look as easy as possible for beginners. But that's 
not anywhere near the real picture of the levels. How *could* it work in the 
long run? He wrote two books about the S/O division being wrong, so how could 
yet another subdivision of it make it less wrong?

But yes, I can partly agree about your view about evolution. But I would rather 
say that evolution happens all the time in all levels, but the rate of evolution 
is faster in the higher levels so that's what we notice first.

	Magnus