[MD] Quantum computing

[Magnus Berg]

Hi Platt

> As one more familiar with QM than most you may find the following article 
> of interest. Subsequently I would be interested in your comments about it.
> It's at: 
> 
> http://www.theamericanscholar.org/sp07/newtheory-lanza.html


I sympathize with the problems you see with "experience creates the world". He 
did mention the time before life existed, even back to the big bang, but I'm not 
sure he saw the problem with it. If life is required to create reality, then it 
means that the first life created some "small bang" of its own, and then moved 
around his newly created bubble of experience and created the world as it moved 
along.

The obvious problem here is that the world created by early life forms, are 
exactly the same world we still see today, because we can see the traces of the 
early life form. And the world we see today, is extremely well organized and, as 
he said himself, suited for life, stars, planets, etc. How is it possible that 
the earliest life forms could conjure up something that coherent in their minds?

I'd say he's too life-centered and doesn't give the inorganic level any reality 
status of its own, as the MoQ does. The MoQ says that reality is the result of 
Quality Events, and those can happen between inorganic patterns without any 
traces of life nearby.

But his thoughts about the big bang are rather interesting, especially in 
conjunction with the "small bang" that his first life was supposed to create.

The starting point of his universe was when the first life created a "small 
bang". Since he doesn't acknowledge reality without life, it means that his 
world was created when the first life emerged. But since the MoQ acknowledges 
that there was a world before that, an inorganic world, we can see that what he 
talks about is just the first biological patterns that emerged from inorganic 
building blocks.

Now, if we then go back to the big bang with this in mind, we can see the exact 
same thing happening there, only one level below. The big bang happened when the 
first inorganic patterns emerged from the level below, the quantum level. But I 
guess you could call it DQ if you're not inclined to adding levels right now.

	Magnus