Ep 168: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 1
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The Progress of Information Processing in the 20th Century
In understanding physical reality we're confronted with problems we have to conjecture solutions and this list of things that David has talked about here is this gradual ratcheting up of knowledge. We can build upon that to go a little bit higher conjecturing all our way never getting to the top never having finality, he says. The invention of computers allowed complex information processing to be performed outside human brains quantum computation which is in its early infancy is a distinct further step in this progression end quote.
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