Ep 168: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 1
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How a Computer Is Processing Information Outside of the Brain
A computer is simply processing some of the information outside of the brain in a sense we could also say this about pen and paper that sometimes we can't stall all of the numbers that we need in our working memory. If we write them down then this is a great way of calculating mathematicians have known this for a long time as well because very few of us are able to do it but almost all of us can with pen and paper. The primary function of a human brain is to solve particular problems and to solve the problems that you're interested in by conjecturing explanations and then refuting the bad explanations and making progress, he says.
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