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Ep 176: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 9 ”Quantum Computers” Part 2

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Suppose That Two Photons Are Going Along the Barrier

In shadow experiments a single photon passes through the barrier in which there are some small holes and then falls on a screen. To calculate whether a particular point on the screen cannot ever receive the photon, we must calculate the mutual interference of a thousand parallel universe versions of the photon. The complexity of this sort of computation shows us that there is a lot more happening in our quantum mechanical environment than literally meets the eye. And I have argued expressing Dr. Johnson's criterion for reality in terms of computational complexity that it does not make sense to deny the existence of the rest of the multiverse pausing the MRI reflection.

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