Seth Lloyd on the Universe as a Quantum Computer

[jjclassjj]

really informative and interesting

[thejameskan]

you have some great stuff here

[faat99]

full of bs!

[ericajjful]

interesting video and very informative

[TheSpikeystuff]

some sweet info here

[rickehrle]

could anyone write the 2nd sentence he says? thanks

[holydoggy123]

@rickehrle I think he says "not even effectively, actually is a quantum computer"

[rickehrle]

@holydoggy123 thanks

[jjccccc]

Lol you think thats air your breathing right now! if you make a quantom computer to do stuff for you, did the quantom universe make you do stuff for it. Maybe its waiting for you to send it a message to say we are online want to party

[rickehrle]

@jjccccc LOL

[OutOfTheBoxThinker]

Being a programmer myself, this perfectly fits my own intuitive sense on what the universe really is. I just wonder how this program got ever written and if that program itself is in some way sentient/conscious, like the programs that run in our brains. If it is, it would fit the pantheistic concept of God... Is there a way to figure that out?

[JohananRaatz]

@OutOfTheBoxThinker "If it is, it would fit the pantheistic concept of God... Is there a way to figure that out?"

Yup! Watch what happens when you add in Orch-OR. (one needn't worry about the non-computability element if the Platonic info stored in the wave-function is the basis of the computations rather than derivative of them)

watch?v=sTnnZNNbrUc

[OutOfTheBoxThinker]

@JohananRaatz : The only problem here is that non-computability is a mere assumption based on the current inability of humans to compute certain concepts. For example, the whole notion of wave function collapse is based on the inability to make certain predictions and to conclude non-computability from wave function collapse is pure circular logic. The tendency towards circular logic and speculation is in fact a major problem with theoretical physics in general.

[JohananRaatz]

@OutOfTheBoxThinker Well no it was actually based on an argument from Godel's theorem. Basically Godel's theorem states that certain kinds of mathematical truths are unprovable computationally and yet we know them anyway. Penrose and Lucas saw this and realized that to explain it there must be some mechanism by which we somehow intrinsically "just know" them.