Re:Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017
by dangirsh on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @01:36PM
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Agreed - I used Mermin's book in my undergrad. Not as comprehensive as Nielson and Chuang, but I love Mermin's style. The lecture notes you mentioned are here: http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/mermin/qcomp/CS483.html
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Re:Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017
by themgt on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @02:46PM
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I hate to be "that quantum consciousness guy", but one of the first sentences of the first lecture stood out to me:
For a computer to be a quantum computer the physical systems that encode the
individual bits must have no physical interactions whatever that are not under the complete control of the program.
What if we relaxed/paraphrased this as: For a biological system to be a mind the physical systems that underlie the mental substrate must have limited/circumscribed physical interactions that are not under the complete control of the mind.