> Very interesting thesis Mirek. I have download it, and will certainly
> try to dig a bit more on it some week-ends.
Thanks, hopefully you will find something interesting in there.
> I see you don't cite Everett, which indeed is not necessary for the
> practice of quantum computing. But your presence in this list could
> mean that you are open to many-worlds ideas, or everything-like
> theories. I would like to know, if you don't mind, your opinion on
> Everett, Deutsch ..., and perhaps about interpretation of QM in general
Well yes, my opinion about QM is not well established yet. I have jumped
to the field of quantum computing three years ago. I had no previous
knowledge on the topic nor I did know any quantum physics. I had been
playing with the C compiler mostly in the past. Due to relatively short
time in the quantum world, I have so far used QM only as a tool - 'shut
up and calculate' interpretation.
It happened relatively recently, that I was searching the web for
buddhist philosophy reading and found James Higgo's "Four reasons why
you don’t exist". Approximately at the same time I saw a lot of Everett
related articles thanks to the 50th anniversary. So I bought Deutsch's
Fabric of Reality. It led me to the Fabric-of-Reality mailing list and
that took me to the Everything-list. Here I saw your "UDA -> (QM) ->
MWI" and all these things together attracted me a lot.
I think, I can say that I am pretty much open minded. It often seems to
me that I keep a 'superposition' of all what I see and read. I don't
abandom some forks, I just change the amplitudes. I hardly ever insist
on something, I am rarely sure, I don't try to push 'good' and 'bad' far
apart from each other. I like when I climb on a steep vertical wall and
life is hard and simple at the same time.
Regarding MWI ... I have not read the original Everett paper yet. I
expected to get most of his ideas from the Fabric of Reality, but alas
in this book I got stuck at the strange frog seeing individual photons.
It seemed to me too much scientific-popular reading and I did not get
back to the book so far.
For christmass, I asked my girlfrind to give me The Wisdom of
Insecurity, Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory,
and Godel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse, so these
books might precede the Fabric :-)
> About the S K programming language, I guess some people have recognize
> the Shoenfinkel-Curry combinators. More on this in my old combinators
Uuu, new excercises and I am still reading the DIAGONAL post from
31.12.2007. It means I am still living in the previous year, it is good,
who wants to be old :-)
Have a nice weekend,
Mirek
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