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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:
by dangirsh 10y ago
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 http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/mermin/qcomp/CS483.html
- themgt 10y agoI 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.