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I don't know much about quantum computation, but David Deutsch does say something along those lines. In particular, that the superiority of quantum computation
by thingification 9y ago
I don't know much about quantum computation, but David Deutsch does say something along those lines. In particular, that the superiority of quantum computation for certain problems is explained by computation taking place in multiple universes.
He also rejects the idea that there's something ineffable about quantum mechanics, or that the reason quantum computation works can't be explained using ordinary logic and reasoning that is accessible in principle to everybody (I don't know for sure that's what is meant here by "somehow creates a “resource”": but I'm triggered a bit by those words because people often do essentially mean that).
Of course he would (correctly) say that one shouldn't treat him as being an infallible source of truth on the matter. But he does believe that the purpose of science is to explain the world, which puts him in a different class from apologists for quantum mysticism, strict empiricism and other believers in explanation-free knowledge.