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Quantum physics is a low-level approach to understanding the Universe, not you life. This is like saying that you studied the microprocessor executing a chess p
by Comevius 4y ago
Quantum physics is a low-level approach to understanding the Universe, not you life. This is like saying that you studied the microprocessor executing a chess program in order to understand how chess is played. We don't live in the quantum world, we live under the reign of the classical laws of physics, which happens to be powered by quantum physics and not an alien supercomputer. Not that it matters what powers it until you need to understand the underlying platform, like you do for photosynthesis or microelectronics, both of which exposes quantum physics.
- edmundsauto 4y agoI think of it as something like "scale weighted abstractions". Quantum physics still matters on a human scale, just much much less than classical physics. Similarly, chess on silicon is massively more influenced by the information processing strategies than by the minor differences in silicon architecture. I believe there are entirely other types of computing structures. Our optimization of one type of information processor doesn't mean the others aren't good, or could be a superior strategy in the long run. It just means under the conditions which selected the initial winner, this one succeeded, and the following optimizations mean we'll keep exploiting this path until stopped. If the details are abstracted away, I wonder where the abstractions are leaky. Are there certain areas of existence (perhaps consciousness?) at the human plane where quantum effects dominate?