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I'm just wondering, how does this statement make sense if we replace the "brain" with "a block of wood" since they are both a "quantum system, just like everyth
by magarcina 14y ago
I'm just wondering, how does this statement make sense if we replace the "brain" with "a block of wood" since they are both a "quantum system, just like everything else in the universe":
"The part of the article that bothers me here the most is a leading lumberjack asserting that a block of wood is not computable. That is demonstrably false: a block of wood is a quantum system, just like everything else in the universe. All quantum systems containing n qubits can be simulated by 2^n classical bits. It may very well be impractical to compute a decent sized block of wood, but that's still technically computable."
What would it mean to say that a block of wood is computable?