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| Authored by: PolR on Thursday, November 29 2012 @ 07:25 PM EST |
Semiotics is a social science, not a physical science. My point was not directed
to how the device operates. It was directed to how humans interact with it.
As long as there is a convention for human on how to interpret the sign it is a
sign whether or not it is observed. The state of the qbit doesn't matter. It is
the existence of a convention to be used when it is observed that is the test.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: soronlin on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 03:40 AM EST |
A quantum computer would still work, and would still produce results if no one
was watching it. The measurements of the qubits are made internally by hardware.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, November 30 2012 @ 12:07 PM EST |
Because the simple facts are:
It is not the software that embodies the
concepts of quantum mechanics
It is the quantum computer
Without
the physical quantum hardware to support whatever software is placed on it,
quantum software does nothing!
The invention is the quantum computer -
"quantum software" as you put it is simply instructions to the device on what to
do!
If you could build a quantum computer that works under the physical
principles of an abacus - it'd still be your fingers (and your fingers haven't
magically changed in some kind of quantum state) that gives the instructions to
the device.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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