Quantum Computers

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So, this thread is meant mostly for thought experimentation/imagination exercise.

Been doing some light research on this subject. I have a rudimentary understanding of how the whole thing is supposed to work. It will have some of the same limitations as our current computers (i.e. it is still a computer, albeit a super one), but will also have the ability to blow current cryptographic systems, etc. out of the water.

I have also understood that computational capabilities will be far enhanced. That is not quite what I am interested in.

I am interested in...what it might be like to, say, get on the internet on one of these things. Let's say, 30 years from now, you own one of these badboys and want to do some browsing. What might a browsing session look like? What information would you have access to? Is there some way this might take us... far beyond our current epistemological limitations? Is it possible these machines, or their successors, could mimic what might in this day be called "psychic phenomena" or ESP? Alternately, is it possible these machines might pave the way to a "better" internet, a more expansive worldwide web than we have now?

Hopefully you catch my drift. Like I said, this is mostly for fun.

If anyone is interested in reading the most detailed article---it's actually written by a quantum programmer---I have found thus far on the topic, here it is: https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2014/ambainis-quantum-computing

 

[Grayman]

I think it is interesting that in the advent of commercialized quantum entanglement all computers will no longer be communicating. They will for all intensive purposes be 'one machine' and connected together and act as one.

Once brain chips have been formed with this quantum tech. Our brains will be merged so that our understanding of each other would be so complete that language and speaking would become irrelevant. We would be of the same mind in a way that no culture or society has ever known as we grow into one organism and we would call ourselves the borg.

 

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Once brain chips have been formed with this quantum tech. Our brains will be merged so that our understanding of each other would be so complete that language and speaking would become irrelevant. We would be of the same mind in a way that no culture or society has ever known as we grow into one organism and we would call ourselves the borg.

Aha! That is exactly what I predicted in my blog I have here: Telepathy (and the full "consciousness-merging" for lack of a better term) as the next stage in our (communication) evolution.

I have even written about the isolated experiences I have had with telepathy, and meeting a precious few soulmate-type people where the bond just was out of this world. Connected to the point where it's scary.

I very casually hypothesized it might be tied up with the "auras" that encircle people, and which some claim they can see. Perhaps we had identical or near-identical auras. Obviously entanglement comes into play, but I wonder what the impetus is for setting up that entanglement in the first place? What outside force was acting on the two of us to tie us up together that way?

Sometimes I think I can still feel her, though we've gone our separate ways now...

 

[wanderingSpark]

It will not be an actual "chip" or device as we know it. It will be a flock of nano-machines that will flow passively through the capillaries in the brain; scanning each neuron. These nano bots will be able to connect via wifi to the internet. This will give us the ability to download or access information; or form ad-hoc peer-to-peer networks to simulate telepathy.

Also, since the nano-bots have scanned each neuron - nothing is stopping people from uploading their consciousness to a virtual matrix reality or downloading it into a clone body made with a 3d printer. Making the user virtually immortal (good idea or not?). This bring up the question relating to quantum physics of the "soul". Could the mind be transferred out of shear will and intent?

The nano-bots could also hover over the skin to form an insulating layer so the body is always perfect temperature. Giving us a mechanical aura. Would be interesting to use Kirlian photography..

Now, in the future with these bots in the brain it could cause a divide in our civilization.
Imagine, you want your child to have all the opportunity available to it. So, you inject the nano-bots. Your neighbor, out of fear their child will be at a disadvantage will inject the nano-bots into their child.. the possibility of a break-away luddite society exists..


What is also an interesting and different thought about quantum computing is instead of using electrical signals to represent binary ( 0 , 1 ), we can take a radioactive isotope and embed it into a fullerene ( this is very difficult now and we break a lot of bucky-balls ), take that packet and shoot it down a carbon nano tube. Now, instead of a strict polarization like in binary - we can have multiple states at once. No more 0 to 1; but virtually 0 to infinity. Meaning instant access. Could this be used to tap into collective consciousness or some sort of akashic field?

( note: for those interested in researching binary and quantum interactions, remember a (mostly) forgotten hero - Claude Shannon )

(edit: by akashic field i like to think of the library of babel as described by Borges and roughly implemented at libraryofbabel.info
all possible outcomes and results for past and future events are indexed and accessible via a lookup function. the inteface could be that shared matrix reality.)