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Reddit mentions of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
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Check out Programming The Universe. It meanders about a bit, but there are some good parts in there about the state of Quantum Computation and how it works.
I don't think Quantum/parallel computation will ever completely supersede the linear computation most people are familiar with. It will certainly rise in importance, but some problems are inherently linear - 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month.
And it seems to me that it's more difficult to think in terms of parallel algorithms. A lot of the recent work on parallelism in Comp Sci is in ways to reduce the complexity of dealing with parallel algorithms, which generally means hiding the details of the parallelism. Futures, for example - they do the same thing as a shared variable with a mutex, but take the work of coordinating the threads involved out of the programmers hands and give it over to the compiler/run time scheduler.
TL;DR: I don't think so. It seems more likely to be just another way to approach things and another useful tool to put in your tool belt.
Not really. I invite you to read Seth Lloyd's excellent book, Programming the Universe, and then tell him that he made it up. He's a professor at MIT and not some random internet guy. :-)
Seth Lloyd -- Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos
Gregory Chaitin -- How real are real numbers? -- this paper, and all of Chaitin's writing, has been hugely influential on my thinking
I haven't read it, but I have heard Nick Bostrom's Superintelligence highly recommended. Ditto for Max Tegmark's Life 3.0.
I also recommend reading anything by David Chalmers, just on general principle. The Conscious Mind is a good place to start. I find his methods of contemplating the problems of consciousness to be more robust than the standard fare. The hard problem of consciousness (as Chalmers has dubbed it) suggests that there is something fundamental about what we are that modern science has completely failed to capture, even in the most sketch outline.
To go further, I recommend reading in a mystical direction. Specifically, ask yourself why there are patterns in mystical traditions that have arisen independently? And these are not just vague, hand-wavey correlations, but very specific, detailed correlations like the anatomical descriptions of dragons as winged serpents that slither through the sky, and so on. See Immanuel Velikovsky's Worlds In Collision and subsequent works for more along these lines.
If this is getting too far afield then you can ask yourself an even more basic question: why do we experience dreams and where, exactly, are these experiences happening? If you say, "it's all just remixes of past experiences being sloshed around in your skull like those #DeepDream images", how come they are so specifically odd and out-of-character? I have had extended conversations in my dreams with people I know (and people I have never met) and the detailed character of these conversations is far beyond anything that my pathetic brain could cook up, even by remixing past experiences. In short, when I dream, I am sometimes having genuine experiences, just not the kind of experiences I have in my waking body. Anyone who has had a lucid dream (I have experienced this a handful of times) is acutely aware of the fact that dream-space is some other place than the meat-space we occupy during waking hours. Where is this other place and why does it exist? What does it really mean to have conscious experience?
I thought Programming the Universe by Seth Lloyd was a good and pretty quick read
also, Ressurection a good short story that I read the other day
>Recent study of black holes points out that our universe may actually be 2 dimensional and that the base structure of the universe is binary.
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Universe-Quantum-Computer-Scientist/dp/1400033861
If my memory is right this book talks about that. I began believing the binary structure one afternoon when driving down a two lane road by myself and thinking "If I arbitrarily drive into the right lane then perhaps the "version of me" in a 0 universe kept going straight while I in this 1 universe go right.
The first half of the book was captivating but I never finished because ADHD.
Maybe take a look at http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Universe-Quantum-Computer-Scientist/dp/1400033861