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Addressing Computer Problems

These days, it is hard to do some stuff without a computer, you will even have houses with computerized everything. Now, the scary part comes when you get that blank screen of doom on you computer and you have run out of ideas.

Whenever a computer runs in to some hardware or software problems, there are those who have an idea of how to fix it while there are others who don have a clue.

You may want to have a computer repair book. While you get one, make sure it does not require quantum physics as a prerequisite to understand it.

A good computer repair book should be written in a reader-friendly manner. It should not require a four-figure IQ to understand it. Be keen to buy a book that promises to be useful to dummies too.

A good computer repair book should have a variety of tricks you can employ if you are in distress. There are computer problems that are common that they are predictable and therefore should have a fixit instruction manual. Overall, they should cover something about PC maintenance and upgrade.

You cannot buy a computer and have it remain the way it is for many years without it becoming obsolete. There will always emerge more complex applications everyday, especially if you are into music, videos and photo apps. Therefore, a computer book should give you some sense in keeping up.

The solutions offered should be able to address the problem finally. You need not have to dwell on the same trouble every other day. Thus, a good computer repair book should be able to address issues like basic computer connections in regards to mouse and printers.

A genius way to check out if a book is worth what it promises is to go into an online forum or a review page that talks about the book and experiences people have had.

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What Does Quantum Physics Mean To You?

The main thing you have to know about Quantum physics is when the electrons are not watched they behave like a wave showing wave interference patterns. When the electrons are watched they turn into actual particles of matter and show the single line patterns you would expect for shooting particles through slits. What does it mean? Here is how we are going to interpret it. Get ready…

Nothing is separate. The entire universe, including you and I, are in reality pure energy. It is through our thoughts that we transform this energy into what we perceive to be reality. Remember in the video, the waves became particles when watched. Our thoughts create the world we live in.

The paradigm shift is we have always thought the outer world is more real than the inner world. But the opposite is true. It is what is happening inside us that determines what is going to happen outside us. We create our world with our thoughts.

Now ask yourself this question. What does it mean for energy to play the piano, play the guitar, sing, speak French or program a computer?

In our three dimensional world we use our conscious mind to perceive the energy as its physical counterpart. This to us becomes playing the piano, playing the guitar, etc…

The energy that becomes every single thing in the universe is us. Which means it can’t be partial to any single one individual. If one person can do it so can you.

When the wave of energy are ovserved they collapse into particles. That is how our entire world is created. We create our world through collapsing probability waves into our reality with our conscious mind.
Probability is a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible.

We literally have an infinite amount of probability wave functions that we can collapse into reality. What you want to collapse into reality is up to you. You literally have millions of alternatives, a few of which might be playing the piano, playing the guitar, singing, speaking French, or programming a computer.

So what we want to do is increase the probablity of bringing into our reality the things we want and decrease the probability of bringing into our reality the things we don’t want.

How do we do that?

We send out vibrations through our thoughts or to be more precise through the emotions our thoughts generate.

Different emotions vibrate at different frequencies. Positive emotions vibrate at higher frequencies. Negative emotions vibrate at lower frequencies.

To increase the probability of collapsing the probability wave function you desire into reality you need to concentrate on what you want while feeling positive emotion.

Be warned. The opposite is also true. Concentrating on what you don’t want while feeling negative emotion will bring what you don’t want.

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Quantum physics, lifeforms, the human mind and the spirit world

There are various artificial life or synthetic life initiatives aimed at creating from non-living components, quasi natural life forms, chemical systems that are self contained and infinitely self-replicating. If such an effort were successful it would provide a great deal of knowledge about the nature of living systems. It would also provide methodology for engineering new life forms on a new level beyond the current genetic engineering methods.

Many scientists will assume that a living system is simply a molecular mechanism no different from in its fundamental nature from an artificial mechanism. However, there are other scientists who have suggested that perhaps this isn’t true. An early example of such a comment was made by the physicist, Erwin Schroendinger. In a thin volume entitled, “What is Life?”, he suggested that living systems are perhaps not fully covered by known laws of chemistry and physics. However, he didn’t really develop the idea in his book.

Perhaps the first formal development of such an idea is contained in an essay by another physicist, Eugene Wigner, entitled “The probability of the existence of a self-replicating unit”. His conclusion is that the probability is zero. In this model, a living system is represented as a state vector: v. Its environment would also have at least one state which permits the organism to multiply: w. The total state vector of the system, the organism and its environment would be represented by the direct Kronecker product of these two vectors: v X w. After replication, the state vector would be represented as v X v X r, that is two vectors representing a pair of organisms in the altered environment. This interaction was assumed to be random, more specifically, to be governed by a random symmetric Hamiltonian matrix. This assumption might be questioned, however, it was the same assumption that enabled John Von Neumann to complete a proof that the second law of thermodynamics is a consequence of quantum mechanics.

This is an article for a popular audience so these comments probably go over the heads of most readers. Suffice to say that Eugene Wigner and John Von Neumann most definitely were not cranks.

In 1964, P. T. Landsburg, a professor at University College in Cardiff, England published an article in Nature that reiterated Wigner’s results and developed them further. More recently, Prashant Chakrabarty has compiled various arguments along these lines in a paper called, “Non existence of quantum mechanical self replicating machine” that can be found on-line. So there has been some suggestion over the years that a self-contained, infinitely self-replicating system is paradoxical from the standpoint of quantum mechanics.

In this article, we try to develop this idea and suggest some implications and possible experiments.

Perhaps the most pressing and immediate implication is that any effort to create an artificial quasi-natural self-replicating system based on the the assumption that such a system can be purely mechanistic may encounter problems. The products of such an effort may not be infinitely self-replicating. They might divide a few times, but there may be a cumulative degradation of the species with each replication that causes each lineage to eventually terminate as a result of non-viability.

One of the problems may be that a quasi natural system must necessarily exist in an aqueous environment at room temperature. Under these conditions, there is a large amount of molecular motion within the system that will cause disruption to any structured activity. The result is likely to be a chaotic system. As such, it exhibits characteristics for which chaotic systems are known such as:

Sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Bifurcations that exist at intervals of a reference variable that are dictated by Feigenbaum’s number. While definite statements might be made about average state of a population of such systems, it is impossible to predict the outcome in any specific instance because of the sensitive dependency and the effects of Brownian motion which are essentially random.

Therefore, with each successive generation, there may be a cumulative divergence from a vector state that is the functional equivalent of a known good initial state. The inevitable average outcome may be a divergence that is so great that it results in non-viability.

What sort of stabilization would keep the system “on-track”. It would have to be plausible yet obscure. An idea that occurred to me a number of years ago is derived from what is known as Landauer’s principle, first argued in 1961 by Rolf Landauer, a researcher with IBM. Roughly speaking, the idea is that a single bit of information is equivalent to an amount of negative entropy equal to k ln 2, that is, Planck’s constant multiplied by the natural logarithm of 2.

Now most physicists would say that entropy is not a thing – it is an abstraction. It is the capacity of a system to do work, a convenient method for computing efficiency of heat engine cycles among other things. However, like everything else, as the frame of reference becomes smaller and smaller, there develops a sort of granularity. Space, for example, no longer conforms to the model proposed by Euclid. The number of points in a given volume are still infinite, but the infinity is now denumerable (a term taken from set theory) and the scale of this transition is defined by Heisenberg’s principle of uncertainty. Likewise, going down to a molecular level, it may be that entropy no longer conforms to a Euclidean continuum of classical physics but starts to congeal into quanta: k ln 2 being of very plausible size of such a granulation. However, a quanta of entropy starts to assume characteristics associated with a “thing”. It might possess something equivalent to a location within a system or it might associate itself in some way with a particular part of a molecular system.

One might imagine many such quanta in a cell, moving around, actually being used in such a way as to convey data from one part of the cell to another. After all, a quanta of entropy would be the thermodynamic equivalent of a bit of data. An artificial system might be able to use such a concept, however, artificial systems are generally far too large for such an effect to relevant.

So is this concept verifiable? Well, first of all, would-be creators of life may find that artificial systems have a very small amount of viability compared to natural systems. That would provide an impetus to look at this aspect of the problem much more carefully. Chemists will swear up and down that a molecule of synthetic biochemical is identical to a molecule of the same compound derived from a natural source. But it may turn out, that examination of individual molecules using something like force probe microscopy will show that molecules from a natural source are not quite the same as molecules created synthetically. They might exhibit quantum entanglement, which is a well-known and experimentally demonstrated effect. But it may be something of a more subtle nature such as residual entropic quanta that are still bound to the molecules. With entanglement, once it is detected, it is destroyed. So it may be possible to show that the effect is reproducible in a population of molecules but it may be inherently impossible to replicate a single measurement. Such is the almost ephemeral nature of quantum mechanics.

Up to this point, we have described work indicating that a self-contained, indefinitely self-replicating system may be paradoxical from the standpoint of quantum physics. If entropic quanta are simply an extension of quantum physics, then they still may come up short in resolving such a paradox.

The idea may require a further extension involving time. Entropic quanta would be neither matter nor energy. As such, traveling at speeds greater than light would not present the same issues as it would for a photon or a particle of matter. There is still the no-communication theorem, though. Such a principle applies to quantum entanglement. The time delay of an entanglement must conform to the no-communication theorem. Still, quantum physics is rather quirky and there seem to be odd loopholes in seemingly immutable principles, e.g., the re-phasing of light in cesium vapor results in a propagation delay slightly smaller than that of the speed of light in a vacuum.

If entropic quanta travel within a cell at the equivalent of super-luminary speeds, the time delay would assume the characteristics of a complex number, that is, containing a component multiplied by i, the square root of negative 1. That causes various problems that I will not try to resolve in this discussion. I simply suggest that the extended aspect that resolves the paradox may involve the fact that living systems do not exist entirely within the bounds of real time. This may suggest that they do not exist entirely within the bounds of real space either. The distance between two points of interaction within the reference frame of entropic quanta may be much smaller than the apparent distance measured in real space, sort of like a worm hole at a molecular level.

Such a possibility might have bearing on the classic philosophical question of the nature of freedom of will. For example, the neurobiologist, Dr. Gunther Stent has commented, “the idea of willing something freely is logically incompatible with another innate intuition of ours, namely, determinism. According to determinism, a network of causal connections determines everything that has happened in the past and will determine everything that is going to happen in the future. Hence, any event (including our willing something) would be the effect of a chain of prior events that were themselves determined by yet earlier events. Freedom of the will would thus be a mere delusion.”

However, if all living systems including the human mind extend partly outside of real time and space, then they are not strictly deterministic. If such were the case, free will would have little to do with the linear determinism imposed by unidimensional and unidirectional constraints of real time.

If this extension is expressed in some sort of medium that can be identified and measured, perhaps entropic quanta for example, then it may be possible to demonstrate such an extension in a scientific manner. It may also be possible to make determination of some sort about existence outside of real space and time from a meta-time or a meta-space aspect of the human mind.

Every human culture on this planet seems to refer to an existence that is apparently outside of real space, a spirit world of some sort. If it is not bounded by real space, a reasonable extension of such a proposition is that is not bounded by real time either. An argument put forth against the existence of God is that such an existence would violate the law cause and effect. However, if the temporal aspect of God’s existence has more than one dimension, then its locus might be illustrated by a circle or other locus with a topological genus greater than zero. It would have no beginning or end and thus would extend beyond assumptions derived from the law of cause and effect.

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Is Quantum Physics the End of Dualism?

The exploration on consciousness will be an increasingly subject in
Quantum Physics as any observation is changing the results of the
experiments we perform. At the very small the illussion of matter
becomes more obvious and the realization that nothing is independend
from each other more conclusive.

Dualism seems to be the biggest concept in history ever. Quantum Physics may lead us to a new paradigm shift in consciousness.

Our
consciousness is programmed with the basic concept of dualism. Either
it is this way or it is the other way, either it is good or it is bad.
If you think about this you may find hundreds of other examples in your
daily life. Wherever you look, look closely and you will find the
concept of dualism.

The belief in matter is another big concept
science has come up with. In the last century
Newton, Kepler and some other persons made sure this
concept made it into every school book in the western world.

Both concepts,
dualism and matter are living on such a big scale that most people
don’t even realize that they are concepts.

Is there a Hidden Purpose Behind the Concept of Dualism?
This
is more a philosophical question and it may lead to other concepts and
not to the truth. So what is the truth? The truth is that every concept
leads to an experience and by experiencing it we may fulfill it’s
purpose.

If you build a house you start with a floor plan – a
concept. If you start your car in the morning than thousands of
concepts were necessary to achieve the outcome of a running engine.

There
was a time where science was holding a space of the spirit as it was in
Astronomy and Astrology. But spirit never fit into a formula and even
Einstein needed to leave out the spirit to come up with its famous
formula E=MC2.

But as more scientist are exploring the realm of
Quantum Physics they are finding out that without the spirit and
consciousness they are not really getting along with their
exploration. One of their biggest discovery is the state
of an electron in a superposition.

You may know that in
computers the information is saved in memory chips. A single
computer memory can hold either the information 0 or 1 – not both.
Either electricity flows or it doesn’t . Either the lamp is on or it is
off. But in quantum physics you find that in certain circumstances the
light is on and off at the same time! From our understanding of
‘reality’ this is not possible at all. And this has to do
with another concept that we have adapted  – time.

If you
take the time factor into the equation you find out that with time
the light can be on and off, just not at the same time. A good
example is an old radio. When you tune into a station you have to
calibrate to a certain frequency. You can tune into another
station but you cannot hear both stations at the same time.
But you know that both radio stations are sending their program at
the same time. Our consciousness state is most of the time
limited to receive signals in sequence rather than parallel.

Flipping the Coin – A Quantum Experiment
Let
me give you another example, in which things get even more strange.
Let’s assume you want to flip a coin to decide weather you go
to the movies or not. You take a coin and you know already that
there are 2 possible outcomes. Either you end up with head or with
tale.

Now you start flipping the coin…

What you just
did is creating the possibilities of two new time lines, if you like
you could also say the possibilities of two new futures. In one future
you are going to the movies and in the other you don’t. Remember the
movie “Back to the Future’?

The coin lands in your hand…

Now
let as further assume that you won’t look at your hand, where you are
holding the coin. The future is already created as the result of the
flipped coin in your hand. But, by not looking at it you are still in
the twilight zone and both outcomes are still unknown. So obviously it
doesn’t matter on what side the coin falls as long as you don’t have
the information of it.

Now open your eyes and look at the coin…

Either
it is on tales or on heads and it this moment ‘you’ made your choice.
And by making your choice you decided to go on this time line. What
about the other time line? It still exists in a parallel universe and
you are in there as well. You just focused your attention on one of the
universes by making a decision. Well, we are back at the duality where
we have to decide for one possible outcome.

What happens if we
don’t decide? It’s a rather difficult task for the mind and it needs
some training, but you are able not to decide and to have your
attention in a consciousness superposition where both worlds are
present at the same time. Does this mean you are going to the movie and
the same time you are not? Obviously our mind cannot grasp this idea.

Time Does not Exist in a Quantum Superposition
Have
you ever experienced that you looked at a watch with a second tale and
it seemed to freeze? If you have, you were in a consciousness state of
a Quantum superposition. But what mostly happens is that as soon as you
realize it is not moving it starts moving. In the moment you realize
this strange state you are out of it. Your attention cannot be in the
superposition. However with a little training you are able to
expand in this state as ‘long’ as you wish.

Where does this all
lead us? It has a lot to do with being in a creative state of mind and
connected to higher form of consciousness. It’s like a radio program
that you can suddenly hear, that covers a complete new topic which you
could not hear before.

A creative response to live is faster
than any decision you can make up. Decisions are based on experiences
from the past. It’s like running a computer analysis and wait until the
result shows up. But the result is always based on the past and never
on the experience of the moment. Therefore always limited.

Sometimes
in our life we are at moments where it seems to us that we have to
decide which way to go. I am talking about one of life’s
major decisions. 

Next time this happens you may allow
yourself to have a creative response to it instead of looking up data
from the past. Meaning to allow your consciousness to be in a
superposition instead of looking up data from the past to process a
decision.

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Quantum Computing Day 2: Image Recognition with an Adiabatic Quantum Computer

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