The guy who originally predicted quantum computing, David Deutsch, disagrees with this. We CAN know everything. His principle of optimism is "all problems that do not defy the laws of physics are solvable with the right knowledge."
For every answer when doing research, we get dozens, if not even more new, even more complex questions thrown at us that just wait for an answer in the future.
Really the term is understand, not know. We are universal understanders and explainers.
David also agrees with what you just said. Every time we solve a problem a new problem arises. But people can understand how to solve that problem too.
To know sth. and to understand/fully grasp the nature of sth. are a completely different pair of shoes ...
Many people know religious text, but do they really understand it ??? ...
People know the seasons, but do they understand their cause ??? ...
People know money and credit cards but do they understand finance even on a basic level ??? ..., etc., etc. ...
To understand sth. means to be entirely aware of its origins/causes and its numerous ramifications/implications into many, many other fields ...
Good ole' Einstein once said: "you don't fully understand a topic if you can't properly explain it to a five-year old".
{...Every time we solve a problem a new problem arises...}
Good ole' Einstein once said: "You will never solve a problem if you still cling to the same mindset you had when creating it in the 1st. place".
Our trajectory of trying to solve our current poly- & megaproblems with a steady, highly profitable flow (for the few) of "more of the same technology-addiction" will lead to the Great Filter (for the many) only.
What we need is a paradigm-shift of massive scale leading to basic questions like: who are we, what is our origin and place in the vast universe, is there any meaning behind all this, how can humans give meaning to all this vast array of unsolved topics, what is worth pursuing and so on, etc. Escape into religion is NOT a solution, has never been, never will be.
Modern, complex societies breed and need experts; these arrogant experts have a very restricted knowledge covering ever shrinking fields of the whole, are not able or willing to understand the entire picture, leading to modern society's demise.
Deep Forest, musicians, once made a song with lyrics that go: "Somewhere, deep in the jungle, there live some little men and women, they're our past and maybe, maybe they're our future..." IF some forest left, of course ...
For Jessica and everyone else: this is a terrific non-technical overview of the principles and methods of quantum computing. Well done!
I would like to add a bit of non-public [classified] insider information to this mix.
In the 1990s Darpa conducted a highly successful [classified] project to build an operational quantum computing system intended for cryptography. I.e. cracking PKI. This successful project applied the principle of Topological Order to the problem of quantum computing.
The result was (and is) is a quantum neural computing system that completely solved the problem of decoherence. This approach still requires error correction. The difference is that decoherence times are measured in years rather than microseconds.
Edward Snowden referred to this project in his leaks. He lacked access to details but he knew of the project's existence. \\BULLRUN\[three sub-projects]
I have, and can share, detailed technical information about precisely how this works and how it was done. It is a fascinating [for geeks] historical story. I've been trying to share this information for fifteen years. Seemingly the Five Eyes still don't like me talking about this, as my writing on this topic remains censored in search engines. Upon request I'll link it. I'm also open to verbal communication with any knowledgeable person (like Jessica) who is interested. I do not now and have never held a security clearance.
amazing post. I knew someone(!) in Jessica's readers had a clue of what this all means. Certainly, not me.
To my mind, the uncertainty of "knowing and tracking" exactly the status of any toggle in the quantum computer bits makes quantum computing "unrealizable". I just do NOT get it.
I really hope this technology stays out of the hands of nefarious actors, but realize, just like gain of function biologics, it won't.
Old-guy, there's quite a tale involving who has access to and/or control over this technology. It's not what anyone would guess.
For several years, from 1996 to 2002, the creators were VERY NAUGHTY and operated without Darpa approval, greatly exceeding their authority.
In 2002 they got hesitant retroactive approval for their actions from the director of Darpa. For good reasons!
On April fools day in the year 2000 they published a very serious article in Wired magazine intended to explain their actions to the public once this all gets declassified & comes out publicly, circa 2033. They were concerned that, in this future frenzy of public interest and outrage, their voices would be lost. So they published an article with a double meaning, that explains their actions, in Wired. This was their method of telling the truth about their actions whilst not breaking nondisclosure agreements.
Only those who know the detailed history of how this technology was developed, and how its creators greatly exceeded their authority (putting it very mildly!), will perceive and understand the double meaning. Here's the article.
I understand. Perhaps Jessica used AI assistance, perhaps not. I tend to think not, as it stylistically matches her other published work. I've heard her speak. Her article sounds like how she'd write about her current project.
Take non-linear time and apply it to energy/mass calc that involves speed of light which thus involves time. I’ve been pondering how might Big Bang be explained if time had not yet been created. Would there be mass? Did God add time as a catalyst for creation of our universe?
Fun to think about but this layman knows less than the nothing you claim to know.
I love it what you write here, much better than any AI probably can do. As molecular and cellular biologist implementing sap into a university clinic in the late 90ies I had some quantum physicists like Hans-Peter dürr or Fritz-Albert popp as friends. They did not understand me and my epigenetik immunology stuff, but being young I started to understand them. Dürr was a student of Werner Heisenberg, the real father of the nuclear bomb. Also loving Richard Feynmans books about computer quantum physics in 1999 I started to work with Russian AI computer working not binary but trinary with -1, 0 and 1. much faster. Reprogramming this into Delphi, these non-linear quantum computing software smashed all binary ibm intel machines, so only the pcs from 2003 on worked well with these quantum nls systems on the human health issues. On windows computers. Since then I have left molecular genetics and was for a complete GMO moratorium like dürr much earlier with Einstein was for a nuclear power moratorium. 22 years later I can use quantum computers well for all health issues, but now as a pioneer in making transfectants and transgenics in 1988, now I have to come back to molecular genetics to do the opposite. Dejabbing. Killing genetically modified body cells for cleaning out potential cancer cells. Quantum computers are quite helpful for that. I love them as they are AI since 25 years now, making not funny videos or images like Kevin’s cats, but just healthy humans out of diseased ones. But now working on GMO humans the qPCR and a microscope are back again as quantum computers have no data sources about vaxxed spike GMO patients and thus are helpless and stupid. AI is only as intelligent as the databases it uses. But humans can hack any information field using their brain. Just read the biologist ruppert sheldrake and Dennis noble/shapiro about biological information fields creating biological shape or regulating the lac operon from remote over distance without physical contact. Or core shamanism. It’s a quantum computer using neuronal networks in humans or billions of microbes in one or the other soup. But we are the soup of our microbiome. And the microbes are interconnected. Inside one human but also from human to human by information fields. So forget quantum computers. One cell is more intelligent than googles best Computernetzwerk superconductive supercooled cpus. 70 billion human body cells and 700 billion microbes including phases built a quantum computer network in one human being. This is the reason why yuval harari is not only wrong but also very ill. He cannot trust Mother Nature. So he is lost in nature. Life is based on on trust and confidence and not on distrust. Life is brave and takes place outside of the rat holes. Rabbit holes are just to hide. So quantum computer shall serve brave humans and not the rabbit hole cowards. Quantum computers can help stupid adrenochromes, but cannot solve problems because of falsified and limited databases. Real scientists use their brain and not just pubmed with AI. If you start to drive cars just with navigators in San Francisco you quickly get lost, as a scientist that stopped using his brain. This is my prediction after 25 years of using health scanning AI quantum computers for every day consultations. A human brain combined with qPCR and a 20 nm resolution multi colour fluorescence microscope can smash any stupid google AI network on supra cooled quantum computer. This is the good end of human nature. And the bad end of the google nerds. happy new year 2025 of the beautiful and wise year of the wood snake. Wisdom is needed much more than smartness now. Otherwise Canada will soon be part of the USA. Thanks for all your writing and braveness. Arminius
"Real scientists use their brain and not just pubmed with AI. If you start to drive cars just with navigators in San Francisco you quickly get lost, as a scientist that stopped using his brain."
Quantum physics and computation is hard to understand. We perceive the world in a linear fashion, yet we're capable of imagining something else not directly apparent. I believe in black holes, and warped space and time around them but I can't be sure about how it came to be.
Theories can't explain exactly why and how we came to be, and without quantifiable measurements there can't be certainty. Pieces of the puzzle are missing too I think.
My observations lead me to believe we are more than quantifiable collections of trillions of interconnected cells and microbes evolved over a vast timescale. We are so miraculous and complex, in a quantum computer type way. We are a lot more than Yuval's hackable animal..
I MARVEL at how ALMIGHTY GOD has provided this type of brain power in some humans! For others like me, reading this just twisted my brain into a pretzel....🤪
Don't we already have this? As Einstein said, we are non-local beings, having a local experience. So we throw away our innate abilities, and then we try to duplicate it, and we call the copy an "invention."
Everything about this field is self-contradictory and leads to nothing but paradoxes. What I find when I read about any attempts to make a machine to leverage any of this theoretical information is that the machines never produce the same result twice. What happens then? People....yes, people...have to look at the results and use their intuition to decide which of the "solutions" is likely correct. If you can't stop and think about what that means - I mean really think about what that says about reality - then I want to buy the quantum stocks you are investing in so I can at least capitalize on the boom.
My head hurts....I hope this isn't on the final exam.
My Teacher had a maxim often employed: "We don't (or cannot) know what anything is."
Debate on that supposition is at least a couple of thousand years old. Since Xenophanes, at least:
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it,neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
For even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
BUT!!! Have a read of "The Last Word" by Thomas Nagel...
The guy who originally predicted quantum computing, David Deutsch, disagrees with this. We CAN know everything. His principle of optimism is "all problems that do not defy the laws of physics are solvable with the right knowledge."
And humans are universal explainers.
Like so: https://joshketry.substack.com/p/why-humans-are-important-explained?utm_source=publication-search
{...We CAN know everything...}
REALLY ??? ... 🤔🤔🤔
For every answer when doing research, we get dozens, if not even more new, even more complex questions thrown at us that just wait for an answer in the future.
Like a Mandelbrot-set; infinite.
Good for science: it will NEVER get boring.
Really the term is understand, not know. We are universal understanders and explainers.
David also agrees with what you just said. Every time we solve a problem a new problem arises. But people can understand how to solve that problem too.
Thanks for your kind reply !!!
To know sth. and to understand/fully grasp the nature of sth. are a completely different pair of shoes ...
Many people know religious text, but do they really understand it ??? ...
People know the seasons, but do they understand their cause ??? ...
People know money and credit cards but do they understand finance even on a basic level ??? ..., etc., etc. ...
To understand sth. means to be entirely aware of its origins/causes and its numerous ramifications/implications into many, many other fields ...
Good ole' Einstein once said: "you don't fully understand a topic if you can't properly explain it to a five-year old".
{...Every time we solve a problem a new problem arises...}
Good ole' Einstein once said: "You will never solve a problem if you still cling to the same mindset you had when creating it in the 1st. place".
Our trajectory of trying to solve our current poly- & megaproblems with a steady, highly profitable flow (for the few) of "more of the same technology-addiction" will lead to the Great Filter (for the many) only.
What we need is a paradigm-shift of massive scale leading to basic questions like: who are we, what is our origin and place in the vast universe, is there any meaning behind all this, how can humans give meaning to all this vast array of unsolved topics, what is worth pursuing and so on, etc. Escape into religion is NOT a solution, has never been, never will be.
Modern, complex societies breed and need experts; these arrogant experts have a very restricted knowledge covering ever shrinking fields of the whole, are not able or willing to understand the entire picture, leading to modern society's demise.
Deep Forest, musicians, once made a song with lyrics that go: "Somewhere, deep in the jungle, there live some little men and women, they're our past and maybe, maybe they're our future..." IF some forest left, of course ...
Have a nice time.
For Jessica and everyone else: this is a terrific non-technical overview of the principles and methods of quantum computing. Well done!
I would like to add a bit of non-public [classified] insider information to this mix.
In the 1990s Darpa conducted a highly successful [classified] project to build an operational quantum computing system intended for cryptography. I.e. cracking PKI. This successful project applied the principle of Topological Order to the problem of quantum computing.
The result was (and is) is a quantum neural computing system that completely solved the problem of decoherence. This approach still requires error correction. The difference is that decoherence times are measured in years rather than microseconds.
Edward Snowden referred to this project in his leaks. He lacked access to details but he knew of the project's existence. \\BULLRUN\[three sub-projects]
I have, and can share, detailed technical information about precisely how this works and how it was done. It is a fascinating [for geeks] historical story. I've been trying to share this information for fifteen years. Seemingly the Five Eyes still don't like me talking about this, as my writing on this topic remains censored in search engines. Upon request I'll link it. I'm also open to verbal communication with any knowledgeable person (like Jessica) who is interested. I do not now and have never held a security clearance.
Regards,
Bruce Stephenson
amazing post. I knew someone(!) in Jessica's readers had a clue of what this all means. Certainly, not me.
To my mind, the uncertainty of "knowing and tracking" exactly the status of any toggle in the quantum computer bits makes quantum computing "unrealizable". I just do NOT get it.
I really hope this technology stays out of the hands of nefarious actors, but realize, just like gain of function biologics, it won't.
Oh Woe, to man.
Old-guy, there's quite a tale involving who has access to and/or control over this technology. It's not what anyone would guess.
For several years, from 1996 to 2002, the creators were VERY NAUGHTY and operated without Darpa approval, greatly exceeding their authority.
In 2002 they got hesitant retroactive approval for their actions from the director of Darpa. For good reasons!
On April fools day in the year 2000 they published a very serious article in Wired magazine intended to explain their actions to the public once this all gets declassified & comes out publicly, circa 2033. They were concerned that, in this future frenzy of public interest and outrage, their voices would be lost. So they published an article with a double meaning, that explains their actions, in Wired. This was their method of telling the truth about their actions whilst not breaking nondisclosure agreements.
Only those who know the detailed history of how this technology was developed, and how its creators greatly exceeded their authority (putting it very mildly!), will perceive and understand the double meaning. Here's the article.
https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/
AI LLM generated.
P.s. Gene, what is it about me speaking the truth as best I understand it that causes you to say that? Seriously, dude, where did that even come from
Gene, are you trying to be snarky or are you seriously claiming I'm not human?
Please explain what you're trying to say.
Want to talk on the telephone, or will you claim that's also AI?
The article itself is what I was referring to.
“this is a terrific non-technical overview of the principles and methods of quantum computing”
I understand. Perhaps Jessica used AI assistance, perhaps not. I tend to think not, as it stylistically matches her other published work. I've heard her speak. Her article sounds like how she'd write about her current project.
Take non-linear time and apply it to energy/mass calc that involves speed of light which thus involves time. I’ve been pondering how might Big Bang be explained if time had not yet been created. Would there be mass? Did God add time as a catalyst for creation of our universe?
Fun to think about but this layman knows less than the nothing you claim to know.
I think God allowed man to imagine time so man could understand the reality of human life on a planet.
Consider reading Glenda Green's books. veeelllllly interesting.
I love it what you write here, much better than any AI probably can do. As molecular and cellular biologist implementing sap into a university clinic in the late 90ies I had some quantum physicists like Hans-Peter dürr or Fritz-Albert popp as friends. They did not understand me and my epigenetik immunology stuff, but being young I started to understand them. Dürr was a student of Werner Heisenberg, the real father of the nuclear bomb. Also loving Richard Feynmans books about computer quantum physics in 1999 I started to work with Russian AI computer working not binary but trinary with -1, 0 and 1. much faster. Reprogramming this into Delphi, these non-linear quantum computing software smashed all binary ibm intel machines, so only the pcs from 2003 on worked well with these quantum nls systems on the human health issues. On windows computers. Since then I have left molecular genetics and was for a complete GMO moratorium like dürr much earlier with Einstein was for a nuclear power moratorium. 22 years later I can use quantum computers well for all health issues, but now as a pioneer in making transfectants and transgenics in 1988, now I have to come back to molecular genetics to do the opposite. Dejabbing. Killing genetically modified body cells for cleaning out potential cancer cells. Quantum computers are quite helpful for that. I love them as they are AI since 25 years now, making not funny videos or images like Kevin’s cats, but just healthy humans out of diseased ones. But now working on GMO humans the qPCR and a microscope are back again as quantum computers have no data sources about vaxxed spike GMO patients and thus are helpless and stupid. AI is only as intelligent as the databases it uses. But humans can hack any information field using their brain. Just read the biologist ruppert sheldrake and Dennis noble/shapiro about biological information fields creating biological shape or regulating the lac operon from remote over distance without physical contact. Or core shamanism. It’s a quantum computer using neuronal networks in humans or billions of microbes in one or the other soup. But we are the soup of our microbiome. And the microbes are interconnected. Inside one human but also from human to human by information fields. So forget quantum computers. One cell is more intelligent than googles best Computernetzwerk superconductive supercooled cpus. 70 billion human body cells and 700 billion microbes including phases built a quantum computer network in one human being. This is the reason why yuval harari is not only wrong but also very ill. He cannot trust Mother Nature. So he is lost in nature. Life is based on on trust and confidence and not on distrust. Life is brave and takes place outside of the rat holes. Rabbit holes are just to hide. So quantum computer shall serve brave humans and not the rabbit hole cowards. Quantum computers can help stupid adrenochromes, but cannot solve problems because of falsified and limited databases. Real scientists use their brain and not just pubmed with AI. If you start to drive cars just with navigators in San Francisco you quickly get lost, as a scientist that stopped using his brain. This is my prediction after 25 years of using health scanning AI quantum computers for every day consultations. A human brain combined with qPCR and a 20 nm resolution multi colour fluorescence microscope can smash any stupid google AI network on supra cooled quantum computer. This is the good end of human nature. And the bad end of the google nerds. happy new year 2025 of the beautiful and wise year of the wood snake. Wisdom is needed much more than smartness now. Otherwise Canada will soon be part of the USA. Thanks for all your writing and braveness. Arminius
"Real scientists use their brain and not just pubmed with AI. If you start to drive cars just with navigators in San Francisco you quickly get lost, as a scientist that stopped using his brain."
Great words, Arminius.
this is AI generated/edited.
Jessica thanks, your brain is capable of infinitely more complex thinking than my simply 'being' in the present moment.
Love, gratitude, peace.
Quantum physics and computation is hard to understand. We perceive the world in a linear fashion, yet we're capable of imagining something else not directly apparent. I believe in black holes, and warped space and time around them but I can't be sure about how it came to be.
Theories can't explain exactly why and how we came to be, and without quantifiable measurements there can't be certainty. Pieces of the puzzle are missing too I think.
My observations lead me to believe we are more than quantifiable collections of trillions of interconnected cells and microbes evolved over a vast timescale. We are so miraculous and complex, in a quantum computer type way. We are a lot more than Yuval's hackable animal..
We are God's creations; that is all ya' need to know.
I notice a lot of possibly, potentially, perhaps.
“Tech” thrives on hyperventilating hyperbole. How many of the p’s are going to coalesce into r — reality?
Maybe they both will and won’t. Simultaneously of course.
nice. alliterative analysis both beefy and brief. my hat's off to you. and by hat I mean pants.
I am lost. You are biology or physics expert?
Whew!
I really relate to your last sentence:
“I don’t know anything “.
Peace and love, over and out.
I MARVEL at how ALMIGHTY GOD has provided this type of brain power in some humans! For others like me, reading this just twisted my brain into a pretzel....🤪
I confess: my eyes very quickly glazed over since this looks (to my little brain) like it was written by AI. (No offense intended, Jessica.)
The Why Files is more my speed, and what got my attention is the very real danger of the Quantum Apocalypse:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eZXBVgBDio
definitely written by AI
Gonna dig into this later but...
Just skimming the Entanglement and Quantum Interference sections....
I expect that that quantum Fauci and Baric wannabes are going to
prematurely trigger the next Big Bang!
Even if the real ones 'vaxxecute' us into extinction in this timeline!
Don't we already have this? As Einstein said, we are non-local beings, having a local experience. So we throw away our innate abilities, and then we try to duplicate it, and we call the copy an "invention."
Everything about this field is self-contradictory and leads to nothing but paradoxes. What I find when I read about any attempts to make a machine to leverage any of this theoretical information is that the machines never produce the same result twice. What happens then? People....yes, people...have to look at the results and use their intuition to decide which of the "solutions" is likely correct. If you can't stop and think about what that means - I mean really think about what that says about reality - then I want to buy the quantum stocks you are investing in so I can at least capitalize on the boom.