Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Desperate_Food7354 t1_j20pjme wrote

Reply to comment by MrZwink in 11 years ago Michio Kaku talked about mind upload into Machine - Big Think by keghi11

With the amount of quantum you are spilling out computers shouldn’t work at all.

2

MrZwink t1_j20rskb wrote

What are you on about, computers work on quantum principles...

1

Desperate_Food7354 t1_j20shbq wrote

Quantum quantum quantum, a transistor is ON or OFF, the only quantum thing here is quantum tunneling and that is only a problem in the development of smaller transistor sizes. My expertise is in this and you keep spilling quantum out like it changes the register values. Register values remain the same, you obviously have no idea how the inside of a computer works nor digital logic if you are going to say quantum mechanics makes duplicating all the states within a computer impossible. It isn’t how much liquid is in a tank, it’s whether there is x amount of liquid in a tank to reach the threshold of whether it’s a 1 or a 0, 1 or 0, we build computers that have a processing speed of 10^18 calculations per second, none of what you are saying applies in reality.

1

MrZwink t1_j20tvw0 wrote

A transtor is a semi conductor. It moves electrons through a semipermeable barrier. This is an interaction at a quantum level. The smaller you make them the more prone to quantum tunneling they become. So no a transistor is not on or off, 0.001% of the time it's both or neither.

There are safeguards in place in computers to check for random bit flips because it is needed. It's called hashing.

Im not saying computers don't work. I'm saying a computer is a machine that processes information on a quantum level. And it is impossible to separate the computer from it's quantum interactions. Heisenbergs uncertainty principle applies wether you want it or not.

You cannot build a house without bricks.

1

Desperate_Food7354 t1_j20xvsi wrote

I could transfer every bit in my 8 bit computer in a single clock cycle no problem. Computers work in discrete time increments with no uncertainty to when the crystal oscillator will be on or off.

1