we are trained to do well. My hope is my yahoo infophysics seminar will exercise
discipline in thinking quantumly such that we can form the habit of
being able to think quantumly.
Feynman said no one understands the quantum and no one will that
cannot think quantumly. He said the quantum may be understood as
computing, but it is not this program, or that program, it is all
possible programs. Nobody can ever possibly understand all possible
programs.
The principles of general semantics, holistic dialectics, laws of
form, etc. may be applied in quantum thinking, but there is no
singular answer to anything, every proposition is in a super position
of states, both true and false.
When we accept the synthesis of a thesis and antithesis, we categorize
or specify, Whenever we categorize or specify we make an error.
There is a context where A and B are distinct, and a category where
they are the same. There is a greater context that includes the
synthesis recursively.
That we have beliefs is human. And that the inner genius in us all
is never wrong, there is a categorical imperative making the belief
undeniable,. That the categorical imperative is the absolute truth
only is only true in our fantasy. There is always a greater truth.
Sometimes truth in the category considered is sufficient for our
purpose, but it is not necessarily or provably so.
That our mentors and teachers understood Societies statement that "the
only true wisdom is the knowledge is that we know nothing." is an
expression of truth that has a quantum nature, both true and false,
depending on the category or context of the truth, and that there is
no absolute truth, as general semantics attempts to express. Quantum
truth is not really strange, it is how we think unconsciously, until
we understand quantum thinking.
For several years I have contemplated "quantum driving" as an
introduction to quantum thinking. Since I must drive I have time to
practice thinking quantumly, and driving is a good case study in
quantum thinking since it is a domain most everyone is familiar with
that is readily quantifiable. And for me its a synergy of being able
to consider thinking quantumly and keeping my mind focused on driving
simultaneously.
To understand quantum thinking you must understand quantum logic and
the collective actualization of subsets of that logic. The logic
includes everything possible, all possible finite logical systems from
the simplest to the more complex. But what is manifest is dynamical
logic limited to logical interaction of participating finite logical
systems composed by actualized interaction history.
Quantum logic is simply universal general purpose logic, potentially
exhibiting all possible logical systems having up to as many states as
the information universe being considered. The implicit information
universe is all possible logical systems up to the number of states
considered. The one extant finite information universe realized by
local logical interaction is the explicit information universe, that
experientially distinguishes all possible information universes from
the singular actualized one.
By ordinary thinking we construct the means to make something happen.
Quantum thinking requires a certain faith that all possible means
exist, and what happens happens only because it is possible by delayed
choice and least action, not having a fully predetermined history that
propagated into the future by interaction. Instead of simple cause
and effect, we have practically infinite causes for what happens by
complex interaction.
If it is impossible to consider all possible logical systems than our
faith that the universe constructs the means for anything that might
happen cannot be bound finitely. It is easiest to think it is the
nature of the universe to do what is possible and the does not need to
figure out what that is. Without this leap of faith, it is impossible
to think quantumly. To model a quantum computation, we do not model
any algorithm that derives the solution, we need only model the
solution. Somehow, out there, it is as though all possible logical
systems exist while at the same time as there is only one particular
universe from our information perspective.
The case study, of quantum driving, is highly enlightening, but if is
also very boring, and in some ways not worth peoples time in
considering that deeply. It is instructive in quantization of the
effect of a vehicle occupying a physical roadway slot by the presents
of a car behind being held up some time and how each driver trains the
traffic network which assumes collective behaviors determined by
effect, not intention. Contemplating quantum driving can make anyone
a better driver and build the habit of thinking quantumly. At the same
time it will reveal the amazing synergies that happen to happen
systematically it makes us humble in our inability to preconceive the
systems that happen to emerge. It reinforces that considered feeling
of our neural network is more fruitful than any hopeless attempt at
complete reasoning that attempts to constrain reality to what we can
consider.
Quantum thinking is not easy for humans. I have decided that unless
you have to drive, and need to be thinking about driving, the case
study of quantum driving is not worth your mental energy. Information
physics applies to every problem, ,and the area one ought to apply
information physics to is what is most important and where their
passion is.
This may include the spiritual subjectively and any aspect of human
thought or endeavor objectively. Recently I have applied it to
political science in
http://jimwhitescarver.
and other communications in various trust networks.
My challenge is to elevate issues to the quantum level
holistically and not succumb to any self righteous belief in any
preferred context. I constantly disappointed myself in my own ability
to think quantumly. Whenever I specify a "the", or generalize an
"is", I violate quantum truth. As I am the only one I know personally who
thinks quantumly at all, and do so badly at it myself, it seems
unreasonable to expect it of others. And yet, this is still our
challenge until humanity transcends its acceptance of singularities
and accepts there are only collective multiplicities abandoning
absolute truth and embracing philosophical. universalism.
