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Why Cant I : Response By: Skwirl

May I play layman’s devil’s advocate for a second? So, a quantum computer does some funky science stuff to increase the probability that a random waveform of qubits will collapse into a correct answer to say, your RSA private key. "Funky science stuff" is my layman’s placekeeper for, "take something that is improbable and make [...]

Why Cant I : Response By: pracowity

I don’t know enough about quantum physics…

And you still won’t unless you actually study physics. When someone name-drops the hard-to-understand theories to explain why their specific brand of magic could be real, admit that neither you nor (probably) that other person is an expert in quantum physics and therefore the two of you [...]

Why Cant I : Response By: Nattie

The books and links here are really great, by the way.

@bru Then again, IANAS, but what you call "powers of consciousness" may be an impossibility. We know now that the conscious decisions that we take everyday may not have been decided by consciousness: scientists have measured that the consciousness of everything we are [...]