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Informational formulation of quantum mechanics

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Loveall

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According to the talk below (towards the end ~30 minutes in), researchers think quantum mechanic may be derived from 3 axioms about how information works in our reality (image below).

Doesn't it look like something characters in a computer game would find if they investigated their world? I'll take the liberty of reformulating the axioms as follows (I could be butchering this, but allow me to give it a shot):

1) Reality can be reduced to a collection of bits (basic unit of information is binary)
2) Reality is determined entirely by the bits it contains (there is no additional hidden stuff)
3) Bits can be changed from 0 to 1 or from 1 to 0 and back again (operations that change bits exist)

Doesn't this seem very compatible with the idea that we ourselves live in a computer simulation?

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Nice loveall, there's definitely parallels b/t the two fields.

I know quantum computers have had some issues in terms of accuracy and keeping coherence.

I saw this article awhile back, and it seems we're slowly but surely starting to fix many of these computational issues/err. In line with the discussion:

PHYS.ORG: Extremely accurate measurements of atom states for quantum computing


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Also I was going to add - reducing the data in QM down to bits themselves (in terms of a model) - what does this have to say for living systems like ourselves? What does this idea have to say about consciousness and the experience of living and/or experiencing (i.e emotion, anger, thoughts, memories, love, internal dialogue, etc)? Lets not forget that tied in with everyday reality is the entire gamut of subjective experience of being as a living, conscious entity moving through reality.

How could a computer bit-model of QM account for the above?

I think these are tricky questions.

Simulation? Could be most certainly.

Simulation being ran from a computer? Imo that seems unlikely. Couldn't a simulation be ran within another style framework aside from the computer-model?
 
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