Comments on: Fate http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=678 Theoretical Musings Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Charles2 http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=678#comment-582 Charles2 Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:36:05 +0000 http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=678#comment-582 Doesn't the question of destiny (pardon my non-physicist approach) run into the problem of asking a quantum question of a non-quantum scale event? Rather than asking about how things get to be how they are on a human scale in terms of physics, I prefer to take a Stephen J. Gould approach and appeal to the intrinsically non-linear, contingent nature of societal interactions. However, it seems human nature to ask such questions and to appeal to something outside ourselves and outside our personal events for what happens to us. So if nothing else, asking the question reminds you - and all of us - that you are human. Nice post. Doesn’t the question of destiny (pardon my non-physicist approach) run into the problem of asking a quantum question of a non-quantum scale event? Rather than asking about how things get to be how they are on a human scale in terms of physics, I prefer to take a Stephen J. Gould approach and appeal to the intrinsically non-linear, contingent nature of societal interactions.

However, it seems human nature to ask such questions and to appeal to something outside ourselves and outside our personal events for what happens to us. So if nothing else, asking the question reminds you – and all of us – that you are human.

Nice post.

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]]> By: Scott Aaronson http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=678#comment-577 Scott Aaronson Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:50:29 +0000 http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=678#comment-577 Yes. Yes. YES! (I mean in general, not as an answer to whether quantum computing is your destiny.) Yes. Yes. YES!

(I mean in general, not as an answer to whether quantum computing is your destiny.)

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