Re: Quantum Computers

jmcasey@pacific.net.sg
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 07:26 +0000

I hear what you're saying, but...

>Heisenberg tells us that there is a point where the change to a physical system
>is so small that there is no change at all.

...surely this challenges the concept of emergence? I'm imagining the subatomic equivalent of the butterfly in Beijing "causing" the thunderstorm in Toronto. Are *all* the changes which are so small as to "be" no change at all, still no change in aggregate? (If not, of course, they were never really *no* change.)