“You could make the computer both run and not run, at once, and that’s just a warm-up. You could, in fact, make it not run and nonetheless extract the answer to a computation. The computer will be sitting there waiting for someone to press ‘Run,’ yet will have produced a result. …
George Musser
“It works because, in the quantum realm, things that can happen, but don’t, can leave their mark on what does.”
Schrödinger’s Zombie: Adam Brown at the 6th FQXi Meeting
I live for this.
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