David Deutsch
David Deutsch
David Elieser Deutsch, FRS, is an Israeli-born British physicist at the University of Oxford. He is a non-stipendiary Visiting Professor in the Department of Atomic and Laser Physics at the Centre for Quantum Computationin the Clarendon Laboratory of the University of Oxford. He pioneered the field of quantum computation by formulating a description for a quantum Turing machine, as well as specifying an algorithm designed to run on a quantum computer. He is a proponent of the many-worlds interpretation of...
interesting problem
Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
technology way firsts
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
reality problem consideration
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation, the only one that is tenable, of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.
common-sense common theory
Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.
feelings cows logic
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
claim less plausible sounds understand
As I understand it, the claim is that the less you use Homeopathy, the better it works. Sounds plausible to me.
argue british-actor however particular surely truth
Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.