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...
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Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fail the tests.
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To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.
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Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the light of good explanations of them.
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Is the human race a universal constructor?
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It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.