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Entangled states considered as physical representations of classical algorithms

Quantum Physics 2010-09-24 v1

Abstract

There are good reasons to believe that we are classical algorithms run on (effectively) classical machines. However, the fact that a physical state of a system in a universe described by a classical deterministic model doesn't contain any information about the model's evolution laws, gives rise to deep philosophical paradoxes with this picture of what we are. We explain these paradoxes in detail and show that they can be resolved once we take into account that in the real world, classical behavior arises as a result of decoherence. We then show that this solution naturally leads to a variant of the idea of a mathematical multiverse, originally proposed by Tegmark.

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@article{arxiv.1009.4472,
  title  = {Entangled states considered as physical representations of classical algorithms},
  author = {Saibal Mitra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.4472},
  year   = {2010}
}

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6 pages

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