D-Wave's Latest Jump: Does Quantum Annealing Mean the Universe is Just Running Code?
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I saw the headlines about D-Wave’s new quantum annealing hardware and honestly, I’m tired of the hype machine pretending this proves reality is a giant computer. At 57, after years running a Berlin pass and teaching myself philosophy in the quiet hours, I’ve seen enough pattern-matching to know the difference between a real breakthrough and a marketing stunt. Look, quantum annealing optimizes complex variables. It doesn’t magically map consciousness onto silicon. But I get why people latch onto it. When you spend your life staring at heat and metal, your brain starts looking for equations everywhere.
I’ve been reading up on Orchestrated objective reduction ever since
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