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MIT researcher proposes ways to control chaotic systems
Method can be applied to quantum computing and other physical systemsFebruary 10, 2000
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–How can you use information to control a physical system that is spiraling into disorder?
In a paper that appeared Monday, Feb. 7, in the Physical Review Letters of the American Institute of Physics, Seth Lloyd, associate professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, and Hugo Touchette, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, said that information is key to exerting some level of control over arbitrary systems.
They found that controlling a system becomes possible when one acquires enough information about the system, and then applies the information, to keep uncertainties in the system’s properties at manageable levels. For every single bit of information, there is a corresponding reduction in uncertainty.
They should read that Alan Watts book and learn how to live with their uncertainty…
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Makes me think of that guy Laplace in the 18th century who thought you could predict all possible outcomes in an ideal Newtonian system. Forget Alan Watts, haven’t any of these MIT dudes ever heard of vitalism? Obsolete, perhaps, but not sure of that…Besides, I’m with the Copenhagen boys — the universe at the quantum level will always be ultimately unpredictable and illusive. Control is an illusion!
Also brings to mind something from a William Burroughs audio piece. “Is Control controlled by it’s need to control? Answer: Yes.”
Hey wait, WHICH Alan Watt’s book?
wisdom of insecurity